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The Most Dangerous Tool I’ve Restored [Restoration]

The Most Dangerous Tool I’ve Restored [Restoration]

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“Hand Tool Rescue”

This restoration is on a “ZON” bird cannon made by the B.M. Lawrence & Co. of San Francisco, CA, USA in the 1950s. This tool is also called an automatic scarecrow, carbide cannon, bird scarer, or orchard cannon and cost $60 USD in 1955 which is about $750 USD today. You can view the original…

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  1. nice work. Sometimes I held my breath and was actually not sure, if the tool you are currently restoring, or the way you work with electric tools is more dangerous. Initially I wanted to write as well, that restoring vintage tools does not necessarily require the use of vintage tools. Screwdrivers with wooden grips and a monkey wrench would cause me to stop the project instantly and go out to buy some proper tools, but then I saw in the last 10 seconds of the video, that you are actually selling this stuff. Never mind…

  2. It's impressive enough that you take things apart, clean and put them together again. But the real impressive thing is that most of the stuff you do has been obsolete for so long, there aren't even people around to tell you what it is or how it worked in the first place (I assume). You just seem to figure out how things work.

  3. In my misspent preteen years, I made Carbide Rockets.

    I took an empty Vienna Sausage can and put a small nail hole in the bottom.
    Then, I made a 4'' mud patch, dropped in 2-3 Carbide pellets and
    put the can over the Carbide in the mud and waited until the white Acetylene gas came out the can's nail hole.

    Then, with a 4' dry stick I lit ths gas and…BOOM.
    The the can would go out sight up in the air.

    When I got bored with the small 4oz can, I got a 14oz Apple Sauce can, put a nail hole in it and proceed to do the same. Apple Sauce cans are made of much thicker steel.
    However on the first try the can fractured like a Hand Grenade.
    .

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