A Small Parts Carousel

I remember this from my boyhood. It was suspended from the ceiling of my dad's basement workshop. It mostly contained, and still contains, electrical crimp terminals. I think I want this item to reside in my basement workshop.

The welded steel frame affair that supports it, and within which the carousel rotates, has gone missing though. I'll have to fabricate a functional equivalent frame out of wood. The interesting part of that project will be to come up with suitable bearings for the thing to rotate in.

Each end of the carousel has a little 5/16" diameter stub shaft, like so.

That's what I'll have to fabricate two bearings for. I have an idea how to go about it. We'll see how it pans out.

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Three Corbin Cabinet Locks

Corbin currently exists as Corbin Russwin. There's a brief historical note about Corbin Russwin here.

These locks make me want to build something that could use them, but that's unlikely to happen anytime soon -- other priorities prevail. Meanwhile, I'll stash these in the shoebox labelled "LOCKS", where I have some similar items.

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An Electrostrip Elbow In A Tee Box

Electrostrip is a surface-mount electrical outlet raceway system that dates back to the 1950s. My dad did a baseboard installation of it in my older sister's bedroom way back then. It was a two-wire system; there was no ground conductor. The installation probably still exists.

Electrostrip is still with us, but it's now three-wire, as it should be. Siemens owns the name. There's a PDF installation guide here.

The pictured elbow is about as useless to me as useless can get, but I'll put it with my electrical stuff as a keepsake.

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An Eagle Oil Can

Now there's the classic shape of all the world's idea of an 'oil can'.

This one is in beautiful condition -- it holds and dispenses oil without leaking; imagine that.

I'll put this next to a couple of plastic versions that I keep at the back of my drill press. I think I may retire one of the plastic ones, and let this beauty take its place.

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An "Original TECALEMIT" Grease Gun

It seems this tool was meant for use on some British cars of the 1940s and '50s.

It's beautifully constructed. I'll put it in the cabinet where I keep specialized lubricants.

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A Silva Polaris Compass

I already have one of these; I keep it in my truck's glove bin.

I'll put this in the tackle box where I keep miscellaneous camping gear.

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A Roll Of Really Wide Masking Tape

This is the best idea I've seen since masking tape itself -- six inch wide masking tape. I wish I'd had this when I was installing baseboard.

Needless to say, I'll put this with my other rolls of masking tape.

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