Tool Talk
General Category => General Discussion => Topic started by: Northwoods on March 24, 2016, 04:15:06 PM
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Anyone here know of the Radio Lectric brand?
I came home with two handfuls of goodies yesterday--including a Radio Lectric No. 465 reamer. Eight inches long; wooden screwdriver type handle with slight red tint; four inch blade (not sharp, at all) 3/8" near the handle, tapering to a point. The brand name has a lightning bolt/spark jagged line between Radio and Lectric.
I found its picture on ebay and got a hint somewhere of a Bridgeport connection.
Does it have anything at all to do with radios or electricity? Frankly, I doubt it, but I am open to about anything.
What needs a 3/8" hole to be reamed?
Cheese?
http://www.ebay.ie/itm/Rare-Vtg-Radio-Lectric-Reamer-w-Wooden-Handle-465-/301864373883?hash=item464884ce7b:g:Km8AAOSwJb9Wslon
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Back in the ancient world, there were radios built using things called tubes that plugged into sockets and electricity made them glow like light bulbs.
The radio itself plugged into the back end of a dinosaur and another little connection was on the back for an antenna that glued to the dinosaur's nose with pitch from a pine tree.
Many people built these contraptions in large factories, and some really strange people built superhetrodyne radios in their caves they called homes.
Occasionally the hole in the steel chassi that held all the components like tubes and tuning capacitors and dials and string and wires wasn't properly sized for the bolt or rivet that held the assembly together. Rather than sending the chassi back to the herbivor who acted like a punch press for hole rework, a simple reamer was used to enlarge the hole.
And
THAT'S THE WHOLE TRUTH
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Shakes head violently and blinks twice....
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THAT'S THE HOLE TRUTH
Fixed it for ya.
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I've got a set of small stamped wrenches in a leather "pocket" that is RadioLectric -- embossed on the leather & stamped on the wrenches. The mark includes the BHM logo. There is also a RadioLectric No. 490 nut driver set (one handle, 4 sockets). Shown on pgs 16-17 of the March 2006 MVWC Newsletter.
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Excellent!
I've got a set of small stamped wrenches in a leather "pocket" that is RadioLectric -- embossed on the leather & stamped on the wrenches. The mark includes the BHM logo. There is also a RadioLectric No. 490 nut driver set (one handle, 4 sockets). Shown on pgs 16-17 of the March 2006 MVWC Newsletter.
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I have a reprinted 1925 Bridgeport Hardware Mfg. Corp. catalog. It includes RadioLectric brand tools.
Here is what the catalog cut says about the reamer:
An indispensable tool in radio work. For enlarging drilled holes to the proper size. Operates perfectly on bakelite, hard rubber, etc.
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Aunt Phil rules!
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