Hi John I have a Rigid 14" aluminium pipe wrench and like yours it's a bit dinged up, but seeing your restoration has inspired me to start cleaning up my own tools I have a bench grinder / belt sander which i will convert to a wire wheel and for my birthday next month I'm treating myself to an angle grinder and another bench grinder that will become a buffer polisher. Oh and a can of candy orange paint ✌❤ Bob.
That's an awesome result. I hate working on pipes but these pipe wrenches are great on any nuts that are old, rounded off and rusty. While Ridgid orange is nice for the restoration...something this nice should have been painted in special edition ScoutCrafter red!
Just wanted to remind everyone of the danger of grinding aluminum on a grinding wheel and then grinding steel. The aluminum will clog the wheel and possibly explode when grinding steel. There is a possibility of a reaction between the 2 metals creating thermate. Always knew never to do this, but learned the reason after watching a video about it on weld.com on CZcams. I highly recommend watching the video. On another note - my wife knows better than to loan out any of my tools- lol
I was surprised to see the flap discs didn’t clog on this Aluminum. I have ground 6061 and had some belt clog but almost nothing with Ridgid’s Aluminum. Thanks
I learned my lesson on lending tools. A neighbor asked to borrow my 6' foot aluminum level, he must have stepped on it or used it as a lever, it was never the same again.
Great job. My neighbor is a plumber and he found out my son and me restore tools. He gave my son a wrench like yours. I think it is a little smaller. He told my son he was getting a new one and we could try that one. It has been sitting on the trunk that we put tools that still need work. I wasn't sure how to smooth it out. Tomorrow I will go check it out. Stay safe and healthy my friend. Thanks
Hi Glen- The funny thing is nobody ever thinks of a pipe wrench as a pretty tool, they are always usually abused and just work-horses. They do have a beauty to them though... Thanks!
Sometimes when a tool is that dinged up I expect you to do a half job of a restoration but you always do the impossible and bring such dull tools back to life! Absolutely awesome John! Great work again!
Sometimes I think no way is this going to clean up and I too am pleasantly surprised! One thing I learned is pitting is never as deep as it looks! =D Thanks!!!!
Right On John! 👍🏼 This is a top shelf display piece! Looks great with that candy orange 🍊 That was perfect tapping the pin for a 6-32 screw! Another awesome job by Scout Crafter!!
It was worth every minute! What a beautiful wrench! The restoration Gods answered our prayers! The 24" Ridgid! The orange is perfect. Just wait till it gets a million views! Great job SC! I got a vintage hand crank drill press today. Pretty excited to fix it up!
It’s funny the hand crank drills are so much fun to restore but I never use them! Just like my favorite auto wrenches, I never ever use them but Love restoring them! 😂👍
@@ScoutCrafter it's because you have lathes and mills! I had a modern drill press from the big box store... Thing had 1/8" of spindle play! Couldn't drill a straight hole to save my life. This is a compromise. And I got it for less than I paid for the one it's replacing! It also has a nice built in rack for bits. Ill have to find a vise that fits it. As long as it drills a hole I'll be happy
Hi SC. Another great video. I love seeing these pipe wrenches cleaned up. I’m in the plumbing supply business and sold them for 30+ years. Those Pterodactyl marks are most likely from a cheater bar. I’m inspired to do another one. I still have a box of gooodies to get off to, this week!
Amazing video John. The wrench came out amazing, aluminum is so hard to do, it clogs up everything. Last time I had a aluminium project I had a headache for a couple of days, it gives really filthy dust. That story on the wrench, really one of my nightmares. But I THINK I've got my girlfriend trained pretty well. Thank you so much for all this effort you put in to this. Have a great weekend! You certainly gave mine a good start.
Beautifully done! It looks like it just came from the store. The orange was an excellent idea and it really sets off the polished metal. Thanks for sharing this.
Man wow too over the top. It is a wall hanger now. I really need to get my paint skill as good as yours. You are the Bob Ross of painting when it comes to tools.
Great video. When I first saw a Ridgid pipe wrench in aluminum like yours at the local hardware store, I thought it was a great idea, because the same size in steel was pretty darn heavy. It was as heavy as the aluminum version was expensive. ALOT The pterodactyl picture was absolutely hilarious. My rule of thumb is to never ever loan tools or books. If you see them again, they won't be in as good condition as when you loaned them. Intentionally discarded mail is a problem, but it becomes vastly worse because now so many states vote by mail. Its alot easier to cheat. If you care enough about your country, community, you shouldnt begrudge walking into a voting location, showing ID and voting. Much more honest and it reminds the voter that they have an important stake in their country. Thanks
John that was one of your best restorations. Great tips on straightening with a vise as well. I've never seen a vise like that in which the front jaw is fixed and the rear jaw is moveable. The guy who came up with the name pterodactyl must be the same guy who came up with ptarmigan.
Bill I miss seeing those great car colors of the 60's... We had a guy in town that had a 60's Stingray and would paint it a different color every 2 years! Always metallic candy or something... =)
This has to be one of my favorite restorations on this channel! I think for that pin, I would have used a roll pin. Easy in and out for future problems. Could you do a video on how to mark your tools with your initials? I vaguely remember a video where you said someone previously marked their tool “the right way.” Great content as always!
That looks amazing John and in my favorite candy apple orange! The screw replacing the pin was pure genius too. 😃👍🏼 Just think, the same folks chucking your mail in the trash will be the same ones in charge of your health care if we ever go to a single payer system. 😫
The timing of this is great yesterday I "restored" a pipe/spud wrench I had to straighten the spud and remove all the old paint and polished up the jaws and adjustment nut. Great video as always 👍
That Rigid is amazing now! Holy cow. Love it. My father has a few that I will have to look at to see if they are aluminum. That’s my fear too, that my wife would lend out one of my prized possessions to someone who I know is a knuckle dragger.
That happened to my dad, back in the early 1980s he bought a nice electric mcculloch chainsaw from Rickels to use on our property. He helped our neighbor with it, now our neighbor knows he has a chainsaw... Couple weeks pass, neighbor asks to borrow chainsaw, returns it all mangled up chain, and somehow he twisted the chainsaw blade so the gear would not spin... We found out he was using our chainsaw to cut up Pallets for fire wood. And most likely cut up a nail and dropped the pallet while cutting it, to twist the blade..
That wrench is great. As for the mail, either you're spending too much time in the shop or you've got some funny grass growing up on your property. LOL There have been cases for years about the mail not getting delivered. However one big difference is that for years a mail person would die or for some reason a ton of undelivered mail would be found in an attic or some other hiding place. What's different about these recent cases is that these people are throwing the mail out in a public disposal location instead of just putting it in some hidden stash. One thing I had thought over the years is that there may have been a big difference in the penalty for destroying mail versus just holding up the delivery, even if the delay was months or years. I always thought the people probably were planning to deliver it later but never got around to it.
Amazing - and very informative. 8 hours?? So funny - with your mad skills. I am doing 14" in Fuller as a first (practice piece) restoration which will take a few more than 8 hours being less work than you accomplished and it is coming along just fine thank you.
Rick- Plumbers love these because they are so light... I can't even imagine holding a steel one over my head for a while trying to get it lined up! LOL Thanks!
Love adjustable spanners. I was working in a parts department when an apprentice came to be with a req slip for an adjustable spanner. “Ok, what size” said I. He rolled his eyes, looked patronising at me (presumably because I’m a woman) and said “it’s adjustable, Sarah”. I was absolutely spitting feathers, I was so cross. I briefly considered ringing my husband (agricultural fitter) and telling him to bring home the biggest adjustable tractor spanner he could lay his hands on. I ended up telling his trainer that whatever spanner he needed, he could use it to adjust his attitude and a) be more specific and b) not treat co-workers like crap. Turns out he wanted a 6” adjustable.......I still kick myself that I didn’t go down the tractor spanner route to run the lesson home to him.
I must admit Sarah, I too have been guilty of judging a book by It’s cover but never in a condescending way. I also have been on the other end of that. In my later years I have swallowed a lot of pride and learned much. One thing I thrive to be is to get to that place where it really doesn’t bother me. 😃👍
That pipe wrench came out amazing I just finished doing my shower plumbing and came out to watch your video and I said I would have had so much more fun with a wrench like that in my hand the job would have went fast with that pretty wrench
Our local PO laid off the full time(with benefits) workers and now the people there are mostly part time. My wife was understanding enough(taught by her father) to never loan my tools. Good Luck, Rick
Usually the union won’t allow that type of shenanigans. However here in NYC since they passed a law to make minimum wage $15 they cut tons of full time jobs and replaced them with PT... That worked out! 🥴
I just did a clean up on one of these Ridgid pipe wrenches (one of my grandfathers tools) and everything was going great, clean, nice looking, and the very last thing to do was the lettering. I tried with everything I could think of and the lettering ended up looking terrible, the paint pooled, slid off the ridges, oh it looks rough. I think it was a good choice to only paint the logo! I also really enjoy your videos, great job!
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This wrench turned out really nice. I think should be in the Wrench Hall of Fame
Wow John that was next level you really are Setting the bar higher and higher each time😩
Oh man I enjoy your channel. It always puts a smile on my face and teaches me something! :)
I have three kinds of tools.
1. My tools
2. The wife’s tools
3. The tools I will loan out.
😬👍
You made that wrench into a tool box queen! Now it has to live in the tool box!
Hi John I have a Rigid 14" aluminium pipe wrench and like yours it's a bit dinged up, but seeing your restoration has inspired me to start cleaning up my own tools I have a bench grinder / belt sander which i will convert to a wire wheel and for my birthday next month I'm treating myself to an angle grinder and another bench grinder that will become a buffer polisher. Oh and a can of candy orange paint ✌❤ Bob.
That's an awesome result. I hate working on pipes but these pipe wrenches are great on any nuts that are old, rounded off and rusty. While Ridgid orange is nice for the restoration...something this nice should have been painted in special edition ScoutCrafter red!
Just wanted to remind everyone of the danger of grinding aluminum on a grinding wheel and then grinding steel. The aluminum will clog the wheel and possibly explode when grinding steel. There is a possibility of a reaction between the 2 metals creating thermate. Always knew never to do this, but learned the reason after watching a video about it on weld.com on CZcams. I highly recommend watching the video. On another note - my wife knows better than to loan out any of my tools- lol
I was surprised to see the flap discs didn’t clog on this Aluminum. I have ground 6061 and had some belt clog but almost nothing with Ridgid’s Aluminum. Thanks
Another work of art. I’ve learned so much from you, yet I feel like I’m still in the kindergarten phase when I see your finished work.
Possibly the best video to end my day with a smile .
I learned my lesson on lending tools. A neighbor asked to borrow my 6' foot aluminum level, he must have stepped on it or used it as a lever, it was never the same again.
Pterrific restoration John! That candy orange and aluminum look great together.
Your restorations are great bringing them old tools back to life
This is one of my favorite channels…and I watch a lottttttt of CZcams.
I only ever borrow tools, never lend them!! Thanks for the exhibition standard restoration and tutorial, and the great tip about straightening
Great job. My neighbor is a plumber and he found out my son and me restore tools. He gave my son a wrench like yours. I think it is a little smaller. He told my son he was getting a new one and we could try that one. It has been sitting on the trunk that we put tools that still need work. I wasn't sure how to smooth it out. Tomorrow I will go check it out. Stay safe and healthy my friend. Thanks
Hi Glen- The funny thing is nobody ever thinks of a pipe wrench as a pretty tool, they are always usually abused and just work-horses. They do have a beauty to them though... Thanks!
Great tip with the blocks of wood, straightening out the piece of aluminum. Thank you.
Sometimes when a tool is that dinged up I expect you to do a half job of a restoration but you always do the impossible and bring such dull tools back to life! Absolutely awesome John! Great work again!
Sometimes I think no way is this going to clean up and I too am pleasantly surprised! One thing I learned is pitting is never as deep as it looks! =D Thanks!!!!
Right On John! 👍🏼 This is a top shelf display piece! Looks great with that candy orange 🍊 That was perfect tapping the pin for a 6-32 screw! Another awesome job by Scout Crafter!!
It was worth every minute! What a beautiful wrench! The restoration Gods answered our prayers! The 24" Ridgid! The orange is perfect. Just wait till it gets a million views! Great job SC! I got a vintage hand crank drill press today. Pretty excited to fix it up!
It’s funny the hand crank drills are so much fun to restore but I never use them! Just like my favorite auto wrenches, I never ever use them but Love restoring them! 😂👍
@@ScoutCrafter it's because you have lathes and mills! I had a modern drill press from the big box store... Thing had 1/8" of spindle play! Couldn't drill a straight hole to save my life. This is a compromise. And I got it for less than I paid for the one it's replacing! It also has a nice built in rack for bits. Ill have to find a vise that fits it. As long as it drills a hole I'll be happy
Lots hard work with great results, I trying to learn from you. Thanks
One of my favorite tool ever! This made my day. Thanks ScoutCrafter!!!!
Awesome! Thanks! 😃👍
Gorgeous job! I wish they made aluminum pipe wrenches 50 years ago.
That may be one of your best restorations yet! Unbelievable. Good call with the candy orange
Thanks Zachary!!!!!!
Great video John. The wrench is better than new and the tip on straightening, I know will come in handy. Thank you.
Hi SC. Another great video. I love seeing these pipe wrenches cleaned up. I’m in the plumbing supply business and sold them for 30+ years. Those Pterodactyl marks are most likely from a cheater bar. I’m inspired to do another one. I still have a box of gooodies to get off to, this week!
Fantastic job looks and works fine love the colours thanks for sharing your time and skill and remember#stay safe and make more amazing videos. ☕☕👍👍😷
The aluminum handle looks amazing the way you finished it, the wrench looks beautiful! Nice job!.
Amazing video John. The wrench came out amazing, aluminum is so hard to do, it clogs up everything. Last time I had a aluminium project I had a headache for a couple of days, it gives really filthy dust.
That story on the wrench, really one of my nightmares. But I THINK I've got my girlfriend trained pretty well.
Thank you so much for all this effort you put in to this. Have a great weekend! You certainly gave mine a good start.
Alex- Thanks very much! Have a great weekend! 😃👍
Wow! Best work yet! Love it
That turned out looking fantastic!
Fantastic work.
I have a 14" version and mine seems to have a date mark molded into the handle. Wow that came out absolutely fabulous, super job 👍👍👍
That cleaned up so well! 🛠👍😊
Magnificent job on that wrench!!
Absolutely stunning pipe wrench
Nice job mate! Love it.
That’s a masterpiece of restoration. Came out great. Thanks
The restoration came out great
Excellent restoration. That’s a show piece!
Beautiful wrench, nice job!
Really beautiful! Nice job 🥰
Great looking wrench. Well done!
That wrench looks like art work now! Bob's gonna love it!
Was chuck screaming Flitz it?
@@unwired1281LOL! You know he was!
Looks amazing!!!!
WOW Amazing job on the wrench you are the Metal Master
Awesome restore SC. One of my favorites.
Beautifully done! It looks like it just came from the store. The orange was an excellent idea and it really sets off the polished metal. Thanks for sharing this.
amazing job, best colour combo ive seen
Man wow too over the top. It is a wall hanger now. I really need to get my paint skill as good as yours. You are the Bob Ross of painting when it comes to tools.
WOW that looks great.
Happy Friday John!!! Thank you so much for your channel Your Friend down South
WOW that's my favorite Ridged wrench restoration so far. It looks just so incredible. Awesome job Scout
Such a great work on this wrench, it turn very nice
I’m so glad you laugh about these things going on around the country! It makes me relax. I appreciate that about you!
Wayne- Looking forward to Tuesday...
Wow, I'm not surprised it was a lot of work! It looks great!
I love Ridgid wrenches and this is the best one I have ever seen (with your finish). Great job and video John.
I had one of those but it had help walking off. And a lot of stuff is getting 'lost' in the mail. Happy weekend, John CS! GBWYou!
This is art!
Great video. When I first saw a Ridgid pipe wrench in aluminum like yours at the local hardware store, I thought it was a great idea, because the same size in steel was pretty darn heavy. It was as heavy as the aluminum version was expensive. ALOT The pterodactyl picture was absolutely hilarious. My rule of thumb is to never ever loan tools or books. If you see them again, they won't be in as good condition as when you loaned them. Intentionally discarded mail is a problem, but it becomes vastly worse because now so many states vote by mail. Its alot easier to cheat. If you care enough about your country, community, you shouldnt begrudge walking into a voting location, showing ID and voting. Much more honest and it reminds the voter that they have an important stake in their country. Thanks
Hi Pat- I truly believe there are forces out there trying to crush this country from within. 🤔. Thanks!
John that was one of your best restorations. Great tips on straightening with a vise as well. I've never seen a vise like that in which the front jaw is fixed and the rear jaw is moveable. The guy who came up with the name pterodactyl must be the same guy who came up with ptarmigan.
Hi Rick! You have a good eye! Not many people realize that most Vises have a moveable front jaw assembly! I love that Vise! Thanks 😃👍
Beautiful job on the wrench.
That wrench looks awesome!
Great job. Chesty would be proud!!
Great video! 😃👍
Nice job on that pipe wrench,came out beautifully.gregg
Fantastic! That wins the tool of the month award! And, you're right...it would be the first tool someone would lend out on your behalf...🤣🤣🤣
LOL- 😂😂😂
pthank you for another great video!
Congratulações meu caro! A ferramenta ficou belíssima!!! "ScoutCrafter, o Mestre ".
Great job...better than new..
You out do yourself every time. The wrench looks amazing.
Bill I miss seeing those great car colors of the 60's... We had a guy in town that had a 60's Stingray and would paint it a different color every 2 years! Always metallic candy or something... =)
c'est magnifique ! bravo ScoutCrafter
Nice restoration, eye candy.
This has to be one of my favorite restorations on this channel! I think for that pin, I would have used a roll pin. Easy in and out for future problems.
Could you do a video on how to mark your tools with your initials? I vaguely remember a video where you said someone previously marked their tool “the right way.” Great content as always!
Nicely done. It's a showroom tool now.
A pipe wrench in a tuxedo now that’s class......stay safe crafterman...
That is a beautiful wrench. Needs a display case!
That’s one nice pipe wrench!
That looks amazing John and in my favorite candy apple orange! The screw replacing the pin was pure genius too. 😃👍🏼
Just think, the same folks chucking your mail in the trash will be the same ones in charge of your health care if we ever go to a single payer system. 😫
LOL David I will either be in a very good mood on Wednesday or buying lots of canned goods! =D
That’s the perfect Halloween 🎃 wrench.
The timing of this is great yesterday I "restored" a pipe/spud wrench I had to straighten the spud and remove all the old paint and polished up the jaws and adjustment nut. Great video as always 👍
I always liked spud wrenches... 😃👍
@@ScoutCrafter they are definitely a neat design.
That Rigid is amazing now! Holy cow. Love it. My father has a few that I will have to look at to see if they are aluminum. That’s my fear too, that my wife would lend out one of my prized possessions to someone who I know is a knuckle dragger.
That happened to my dad, back in the early 1980s he bought a nice electric mcculloch chainsaw from Rickels to use on our property. He helped our neighbor with it, now our neighbor knows he has a chainsaw... Couple weeks pass, neighbor asks to borrow chainsaw, returns it all mangled up chain, and somehow he twisted the chainsaw blade so the gear would not spin... We found out he was using our chainsaw to cut up Pallets for fire wood. And most likely cut up a nail and dropped the pallet while cutting it, to twist the blade..
u make my day.... thanks
That wrench is great. As for the mail, either you're spending too much time in the shop or you've got some funny grass growing up on your property. LOL There have been cases for years about the mail not getting delivered. However one big difference is that for years a mail person would die or for some reason a ton of undelivered mail would be found in an attic or some other hiding place. What's different about these recent cases is that these people are throwing the mail out in a public disposal location instead of just putting it in some hidden stash. One thing I had thought over the years is that there may have been a big difference in the penalty for destroying mail versus just holding up the delivery, even if the delay was months or years. I always thought the people probably were planning to deliver it later but never got around to it.
Like Newman! 😂. I’ve only lost a few items in the mail but it really bothered me.
Amazing - and very informative. 8 hours?? So funny - with your mad skills. I am doing 14" in Fuller as a first (practice piece) restoration which will take a few more than 8 hours being less work than you accomplished and it is coming along just fine thank you.
Wow it looks like a special edition presentation tool
I have several of those,because I am a plumber, but mine will have to stay a user's for a few more years. It looks great.
Rick- Plumbers love these because they are so light... I can't even imagine holding a steel one over my head for a while trying to get it lined up! LOL Thanks!
Man that’s a work of art! I’ve got an 18” (I think) now I wanna make it look like yours
Love adjustable spanners. I was working in a parts department when an apprentice came to be with a req slip for an adjustable spanner.
“Ok, what size” said I. He rolled his eyes, looked patronising at me (presumably because I’m a woman) and said “it’s adjustable, Sarah”.
I was absolutely spitting feathers, I was so cross. I briefly considered ringing my husband (agricultural fitter) and telling him to bring home the biggest adjustable tractor spanner he could lay his hands on.
I ended up telling his trainer that whatever spanner he needed, he could use it to adjust his attitude and a) be more specific and b) not treat co-workers like crap.
Turns out he wanted a 6” adjustable.......I still kick myself that I didn’t go down the tractor spanner route to run the lesson home to him.
I must admit Sarah, I too have been guilty of judging a book by It’s cover but never in a condescending way. I also have been on the other end of that. In my later years I have swallowed a lot of pride and learned much. One thing I thrive to be is to get to that place where it really doesn’t bother me. 😃👍
@@ScoutCrafter can you imagine if I plopped a 2 foot long spanner down in front of him.....😂😂
Dam that dose look good john 👍🇨🇦
Nice job
Another good & educational video, & channel. HAPPY HALLOWEEN ,Cheers !
That pipe wrench came out amazing I just finished doing my shower plumbing and came out to watch your video and I said I would have had so much more fun with a wrench like that in my hand the job would have went fast with that pretty wrench
Another week! Wow!!
Our local PO laid off the full time(with benefits) workers and now the people there are mostly part time. My wife was understanding enough(taught by her father) to never loan my tools. Good Luck, Rick
Usually the union won’t allow that type of shenanigans. However here in NYC since they passed a law to make minimum wage $15 they cut tons of full time jobs and replaced them with PT... That worked out! 🥴
..GOOD ONE, HAVE A GREAT WEEKEND..
That wrench is bad ass
I just did a clean up on one of these Ridgid pipe wrenches (one of my grandfathers tools) and everything was going great, clean, nice looking, and the very last thing to do was the lettering. I tried with everything I could think of and the lettering ended up looking terrible, the paint pooled, slid off the ridges, oh it looks rough. I think it was a good choice to only paint the logo! I also really enjoy your videos, great job!
Lettering is so hard but looks so nice when it comes out perfect! 😃👍
be pride of your work like always