Clay Zimmer
01-14-2014, 8:56 PM
I wish my first post wouldn't have been on these terms, but I need help :(
I started building furniture with hand tools out of necessity. My first couple years of college I was broke, needed furniture, and only had a 300sf apartment to work. Somewhere between my pallet wood bookcase and LV's cyber monday sale 2 years ago, I hit the slope. This past summer I found a complete Craftsman Miter Box model # 107.36500 (without the logo plate on the front guide, it looks identical to the Millers Falls Langdon boxes) for a few bucks at a yard sale and am just getting around to restoring it. I thought I had managed to keep this thing together and complete through a move and a complete renovation, but last night while putting it back together for its first cut I realized I was missing a screw. I have a few diagrams I found online and it looks like it is called a gib plug screw; one of two screws which attach to the gib, or the metal sleeve you don't want your saw's teeth to become too friendly with. I am sure I vaccumed it up with all the drywall dust.. Short of going bottoms-up in the 30yd dumpster out back, is there somewhere to find a replacement screw? I can take the screw I do have and go to the hardware store to search for a match but I wasn't sure if this was an uncommon screw like some of the old Stanleys.
I have lurked long enough to know posting pics isn't simple. So until I figure it out, a similar miter box can be seen here:
www.ebay.com/itm/Antique-Vintage-Craftsman-Sears-Roebuck-Miter-Box-Hand-Saw-Model-107-/400522741121
I believe I included my location in my profile. If it doesn't show <Jim K> I am in Nashville, TN :)
Thank you all for any help you can give on this and for all the countless times I have referenced this forum.. or "the saw blog", as my wife calls it :)
I started building furniture with hand tools out of necessity. My first couple years of college I was broke, needed furniture, and only had a 300sf apartment to work. Somewhere between my pallet wood bookcase and LV's cyber monday sale 2 years ago, I hit the slope. This past summer I found a complete Craftsman Miter Box model # 107.36500 (without the logo plate on the front guide, it looks identical to the Millers Falls Langdon boxes) for a few bucks at a yard sale and am just getting around to restoring it. I thought I had managed to keep this thing together and complete through a move and a complete renovation, but last night while putting it back together for its first cut I realized I was missing a screw. I have a few diagrams I found online and it looks like it is called a gib plug screw; one of two screws which attach to the gib, or the metal sleeve you don't want your saw's teeth to become too friendly with. I am sure I vaccumed it up with all the drywall dust.. Short of going bottoms-up in the 30yd dumpster out back, is there somewhere to find a replacement screw? I can take the screw I do have and go to the hardware store to search for a match but I wasn't sure if this was an uncommon screw like some of the old Stanleys.
I have lurked long enough to know posting pics isn't simple. So until I figure it out, a similar miter box can be seen here:
www.ebay.com/itm/Antique-Vintage-Craftsman-Sears-Roebuck-Miter-Box-Hand-Saw-Model-107-/400522741121
I believe I included my location in my profile. If it doesn't show <Jim K> I am in Nashville, TN :)
Thank you all for any help you can give on this and for all the countless times I have referenced this forum.. or "the saw blog", as my wife calls it :)