How-To: Clean and Restore Old Tools with Common Household Items
Beneath years of dirt and grime can be found files, planes, screwdrivers, and hand-drills that can become some of your favorite tools.
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Tips for Restoring Vintage Cast Iron Pans
If you happen to find any rusty, old cast iron pans that you’d like to bring back to life, then take a look at these useful tips for restoring vintage cast iron pans from Serious Eats.
Restoring an Eames-Style Plycraft Chair
A maker finds a Plycraft brand knockoff of an iconic Eames chair by the side of the road and decides to restore it.
Groasis Waterboxx: Greening the World
Inspired by nature, AquaPro used biomimicry to design the Groasis technology using the Waterboxx to allow plantings in difficult areas. Founder and inventor Pieter Hoff mimicked how animal droppings give plants a head start. His company has used the Groasis technology in more than 30 countries, restoring damaged areas and providing people the chance to grow trees and vegetables in dry, rocky soils.
Chris Thorpe: 3D Printing the Industrial Revolution
The mainstream news media is awash with speculation that 3D printing is bringing about a second industrial revolution. Whether this is true or not, nowhere is the comparison more apt than with The Flexiscale Company, a small UK startup making 3D models of the great steam engines of the first industrial revolution. I caught up […]
DiResta: Printing Press, Part 2
In each bi-monthly episode of DiResta (every other Wednesday at 2pm PT), artist and master builder Jimmy DiResta (Dirty Money, Hammered, Against the Grain, Trash for Cash) lets us into his workshop, to look over his shoulder while he builds whatever strikes his fancy. On this episode of DiResta, Jimmy continues with his restoration of […]
Gorgeous 1940s Lathe Restoration
Practical Machinist forum member macona restores a Monarch 10EE lathe. Hack-a-Day has the story, nicely summarized, indexed, and linked.
