Progress is fine, but it's gone on for too long.

with apologies to Ogden Nash...

Thursday, December 11, 2025

One of my vices is vises (another anvil vise)

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These combination anvil vises are more common than I thought.  

Oscillating gas motor

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  In 1880 Joseph Ravel,  a French engineer and inventor, built and patented this acetylene-powered two-stroke engine.  Patent 236,258.   The...
Wednesday, December 10, 2025

BSA Bantam

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  Ad from 1967, a groovy cool couple on a Bantam.  The bike had been part of the BSA lineup since 1948, from a 1930s DKW design first sold i...

Pontiac Parisienne drag car

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Shouldn't be sitting outside....  
Tuesday, December 9, 2025

Not a cellphone...

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 Do guys still shave wherever they are?
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Edgley EA-7 Optica .

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  Looks like a bug, but this a British light aircraft designed for low-speed observation work, it first flew in 1979. It was intended as a l...
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Monday, December 8, 2025

Weeden steam engine # 34

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  This toy steam engine model with 8 inch long boiler was introduced in 1898 and produced till 1940.  The boiler jacket of this model was de...

Monday Mystery, tool with knob

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  It's easy enough to google the Snap-on part number and find out what this nice little tool is for but before you do can you figure it ...
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Sunday, December 7, 2025

sidecar sunday

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Saturday, December 6, 2025

Ivory Calthorpe

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March/April 2020  Motorcycle Classics    
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