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That’s for sure, and I appreciate you taking us along with you.

Glad you’re pleased with it, Ingemar. Especially after that long wait!

Don’t sell yourself short If it were so easy, everybody would be doing it. You have a lot of knowledge of mechanical refrigeration, electricity, metals, and paint, and there are just not that many people with your combination of skills.

A friend of mine had the pleasure of ascending Pikes Peak (as a passenger) in a 1914 Packard, which had a 525 cu. in. inline six, if I recall correctly. Many of those old cars could go surprisingly well, but they couldn’t really stop, with only two wheel brakes. You just had to get in low gear...

Those hand drawn maps are gorgeous. I had a little paperback collection of Tad Buress’s Auto Album when I was a kid. It was a gateway drug to a lifelong interest in old cars. Thanks for the ink about the Waverley pens, vacbear. I had forgotten the rhyme and didn’t know it was an advertising...

I skipped ahead and looked at the video where you stripped the paint off. At the risk of being flamed severely, I have to say that the CA might have looked really good if it had been available in stainless steel.

Maybe more to follow...

A Cameron Waverley eyedropper filler, probably from the 1950s. These had no rubber sacs, which were supposedly prone to deteriorate under tropical conditions, so the British kept making small numbers of what was otherwise an obsolete design. The Waverley nib with a slightly upturned point was...

An Esterbrook Dollar Pen in what is informally called cracked ice...it looks greenish in the pic but that's my fault.

A few more pics of individual pens, because I'd already taken them. This is a Schnell, made with an airplane clip to capitalize on the Lindbergh craze.

Pens from Wahl Eversharp, a Chicago manufacturer which was one of the Big Four penmakers in the 1930s and 40s. 1/2/3/4. Gold Seal models from 1929ish, in black and pearl (see how the white portions are yellowed, not good), green and bronze, lapis lazuli, and coral plastic. Note the roller...

More Parkers. 1. 1919 Jack Knife Safety in black hard rubber, with a flexible nib like a wet noodle. 2. Depression-era pen which collectors refer to as a True-Blue, though that might not have been what the factory called it. 3. 1934-37 Thrift-Time. 4/5/6/7/8. Vacumatics from the mid to late...

Sure, you bet. I am a terrible photographer, and didn't have much time today, but here's a few shots. Parkers -- 1. 1926 (?) Duofold, commonly known as a Big Red. 2. 1927ish Duofold Junior in Mandarin Yellow. 3. An unusual English Duofold in marbled white celluloid. 4. A depression-era...

Hi, ksbanker, nice to find a fellow collector here. You’ve got some nice pens there, would love to have a Duofold with a broad nib. I’ll try to share some pics later. Rick Horne (aka the Southern Scribe) is great, a nice guy and totally honest. Ralph, if you can’t fimd your Sheaffer school...

I would go with your current exchange. Having the (correct) phone number in the center of the dial is a classy touch. Thanks for explaining about the ringers, Ralph. Our first extension phone (a curious hybrid of a 500 base and a long, heavy 300 handset) had no ringer and that must have been why.

The article has it right. I collect fountain pens, have, er, a couple hundred of them. I wasn't taught cursive any more intensively than anyone else my age (57) but my handwriting is a lot better than most, because of the way a fountain pen forces you to write. Cursive (which is still taught at...

This restoration makes me hope that you'll be able to get your hands on one of those Grunow refrigerators with methylene chloride refrigerant, that operates in a vacuum on both the low and high sides, but I suppose there are only a handful of them out thee.

That sure did quiet down with the new belt and a full charge of refrigerant. Like Charlie Brown's Christmas tree, it just needed a little love. Great job! If nobody on the Monitor Top forum knows of another working example, there may not be one. Now that you've got it working again, how about...

It looks like new!

BBC 'Sigma' fridge? I'm guessing that's not the broadcaster?   Don't know, but I assume this BBC was Brown, Boveri & Company.     https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brown,_Boveri_%26_Cie