Findings from Saturday's outing:
Goodell-Pratt is good stuff! My brace collection is almost complete: I now own a "corner brace."
It's more sophisticated than it may first appear. The knob is flat on one side; the flat is tangent to the ratchet, so you can drill holes very close to a corner. The little widget off to one side is the ratchet control: pull it out, turn it 180 degrees, and the ratchet is reversed!
Here's the bit-holding recess, shaped to the receive the square frustrum of a typical brace bit. The clamp screw is stuck -- I hope to free it up but the drive works fine without it.
Tiny pipe wrench, just because.
Set of wood-screw countersink/starting hole drills, not antiques but useful and they were priced to sell.
Radio parts!
(Pilot light holders, balanced-line insulators, binding post, 4-prong plugs, small knife switches, breadboard sockets, six-prong plug, quarter-inch phone jack.)
Here's a telephone transmitter. Dimensions appear standard, design is of an older sort.
And a variometer! Nifty variable inductor.
I also picked up a dozen QST magazines from the late 40s/early 50s and a collection of the complete works of Edgar Allan Poe. Not a bad haul!
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7 comments:
I approve of the corner brace.
The corner brace is way cool. At a auction a few years ago, I picked up two antique hand saws. One has a very thin, narrow blade for doing trim work. I need to get a brace or two just so I will have them for hard times. That would go well with my saws and planes. Looks like you know the good places to shop.
What! No turbo-encabulators?
Did the Edgar Allen Poe book come with some mechanical implements also?
I'm imagining a pit and a pendulum.
No turbo-encabulators; saw a little Remington adding machine, a old model I do want, but someone had hammered off the "clear" key, which is somewhat improbably located at a somewhat odd angle.
Also neither pits nor pendula. Sad, really.
Robert, a brace and a proper set of bits is a handy thing to have -- as is a socket-drive adaptor for it.
Tsk, tsk, Tam warned what would happen if you didn't lock the car doors....
Just kidding, those are some neat finds.
Pretty cool. Makes me wish I had my old candlestick phone. Back in 'eighty and seven, I bought a phone from a guy who took original candlestick, wall, and and desk phones, and upgraded the guts to modern (contemporary) network standards, so I had an awesome brass candlestick phone with a rotary dial. Miss it.
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