Sometimes you come across a tool from the past that just needed to be brought back to life. At least that’s what I told myself when I came across an old rusty egg beater style hand drill at a yard sale last year. I just had to have it, and shelled out the big bucks so I could add it to my collection (if I remember correctly $3, lol).
A few weeks later I came across a few more at a local yardsale, all equally rusted and gummed up. Heck, if I’m going to fix one, I really should just get them all. The fine gent selling them offered $5 for the lot and even threw in a hand plane missing parts and a dry rotting wallpaper paster! How could I say no?
As is usually the case I wish I had taken some pictures of how far gone these tools were.
Fast forward a year and they sat, partly disassembled in a shoebox long since forgotten. Heck, even the wallpaper paster was saved and converted into a filehandle. Yet these poor drills sat in waiting, out of sight, out of mind.
Then about a week ago Jess was moving some dog toys and asked what’s in this box, and can you get it the heck out of here?
Over the next couple of days, I’d put in a few moments in the morning or at night, cleaning, sanding and scrubbing off the rust. Well, after a week of fits and spurts they are finished and ready to go into service. I’m excited to share with you their new look:
This was really a fun little project and I hope to get years of use out of them.
I’ll definitely be keeping my eye out for other similar drills in need of some love.