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This dial bore gage came from my grandfather's Harley Davidson dealership in Stamford CT. He opened it in the early 1920's, and passed away in 1955, and he also sold and serviced bicycles, outboard motors, and other small engine items. Harley changed their allocation policy, so my uncles dropped Harleys in 1955, but continued the business into the mid 1980's with mostly bicycles, lawnmowers, snow blowers and chainsaws. This was for measuring HD cylinder bores. My brother found it on the back of a shelf in the early 80's, and my grandfather's original employee (who was still working there at the time!), told him to give it to me. I've used it occasionally for bores that happen to fall in that range; a couple of years ago I had to make a go-nogo gage out of a ground steel plate. When they sent it to the calibration house, it was dead-nuts.
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Here's my grandfather and Bernie, his original mechanic.
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Bernie on the left, Pop on the right
And my brother has that workbench in his garage, including the vise.

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What a great thread! Here are some of mine:

Lufkin 12" combination square set:
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Starrett "Caterpillar" branded indicator:
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Starrett Gear Tooth Vernier Caliper No 456, and Cutter Clearance Gage No 459:
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Lufkin 20-s mini rules with holder:
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Starrett Key Seat Rule Blocks, and No 299 Rule Clamp:
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Starrett Spacing Center Punch:
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Brown & Sharpe 263 Inside Micrometer:
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Lufkin 520 12" Surface Gage, and tiny Starrett 4" Surface Gage:
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Brown & Sharpe Depth Gage, B&S 262 8"-28" Inside Micrometer, and Starrett 452B Cylinder Gage:
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Lufkin 58 6" Level, and Starrett No 136 Cross-Test Level:
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Starrett No 271 Angle Blocks:
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I'll ante in with a pair of Lufkin Indicators, a 199 and a 199A...

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Here's some of the indicators that I've aquired over the last couple of years...

Here's a real nice Starrett depth guage....

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It's bottom is bevelled... anyone know why this may have been done ?

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Two sets of Starrett "Last Word" indicators.... old and new...

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A Starrett back plunger indicator set...

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Here's another "Last Word" indicator made by H. A. Lowe of Clevland Ohio.... made between 1914 and 1930...

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A couple more "Last Word" indicators...

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Here's a nice Starrett depth micrometer set ...

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A 0" to 4" Starrett micrometer caliper set...

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A set of Lufkin tubular inside micrometers...

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A set of Craftsman solid rod inside micrometers...

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And finally, a set of jig bore standards...

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Cheers....

Brian

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I inherited this little mini picker upper from an old Master Toolmaker at the old North american rockwell plant, Columbus, Ohio. He had massive hands on him. Like he was wearing welding gloves all the time. It still baffles my mind how he could have made some of the most precision small stamping dies, so delicate, with those big fingers and hands. As I recall, he told me he made this tool to be able to pickup small set screws and the like. That he couldn't pickup without dumping the whole box in his hand. No Mfg mark. Anyone seen anything this small. Let me know. They work !

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Also obtaine this little hand vise from the same toolmaker. Used it a thousand times to hold small stuff for hand grinding. Carbide inserts, etc. again No Mfg. mark.

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Last but not least. This 6" scale for hand grinding twist drills. Ref: 59 deg angle. Made by Cleveland Twist drill co. Carried it instead of a std 6" scale. This goes in the casket with me. An old friend.

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I may lack the travel, but I'll make up for it in diameter, 6" dial on this antique.

Used something similar a 1000 years ago. Bench model. Working in the sample dept at Copco papers, Columbus, Ohio. Base weight of printing papers are determined a lot of times by thickness. 20# bond = .004, 16# bond = .003 and so on. Helps to identify paper samples sent in by printers to match the grade. For what its worth. Hope this sheds some light.

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Used something similar a 1000 years ago. Bench model. Working in the sample dept at Copco papers, Columbus, Ohio. Base weight of printing papers are determined a lot of times by thickness. 20# bond = .004, 16# bond = .003 and so on. Helps to identify paper samples sent in by printers to match the grade. For what its worth. Hope this sheds some light.
 
Well-the "picker-upper" is actually a hand puller-it is used to pull hands from watches as well as from dial indicators, without damaging the hands or the dial face.

It looks like a very common style(I have a couple of them that look identical), and I doubt that he actually made it, though it is certainly possible.
 
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I posted these in a previous thread but since that is now gone I'll post these again

Here are some Vernac optical readers I got on some magnificent ITW Illitron Involute Gear Checkers I bought.
These use a 22x magnifier and a 6v lantern bulb to illuminate a precisely micro-etched polished SS scale. The double spiral lines are used to bracket the lines in the window and the ring around the outside is graduated .0001".
The accuracy of these is .0001" and half that with a bit of practice.
Two of these will be re-purposed for use on one or the other of my Gorton mills. These were offered by Gorton as optional equipment back in the early '60s to the early '70s. These replaced end measuring rods when the Gorton was being used as a jig borer.

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Here's a pic of the Vernac system on a Gorton 1-22

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And a link to the Gorton Brochure describing the Vernac system.

http://gorton-machine.org/forms/form_3008/index.html

Very cool system and period correct for my old mills.

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