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[formariz 11,904]

51 minutes ago, CasualObserver said:

It appears to be vintage Shop Smith gray.... but I don't know what part on that it would go to.

 

eh, nevermind, you said not a power tool. 

 

Machine or Battleship gray happens to be my favorite color for them.

[formariz 11,904]

16 minutes ago, LengerichKA88 said:

Would it be used in conjunction with the Holdfast? 

 

Not in conjunction .

[formariz 11,904]

I actually devised a little trick with a bearing for smoother and more precise function.

[formariz 11,904]

And since it was in my hands now anyway this one is also now ready for service.

Edited June 7, 2019 by formariz

[formariz 11,904]

Giving up? Another clue. Bearing's function

[Ed Kennell 36,146]

Thinking, but nothing is coming.    

[ebinmaine 63,611]

29 minutes ago, Ed Kennell said:

Thinking, but nothing is coming.    

Ahh .. Rodan... Thoughtful one from what I've seen

[Mows4three 825]

This is a tough one.  

 

[formariz 11,904]

A little more help.

 

Edited June 10, 2019 by formariz

[Ed Kennell 36,146]

So, it's a jaw for the vise that clamps a cabinet door or drawer front to the plank rail for milling work on the edges?

[bc.gold 3,399]

Free beer to the first person to identify what this is and what its used for.

 

 

[formariz 11,904]

8 minutes ago, Ed Kennell said:

So, it's a jaw for the vise that clamps a cabinet door or drawer front to the plank rail for milling work on the edges?

It's a Jaw but where does it go and what does it do?

[Ed Kennell 36,146]

clamps for holding glued parts in position.

Edited June 10, 2019 by Ed Kennell

[CasualObserver 3,406]

looks to be a angling jaw pad... but it doesn't seem like it is capable of much angle.... can't imagine the purpose.

[formariz 11,904]

5 hours ago, CasualObserver said:

looks to be a angling jaw pad... but it doesn't seem like it is capable of much angle.... can't imagine the purpose.

Getting warm. It is an angling jaw pad ( tilting jaw is the correct term for it). Angling capability is actually a lot more than what it looks.Question now is where on the bench it fits. Remember the original description, "Industrial Revolution, ingenious". When I first came to this country I lived in Newark ,NJ. There were several foundries around my neighborhood. I was always fascinated by their workings and used to hangout at their open doors and watch for hours. In there, they had a small shop with an elderly man with a very specific function and skills. It was there I first saw the object in question when I was 12.

Edited June 10, 2019 by formariz

[formariz 11,904]

2 hours ago, Ed Kennell said:

clamps for holding glued parts in position.

It can actually be used for that!

[Ed Kennell 36,146]

Foundry.....  Is used for ramming sand in a core box?

[formariz 11,904]

16 minutes ago, Ed Kennell said:

Foundry.....  Is used for ramming sand in a core box?

No. But that elderly man in the small shop is the key to the answer along with my bench. He was instrumental to a lot if not most of stuff produced in that foundry. It all started with him. The object was his main tool in that shop.

[Ed Kennell 36,146]

Pattern makers vise jaw.                     .   

Edited June 11, 2019 by Ed Kennell

[formariz 11,904]

YES. The Mighty Emmert Universal Vise. Also known as "The Iron Hand". In addition to tilting the main jaws as shown on your picture this accessory tilts in the opposite direction. This one is on the other end of bench but there is a smaller one on the near end on photo. Although very familiar with woodworking tools at that age, I had never seen anything like that in the family's shops.  Basically all patterns went through a vise like that specialized in holding all kinds of unusual shape and size patterns as they were made. Watching that man at that young age sparked an interest in me in pattern making for the rest of my life. Sadly another trade and skill that is basically dead due to modern advances. I remember when speaking with him and asking him all kinds of questions and to what was important in his trade he told me one time " you have to be able to think and visualize the final product in reverse of what it is". He was extremely patient . After seeing me watching the works at the door all the time he started inviting me into his shop and seemed pleased that I showed interest. That whole place which took a city block is today a parking lot. Sad.

[formariz 11,904]

22 hours ago, bcgold said:

Free beer to the first person to identify what this is and what its used for.

 

 

Does it have anything to do with beer?

[bc.gold 3,399]

23 minutes ago, formariz said:

Does it have anything to do with beer?

 

It was a landfill find, one port is vacuum and the other is pressure. I've used it a few times for when I mix up RTV to evacuate the bubbles using the vacuum port.

 

A few more of my dump finds a Webster five gallon and a two gallon paint pots that are pressurized to force the paint to flow to the gun, I use the smaller pot as a vacuum chamber to remove those unwanted bubble from a freshly mixed RTV.

 

In the bottom image the smaller Webster paint pot, when I had replaced our well pump had used the pot as a vacuum chamber connected to the pump. Using vacuum to prime the new well pump assured there was no air in the system. Then when your well pump quits and have no water to prime this was my best option during a manitoba winter.

 

Neither of which were intended purposes for the paint pot or the dual purpose pump.

 

I'll give a hint for the pump, if our resident wood worker uses mfd board, particle board or plywood you'll find one of the ingredients used to manufacture the glue used as the intended product this pump is supposed to handle from the pressure port.

 

The vacuum port serves an entirely different function and is used first when on the job. Originally the pump had two glass jars under the clamp, these were missing when I found the pump.

Edited June 11, 2019 by bcgold

[formariz 11,904]

Formaldehyde?

[bc.gold 3,399]

2 minutes ago, formariz said:

Formaldehyde?

 

Yes the pump is used in the historical art of embalming.

[formariz 11,904]

I was just going to say embalming. You find the most unusual things . That one is seems to be really vintage.