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Title: Millers Falls corner brace
Post by: jimwrench on May 26, 2017, 11:40:12 AM
 Got this little fellow at auction last PM. Don't know when I'll need a corner brace but this 140 struck my fancy. Donnelly had one in his 1999 catalog and he called it rare. Can't be too rare as I caught one and I don't run very fast anymore.
I underpaid on this one and that makes up for the Lowentraut wrench I overpaid for last Friday
Title: Re: Millers Falls corner brace
Post by: stanley62 on May 26, 2017, 12:45:25 PM
Nice!

 Jim
Title: Re: Millers Falls corner brace
Post by: Bill Houghton on May 26, 2017, 12:54:43 PM
That's a cool design; I can see how it would be useful in really awkward spaces.
Title: Re: Millers Falls corner brace
Post by: lptools on May 26, 2017, 01:00:42 PM
Nice find, Jim!!!!
Title: Re: Millers Falls corner brace
Post by: bill300d on May 26, 2017, 01:58:36 PM
I would have tried to take that home to if it showed up at an auction around here.
Title: Re: Millers Falls corner brace
Post by: turnnut on May 26, 2017, 02:15:03 PM
 good addition to your collection.

 do you remember how the auctioneer described  it ?
Title: Re: Millers Falls corner brace
Post by: jimwrench on May 26, 2017, 02:32:09 PM
 Sold it with a 50 cent brace and 2  eighteen inch augur bit and called the lot bit braces. Only I and another tool collector entered the bidding (he lost)
Title: Re: Millers Falls corner brace
Post by: turnnut on May 26, 2017, 02:36:28 PM
 Jim, check out e-bay number 382066725066

 he calls it scarce.  read his write-up.

 tool dealer and tool club member.

 Frank
Title: Re: Millers Falls corner brace
Post by: p_toad on May 26, 2017, 06:26:51 PM
I would class that as a nice score.   :smiley:
Title: Re: Millers Falls corner brace
Post by: wvtools on May 28, 2017, 07:09:13 AM
They are not very common.  I have owned a lot of braces over the years and have only had a few.  I don't think I have ever had one that worked right either.