@@MadStiles I was the choir director at Elim Lutheran Church for the 10 years I was there. Down near the water. Fond memories of the church, A&W Root Beer and tree lightings downtown.
It's no shock that a jointer can be a very dangerous piece of equipment. Any spinning blade of any sort gets my utmost respect. My dad lost the tip of his index finger on a jointer pushing a piece of wood through the tool without a push stick/block. Before I worked in present job in oncology, I worked 15 years in orthopedics. I can't tell you how many people I saw through the years with lost digits and worse from power tools. Some were hobbyists but many were contractors. Many of those injuries were because people removed or inactivated safety guards. Some were due to carelessness from a gradual loss of respect for the tool because of familiarity and frequent use of a tool over time. Please be careful out there people. Thanks John for reminding us of this danger. Love those vintage Craftsman tools. Great restorations.
I have to agree with you about safety equipment, PPE can be very dangerous. For example two men in the UK working on train tracks where killed last year. Because the hearing protection prevented them hearing the train approaching from behind them !!!! And in my experience its usually office staff who have no experience of doing your job who tell you what ppe to wear
Jointer anecdote: I was helping a deaf/mute friend, David, process about 500 b-ft of 4/4 red oak he needed for a kitchen job. For some reason, Dave had removed the guards on all the commercial grade machine tools in his shop. In order to speed things up, we were doing a ballet without shutting off anything (noisy, but Dave didn't care, of course). About half way through humping all that wood, I needed a break so I put my hand down and leaned on the !8" jointer table. I looked down to see my hand about 2" from the open cutter throat. Then I thought of my arm being swallowed by the cutter head - it scared the bejesus out of me! Still does, Scout.
Great job on the Craftsman. I have some of that age that belonged to my father-in-law. I think I will try to restore them. Take care Jamie. Stay safe and healthy my friend. Thanks
Yes, that one has a circle U branded on the inner neck between the head and the raised panel. Sears contracted with Plomb for that ratchet and Plomb is now Proto.
I agree with the safety comments. I use "IsoTunes" hearing protection and it only reduces noise to below OSHA standards. I wear them when I work with my jointer and planer as well as mowing the lawn. I can hear the surrounding noise such a machines or engines, but to full volume. I am not a marketer for IsoTunes, but genuinely like their product.
Those Coke Can birdhouse are cool, remember the Crocheted Beer Can Hats? Those were a Hoot! Wrenches turned out great, looking forward to the Buck Rogers Screwdriver that Vintage Futuristic Stuff was always Neat. Might be the perfect Tribute to Kim Jong-un if he's dead *Rocket Man* LOL!
Great restorations, as usual. Thanks for showing the paint technique again. That's a nice M-F 100. I'm a Millers Falls fan too. I have a couple of 100s including one I screwed up on the buffing wheel (live and learn). I also have several of their spiral ratchet screwdrivers. I've also restored more M-F and GP eggbeaters than I care to mention. Thanks again for the great video.
Great to see those vintage Craftsman's. A 13/16 is not all that common, these days. It's really just a damn shame what happened to Craftsman. They were an American icon. They made a good tool for a fair price.
Stephen- I hate to say this but I went to Lowe’s the other day to check out the craftsman ratchets and I have to say they were really nice I was very surprised you got to check them out Stephen!
"A false sense of protection" so very true. My best example is the safety on an M-1 Garand. I am always nervous when using a jointer. My condolences. Good Luck, Rick
Common sense about safety equipment and talking about the helmets. If it were not for judges awarding lawyers millions for ridiculous suing cases we would not have the nanny mindset we are stuck with. Good old common sense and personal responsibility is what kept prior generations safe. Watched every one of your vids and some multiple times. Looking forward to the Buck Rogers screwdriver - I can tell its one of those gotta-have-one tools for me! Great as always John.👍🏻👏
Greetings John, OMG! That alarm got me good. It was so good I had to watch it again. Ya no, you have to stamp, engrave or what ever, all of your restorations. Take care and stay healthy, Vince
Great restoration like always , it saddens me how sears is gone from what it was , I grew up with craftsman it was the first line of tools that I knew and when I was young I used to go every week to sears to see the tools , now is all Chinese and in top the stores are closing down ,very sad
It's so true most of the old family tools were Craftsman even the old power tools.. and it was a name you said with pride.. My Craftsman set or drill or whatever.. now not so much unfortunately... But you never know what comes out of the ashes all this could turn around and we can see some great new domestic made tools arise.. especially if we the consumers demand it.
Great restoration mate. Love the red highlights. Back in the day when I had more testosterone than brains I used to ride bikes. I had an open faced and a full faced helmet. I chose the full face one on a day of riding the Great Ocean Road in Victoria, Australia. That road doesn’t have a straight bit in it. Follows the coastline in southern Victoria and is the most beautiful place. I was riding hard until I hit a switchback section covered in gravel, left by someone on the bitumen. I came off, face planted and slid down the road straight under an oncoming car. Lucky for me the car saw what happened and stopped. Well after they extracted me from under the car, the chin guard and bottom part of the faceplate were gone. Ground down by the bitumen. Without that full face helmet I wouldn’t have a face today. 🇦🇺👍
Shed Man X I have 3 full face helmets, they are great for impacts but so many times you tend to go faster with a full face helmet... How many accidents might have been avoided if speed was not an issue? Great for falls but how many have they caused! 😃👍
ScoutCrafter Don’t get me wrong. I wasn’t disagreeing with you, your video just brought back some bad old memories that should have stayed buried. That was almost 40 years ago. I totally agree if I was wearing my open faced helmet, I wouldn’t have been going as hard. The mixture of a sense of safety and stupidity is a deadly mix. Thanks for the feedback mate. Love your videos, rants and Instagram posts. 👌
Great video. I have had a a lot of people rib me about not having a sound system to play music in my work shop. I like to hear the machinery a lot of times I can often hear something going wrong before I see it. Speedy recovery Jamie Perkins.
You’ve got a point there with the safety. I don’t ride anymore but when I did I had a nasty off. Once you’ve fallen off your bike once you remember how much it hurts. I never want to have to scrape tarmac out of my arse with a sponge ever again.
The first year my wife and I were married I attended cabinet making classes through the local community college. The classes were held at my old high school and my old shop teacher taught it. My wife would go with me and we built a lot of first furniture. One Saturday she was watching one the guys push a small board through an 8 inch jointer and shave off about an inch of finger. She never went back.
Love that socket wrench it came out awesome, was surprised to see how clean it actually was on the inside great job and wish speedy recovery to your friend.
Hi buddy. Love that red on restoration tools. It really pops. I agree on the safety comments. I used goggles and a bandana with a helmet when riding my bike. In the shop I use eye protection and gloves. None of my machinery is loud enough for ear protection. Companies Engineer product safety for idiot. Then we have to remove it so it is safe to use. Hope you are safe and healthy my friend.
Old Craftsman tools. Nothing's better than that. To you brother John A tip of the hat. A beautiful finish, I know it's been said. You even included Some ScoutCrafter Red. Prayers to Jimbo's family and to the guy with the injured hand. Thanks for the fun. :-)
That ratchet was made by The Plomb Tool company later Proto for Sears. I get a lot of my tool history from the Alloy Artifacts website. It has over 4,000 pictures of antique tools. I also live Washington State after moving out of Commiefornia back in 1981. Plomb was a huge tool company back in the day. They bought up a bunch of other tool companies over the years. I believe it was their Penens tool branch that made that model of ratchet.
Another useful video. Your comments on safety are well taken. Don't let the equipment lull you into a false sense of safety. We're never supposed to suspend common sense and awareness. I do wear shooters ear muffs for my dad's ancient Craftsman table saw. It is really loud. Very nice job on the tool restoration. I have Craftsman wrenches and ratchets from the 1950s, and the examples you restored look older than that. Thanks for keeping vintage Craftsman tools alive., and best regards from the Intermountain West.
Well that might seem like common sense but I sure as hell never knew how to lube a ratchet. Heck I got all of my old ratchets out even a couple of those new Pittsburg (made in Taiwan) brand that I picked up on your advice from my local H.F. And I got some gunk out of em like you showed but now they are smooth as can be! I know that I have said it before but I do really apricate you taking the time to share your vast knowledge with the rest of us. Thanks my Friend!
Sometimes that safety equipment can get in the way. I've always hated dust masks and respirators, but now I can't go to Harbor Freight or food shopping without one! I remember when I started my first day on the job working with dock levelers with steel-toed boots. The guys told me it was more dangerous to wear steel-toed boots because if any of the materials we worked with landed on mt foot, the plate would deform and cut my toes off. That myth was busted. Then there was the time I welded in short sleeves. Learned my lesson after a full day of that. We are always one mistake away from injury in our shops. Great restoration!
My father and I spent most of our lives in the garages and we used about every brand of tool that was available but Dad always swore by Craftsman ratchets for body work. If he had some rough and ready work to be done he reached for his S-K set, but for body work it was Craftsman because the ratchet heads had very fine teeth. In a tight spot where you could only swing the ratchet back and forth about a half an inch the Craftsman would grab the next tooth and turn the bolt. The S-K was tough as hell but was so coarse you had to have plenty of room to get it to the next tooth. Plus the Craftsman had a great warrenty at Sears and cost half of what a Snap-On would cost. Does anyone know of a store that will replace Craftsman tools since Sears is all but gone? Good Job as usual guy!
I am hundred percent with you on safety equipment. Having said that, i worked for years in a lab and i cant remember how many times i had that talk with students, explaining to them not to be stupid around liquid nitrogen and wear proper safety ppe. However, nothing worse than complacency or cutting corners around powerful appliances....
Hanno Conring Absolutely! For example I ALWAYS wear eye protection because there is no reason not to, but my ear protection I only wear on very noisy equipment... 😃👍
This was a very interesting Mosh! The restoration was beautiful and I had always wondered how to lubricate the ball detent on a ratchet. THanks for the information.
Fun video. I liked that bird house a lot, from Jim in Portugal.Craftsman are the toold my Dad used most of the time . Good jb on that Ratchet & Wrench. Cheers !
I'm a sub at Perkins Bros too. I agree 100% I never wear hearing protection or gloves for that reason!! What a terrible accident, he's a great kid! Sorry for not commenting too often. I've been watching you on my TV and can't figure out how to comment from the tube... Lol
I completely agree with your views on safety equipment, I was in constant arguments with the company I used to work for, they insisted we wear gloves when operating the pipe threading machine.
Great discussion on the ppe, i think earphones are an even worse issue. Those craftsman tools look first class...even better than usual, for some reason. Outstanding. Cheers
Always my favorite site. You do such a great job no matter what the topic. Phase two of your challenge should be a picture of a bird living in the challenge house.
Nice job can’t believe how clean you got that Crescent wrench. I thought you’d have trouble with the pitting but voila, pits disappear!! Also nice tribute to your friend.
Nice craftsman wrench and ratchet, came out really nice too! The other day you showed that Stanley chalk o matic and by coincidence I was looking at one the day before online and quite liked it. After you were so enthusiastic about it too, I looked it back up again and bought it right away. I will wait until you do yours because you are going to think about stuff I never would've. Look forward to it, it is such a nice piece. You are right about the protection (I do not like gloves for that reason), I never really used ear protection but since my ears are weak to start with that was a dummy choice to, I have this return constant beep. Don't wish it on anyone and I got it mildly. So use your ear protection wisely indeed.
Great job on the tools. I bet the tools didn’t look that good new.. It’s sad to see Sears slowly go down the tube. I loved to go to Sears just buy Craftsman tools. Boy has it changed since the mid 60’s.
Great vid again. The wrench is from the late 30s-40s with the underline C. If you like vintage craftsman you should check out my face book group Craftsman Tool Collectors. All kinds of pics and information
Man I hate to hear that about your friend Jamie. Hoping him a speedy recovery. Also condolences to the family of the gentleman who passed away. The wrenches turned out fantastic. Definitely looks like a Proto ratchet. As far as hearing protection, I thought the same thing about the ones that play music. You can hear a little with ear muff types but not with the music playing. Take care. 👍🏼
I was wondering where you got my rusty wrench but then remembered mine was a Blackhawk! My go to wrenches were a 3/4 for injector fittings like on the injector itself and the pump for bleeding and a 9/16 for setting up truck brakes. Other than that it was every man for hisself! NICE job on everything. The old ratchet is a beaut! So take care in the capital of everything sideways. I had lab work done and it was the same today as 3 weeks ago. NOTHING but staff. Go figure and GBWYou!
@@ScoutCrafter Uric acid level is high and that'[s what they're testing for to see if the meds are bringing it down. It ought to help with gout and arthur if they can get it to a 6. I was 9.5 and the HIGH number is 9.2. But I can manage to wobble around under my own power. So Remain Calm, you night owl, you! Seems like Little River had a right good song about you/it! GBWYou, Buddy!
Wonderful job! Love that red paint. I have a couple ratchets that I’m planning to restore. Could you give some tips and go into a little more detail about cleaning up the ratcheting mechanism? Thanks for another great video.
The marks on the inside of the open end wrench are probably from the broaching process. It was nice to see the internals of the old ratchet. They turned out pretty good.
@@ScoutCrafter Right you can put out a large quantity while still holding close tolerances. Although not my normal job I would volunteer to run just about anything on a Saturday for time and a half. So I have run many different broaching machines. Back in the day. lol
John Muir wrote in his "Idiots guide to VW's" that all the baby-bumper safety stuff just makes you feel safe. You should drive like you are riding on the hood of the car.
I like Craftsman tools but growing up we lived near a Wards so we had a lot of Powr-kraft tools. I still have some from the 60's I use. We raced boats and our setup tools were sets of power-kraft wrenches. That 13/16 in a closed end would be our spark plug tool. Wearing a helmet should be your own choice. The problem is the injuries and deaths we all pay for with money. I don't care if you wear a helmet but don't make me pay for your mistake. When Mike Rowe went to see Diesel electric trains being built he asked: "Shouldn't you wear a Helmet?" the guy said: "Are you kidding? These things weigh tons. If this falls your'e dead so a helmet is pointless." Like we always used to say "Safety Last" As always good job the Tools. Red is my favorite color.
Anyone who works around equipment should consider noise canceling ear protection. It allows up to a certain level of sound through but shuts down when loud noises are present. They can be less than $50 or several hundred for custom molded. Our shooting range requires them so you can hear commands at the firing line. I also use them at home - you can hear all your equipment - it is only as loud as your voice. As our range master asked - how much is your hearing and your fingers worth? Fifty bucks is really cheap - less than a box of most pistol ammo!
John -- Another great show, and great restorations! You lubed the ratchet with "fifty-fifty" -- it seems like you have six different fifty-fifties. Could you do a show sometime about all your different concoctions and what you use them for? I'd take notes!
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Good rant today, John! Yesterday my bandsaw started sounding a bit funny, and - you guessed it! - 2 seconds later, BANG! - busted blade. Hearing the sound change got me out of the way...
Tony- Lately I've been breaking a lot of bandsaw blades! I wonder what gives? Thanks!
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You have ears for a reason. We are now in the 21st century and they can not come up with ear protection that allows you to hear but shield you from excessive decibels. So that you are alert with your surroundings. Problem is today they also want to hear ,music while they work and the ear buds cut off noise around you.
Thanks John! Glad you enjoy them, you never fail to impress with your restorations! I was hoping for some "Scoutcrafter red" !
I was a resident of Port Orchard for ten years ! I'm missing it like crazy ! Thanks for contributing tools to John's channel !
Madstiles Jim- Thanks again for the great stuff! The older Craftsman and Millers Falls are my favorites! Lucky we have hobbies to keep us sane! 😃👍
@@lotsabirds my pleasure. My aunt lives in port orchard!
@@MadStiles I was the choir director at Elim Lutheran Church for the 10 years I was there. Down near the water. Fond memories of the church, A&W Root Beer and tree lightings downtown.
OUTSTANDING! I have my dad's Crafstman ratchet from '54 and will absolutely be doing this to his old tools! Thank you SO much!
It's no shock that a jointer can be a very dangerous piece of equipment. Any spinning blade of any sort gets my utmost respect. My dad lost the tip of his index finger on a jointer pushing a piece of wood through the tool without a push stick/block. Before I worked in present job in oncology, I worked 15 years in orthopedics. I can't tell you how many people I saw through the years with lost digits and worse from power tools. Some were hobbyists but many were contractors. Many of those injuries were because people removed or inactivated safety guards. Some were due to carelessness from a gradual loss of respect for the tool because of familiarity and frequent use of a tool over time. Please be careful out there people. Thanks John for reminding us of this danger. Love those vintage Craftsman tools. Great restorations.
I love that era of Craftsman ratchets and wrenches... Great restoration!!
Beautiful resto! Everytime I watch one of your videos it gives me more things to look for a flea markets ! Thank you I love this hobby
I have to agree with you about safety equipment, PPE can be very dangerous.
For example two men in the UK working on train tracks where killed last year. Because the hearing protection prevented them hearing the train approaching from behind them !!!!
And in my experience its usually office staff who have no experience of doing your job who tell you what ppe to wear
Thanks for the tip about lubricating the locking ball on the ratchet. I’ve just restored a 90s SnapOn ratchet and haven’t done that yet. 👍🏴
Jointer anecdote: I was helping a deaf/mute friend, David, process about 500 b-ft of 4/4 red oak he needed for a kitchen job. For some reason, Dave had removed the guards on all the commercial grade machine tools in his shop. In order to speed things up, we were doing a ballet without shutting off anything (noisy, but Dave didn't care, of course). About half way through humping all that wood, I needed a break so I put my hand down and leaned on the !8" jointer table. I looked down to see my hand about 2" from the open cutter throat. Then I thought of my arm being swallowed by the cutter head - it scared the bejesus out of me! Still does, Scout.
Ricopolico Yikes!!! Luck was with you that day! 😃👍
Great job on the Craftsman. I have some of that age that belonged to my father-in-law. I think I will try to restore them. Take care Jamie. Stay safe and healthy my friend. Thanks
I love the look of Craftsman tools from that era. The red paint accents are to die for.
I love old craftsman tools they were made well and usually clean up nice. Great tip for the lettering.
Yes, that one has a circle U branded on the inner neck between the head and the raised panel. Sears contracted with Plomb for that ratchet and Plomb is now Proto.
I love the smell of Tap Magic in the morning!
I agree with the safety comments. I use "IsoTunes" hearing protection and it only reduces noise to below OSHA standards. I wear them when I work with my jointer and planer as well as mowing the lawn. I can hear the surrounding noise such a machines or engines, but to full volume. I am not a marketer for IsoTunes, but genuinely like their product.
Some times my ear protection makes me feel very venerable!
Those Coke Can birdhouse are cool, remember the Crocheted Beer Can Hats? Those were a Hoot!
Wrenches turned out great, looking forward to the Buck Rogers Screwdriver that Vintage Futuristic Stuff was always Neat. Might be the perfect Tribute to Kim Jong-un if he's dead *Rocket Man* LOL!
Really really good job...grown to love this channel 👍🇺🇸 I appreciate the way you save these old tools.👍🇺🇸✝️
Great restorations, as usual. Thanks for showing the paint technique again. That's a nice M-F 100. I'm a Millers Falls fan too. I have a couple of 100s including one I screwed up on the buffing wheel (live and learn). I also have several of their spiral ratchet screwdrivers. I've also restored more M-F and GP eggbeaters than I care to mention. Thanks again for the great video.
Drew Vintage Craftsman and Millers Falls are my two favorites!!! 😃👍
Those classic Craftsman tools are beautiful! I love the ratchet. I've never seen that style.
Great to see those vintage Craftsman's. A 13/16 is not all that common, these days. It's really just a damn shame what happened to Craftsman. They were an American icon. They made a good tool for a fair price.
Stephen- I hate to say this but I went to Lowe’s the other day to check out the craftsman ratchets and I have to say they were really nice I was very surprised you got to check them out Stephen!
Those Craftsman items look fantastic. I love those old Craftsman ratchets. And what a nice gift from Madstiles. Be well.
"A false sense of protection" so very true. My best example is the safety on an M-1 Garand. I am always nervous when using a jointer. My condolences. Good Luck, Rick
Very nice job john great job on the wrenches 👍
Common sense about safety equipment and talking about the helmets. If it were not for judges awarding lawyers millions for ridiculous suing cases we would not have the nanny mindset we are stuck with. Good old common sense and personal responsibility is what kept prior generations safe. Watched every one of your vids and some multiple times. Looking forward to the Buck Rogers screwdriver - I can tell its one of those gotta-have-one tools for me! Great as always John.👍🏻👏
Wow! Loads of tips today. The oil on the ball is great going to try that.
Greetings John,
OMG! That alarm got me good. It was so good I had to watch it again. Ya no, you have to stamp, engrave or what ever, all of your restorations.
Take care and stay healthy,
Vince
Great restoration like always , it saddens me how sears is gone from what it was , I grew up with craftsman it was the first line of tools that I knew and when I was young I used to go every week to sears to see the tools , now is all Chinese and in top the stores are closing down ,very sad
Jorge- I recently looked at their new ratchets and believe it or not they are very nice! However I agree with you... I miss the old sears!
It's so true most of the old family tools were Craftsman even the old power tools.. and it was a name you said with pride.. My Craftsman set or drill or whatever.. now not so much unfortunately... But you never know what comes out of the ashes all this could turn around and we can see some great new domestic made tools arise.. especially if we the consumers demand it.
Love that Craftsman ratchet .And a great tip on how to apply the paint to. Stay safe.
Great restoration mate. Love the red highlights. Back in the day when I had more testosterone than brains I used to ride bikes. I had an open faced and a full faced helmet. I chose the full face one on a day of riding the Great Ocean Road in Victoria, Australia. That road doesn’t have a straight bit in it. Follows the coastline in southern Victoria and is the most beautiful place. I was riding hard until I hit a switchback section covered in gravel, left by someone on the bitumen. I came off, face planted and slid down the road straight under an oncoming car. Lucky for me the car saw what happened and stopped. Well after they extracted me from under the car, the chin guard and bottom part of the faceplate were gone. Ground down by the bitumen. Without that full face helmet I wouldn’t have a face today. 🇦🇺👍
Shed Man X I have 3 full face helmets, they are great for impacts but so many times you tend to go faster with a full face helmet... How many accidents might have been avoided if speed was not an issue? Great for falls but how many have they caused! 😃👍
ScoutCrafter Don’t get me wrong. I wasn’t disagreeing with you, your video just brought back some bad old memories that should have stayed buried. That was almost 40 years ago. I totally agree if I was wearing my open faced helmet, I wouldn’t have been going as hard. The mixture of a sense of safety and stupidity is a deadly mix. Thanks for the feedback mate. Love your videos, rants and Instagram posts. 👌
Great video. I have had a a lot of people rib me about not having a sound system to play music in my work shop. I like to hear the machinery a lot of times I can often hear something going wrong before I see it. Speedy recovery Jamie Perkins.
Abe you are so right... I do wear those music ear muff when mowing the lawn though! =D
@@ScoutCrafter That is so funny I got a set of 3M worktunes headsets for mowing the lawn. Now I actually look forward to mowing the lawn.
Awesome job on tools! I will agree with everything you said - on some safety equipment. Thanks!
I love the old Craftsman stuff, great work!
You’ve got a point there with the safety.
I don’t ride anymore but when I did I had a nasty off. Once you’ve fallen off your bike once you remember how much it hurts. I never want to have to scrape tarmac out of my arse with a sponge ever again.
It's like hearing protection and driving forklifts I never understood that. Those bird houses was really neat it was a great mosh :3
LOL That is crazy!!!!!!
@@ScoutCrafter lol it sure is
The first year my wife and I were married I attended cabinet making classes through the local community college. The classes were held at my old high school and my old shop teacher taught it. My wife would go with me and we built a lot of first furniture. One Saturday she was watching one the guys push a small board through an 8 inch jointer and shave off about an inch of finger. She never went back.
namleets57 😂😂😂. That will do it!! Honestly Women are smarter then us... We get injured then use the other hand! 😂😂😂
Red and old tools outstanding. Super job on bring them back.
Love that socket wrench it came out awesome, was surprised to see how clean it actually was on the inside great job and wish speedy recovery to your friend.
Hi buddy. Love that red on restoration tools. It really pops. I agree on the safety comments. I used goggles and a bandana with a helmet when riding my bike. In the shop I use eye protection and gloves. None of my machinery is loud enough for ear protection. Companies Engineer product safety for idiot. Then we have to remove it so it is safe to use.
Hope you are safe and healthy my friend.
You made a beautiful job of them.
Vintage Craftsman tools are my absolute favorite and the red looks great.
Terry Vintage Craftsman and Millers Falls are my favorites! 😃👍
Thanks for the painting demonstration. Just what the doctor ordered for my shop.
WOW great job BEAUTIFUL 👍👍👍👍👍👍
GODBLESS YOU AND YOUR FAMILY AND FRIENDS AND EVERYONE. 🙏🙏👍
I like the idea that all the parts that get worn in the ratchet are replaceable.
love vintage craftsman 😍👍👍👍that ratchet is awesome
Old Craftsman tools.
Nothing's better than that.
To you brother John
A tip of the hat.
A beautiful finish,
I know it's been said.
You even included
Some ScoutCrafter Red.
Prayers to Jimbo's family and to the guy with the injured hand. Thanks for the fun. :-)
That ratchet was made by The Plomb Tool company later Proto for Sears. I get a lot of my tool history from the Alloy Artifacts website. It has over 4,000 pictures of antique tools. I also live Washington State after moving out of Commiefornia back in 1981. Plomb was a huge tool company back in the day. They bought up a bunch of other tool companies over the years. I believe it was their Penens tool branch that made that model of ratchet.
Chuck Awesome detective work! I love Alloy artifacts! Thanks
I love it when “Safety Sally” shows up on that drill press. I took an old ratchet apart a while ago. The little springs inside were terrifying.
Robert LOL- Sitting there under pressure just waiting to launch into oblivion! 😂😂😂
The ratchet style was made by Plomb in the WW2 era and after the war some were re-branded with the Craftsman name and the Proto name after 1948.
Another useful video. Your comments on safety are well taken. Don't let the equipment lull you into a false sense of safety. We're never supposed to suspend common sense and awareness. I do wear shooters ear muffs for my dad's ancient Craftsman table saw. It is really loud. Very nice job on the tool restoration. I have Craftsman wrenches and ratchets from the 1950s, and the examples you restored look older than that. Thanks for keeping vintage Craftsman tools alive., and best regards from the Intermountain West.
Pat I too wear shooters muffs for my belt sanders because the bearings are so loud! 😂😂😂
Well that might seem like common sense but I sure as hell never knew how to lube a ratchet. Heck I got all of my old ratchets out even a couple of those new Pittsburg (made in Taiwan) brand that I picked up on your advice from my local H.F. And I got some gunk out of em like you showed but now they are smooth as can be! I know that I have said it before but I do really apricate you taking the time to share your vast knowledge with the rest of us. Thanks my Friend!
Sometimes that safety equipment can get in the way. I've always hated dust masks and respirators, but now I can't go to Harbor Freight or food shopping without one! I remember when I started my first day on the job working with dock levelers with steel-toed boots. The guys told me it was more dangerous to wear steel-toed boots because if any of the materials we worked with landed on mt foot, the plate would deform and cut my toes off. That myth was busted. Then there was the time I welded in short sleeves. Learned my lesson after a full day of that.
We are always one mistake away from injury in our shops. Great restoration!
Paul - LOL! You are so right! Welding in short sleeves gives you freckles! 😂😂😂
Man I wish I had half of your talent
I agree 100% about some safety equipment is worse then having none I am a union concrete finisher and I could tell you a few story's
LOL that siren above the drill, ha ha!
My father and I spent most of our lives in the garages and we used about every brand of tool that was available but Dad always swore by Craftsman ratchets for body work. If he had some rough and ready work to be done he reached for his S-K set, but for body work it was Craftsman because the ratchet heads had very fine teeth. In a tight spot where you could only swing the ratchet back and forth about a half an inch the Craftsman would grab the next tooth and turn the bolt. The S-K was tough as hell but was so coarse you had to have plenty of room to get it to the next tooth. Plus the Craftsman had a great warrenty at Sears and cost half of what a Snap-On would cost. Does anyone know of a store that will replace Craftsman tools since Sears is all but gone? Good Job as usual guy!
My Dad also had Craftsman and S-K! =D
Another great show . Thanks . I Had a 1986 ninja 600 my knee still has scrape marks OUCH .
Alex You know!!!! Thank God you made it out!!! Those bikes made it so easy to go very very fast!!! 😃👍
Very cool scout!! Very enjoyable.
Thanks for sharing.
Wow, beautiful 👍👍👍great job
Very close on your Proto guess. Proto being the successor of Plomb who manufactured that ratchet.
I like the facemask on your metal skull in the background
- funny!!
Christian! Queens county (where I live) Highest Covid anywhere!!! 😳
Nice Birdhouses. Speedy recovery to Jamie. Beautiful Wrenches! Like the red. Madstiles has a great channel. 👍👍👍
I am hundred percent with you on safety equipment. Having said that, i worked for years in a lab and i cant remember how many times i had that talk with students, explaining to them not to be stupid around liquid nitrogen and wear proper safety ppe. However, nothing worse than complacency or cutting corners around powerful appliances....
Hanno Conring Absolutely! For example I ALWAYS wear eye protection because there is no reason not to, but my ear protection I only wear on very noisy equipment... 😃👍
This was a very interesting Mosh! The restoration was beautiful and I had always wondered how to lubricate the ball detent on a ratchet. THanks for the information.
Happy Mish Mosh Monday ScoutCrafter!! Great job on the wrench and ratchet!! Good tips on keeping safety Sally at bay.
That red sure makes them pop
Cheers for sharing
Fun video. I liked that bird house a lot, from Jim in Portugal.Craftsman are the toold my Dad used most of the time . Good jb on that Ratchet & Wrench. Cheers !
Outstanding as usual, Sir! 👍👍
Scott!!! 😃👍
I'm a sub at Perkins Bros too. I agree 100% I never wear hearing protection or gloves for that reason!! What a terrible accident, he's a great kid! Sorry for not commenting too often. I've been watching you on my TV and can't figure out how to comment from the tube... Lol
Helping Hand Remodeling - We all know how easy it is to get injured and when we work with tools we become very humble about our luck in the shop! 😃👍
I completely agree with your views on safety equipment, I was in constant arguments with the company I used to work for, they insisted we wear gloves when operating the pipe threading machine.
Derek- You are so right! Gloves have been responsible for many accidents!!! 😃👍
Awesome Scout 👍
Great discussion on the ppe, i think earphones are an even worse issue. Those craftsman tools look first class...even better than usual, for some reason. Outstanding. Cheers
Always my favorite site. You do such a great job no matter what the topic. Phase two of your challenge should be a picture of a bird living in the challenge house.
Nice job can’t believe how clean you got that Crescent wrench. I thought you’d have trouble with the pitting but voila, pits disappear!! Also nice tribute to your friend.
Good video and thanks for the oiling tip 👍
Nice craftsman wrench and ratchet, came out really nice too! The other day you showed that Stanley chalk o matic and by coincidence I was looking at one the day before online and quite liked it. After you were so enthusiastic about it too, I looked it back up again and bought it right away. I will wait until you do yours because you are going to think about stuff I never would've. Look forward to it, it is such a nice piece.
You are right about the protection (I do not like gloves for that reason), I never really used ear protection but since my ears are weak to start with that was a dummy choice to, I have this return constant beep. Don't wish it on anyone and I got it mildly. So use your ear protection wisely indeed.
Alex- I wear ear protection for anything that hurts my ears... otherwise I rather hear what’s happening. 😃👍
That ratchet sound is music to my ears!
That is a good looking ratchet, pity we never got them here in South Africa.
Great job on the tools. I bet the tools didn’t look that good new.. It’s sad to see Sears slowly go down the tube.
I loved to go to Sears just buy Craftsman tools. Boy has it changed since the mid 60’s.
jerry me too! I really miss Sears!!!
That ratchet looks sharp with the red paint!
Great vid again. The wrench is from the late 30s-40s with the underline C. If you like vintage craftsman you should check out my face book group Craftsman Tool Collectors. All kinds of pics and information
You’re right about the helmets.
Man I hate to hear that about your friend Jamie. Hoping him a speedy recovery. Also condolences to the family of the gentleman who passed away. The wrenches turned out fantastic. Definitely looks like a Proto ratchet. As far as hearing protection, I thought the same thing about the ones that play music. You can hear a little with ear muff types but not with the music playing. Take care. 👍🏼
David I use those music ear muffs on my lawn tractor! 😃👍
I was wondering where you got my rusty wrench but then remembered mine was a Blackhawk! My go to wrenches were a 3/4 for injector fittings like on the injector itself and the pump for bleeding and a 9/16 for setting up truck brakes. Other than that it was every man for hisself! NICE job on everything. The old ratchet is a beaut! So take care in the capital of everything sideways. I had lab work done and it was the same today as 3 weeks ago. NOTHING but staff. Go figure and GBWYou!
Lewie thank God you are A-OK! 😃👍
@@ScoutCrafter Uric acid level is high and that'[s what they're testing for to see if the meds are bringing it down. It ought to help with gout and arthur if they can get it to a 6. I was 9.5 and the HIGH number is 9.2. But I can manage to wobble around under my own power. So Remain Calm, you night owl, you! Seems like Little River had a right good song about you/it! GBWYou, Buddy!
@@ScoutCrafter U 2!!
Wonderful job! Love that red paint. I have a couple ratchets that I’m planning to restore. Could you give some tips and go into a little more detail about cleaning up the ratcheting mechanism? Thanks for another great video.
Christopher- This particular mechanism was super simple and easy! =D
Best of luck Jamie that sounds rough😬 We are all wishing you a speedy recovery🙃
The marks on the inside of the open end wrench are probably from the broaching process. It was nice to see the internals of the old ratchet. They turned out pretty good.
James Leathers You are spot on! How cool is broaching?! 😃👍
@@ScoutCrafter Right you can put out a large quantity while still holding close tolerances. Although not my normal job I would volunteer to run just about anything on a Saturday for time and a half. So I have run many different broaching machines. Back in the day. lol
John Muir wrote in his "Idiots guide to VW's" that all the baby-bumper safety stuff just makes you feel safe. You should drive like you are riding on the hood of the car.
I like Craftsman tools but growing up we lived near a Wards so we had a lot of Powr-kraft tools. I still have some from the 60's I use. We raced boats and our setup tools were sets of power-kraft wrenches. That 13/16 in a closed end would be our spark plug tool.
Wearing a helmet should be your own choice. The problem is the injuries and deaths we all pay for with money. I don't care if you wear a helmet but don't make me pay for your mistake. When Mike Rowe went to see Diesel electric trains being built he asked: "Shouldn't you wear a Helmet?" the guy said: "Are you kidding? These things weigh tons. If this falls your'e dead so a helmet is pointless." Like we always used to say "Safety Last"
As always good job the Tools. Red is my favorite color.
Civicboomer Can you believe Connecticut still has no helmet law! My GF lives there!!!
Ratchet is awesome
That ratchet looks very similar to my vintage Plomb ratchet, including its internals
That is because Plomb made those for Sears.
Anyone who works around equipment should consider noise canceling ear protection. It allows up to a certain level of sound through but shuts down when loud noises are present. They can be less than $50 or several hundred for custom molded. Our shooting range requires them so you can hear commands at the firing line. I also use them at home - you can hear all your equipment - it is only as loud as your voice. As our range master asked - how much is your hearing and your fingers worth? Fifty bucks is really cheap - less than a box of most pistol ammo!
Beautiful as always.
Good work thanks
John -- Another great show, and great restorations! You lubed the ratchet with "fifty-fifty" -- it seems like you have six different fifty-fifties. Could you do a show sometime about all your different concoctions and what you use them for? I'd take notes!
You are in luck! He has done several videos already!
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Alex beat me to it! They really do work great!!! 😃👍
@@Alex-Zone Thanks! Wasn't following the channel four years ago -- saw the three videos, and I took notes!
Answered my question
🤜🏼🤛🏼thanks
What a good tools they cleaner up raley good
Video starts @ 5:50
Really nice
Good rant today, John!
Yesterday my bandsaw started sounding a bit funny, and - you guessed it! - 2 seconds later, BANG! - busted blade. Hearing the sound change got me out of the way...
Tony- Lately I've been breaking a lot of bandsaw blades! I wonder what gives? Thanks!
You have ears for a reason. We are now in the 21st century and they can not come up with ear protection that allows you to hear but shield you from excessive decibels. So that you are alert with your surroundings. Problem is today they also want to hear ,music while they work and the ear buds cut off noise around you.
Outstanding restoration as usual! I fear our entry endend in your spam folder. Best wishes from Germany!
hankmoodification- Try again and put birdhouse in the heading! Bicycleguy@aol.com