On Sunday I disassembled this 1936 Snap On ratchet, cleaned it,  put fresh grease inside and put it back together.

Just after I started I thought about something that people may take for granted.

Notice the two screws holding it together. The slot in one is plainly seen and the other is filled with oil and dirt.

I knew better than to think that the screwdriver would displace that crud and seat properly. It wouldn’t. Instead of trying I took an extra minute and a machinists scriber and cleaned the crud out.

This is one of the rare instances where its okay to use a tool for something it wasnt made for. Machinists scribers are for scribing, not digging crud out of screw slots but doing so wont hurt it and it works great for the job.

Its also important to use the proper size screwdriver.

In the first picture below you can see that the screwdriver would fit but there will be plenty of extra room. This would cause the screwdriver to leave depressions on either side of the screw slot  and cam out as its turned. The second pic is a proper sized screwdriver.

Here’s a machine screw that was deliberately driven with the wrong size screwdriver. Now that its damaged

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, re-use would be difficult even with the proper size driver.

A few years ago while watching television I saw an infomercial for a gimmick cordless drill. The head was enormous and had two chucks. The chucks rotated on a movable collar that had two positions, one for the active chuck the other was for idle. The idea was that  keeping a different bit (screwdriver and drill) in each chuck and rotating as needed was quicker than changing out bits. A ridiculous concept and a few months later when I noticed an acquaintance had been suckered into buying one I thought less of him.

Anyway, a particularly frustrating moment in the commercial involved the salesman holding up an old style hand operated drill

, turning the handle rapidly while smiling and belittling the idea of using it.  In doing so he mocked the multitudes of craftsman who built our latest attempt at civilization and concepts I hold dear like craftsmanship, quality, innovation, durability and function.

To add insult to injury the drill was probably the smallest available specimen and it was in poor condition.

The drill below was from Stanley Tools ‘Defiance ‘ line. It was their economy line but back in the day all that meant was not quite as good as heavy duty.

Manufacturers would design tools to last so that people would buy other tools from them.

You can see plenty of rust. Where the handle meets the body there was so much rust the drill would not move at all. Notice too that most of the paint on the main gear teeth is intact. This tool probably saw very little use.

All the bits originally included where still present. Even the tissue paper wadding packed in the end cap survived.

The original box is in poor shape but the label is still salvageable.

This package of bits isnt original to the drill but they are from the same time period and perhaps were purchased together.

I used a wire wheel to clean the rust off, then a little bit of oil and its ready for work.

I like hammers. I have quite a few of them and would like quite a few more.

I got the hammer below this weekend at the flea market.

A common method of selling used tools at the flea is to spread a blanket on the ground

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, dump your wares on it and let people rummage through.

There were about half a dozen hammers on one blanket and a couple of them caught my eye.  I saw from a distance that one was a straight claw hammer. I have 4 curved claw hammers but have wanted a straight claw for a while now.  When I picked it up and looked closely I could see that the rust was too heavy for my taste.

Removing it would be too much bother.  I put it down and grabbed the best looking ball-pein hammer in the lot.

“One dollar,” said the dealer who I hadn’t even looked at it yet. I looked up to see where the voice was coming from.  I must have seemed confused because he said it again, “one dollar for any of those tools.”

The rust on the claw hammer suddenly became very easily removable. I gave the man two dollars and continued on.

Later that afternoon I cut a hole in the side of a empty ginger ale bottle, filled it with enough white vinegar to completely submerge the head of the hammer and let it sit. After a couple of hours I checked on it.

The acid in vinegar attacks rust and sometimes, if the rust is light, you need only leave things in for an hour or so, wipe with a 000 steel wool pad and rinse. Sometimes it takes longer. The hammer ended up having to spend the night submerged in vinegar and even then I had to use a hand wire brush to scrub away the rust.

Not the best example of rust removal.

Neither are these offset box end wrenches and channel type pliers.

(Before)

(After)

They’re not too bad either, but in a couple of spots I had to use a wire wheel and would have preferred not too.

In other spots vinegar and a fine steel wool pad was plenty to get the rust out

but pitting was too deep for my liking.

All of them work though and for one dollar each I can’t complain.