Unfortunately, I cannot divert any nearby rivers to clean out my garage so I'm gonna have to do it the hard way.
Today's main goal was to get all my blacksmithing hand tools out of the old wooden chests that I used when I did demos. So I picked up a new tool cabinet and emptied out the old boxes. It was a good chance for me to go through all the tools and throw out a few. Since most of th tools are hand made, I can remake most of the ones I threw out. The one exception is the files. Unfortunately, the files fared the worst for the years of traveling around. They are rusty but hopefully can be salvaged. So as I organized the tools, everything got a good spray of WD40. After its had a chance to work a bit, I will recoat them with oil.
The files were a bit of a disappointment. Since I tend to buy quality files, it does represent some significant cash. But it looks like most of them did okay. The new tool cabinet will be nice as I can easily roll it in and out of garage to do work.
So the tools are out of the old boxes and hopefully will be better protected from the Florida weather. I wanted to do a bit more but the afternoon storm moved in. My next major goal in cleaning up the blacksmithing area is the scrap pile.
Pictures will follow as things begin to improve.
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