Antique End clamp info.

[Jeff Dorau]

I bought this off of a cabinet/millwork company for $250. I've searched around for information on this clamp and have came up empty. No markings on it. Handy is the only similar style I could find. Any information from the fine folks of this forum would be greatly appreciated.

[Jeff Dorau]

00w0w_b3NSZAqWu6o_1200x900.jpg A picture of it

[Doug Hobkirk]

2 possibilities:

1. Torture device for compressing an arm (leg? head?) until the rat talks!
2. Production clamping of cabinet doors (or something else)

Good find, if you have the space...

[Jeff Dorau]

Haha thanks. I have the space and am going to make a bench top that I can clamp into it when not using it for clamping purposes. That's what I told my dads girlfriend when they were over was that someone owed me money. I'm more interested in who made it and possibly when. I enjoy knowing the history of the tools along with their stories if possible.

[Ray Newman]

Try posting on :

http://vintagemachinery.org/

http://www.owwm.org/index.php?sid=43...ef9806f2294a70

[Jeff Dorau]

I will, thank you!

[Bill Carey]

I can't wait to see how you hang it on the wall with the rest of the clamps! But it sure is a cool piece.

[Jeff Dorau]

Think it's going to take some good sized lags.

[Mel Fulks]

A lot of that stuff with no name on it was purpose made by employees. One place I worked in the '60s did a lot of that.
It was a three story factory with lots of belt driven equipment. OSHA made lots of work for them,too.

[Jim Becker]

Tiny little thing...

[Nick Decker]

OK, but you now have too many clamps.

[Jeff Dorau]

I hear that all to often....

[Jeff Dorau]

Yeah its all cast iron(Clamping mechanism). I don't know if this shop would have been capable of producing it but who knows. The diameter of the wheel is around 22".

[Jeff Dorau]

Is that possible?