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).<\/p>\n
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?<\/p>\n
As is usually the case I wish I had taken some pictures of how far gone these tools were.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
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?<\/p>\n
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:<\/p>\n\n\t\t