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Offline Nolatoolguy

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Crescent find
« on: November 26, 2011, 01:04:20 PM »
Picked her up at a hardware store closing sale.

Any info on her is greatly appreciated.






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Re: Crescent find
« Reply #1 on: November 26, 2011, 01:19:28 PM »
GOLDMINE!!! Great score, Neil!!

Now we know who to contact for parts!!!

Good going!!
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Re: Crescent find
« Reply #2 on: November 26, 2011, 01:24:54 PM »
If anyone needs a part or two and is willing to pay shipping I have no problem with it.
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Re: Crescent find
« Reply #3 on: November 26, 2011, 02:04:20 PM »
Can you get a scan of that parts list? Check the contents of the box against the list so you'll know what you have there.
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Re: Crescent find
« Reply #4 on: November 26, 2011, 02:30:42 PM »
Papaw-  I will do sometime today.
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Re: Crescent find
« Reply #5 on: November 26, 2011, 03:13:15 PM »
Quote from: keykeeper on November 26, 2011, 01:19:28 PM
GOLDMINE!!! Great score, Neil!!

Now we know who to contact for parts!!!

Good going!!

+1 on that! That box is worth it's weight in gold.
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Re: Crescent find
« Reply #6 on: November 26, 2011, 03:24:18 PM »

Very nice find :)

The wings put the vintage close to papaw's display boards, but thay box was available to the hardware stores for quite a broad period of time. If you want to know the date more closely, you can probably work it out by compariung the retail prices written on the parts sheet with catalogs, most of the catalogs also had a parts page....

(The jaws are interesting, they are only chrome plated on the polished surfaces...hmm)
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Re: Crescent find
« Reply #7 on: November 26, 2011, 05:14:02 PM »
Rusty- The jaws dont look like there chrome plated. They just look like its ground down.
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Re: Crescent find
« Reply #8 on: November 26, 2011, 06:07:37 PM »
This piece is now for sale in the classifads thread.
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Re: Crescent find
« Reply #9 on: November 27, 2011, 11:31:05 AM »
Quote from: Papaw on November 26, 2011, 02:04:20 PM
Can you get a scan of that parts list? Check the contents of the box against the list so you'll know what you have there.

Papwaw I went to scan it an rembered the scanner is broken. I do however have a brother who has a very nice camra that should be able to capture all the detail of the sheet. Would that work by anny chance?
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Re: Crescent find
« Reply #10 on: November 28, 2011, 09:44:31 AM »
Found this in Crescent Cat 26A on Rose Tool this morning. Anyone know what year the cat is?

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Re: Crescent find
« Reply #11 on: November 28, 2011, 09:55:04 AM »
I'll second that emotion on the Awesome find!!

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Re: Crescent find
« Reply #12 on: December 03, 2011, 05:04:31 PM »
Quote from: johnsironsanctuary on November 28, 2011, 09:44:31 AM
Found this in Crescent Cat 26A on Rose Tool this morning. Anyone know what year the cat is?



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Re: Crescent find
« Reply #13 on: December 03, 2011, 07:52:55 PM »

As far as I know, the catalog on Rose's site is 24, which is from about 1941
Catalog 26 (no A) is from ~ 1950

[From the references page, Alloy Artifacts]
http://home.comcast.net/~alloy-artifacts/crescent-tool.html#refs
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