Keep scrolling down :grin:
Another marketplace grab.
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This one was really rough. Paid very little.
Here she is! And what a job… any nickel finish was totally gone. I sanded the hell out of it with finer and finer grades of paper and polished it with Mother’s mag polish, great stuff!
The ratchet box is brass, which I didn’t know. It is a bell system brace, so Bell was using these for a long time. Cleaned the pad and handle with mineral spirits and put on Minwax polyurethane.
I feel good about this one! It was tough. Had to let my hands recuperate for a day!
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Note the North Bros. on the ratchet. It's the real deal. Had to have been made before 1946.
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Yeah, it’s a Yankee, no Stanley in sight yet.
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Look for the characteristic enclosed ratchet if you look for these in the wild, unless I grab it first!
$15.00 on marketplace, guy didn’t know what he had.
What do you think?
(I couldn't delete the thumbnails.. that's a Yankee/Stanley from marketplace also which I did up.