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    Posted 6 years ago

    Toyrebel
    (215 items)

    I just got finished restoring this Hubley #481 cataloged as a Road Scraper from '50-'56. I call them road graders but to each his on. This came from cab/lowboy/scraper#511 Carryall set cataloged from '56-'57 I picked up in a group deal of Marx, Structo and Hubley cabs snd trailers.
    I have always liked graders, I guess it's the kind of skeletal frame that appeals to me. I had a big Tonka grader in the 50's that made many a road in the sandbox. It's one of the first pieces of construction equipment that I remember my old man putting me up on when we visited a nearby work site after hours. I'll bet most of you had a similar experience that's a fond memory of your childhood.
    I used some more of my quart of yellow paint that I had matched just for this. I still have enough to paint about 500 more. I'm slowly getting the hang of my new gravity feed airbrush, you can read all you want but you've got use it to learn how to put it to work. I highly reccomend this brush, it's easy to clean etc. and it doesn't suck like a siphon feed. I hope to post a Carryall set soon with this grader as the load. It's missing the small spring on the blade assembly. When I was disassembling to strip and paint it, I put the spring in a box with teeny screws so I wouldn't lose it. The screws were way smaller than the spring. I accidentally knocked the box off of the counter and spilled the contents. I found every one of the microscopic screws but not the spring! That's the story of my life in a nutshell.
    Thanks again for dropping in,
    Toyrebel.

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    Comments

    1. Vynil33rpm Vynil33rpm, 6 years ago
      Grade A grader
    2. Toyrebel Toyrebel, 6 years ago
      Thanks Broochman, there's plenty of springs that could be used replace it.
    3. Toyrebel Toyrebel, 6 years ago
      Thanks for the touching tribute Vynil, I'm still elated.
    4. fortapache fortapache, 6 years ago
      Looking forward to the carry-all and glad you got to use your yellow paint.
    5. Toyrebel Toyrebel, 6 years ago
      Thank you Apache, by the time I responded I have already posted the Carryall. You don't have to look forward to it, you can actually look at it. I guess we all physically look forward due to the location of our eyes, so you can look forward when you look at it. It's nice to use the yellow paint, I painted another baot trailer while I was doing. Only another 496 more toys and my yellow paint will be gone.
    6. Toyrebel Toyrebel, 6 years ago
      I can watch construction equipment at work all day. I've always loved big rigs, bulldozers, graders, trains etc. since I was a child.
    7. SEAN68 SEAN68, 6 years ago
      Very very cooL !!

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