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These come along so often at Men In shed, we hardy do much with them. Until I made contact with Haynes motor Museum. Now they take them of use and sell them to classic car owners. All are bunged solid with old grease. We pull out as much as we can. Then we boil the rest out with soap powder...

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This came my way. The only thing that moved was the sliding handle. The red paint was so thick it had jammed all the parts. The dirt was even painted over. Last year it was on sale for £98. Last week mine for £10. Modern paint remover made a dent. But in the end it was boiled up in caustic...

So, it is just a big pencil. But the member of a Local Men In sheds it is a god send. He has issues with his hands. So a off cut of oak, old pencil and we have a member who can join in.

Again a WW2 item. But it was painted green. something that was never done in WW2. Why? The paint can flake and may cause injury. I know seams petty but that was what it was. The old paint was removed with a cabinet scraper, made from a old saw blade. After the scraper with wool was...

At Men In Sheds, we get a assortment of donations. We try to save as much as we can. Here is a good example of saving some hand tools. Done my some members at my workshop. Rusted and seized. Also bent. This was heated to red hot, placed on a anvil and tapped back into shape. Then...

The other day I was gifted these Tilley Parts. All in need of TLC, well the new mantle did not, That is now safe, flat in my Tilley Lamp spares box. Given a good clean, not all of the staining came out. I could remove it with wire wool, but the glass, being older. Is soft and the wire...

This nice, but i need of attention Sales man Garden bench model was mine the other day/ It was in nee of TYA TLC. It was given to me from a friend. She had cleaned it, a bit. It had lived in a damp shed for a few years. A Meths bath to clean the metal work. All but one bolt was saved. The...

This lot was heading to be scraped. But a good friend saved them for me. Hot Citric acid bath had the rust off. Then a hot bath in water and bubble bath had the grease off. Then a hot bath in fresh water. Here they are drying out on a stove. As they are castings they will soak up water...

I got this set of Avery Potato scales the other day for the high price of: £5 I done a bit research into them. If I was to re paint etc their value would not be worth that much. But by keeping them in original paint, as much as possible the value would be better. More so if I had the full...

Just spent the day building a wheelchair friendly work bench. Well, mocking one up out of scrap wood, It should be a good addition, when we can build it. It will have a bench, lights, a vice and more importantly wheel chocks. Honest we did not giggle when Mike pushed against the vice to start...

At one Men In Shed we have some members who have issues with arms and hands. For a while they felt a bit left out, so I made theses hammers, with the members help. The Top Claw hammers is the one, I have polished the metal up. The old leathers is dried and falling to bits. The rust was...