Narrated: 1860s Starrett Food Chopper [Restoration]

Athol is my home town, so I love seeing Starrett tools when I run into them.

Hand Tool Rescue

It talks to me in my sleep.

Tedd ILL

Wow, beautiful work.

Felix

This ain't food grade stainless.

ChuckD

There's an attorney on the phone... Says he's representing the drill press?

So do pinstripe senses tingle, or do you hear the pinstripe calling to you, or is like Sherlock Holmes where you deduce the pinstripe MUST be there because it's the only explanation for everything else?

Makes me wonder if Starrett has a historian or archivist that would have information on this... or maybe they would be interested in what you have??!

Peter Laws

Starrett is in Athol, Mass. Huh. Here's the sum total of my knowledge of Athol. Back In The Day, WBCN was the big FM rock radio station in Boston, one of the original AOR stations in the late 6os/early 70s, like CHOM in Montreal and KSHE in Saint Louis. In the mid/late 80s, they were still going strong and they were producing a lot of stuff themselves, unlike radio today, and one of them was a (fake) promo for a new show "coming this fall" that starred Peter Falk, of Columbo fame, touring and paying tribute to the wonderful town of Athol, Mass. It was entitled "Falk In Athol". Don't think it got picked up. Don't know why.

Hand Tool Rescue

Hmmmmmm

Hand Tool Rescue

Inside of what?

Clifton Ballad

Soooo the paint on the inside... Attempt to limit corrosion? Also, Im guessing the "check underpants" light was flashing after the rag mishap... A can of flux (white flux, zinc chloride, usually works with brass/bronze) will help with brazing. Brazing is a deep dark rabbit hole of sadness and failure in unexpected ways, I have been forced into it on many occasions and adding everything you can to the fight helps lessen the eventual soul crushing defeat... ("I did everything I could, It just wasn't gonna work..." you say into the mirror every other night....) Brazing forced me into branches of metallurgy and chemistry deemed unholy by most welders... Tis a dark and lonely path, filled with nerds and people who have no idea what they are asking for.

Erich Keane

For removing the pins, consider drilling slightly undersized and tapping it, then pulling it out with a bolt in the hole. I've had good luck doing that in the past.

Hand Tool Rescue

I do not keep all of them as some are done as commissions and some I sell. Definitely hard to land on a price.

Hand Tool Rescue

Hahaha, I am not smart.

Jochen Römling

You said you are going to keep this one. Does this mean you are not keeping every tool you restore? How do you even price a thing that took you days of work to restore? I would not want to let go of a tool that I had put all this work in.

Louis Ross

What a treat, a narrated video from Hand Tool Rescue in these times of isolation and boredom. The humour here was of an order that got me told off for rowdy behaviour by my wife when the rag got wrapped around the drill press.

Starrett - the machinist's Snap-on. Very interesting piece of equipment!

Hand Tool Rescue

Too toit?

Very toit with the bushings.

Hand Tool Rescue

100%

Jeremy Abel

Wait is this the same Starrett that makes measurement gubbins now?!

Hand Tool Rescue

It's just one of the constants in the universe.

Hand Tool Rescue

I have not! The 9in wrenches will be up for sale to Patrons first in hopefully 2-3 months.

Hand Tool Rescue

Hmmmmm....good idea.

Lol. Why does every antique tool have paint dots on it?

Yoel Bittner

Hi, I was wondering. Are we going to be able to get the yuuugee wrench once the quarantine is over? And have you ever tried Yorkshire Grit on the wood? Nick Zammetti swears by it.

Emalkartha

I would have been extremely tempted to put that disc on the wall as a work of art, and put a replacement in the tool. Beautiful pattern in the wood.