Equipment

Vintage 1920’s South Bend Catalog

Weidenhoff Model 818 Magnet Charger

Staff | Jul 7, 2020

A Concrete Demonstration at Old Threshers

Staff | Mar 13, 2020

Build Your Own Magneto Charger

Staff | Mar 9, 2020

Getting Fired Up: 1928/1929 1-1/4 HP Baker Monitor VJ

Staff | Jan 5, 2015

This is the second in a four part series on Peter Rooke's restoration of a 1-1/4 HP Baker Monitor VJ. Read part 1 for the beginning of the restoration, and part 3 and part 4 for the rest of the restoration.A water pump was needed to complete this restoration. The style of pump needed was not generally available in the U.K., so the plan was to use a regular hand pump and adapt it to ...

| Jan 5, 2015

Who Built This Horse-Drawn Rake?

| Jun 27, 2013

What Do You Know About This Cockshutt Gang Plow?

| Jun 26, 2013

Recognize this single disc?

| Jul 20, 2011

Spark Plug Intensifier

| Aug 1, 2003

Tools

Vintage 1920’s South Bend Catalog

Sent in by a reader, these scans are from a vintage South Bend catalog printed in the 1920s and can be used to make an attachment for a lathe to re-babbitt and restore gas engines. The pages include a list of equipment needed to bore con-rods, instructions for mounting con-rods in a lathe, and boring the bearing to the exact same size. Also, how to use micrometer carriage stops to ...