"Mark" wrote:

P.S.  I hope that talking about using electricity to restore
old tools is
not banned on this group.    Some people seem to be a little
to "everything
has to be human powered" religious.
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Nah, electrolosis is cool here.  Some are concerned with
using it on certain tools that are subject to hydrogen
embrittlement like springs and saw blades, but we generally
don't call it blasphemy.  Some even use electricity to see
what they're doing in their shops.  We just try to stop
short of asking the list which fluorescent light ballasts
are quieter.

Erik von Sneidern
The Disstonian Institute -- Online Reference for Disston
Handsaws
http://home.earthlink.net/~enrico62/Index.html