Tool Talk
Classic Power Tools => Classic Power Tools => Topic started by: stormking on June 08, 2012, 06:57:11 PM
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I do know what it is, only because the tag says. I thought it might be fun to see if anyone knows what this useless obsolete but cool tool is. I can't believe they ever made this or sold any. So what does that say about me! I think it dates to the 50's or 60's.
(http://img692.imageshack.us/img692/5064/dscn1505f.jpg)
By stormking3 (http://profile.imageshack.us/user/stormking3) at 2012-06-08
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Looks like a power gizmo for spinning paint brushes dry after cleaning them. Somewhere in my painting stuff I have a manual one which works well. Can't see myself buying an electric though
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Well that was easy for you Neals. I would never have believed these existed if I had not seen it for myself.
(http://img339.imageshack.us/img339/5007/dscn1506y.jpg)
By stormking3 (http://profile.imageshack.us/user/stormking3) at 2012-06-08
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I never knew they made electric ones but the business end looks like the 3 manual ones I've seen.
I use the one I have. Brushes dry a lot faster.
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I've never seen a brush spinner, manual or electric, but interesting. Also goes to show that from the 20s thru the 60s, if someone had a tool, somebody else would stick a motor on it, progress you know. Was that chrome that shiny or did it take some polsihing?
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What make is it ? I can't read the tag
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The body is chrome I suppose to make it easier to clean. My guess would be if you don't get the brush completely clean this would make a huge mess. The maker is Nashway Electric out of Nebraska. Are there many electric tool manufacturers in Nebraska? Just kidding with that question I think I already know the answer.
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If one thinks of Nebraska the thought is usually of cornfields and the wide open prairies of the west. I looked up Nashway, it was in Lincoln, Nebraska, the state capitol. Where they also made the Cushman Scooters, and before the scooters, small flywheel engines for the farmers in pre-electric days. You can also think of the Golden Rod oil cans made in Hastings Nebraska still, the same ones now sold by Lee Valley. Golden Rod is the state flower. Vise-Grips by Petersen, made in DeWitt Nebraska. Or were til recently. Lincoln, and Omaha has long had small jobbers and mfg. going on. Omaha used to be known as the mattress center, were at least 6 mattress companies. In the 1920s there was a Ford assembly plant there too. Shipping was and is big as the home of the Union Pacific Railroad. Gone now but the Union Pacific shops in downtown Omaha would now rate a first class tour by anybody with a hint of the mechanical in their blood. Imagine a single shop that could cast, machine, plate, weld, and assemble a locomotive.
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Once upon a time, everything south of Souix City went through Lincoln....
This was where you decided if you were going north, south, or west....
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by PET company?
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Vise Grips USED to be made in Nebraska.......
DM&FS
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>Vise Grips USED to be made in Nebraska.......
They used to stay straight when you squeezed them too...
*sigh*
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The manual brush spinners (and probably your electric one too) will also spin rollers. You will get 10 times the life out of your paint rollers if you use one of those. I get upset when I have to do any painting and cannot find my brush spinner.
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Thanks WV. I didn't know they worked on rollers.
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A 4 X 4 post works well for rollers too. If you like getting spattered ;-) Don't ask how I know.
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Somehow, rapid rotation, and paint never seem to go together well....
I knew a nice fellow, who decided to paint the inside of his pool filter tank because it was getting a bit rusty. He filled it with paint, rolled it around, and dumped out the paint.
But it wouldn't dry...after a few days he got impatient and decided to help it out,
with a torch
The paint thinner vapors in the tank exploded instantly, the tank was thick, so it didn't explode, but, there was a pipe on the side with a 90 degree elbow on it.
The elbow pretended to be a rocket motor for 20 seconds or so.
Spun the tank around amazingly fast.
Painted the entire inside of his garage red oxide.....
Instantly
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P. S. Always place your brush or roller inside a 5 gallon bucket when you do the intitial spin after washing unless you like eating and wearing watered down paint.