can anyone identify this tool please

[workshopgranny]

Hello, can anyone on this forum identify this tool for me please

it is 2 1/2 inches long and 1 1/2 inches wide

any help would be much appreciated!

 

[marcros]

bench stop

not disimilar to http://www.whitworthspanners.com/produc ... f716c9ade8

 

[workshopgranny]

What a quick reply, thanks, it has got a patent number on it but I can't find it when I goo**e the number

the number is 598219

 

[Vann]

Or like this...

(not mine BTW, found it online and remembered this thread)

Cheers, Vann.

 

[wjordan]

What a quick reply, thanks, it has got a patent number on it but I can't find it when I goo**e the number

the number is 598219

Don't know for sure, but Google probably searches only US patents. Your bench stop was patented in GB:

GB598219 (A) - Improvements in work stops for carpenters' benches
http://worldwide.espacenet.com/publ...n_gb&FT=D&date=19480212&CC=GB&NR=598219A&KC=A

Wolfgang

 

[mtr1]

I have a row of these on my bench....dreadful things if I'm honest, and I wish I'd fitted wooden dogs.

Review here

 

[AndyT]

Hmmm .... I have just succumbed to temptation and bought one, which I suspect may even be the one asked about by the OP, never having been terribly happy with my simple wooden bench stop. When it arrives, and I've got round to fitting it, I'll see if I agree with your review!

 

[woodbloke]

Horrible, nasty things :evil: I tried them out a couple of times...the first instance that your plane hits it is not recommended. Almost as nasty as two piece cap-irons :-" :mrgreen: - Rob

 

[Vann]

Almost as nasty as two piece cap-irons :-" :mrgreen:

:!: They've got to be good then. (hammer)

Cheers, Vann.

 

[Benchwayze]

I wish I'd never fitted them to my bench. Still the new bench won't have any metal on it but the vice, which will be 'cloaked' in timber!

 

[jimi43]

Horrible, nasty things :evil: I tried them out a couple of times...the first instance that your plane hits it is not recommended. Almost as nasty as two piece cap-irons :-" :mrgreen: - Rob

You're supposed to put them on the top Rob...stops them falling out on yer toes! :mrgreen: :mrgreen:

Jimi