Antique Seized Adjustable Wrench - Restoration

In this video I'm going to restore an antique adjustable wrench. My friend found this wrench at the steel waste and I bought it from him for $10. It was rusty and all movable parts were completely stuck. The jaws seemed to be in good condition. I had to soak the whole wrench in rust remover for one day to get it unstuck and I've put it right back into the rust remover for another day after I completely disassembled it. That removed all the rust and the parts almost looked sandblasted after that treatment. The movable jaw had a lot of play in the t-slot of the body and that's where this restoration begun. First I sanded the guided part of the movable part clean and then I made the t-slot smaller by squishing it together with forging. That all went surprisingly well and it ended up with a perfect fit. I then could file and sand the whole thing completely smooth and gave it a nice coat with nickel plating for rust protection. The knurled adjustment wheel took quite some time to restore. Especially refiling the whole knurling by hand was very time consuming. I'm not 100% satisfied with the result of the knurling but it was not too bad, still quite an improvement. The spring was really unique, as it was rectangular shaped. I only sandblasted it and also nickel plated it. Sanding it clean would change the strength of it. I had to make a new washer because the original one was not thick enough anymore to fit in the body. Overall I'm very happy how this adjustable wrench has turned out. I really like the brushed finish with the nickel plating. I hope you like my work and the video. Huge thank you to all of my Patreon supporters and specially to: Tonya M Broerman Zack Thompson Adel AlSaffar afreeflyingsoul Carsten Bauer Yale Baker Gregory Alex McGeorge Alistair Moor Amar.k Anthony Eufemio Bendurion Br. Michael-Francis Smith, OSB Chris walter David Barker Greenstitute Haitham Al Zir Josh Ledford Josh Wasserman Joshua Bentley Lambda GPU Workstations Leo Louie Carboni Marius Costan Matt Boothman Mellissa Marcus Monte Gibbs Nick Houston NoLoneSurvivor Pong Lenis potokslow StevenVR Tyler Carruth Vickie Bligh Vince Valenti Xavier Carbel Yuri Zapuchlak Ajna Alex Bindon Alex Breton Allen Frank Amanda Taylor, Esq Andreas Mimra Andrew Egerton Andrew Phillips Arni Bjorgvinsson audi4444player Blake T brad ashmore Brian Hoerl Chad Bryant Chris Brentano Crystal Cash Daniel Varga Dave Hardware Diriector_Doc Embiss Ethereals flowercrownbouncer Frankie DeSantis Geoffroy Grant Daniel Grok Senften Haley McFadden Hunter R. Jack Curry Jason Koi Jeremy Cole justin f. Karl R Kelly Imgrund Ken Rosso Kurt Gazow Landon Burgener Marc Cerisier Mellissa McConnell Michael Lamp Mike Donaldson Noah Schwarz Pasacal Schmikal Peter Cyprian Ray Yeager Regis Vincent Rev. Gina Pond Scott Marshall Sergei Shvartsman Suiros Svenja Kuckla Tim Holt Trevor Kam Tucker Ifft 웅록 윤 My camera: Panasonic HC-VX11 I payed a lot of attention on the lighting when filming this video and also the quality of the sound to create an ASMR style video. If you have any questions about the process, machines i'm using or other stuff, just ask me in the comments. I read them all and i try to reply as soon as possible. Sorry for my bad english, it's not my language. I try my best to improve my technical english. Subscribe for more of my content. I'm uploading videos about mechanical stuff, as new creations and buildings and also restorations. Thank you for watching :-) „I make a new one“ T-Shirts: https://teespring.com/stores/my-mechanics My Main Channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/mymechanics My Second Channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/mymechanicsinsights My Patreon Page: https://www.patreon.com/mymechanics