Tool Talk

General Category => General Discussion => Topic started by: strik9 on May 01, 2011, 11:42:28 AM

Title: saving a 1930's GRAY from the scrappers
Post by: strik9 on May 01, 2011, 11:42:28 AM

I found this relic in a box once belonging to a very thrifty man.  He would not buy a tool ever if it was possible to modify another on the cheap.  Him and I both having worked heavy diesel, I think he made this to remove hydraulic pumps from the bellhousing of the older D8 Cat crawlers.

It is a GRAY 729, also marked FORGED STEEL, badly worn over the years.
Liberal use of the torch with a little weld to fill in voids, finished with a lot of filing and sanding.  I did not try to get it perfect because I like the look it has, well used but cared for.
 The 5/8" end has been opened to 17mm, another mod by him to fill a gap in his tool kit.

Title: Re: saving a 1930's GRAY from the scrappers
Post by: jabberwoki on May 20, 2011, 09:48:30 PM

I like your style!!

Title: Re: saving a 1930's GRAY from the scrappers
Post by: RLT on May 20, 2011, 10:18:13 PM

I still like that one. Polishing or any other surface work would have ruined the look.

Title: Re: saving a 1930's GRAY from the scrappers
Post by: strik9 on May 22, 2011, 12:54:03 PM

I buy mostly on impulse, this on being a long lost Canadian in Mexico had a story to tell.
 I also seen a need have the dignity restored, a once proud first line warrior should not end up in a box  of oddities.

Thats what they make the asian cheap stuff for, bend, cut and weld all you want on that.