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    Old Junk Iron

    My old neighbor called me over one evening after I had done some emergency repair work for a customer beside my house using my service truck.

    He took me to his garage and asked me if I had any use for some OLD JUNK IRON he had in his garage, he really needed the storage space for something else.

    I told him I would find a use for it somewhere.

    Old Junk Iron can be quite useful sometimes.

    Jr.
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    jr, you suck! congratulations on a rare and wonderful score! tod
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    Some People's Junk. Sheesh. It's perfectly useful looking.

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    Tod, I did. I sucked in my breath, held back a smile and a happy face till it hurt as I was removing it and carrying it across the yard, the mounting part is on an old school work bench I found.
    Jr.
    Hand tools are very modern- they are all cordless
    NORMAL is just a setting on the washing machine.
    Be who you are and say what you feel... because those that matter... don't mind...and those that mind...don't matter!
    By Hammer and Hand All Arts Do Stand

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    More Old Iron

    About a year later my wife and I were over at the old neighbors house playing cards with them (about 3 months before he passed away), when he asked me to go to his cellar with him.

    He had some more Old Iron that he wanted me to have.

    Guess what,the wife and I carried it home.







    After he had passed his wife told me that his father had been some kind of carpenter.

    I was a pallbearer at both their funerals, God Bless Them.

    I mowed their lawn and scooped thier snow till the Mrs. passed.

    Only daughter gave me a few more odds and end things.
    Jr.
    Hand tools are very modern- they are all cordless
    NORMAL is just a setting on the washing machine.
    Be who you are and say what you feel... because those that matter... don't mind...and those that mind...don't matter!
    By Hammer and Hand All Arts Do Stand

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    Yes!!! Tod's right.
    You suck
    TJH
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    Betcha yer conscience ain't even botherin' ye.
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    Frank, would you have rather they went to the trash man or the scrap dealer.

    Its an old time Door Lock Mortiser, for making the deep mortice for the 5/8 inch wide, latches that were put in inside doors in the Old Days. The wheels are hand wheels 2 each side with leather faces to clamp the door and center the cutter.

    To use you drill two 5/8 holes the right distance apart, clamp the mortiser to the door edge and just move the long handle back and forth and the chisel cuts out the space between the holes. The two arms with springs on them have notches on the inside and stick down in the holes. The two horizontal guides hold the two arms against the inside of the hole and the arms go up and down as the handle goes back and forth and the arms pull the shaving out as the cutter goes down.
    Jr.
    Hand tools are very modern- they are all cordless
    NORMAL is just a setting on the washing machine.
    Be who you are and say what you feel... because those that matter... don't mind...and those that mind...don't matter!
    By Hammer and Hand All Arts Do Stand

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    Harry

    Can you tell me how to get to your neighborhood?



    I think pictures, albeit necessary, just sting like a paper cut.

    The fact that you got it as "junk" stings like a paper cut....on your tongue.


    Seriously, though...the archivist in me says that it is just good that it actually didn't go to junk and great that a creeker saved it!!!

    Take care of them!
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    wow Harry, you've explained one of life's mysteries.

    Great find, and cool exposition on the mortiser.

    Ken

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    Wow, congrats on the emmert Harry. Looks like it might be missing the tilting mechanism, but what an excellent score.
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    not an Emmert Alan, its a Columbian, the missing part is fastened to a bench my big tool box sets on.

    If you look close at the end in the picture, it says 7-A, its upside down.

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    Jr.
    Hand tools are very modern- they are all cordless
    NORMAL is just a setting on the washing machine.
    Be who you are and say what you feel... because those that matter... don't mind...and those that mind...don't matter!
    By Hammer and Hand All Arts Do Stand

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    Harry,

    Is this an emmert clone that Columbia made? it's got the turtleback...

    It is a pattern maker's vise, isn't it?
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    yes, to both questions Alan. In my present condition, I almost didn't get it up on the bench to take picture.
    Jr.
    Hand tools are very modern- they are all cordless
    NORMAL is just a setting on the washing machine.
    Be who you are and say what you feel... because those that matter... don't mind...and those that mind...don't matter!
    By Hammer and Hand All Arts Do Stand

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    Mind you none of these tools were in this condition when I got them. Lots of cleaning and some repairing, I had to make one of the chip removal arms for the morticer and some minor parts for the beam borer.

    I would post more of my Old Iron and goodies, but I don't want anyone to have be rushed to the ER because of me. LOL
    Jr.
    Hand tools are very modern- they are all cordless
    NORMAL is just a setting on the washing machine.
    Be who you are and say what you feel... because those that matter... don't mind...and those that mind...don't matter!
    By Hammer and Hand All Arts Do Stand

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