A little side project I will tell you more about later when I get a chance.
A Teaser
Bustednuckles
Documenting The Death Of America
A little side project I will tell you more about later when I get a chance.
Tubing Cutter? Or, Rebar cutter?
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Australian outback tooth puller
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I was thinking maybe also a pipe cutter, but then I remembered our dear Aussie commode… A wallaby mate cm measurement tool.
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I’ve seen photos of your cuz hillbillies. They didn’t need any teeth pulled, just spit them out! Death, do young girl hillbillies blacken teeth to make themselves look older?
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Well now look at that.
I was trolling for the elusive outback jack fish and hooked me a Australian sucker.
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What I am wondering why the D-cells next to it…
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Add them to some type of soak to free it up.
Who knows what Dr. Philkinstein is getting into.
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I know rust and corrosion will respond to a current, (that is what causes rust and corrosion to start with) when soaking in a solution to breakdown oxidation and corrosion.
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Old fella here showed me about using acetone and atf in a spray bottle.
50/50 mix. Works pretty darn good.
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I have used that combo too.
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There was a legit study about just what product was the best penetrating oil you can buy and a 50/50 mix of acetone and ATF beat them all, even Kroil!
I have tried it and it works but the stuff separates in a heartbeat so you have to shake it up every time you go to use it.
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I think that is for size comparison
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Looks like a real seri-assed tap handle…
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Agreed, that’s not for cleaning the head bolt holes on a 350
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I think it’s the biggest one I’ve ever seen.
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Have to agree with you, SI – that’s the biggest tap handle I’ve ever run across…
Now, on the Minuteman missile sites I used to work on, EVERYTHING was big and heavy, so maybe some big-assed tap handles were used somewhere to tap the giant nuts and bolts there.
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It’s a tap wrench!
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It’s a nut buster you found in the boss’s office when you got called back to work.
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that is one serious effing tap handle and the two pieces. to the side have got to be the handles themselves as the whole thing would too darn big to stuff into a tool box
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41 inches long with the handles installed.
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We think it’s a die.
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It’s a tap wrench. A really BIG tap wrench
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Ugghhhh, close but no cigar. Actually you might be able to use it both ways
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At first i thought something punny – “A nutcracker. Sweet.” but then realized it’s a big tap handle. Soak it in Kroil for a week then get out the brass brush. It’ll clean up fine.
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Kroil, um good, I use it on pancakes.
Spin
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Check out Adam Booth on youtube he has lots of giant tap wrenches.
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Maybe he’s getting into blacksmithing, and wants to put a decorative twist into some 1″ square. Or it’s for a big tapered steel pipe tap.
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I got you a link to Doc’s Machine for a really effective way to get rid of rust:
http://www.docsmachine.com/projects/rockford/1909-03.html
The results speak for themselves.
Leigh
Whitehall, NY
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I have been dying to try that for a couple of years now.
I have a 5 gallon bucket full of new EvapORust, @ $30 a friggin’ gallon but you gotta be careful with that stuff, it pickles some parts and will make spring steel as brittle as glass.
Ask me how I know, even after STxAR warned me ……
I even bought some real Arm & Hammer washing powder to use and I see it has turned into a solid brick after sitting in the garage too long in it’s cardboard box.
One of these days I’ll get my head out of my ass and try it for realz.
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My aircraft mechanic once told me that everything that is metal was once dirt. And it’s always trying it’s best to get back there. So it seems a shame to interfere with its ambitions.
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