3 stories tagged restoration, newest first.
15 points by goshtasb | 0 comments
Step-by-step guide from John Wolff's Web Museum to disassembling, cleaning, and reassembling an Original-Odhner Model 127 pinwheel mechanical calculator.
510 points by avidly | 113 comments
Personal blog post recounting a Saturday spent trying to fix the nineteenth-century clock in the abandoned Portobello police station tower near Edinburgh.
325 points by Timothee | 246 comments
A Hullworks page explaining how old-growth wood differs from new-growth wood and why historic windows made from it outlast modern ones.