Do it yourself: Restoring the feet on the Toastmaster 1A1

Welcome to the first “DYI” post on Driving for Deco. A couple of weeks ago I purchased a 1920’s Toastmaster 1A1 toaster, in remarkably good shape. One condition issue was its missing original, rubber feet.

Toaster with its missing feet.

Toaster with its missing feet.

 

Close up of missing foot.

Close up detail of missing foot.

 

Chris came up with a great idea, using rubber washers to replace the long missing original feet. I purchased two packages of 1/4″ rubber grommets (two grommets to a package) at a local hardware store. They worked beautifully. Here is a video that demonstrates how to attach the grommets –

 

 

The cost of the grommets were $1.18 per package and the total time to attach them was about one minute. This is a great “Do it Yourself” project because anybody can do it in no time flat. Here are a couple of pictures showing the finished project.

 

Restored Feet

Restored Feet

 

Close up of one of the restored feet.

Close up of one of the restored feet.

 

Chris & Anthony (The Freakin’, Tiquen’ Guys)

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