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Title: Odd Craftsman C clamp - with rollers ??
Post by: Sudsy on February 07, 2018, 04:19:54 PM: Could it be part of a larger tool ?

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Title: Re: Odd Craftsman C clamp - with rollers ??
Post by: Bill Houghton on February 07, 2018, 07:32:41 PM: Yes, it could be and almost certainly is part of a larger tool; I just don't know what tool. Not likely a leather working tool...

Any part numbers?
Title: Re: Odd Craftsman C clamp - with rollers ??
Post by: Sudsy on February 07, 2018, 09:40:56 PM: This last bit is all we know
She dug it up in her backyard so we know it's not carbon steel (it would be a block of rust)

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Title: Re: Odd Craftsman C clamp - with rollers ??
Post by: Chillylulu on February 08, 2018, 09:58:05 AM: I have a couple of thoughts.... maybe they'll spark some better ideas from some of the other members.

1. My first thought was that it was some part of a sharpening jig, the kind you roll at a set angle along a sharpening stone.

2. My 2nd thought is that it clamps to a bench, with the wheels up.

3. That Craftsman lettering is from around the 1950's. I'm mostly looking at the "S" with the flat top & bottom, like a backward "Z". For example, AA has a picture of a JH Williams made Craftsman 8" adjustable wrench with that lettering with "PATD IN USA". The patent date was 1955. I suppose that could put that adjustable into the 70's? I'll need to check the catalogs.

Chilly
Title: Re: Odd Craftsman C clamp - with rollers ??
Post by: bill300d on February 08, 2018, 11:01:37 AM: 1966 power tools catalog. Number 14
Title: Re: Odd Craftsman C clamp - with rollers ??
Post by: Bill Houghton on February 08, 2018, 11:28:27 AM: Purty ingenious: so you can mount that one in the middle of your bench and clamp two items at the same time, as long as the total length of the two items clamped is enough less than the total bench length. Not sure how often that would be useful, but clever.
Title: Re: Odd Craftsman C clamp - with rollers ??
Post by: bill300d on February 08, 2018, 12:54:42 PM: Not sure how often that would be useful, but clever.
Probably why that's the first one we seen.

Better get digging to see if you can find the other two pieces Sudsy.
Title: Re: Odd Craftsman C clamp - with rollers ??
Post by: Chillylulu on February 08, 2018, 01:47:00 PM: It could be used by itself, like a bench dog. I'm thinking about a woodworkers bench, with an end vise.

Chilly
Title: Re: Odd Craftsman C clamp - with rollers ??
Post by: turnnut on February 08, 2018, 02:00:31 PM: I think that the original owner was frustrated with it and threw it out the door of his shop.
Title: Re: Odd Craftsman C clamp - with rollers ??
Post by: lptools on February 08, 2018, 02:58:52 PM: I like it!!!!!! Nice find!!!!! Regards, Lou
Title: Re: Odd Craftsman C clamp - with rollers ??
Post by: OilyRascal on February 08, 2018, 03:17:57 PM: I'm with Turnnut
Title: Re: Odd Craftsman C clamp - with rollers ??
Post by: john k on February 08, 2018, 03:33:18 PM: I read the description, but if I had it, or rather two of them, would use it for the rollers as an outfeed table off my table saw. Just clamp them to a sawhorse.
Title: Re: Odd Craftsman C clamp - with rollers ??
Post by: Bill Houghton on February 08, 2018, 03:55:13 PM: I wonder why the pads roll? I can see that the pads on the other parts need to roll, but aren't the pads on this one just the fixed point against which the screws on the other parts push?
Title: Re: Odd Craftsman C clamp - with rollers ??
Post by: Sudsy on February 08, 2018, 05:32:16 PM: Once again this place comes through !
Title: Re: Odd Craftsman C clamp - with rollers ??
Post by: lptools on February 08, 2018, 07:47:27 PM: You might want to rotate the workpiece for alignment, or for nailing, before applying full pressure with the clamping end. Just my one cent, Lou