OldIHC

I broke down and bought some 2X10X8s for the top. I'll incorporate Model T fenders, sonewhere. And a Model T fan.

Slightly bent and abused Model T fenders bolted to the ends of the 2X10s.

Love the optional cooling fan for the mechanic! Doubles as a fingernail trimmer (if your careful)

The "estate sale" guy was giving me things that no one would ever buy. It was my golden age of antique trash collection. Then the price of metal went back up. Oh, well.
Glad you like it, CB.
Once I'm up and running stop by at any time and show me how to do stuff. I hope to have a line-shaft machine shop installed sometime next year. I'll probably mock-up the belts and shafts and just run everything on the electric motors this stuff was converted to.
The Little Giant Power Hammer should be able to compete with my neighbor's car stereo for annoyingness.

BTW, I'm going to whitewash the interior of my garage/barn like they did it 100 years ago. If you look at pictures of old garages at least half of them were obviously white or had very light-colored interiors.
Whitewash won't hold up for exteriors, Tom Sawyer/ Mark Twain story or not.
http://www.theprairiehomestead.com/2014 ... -coop.html

Lots of new happenings on the "old-timey machine shop" front. New arrivals. And some inexpensive, too!

A very nice man in Colorado named Lowell sold me a very nice antique Brown & Sharpe horizontal mill.
About $300, total, delivered via YRC Freight. Yes, $300 TOTAL.

I travelled to Woodland Hills near LA to pick up an antique line shaft. Hard to find these complete. $125 plus pickup.

I purchased several antique line shaft hangers on Ebay. I paid up for them, but they are near impossible to find. About $900 for five huge cast antique iron hangers w/bearings. These shafts evidently were either 1 5/16 or 1 7/16 diameter.

I bought a old-timey (late 1800s) wooden tool cabinet w/factory history on Ebay. $400.

I bought an old-timey factory-made green workbench that's perfect for my antique Sioux valve grinder.
$150.

New arrivals...they even SMELL right...old oil!
Care to make a guess as to what went in this box? Almost certainly old mechanical repair...tools?
Cabinet is about 40" tall. Big.

no idea, do you?

CB...no...looks like there's a spot for a small square?
It will get slightly repurposed, anyway.
I just wondered what might have been in the long slots.

Just your run of the mill ACME Beer Truck carrying an early Bowser Gas Boy.
Nothing to see, here.