{"id":7279,"date":"2025-10-10T11:56:49","date_gmt":"2025-10-10T10:56:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/?p=7279"},"modified":"2025-10-10T11:56:49","modified_gmt":"2025-10-10T10:56:49","slug":"final-refurb-of-the-vintage-tool-collection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/?p=7279","title":{"rendered":"Final Refurb of the vintage tool collection."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Back In October 2024 I won a job lot of Engineering tools via eBay. When they arrived I was reasonably certain that they were apprentice pieces all made by the same gent and stamped FC. At the time I cleaned them all up and I restored most of them in terms of parts that were missing. One final piece a sliding curved bevel worked but it wasn&#8217;t possible to tighten up or slacken off the thumbscrew. I tried several times in the intervening 11 months but did manage to budge it no matter how aggressive I got, I didn&#8217;t manage to budge it. In the end a week or so ago, I just lost patience and hacksawed the thumbscrew off.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I machined up a new thumbscrew and it worked but the stud part looked a bit undernourished so I  made a second stud that I was happy with. I also spent a bit of time on the slides to ensure that all the parts move freely along the full length of travel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/1-Sliding-Bevel-Restoration.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"444\" src=\"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/1-Sliding-Bevel-Restoration-1024x444.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7280\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/1-Sliding-Bevel-Restoration-1024x444.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/1-Sliding-Bevel-Restoration-300x130.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/1-Sliding-Bevel-Restoration-768x333.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/1-Sliding-Bevel-Restoration-500x217.jpg 500w, http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/1-Sliding-Bevel-Restoration.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Slding Bevel Restoration<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/1-Sliding-Bevel-Restoration-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"926\" src=\"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/1-Sliding-Bevel-Restoration-1-1024x926.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7281\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/1-Sliding-Bevel-Restoration-1-1024x926.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/1-Sliding-Bevel-Restoration-1-300x271.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/1-Sliding-Bevel-Restoration-1-768x695.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/1-Sliding-Bevel-Restoration-1-332x300.jpg 332w, http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/1-Sliding-Bevel-Restoration-1.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Slding Bevel Restoration<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Back In October 2024 I won a job lot of Engineering tools via eBay. When they arrived I was reasonably certain that they were apprentice pieces all made by the same gent and stamped FC. 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