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Arrived and unpacked today. Greenfield Tap & Die No.7 and No.5 (to go with my No.6), Starrett 91B tap handles and an unbranded forged steel die handle.
Dismantled, quick going over on the wire wheel to remove the surface rust, greased and reassembled.
The GT&D No.5 fixed jaw is not original and a pretty poorly made mild steel replacement. I have some suitably sized HSS so will probable make a replacement next time I’m surface grinding something.
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Also a surgace gauge. But the fine adjust screw went missing somewhere between the original seller, my forwarding service in the USA, and actually arriving (with a small hole in the box). Should be able to knock up a replacement if I can figure out the thread.
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Can’t quite read what’s in the brown bottle?
 
Nice score Peter, surface guages are incredibly handy.
Measure the thread carefully, Starrett use proprietary threads, imagine other tool makers do too.

Greg
 
“Cutting fluid”

Uhhh, that’s sorta what I would have guessed, but what cutting fluid? I often use WD40 on aluminum. So what’s in the other bottle?
 
Picked up a package deal .a hardinge dv-59 and a atlas 618 yesterday .might sound backwards but bought for the atlas .my first lathe was a atlas 618..did a lot of stuff with it.now my go to lathe is a early S series-11" Sheldon..took tailstock and slide off for tripimage.jpegimage.jpeg
 
That lathe looks similar to what im picking up this week.
 
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