Monday, August 21, 2017
Junk from the Culver City Old Tool Swap Meet at Andersen Plywood -- Saturday, August 19
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| Supposedly, this wrench has the nickname of the "peanut butter wrench" |
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| This is a very small tool with a built in file... |
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| Had not heard of Galion before. Looked it up & it's a very old name (late 1800s) and is a truck body company. |
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| VAR is a French bicycle tool company. This is a headset plier used to turn the "knurled" portion of a threaded headset. |
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| This is a very small push-to-release quick release pin. Looks kinda like an aerospace/airplane type of tool... |
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| Made in Bellflower; Motorcycle/Bicycle spoke wrench... |
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| This is a large bore gauge made by Mitutoyo (it's maked USA though...). Maybe about a 3.5 to 6.5 inch range? (haven't measured it) |
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| I've heard good things about this drill bit sharpening tool. At the very low used purchase price, it's worth trying out... |
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| Took these to a wire wheel. Cleaned up pretty good... |
Chattsworth Model A Swap Meet & Car Show -- Sunday, August 20
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| Lancia Flaminia |
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| I have the dash from this car with the same gauges (I don't have all the trim and switches though...). I bought it for the gauges. They're some of the best looking gauges ever... |
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| A guy was selling a 1990 ZR-1 & was asking $16,500. This generation of Corvette is one of the worst for quality/durability (I drove one sometimes when I worked at GM to do work related errands; it was a "pool" car. I hated driving the one we had. What a piece of junk... Fast but still a piece of junk to drive in almost every way...). This twin-double overhead cam, 4-valves per cylinder V8 was designed by Lotus (which was owned by GM around that time) and was built by Mercury Marine (who had the production capacity). This is a pretty cool engine, although it didn't have huge output, compared to what's common today, but it's supposed to rev like a twin cam 4-valve engine... It's huge though. The drivetrain from this car would be cool to put under a sleeper sedan (like my 1964 Mercedes. Just pipe-dreams...). |
Junk from the Chattsworth Model A Swap Meet -- Sunday, August 20
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| It says made in France but I don't see a brand mark on it. It's probably from the '70s or '80s (aftermarket). Looks like it was never used (vinyl instead of leather... but still looks to be made with the same process that a leather wheel would have used). |
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| This Fiat badge is incredibly well made. It's made of three main pieces: The Outer ring is brazed to the center backing piece (with the holes in it). The center insert is made with the cloisonne process then is joined to the backing piece trough the two pins. Also, the two threaded studs are joined to the backing piece. This is nearly jewelry type of work and effort. It's understandable that they stopped putting this much effort into the badge and started making them out of plastic... |
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| This Mack truck hood ornament is solid metal and is quite heavy (about a pound?). On a heavy duty truck, a pound doesn't make much difference... |
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| Quite a unique design for a speed-handle... I'll have to try using it after cleaning it up... |
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| P&C is a sub-brand of Proto which used to be called Plomb... |
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