Junk from the Culver City Old Tool Swap Meet at Andersen Plywood -- Saturday, August 19

Supposedly, this wrench has the nickname of the "peanut butter wrench"

This is a very small tool with a built in file...

Had not heard of Galion before.  Looked it up & it's a very old name (late 1800s) and is a truck body company.

VAR is a French bicycle tool company.  This is a headset plier used to turn the "knurled" portion of a threaded headset.

This is a very small push-to-release quick release pin.  Looks kinda like an aerospace/airplane type of tool...

Made in Bellflower;  Motorcycle/Bicycle spoke wrench...

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)

I've heard good things about this drill bit sharpening tool.  At the very low used purchase price, it's worth trying out...

Took these to a wire wheel.  Cleaned up pretty good...

Chattsworth Model A Swap Meet & Car Show -- Sunday, August 20

Lancia Flaminia

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...

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

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).

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...

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...

Quite a unique design for a speed-handle...  I'll have to try using it after cleaning it up...

P&C is a sub-brand of Proto which used to be called Plomb...

Out of Control Garage...

About an inch and half thick piece of wood (14 inches by three feet) -- Would make a good bench or table...

WW-II era Target Drone Plane Propeller (about three feet long) -- It's slightly damaged at the tips

Replacing the pedals on the Cannondale 6-13 bike... Another ordeal due to corrosion. Also fixed my own mistake on the missing link...

Was able to replace the LH pedal with a new pedal (black).  But the RH one (white) will not come off, due to the threads being corroded in place...

Will not turn (even with an impact air gun...)  Will have to try to drill it out...

Used a rasping bit and a regular drill bit to drill out the old pedal.  Made a lot of shavings!

 Will have to try and use an easy out type of tool to get the shaft to turn...  Hopefully one of these fits...  Didn't work.  Didn't have the right size...  Just had to keep drilling until there was almost nothing left!

Finally drilled out the old pedal shaft (this picture is before I cleaned up the dirt and shavings).  Had to drill it almost to the edge of the threads and a little beyond to get it to come out.  There was enough threads left to install the new pedal without having to run a tap through the threads.  I put some grease on the new pedal threads so that it won't corrode in place so badly, for next time...

New RH side pedal installed.  RH pedal has normal threads.  LH pedal has reversed threads (pretty important to remember!).  I had to repeatedly check to make sure that I was trying to turn the correct direction throughout the whole process (would have been bad if I was trying to tighten it instead of removing it!  Fortunately, I didn't make that mistake...).

I think the self shifting issue that I have, since I replaced the chain, may be caused by using the wrong "missing link" to connect the chain.  I think I might have used an 8/9 speed missing link instead of a 10 speed one.  So it's loose laterally & allows the skipping.  I ordered some 10 speed missing links so I should know in a few days when I get them...

Got and installed the new missing link (KMC brand).  LH one is the new one and the RH one is the one I had previously installed.  The new one is noticeably narrower.  Installed it and went for a test ride around the block and no more skipping/jumping gear.  I just screwed up by installing the wrong missing link to begin with...  Now the bike is ready to ride.