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What's-It Forum => What's-It Forum => Topic started by: swervncarz on October 10, 2016, 11:18:49 AM

Title: Unknown Handle
Post by: swervncarz on October 10, 2016, 11:18:49 AM: Anyone recognize this cast iron handle? Can't it off a box of woodworking tools. I feel like I've seen it before but can't place the top that I've seen it with. Can anyone tell me?

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Title: Re: Unknown Handle
Post by: mikeswrenches on October 10, 2016, 02:17:25 PM: It looks like a file handle. No clue who made it. I had a couple and they weren't marked either.

Mike
Title: Re: Unknown Handle
Post by: Bill Houghton on October 10, 2016, 02:27:59 PM: +1 on the file handle, and you're in luck: it's still got the clamp on it!

I've somehow managed to acquire two, and they're quite handy for files you use only now and again. It takes a few seconds to mount the handle, and it grips firmly.
Title: Re: Unknown Handle
Post by: lptools on October 10, 2016, 03:17:21 PM: Hello, I have a few of those, some with clamp, some without. 2 are stamped SIR-ALL syracuse, NY, my hometown. I was never able to find any info on that company . E C Stearns , also from Syracuse, made a similar file handle, and Millers Falls lists one as a No 448 File Handle. Regards, Lou
Title: Re: Unknown Handle
Post by: oldgoaly on October 10, 2016, 06:40:33 PM: I have a no name one missing the clamp. I figure when I'm not looking for one it will pop up.
Title: Re: Unknown Handle
Post by: Bill Houghton on October 10, 2016, 08:35:14 PM: Quote from: oldgoaly on October 10, 2016, 06:40:33 PM
I have a no name one missing the clamp. I figure when I'm not looking for one it will pop up.
No, you'll find two clamps, and then you'll be watching for another handle with no clamp.
Title: Re: Unknown Handle
Post by: Northwoods on October 10, 2016, 09:43:34 PM: I have a pair that take a set screw. The screw off a plane fits them.

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Title: Re: Unknown Handle
Post by: oldgoaly on October 10, 2016, 10:03:23 PM: Bill, your probably right things come in bunches!
I had cast some various brass wing nut / bolts, but I'm out of them. Funny the other guys in the casting class laughed cause "wing nuts" are cheap. Not those mickey mouse eared ones are not. Getting closer to be casting again. Last 3 days have been burying new wire to the buildings. today was pulling all the old obsolete wiring out and started running new ones. Replacing much of the wiring in another building also, I bought the wire years ago when it was cheap!