Didn't know where to post this. So thought I'd start a thread for others to chip in if they've done a small fun restore or make-me-own?
Sunday, we went en famille to the car-boot sale at Earlston Rugby Club. Uhm, in Britain we call the car luggage space a boot - in N America I believe it's the trunk?
Anyhoo, Mrs' son and I spotted a nice cantilevered metal tool box full of assorted junk tools. Asked how much, the bloke said £25 for the box and contents. Which of course we would probably have had to fling out. Later, we went back to see if he would sell the toolbox on its own. Got three tool boxes in the garage, one metal, two plastic, but I like the garage to have an olde worlde feel so . . .
Well, while we had been finking, some other punter had snaffled the toolbox. Damn.
But as we wandered along the row of stalls, Graeme spotted two cantilevered metal tool boxes under a table. Both were old, filthy, battered. One was so rusty and full of holes it was beyond any hope but the other? Bloke said £1 so it was an absolute No Brainer.
Unfortunately, don't have a before picture but yer tiz after a fun hour or so of shaking out dirt, pushing back in one rivet that had popped out, squished it with a G-clamp, knocked out a few of the worst dents, straightened the bent handle with a vice, well, it's straighter than it was, wiped off worst of muck and stains with white spirit.
Yep, that can take its place on the garage shelf now. A pound well spend, I'd say?
Sunday, we went en famille to the car-boot sale at Earlston Rugby Club. Uhm, in Britain we call the car luggage space a boot - in N America I believe it's the trunk?
Anyhoo, Mrs' son and I spotted a nice cantilevered metal tool box full of assorted junk tools. Asked how much, the bloke said £25 for the box and contents. Which of course we would probably have had to fling out. Later, we went back to see if he would sell the toolbox on its own. Got three tool boxes in the garage, one metal, two plastic, but I like the garage to have an olde worlde feel so . . .
Well, while we had been finking, some other punter had snaffled the toolbox. Damn.
But as we wandered along the row of stalls, Graeme spotted two cantilevered metal tool boxes under a table. Both were old, filthy, battered. One was so rusty and full of holes it was beyond any hope but the other? Bloke said £1 so it was an absolute No Brainer.
Unfortunately, don't have a before picture but yer tiz after a fun hour or so of shaking out dirt, pushing back in one rivet that had popped out, squished it with a G-clamp, knocked out a few of the worst dents, straightened the bent handle with a vice, well, it's straighter than it was, wiped off worst of muck and stains with white spirit.
Yep, that can take its place on the garage shelf now. A pound well spend, I'd say?
) rewiring the unit and resoldering various parts; also replacing the old incandescent lights with the new LED units. Wire wool followed by some teak oil cleaned up the wooden casing, and I replaced a few knobs & pots with ones off the scruffy unit.
than Blighty 
back in the day. 
