Saturday, October 24, 2020
Friday, October 23, 2020
Old & Rough Tool Case - part 16 -- Vacuuming & Cleaning the Drawer Fronts -- Top Full Width Drawer
Before vacuuming
Closer view of the dirt in the drawer
After vacuuming. There's a worn out spot in the back. Wonder what was kept there...
Dirt on the knob. The drawer front has been cleaned with the Simple Green and the kitchen scrubber...
After cleaning
Close-up of after cleaning
Closer view
Drawer bottom
This one just says "28" on the back
The drawer is in good structural shape
There's a lot of greasy finger prints on the bottom of the drawer, towards the front. At first I was going to clean this but had second thoughts. It may represent 80+ years of someone using the drawer...
I'll leave it. It's not visible but the history is still there...
It's ready to go back in the case
Drawer #4 done. Two more to go...
Closer view of the RH side of the drawer
Closer view of the LH side of the drawer
Friday, October 16, 2020 -- Manhattan Beach Pier (socked-in...)
It started out sunny at home (about 4.5 miles from the beach). It started getting foggy within about 1/2 mile from the beach. Then it was pretty much socked-in at the beach.
It's another warm day (high of 88F at home) so the fog made it cooler (maybe low 70s?), which is good for riding...
I sat and rested at the bench closest to me. The guy on the other bench was talking on his phone, facing me so it was pretty loud. Something about renting and how bad tenants are.
Really didn't want to hear it but couldn't avoid it, unless I wanted to move somewhere else...
Later, when riding home, I passed this guy about a mile from home on the Ballona Creek trail.
I did notice that the bike is an older Colnago with the ribbed tubing...
Thursday, October 22, 2020
Old & Rough Tool Case - part 15 -- Vacuuming & Cleaning the Drawer Fronts -- Second to the Top Right Drawer
Before vacuuming...
After vacuuming...
Before cleaning
Before cleaning
Before cleaning
Before cleaning
Showing the full bottom of the drawer...
This one marked "28-2"
Guessing that the "2" goes above the "3".
I swapped the top two RH drawers.
In the cleaning process.
Got tired of using the kitchen scrubbing sponge for the knobs.
I used the scrubber on the wood but swapped to using a blade to scrape off the dirt/rust on the top of the knobs. It works well but you have to careful not to cut into the metal.
This picture shows the knob top cleaning, mid-process...
After cleaning...
After cleaning
Drawer being put back in the case...
Now the three half width drawers are done cleaning.
Also cleaned the vertical drawer guide holding piece between the half drawers so that the level of clean matches the drawers.
What's neat is that they but the "bead" feature on this piece also, so that the feature runs through the LH & RH half drawers.
Nice detail touch...
The screw at the top of this picture is the front lid stop so that it's positioned correctly to align with the catch portion of the latch and to ensure that the front lid ends up being flush with the case when it's in the closed position.
Since it's a screw, it's easily adjustable.
Close-up of the RH knobs, showing the before and after, as compared to the full width drawers below that have not been cleaned yet...
LH knob contrast...
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