The other discovery…I was down in the metal-shop slash boiler room, my wife was up in the bathroom directly overhead, cleaning, and water started raining down onto the workbench and my tools along the shower/tub drain pipe.Turns out she was spraying down the wall tiles around the tub, and they are not grouted well. Water went behind them, to the floor, and down around the poorly sealed drain pipe hole, evidently.That pushed the bathroom redo up before the kitchen.

@wedge Poor kitten!

@wedge Good idea, I made the same for mine.

@wedge Those bits were invented for the armaments industry, to make flat-bottom holes in the wood structure of the guns.

Handle and tang were even length; the tang end flush with the handle hole.I didn’t want to have to remove wood off the butt of the handle.At the ferrule end there was a bit of room where the tang flared out just before joining the blade. I needed a way to force the handle on another 2 millimeters. It donned on me a nut would work perfect, allowing tang end to come through while whacking handle on tighter. Ferrule torqued slightly, but extra tight.Little ball peen worked perfect.

@GustavinoBevilacqua Just well fermented.

New washer and ferrule made. The washer now fits as well as the ferrule, but with a tenth off to turn easier.New bolt also cut. It’ll be 3 cm deeper than before. That puts it into the thickest part of the leg. I think that’s good enough.Just need to drill and then assembly time.But it’s been a long day. It’ll wait.

A couple of those cleaned up so far. They were already in the drink before I got my new orders. :)The angle square has some grind marks on the corner. Pretty sure the late owner (J.S.) made that tool; welded two pieces and ground it down. He did a good job on the angle. I will finish that better.The bevel gauge is something special. Machined. Has brass *and* copper pins. Lovely. It’s a bit loose at that angle there and lower. Doesn’t hold. But from there up the friction is perfect.

This is as close as my old phone can take. But definitely a Reichsadler.I cant make out the lettering… Looks like 'WR.RBA' ?

@GustavinoBevilacqua If I can get this to work well enough to saw chipboard straight, then I’m happy with free.

@yngmar @wedge Well, I've one more reason to persuade my wife

@wedge The lathe is nice, but I've no time to restore it.

@wedge With the right truck you can transport everything.

@wedge The label says "3 PH".Anyway there are tricks to use a 3-phase motor with a 1-phase line, maybe some of our followers can post a link.