I recently moved back to where I grew up. I got my first pump air gun at a flea market in this town about 43 years ago. That same fleamarket still happens every Sunday so I went by to check it out. Not as many vendors as there used to be, but there’s been something interesting there every time I’ve checked it out.
I saw this wrench and realized it was probably just the right size for the pressure gauges on pcps. I’m a bit of a klutz and I managed to scrape up the finish on a few of my pressure gauges trying to get them off with tools that weren’t really right for the job. I’ve been meaning to get a socket that fits it, but this should do the job and the price was right - $1.
I’m trying to decide how much energy to put into cleaning up the finish on it and how to go about it. In the photo I’ve already given it a once over and cleaned off the soft powdery stuff and covered it with ballistol. I have wire brushes and a rotary tool with some buffing and sanding tips that would probably make short work of the rust layer. There’s always steel wool. It’s got somebody’s initials chiseled into it as well.
Some of the vendors at that market have interesting collections of old tools so I will be back. I have not seen anything vaguely like an airgun there.
I saw this wrench and realized it was probably just the right size for the pressure gauges on pcps. I’m a bit of a klutz and I managed to scrape up the finish on a few of my pressure gauges trying to get them off with tools that weren’t really right for the job. I’ve been meaning to get a socket that fits it, but this should do the job and the price was right - $1.
I’m trying to decide how much energy to put into cleaning up the finish on it and how to go about it. In the photo I’ve already given it a once over and cleaned off the soft powdery stuff and covered it with ballistol. I have wire brushes and a rotary tool with some buffing and sanding tips that would probably make short work of the rust layer. There’s always steel wool. It’s got somebody’s initials chiseled into it as well.
Some of the vendors at that market have interesting collections of old tools so I will be back. I have not seen anything vaguely like an airgun there.
