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About a year ago i was trolling for antique tools on EBAY and i was able to get a heap of old tools ridiculously cheap.
the best i can imagine was an old machinist had passed on and whomever was in charge of selling his tools had absolutely no idea what tools were or how much to charge for them... i feel kinda like a vulture when i tell this story:thinking:
I won the auction for less than a Ben Franklin, and cost almost as much to ship.
But, when it arrived in 6 usps boxes, it felt like Christmas in July.
Now mind you, i already have enough tools and didn't really need any more, but i just couldn't pass up THE DEAL !!!
Among the pile of wrenches, files,taps,dies,drillbits,lathe tooling,and misc tooling i came across an interesting piece....
It was rather dirty and i had not seen anything like it before. I gently took a scotch brite pad and knocked off the outer crust of what looked like sawdust mixed with oil or grease. it had been used but looked fairly good. I saw the the face of the unit was stamped 1920.
a set screw was missing, but otherwise complete. I disassembled the unit completely and to my astonishment there was no rust to be found anywhere internally, grease and shavings yes, gunk yes, no rust i don't know how.
I cleaned the parts in mineral spirits, ran a tap through a few holes, replaced a couple setscrews and BaddaBing!
A well made tool for next to nothing, after doing a little research i found out it's use(s).
Can you tell me if you have used one and/or have one??, and if nothing else take a stab at what it might be.
thanks for looking!
mike)
the best i can imagine was an old machinist had passed on and whomever was in charge of selling his tools had absolutely no idea what tools were or how much to charge for them... i feel kinda like a vulture when i tell this story:thinking:
I won the auction for less than a Ben Franklin, and cost almost as much to ship.
But, when it arrived in 6 usps boxes, it felt like Christmas in July.
Now mind you, i already have enough tools and didn't really need any more, but i just couldn't pass up THE DEAL !!!
Among the pile of wrenches, files,taps,dies,drillbits,lathe tooling,and misc tooling i came across an interesting piece....
It was rather dirty and i had not seen anything like it before. I gently took a scotch brite pad and knocked off the outer crust of what looked like sawdust mixed with oil or grease. it had been used but looked fairly good. I saw the the face of the unit was stamped 1920.
a set screw was missing, but otherwise complete. I disassembled the unit completely and to my astonishment there was no rust to be found anywhere internally, grease and shavings yes, gunk yes, no rust i don't know how.
I cleaned the parts in mineral spirits, ran a tap through a few holes, replaced a couple setscrews and BaddaBing!
A well made tool for next to nothing, after doing a little research i found out it's use(s).
Can you tell me if you have used one and/or have one??, and if nothing else take a stab at what it might be.
thanks for looking!
mike)