It followed me home

[mike-hr]

That's a nice saw. I have a 8 inch Wells, it's at least 40 yrs old. It's the heartbeat of my shop. It just keeps chugging along, takes whatever I feed it, and don't complain. Great score!

[sdalcher]

Rolled up on a yard sale today had a Pexto sheet metal brake and a Pexto sheet metal shear that had just sold for $150 for the pair :-( My karma was seriously screwed up! Went to another Yard sale guy had just sold an Atlas 6 inch lathe for $300 and another small geared head Jet lathe :-( The bright side is that I found a vise for my Atlas shaper for $5 and bought several 1/2 hp motors for 1$ each one of which was a geared reducing motor. Also picked up a like new clamping kit for my mill $20 and 30 lbs of bolts for $3. About 10 lbs of that 30 is all brass :-)

Steve

[whitesmith]

Neighbor had a Sears lawn mower that the Sears repairman could not get to run. She knows "I do blacksmithing" and ask if I wanted it. This is what we brought home.

Carb needed cleaned, the loose parts were put back on, and it fired right up. Now we are trying to grease in ALL the fittings, straighten the blades, and give it a once over for any problems. There is some rust on it but nothing a wire brush and some paint won't cure.

I told her I would cut her smallish yard for the rest of the summer in return for the mower.

[jj2k]

Nice score Whitesmith. Bear and sdalcher got me thinkin I'm livin wrong.

[Rich Hale]

That is a great find and you will learn alot that will be of value to you forever,,,,

[Bear]

Originally Posted by whitesmith

Neighbor had a Sears lawn mower that the Sears repairman could not get to run. She knows "I do blacksmithing" and ask if I wanted it. This is what we brought home.

Carb needed cleaned, the loose parts were put back on, and it fired right up. Now we are trying to grease in ALL the fittings, straighten the blades, and give it a once over for any problems. There is some rust on it but nothing a wire brush and some paint won't cure.

I told her I would cut her smallish yard for the rest of the summer in return for the mower.

Yeouch!!!,
Thats gotta hurt to ride that thing whitesmith! If your gonna cut the lady's lawn you are really paying for that free mower!

[sdalcher]

jj,

The week before my wife and I hit like 15 different sales and scored a big fat zero. A month earlier I went in to a local flea market and picked up 2 Mousehole anvils 90 lbs + or - for $95 and the other for $55 at two separate vendors. The $55 one was beat up pretty badly and had the rear feet broken off but is a mid 1800's near as I can tell. I won't use it but I will give it a safe home along with my Peter Wright and my other new Mousehole.

Thanks
Steve

[whitesmith]

A wire brush and a little paint can inprove the looks of most things.

There was a lot of rust pitting on the mower deck, so it had to be removed, completely wire brushed top and bottom, and then painted. I found two spray cans in the blacksmith shop that had been on the shelf way too long. They were looking for a project so the deck is blue.

[habu68]

This will be my winter project. A Craigslist.com find.

it is pretty rough, needs new leather and the valves reset, but it is all there and at $50 a nice find.

[Don A]

Great find, habu.

How 'bout a photo-documentary of the rebuild?

I've got one to do in the near future. I would really like to see a step-by-step as you go through it.

Don