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15th Apr 2018, 03:24 PM #1Novice
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What is this?
Along with the Myford i recently acquired came a few boxes of accessories, tooling and some odds and sods. Amongst them was the item below.
It's an inch tall, and made of an aluminium alloy. Marked as made in Cornerstone, England. Any ideas?
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Martin
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24th Apr 2018, 11:38 PM #2Diamond Member
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Perhaps it is just some aluminium extrusion which has been squared up a bit in the mill and maybe used as a parallel. Without more info it is hard to be sure.
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25th Apr 2018, 06:49 PM #3Intermediate Member
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25th Apr 2018, 11:20 PM #4Diamond Member
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The information could be something like was it part of a larger assembly or was it just stock material. These days stock material is often printed with all sorts of info, poly pipe usually has length info incremented every metre, the size, the pressure rating and production date code amongst other info, likewise form ply, hydraulic tubing and a host of other stuff. I could well imagine that in earlier days, before modern printing systems, manufacturers might have either cast in or used a rolling stamp to mark their products, so I see no reason why a home-made tool couldn't be marked as made in England, if its creator had access to such material. Not having a crystal ball, I can't say what the material is from any more than you can tell me what the M22 nyloc nut sitting before me is from, but all I'm saying is that in my opinion, it is possible that someone has made a home made tool from either raw stock material or a part salvaged and re-purposed from some other machine. You are quite entitled to think otherwise, and you may well be correct.
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26th Apr 2018, 07:08 AM #5New Member
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A piece of printing gear,used to lock up the type in the chase on letterpress machines.Cornerstone produced this stuff in days gone by,it is basically just a precision alloy extrusion.
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26th Apr 2018, 08:08 AM #6Intermediate Member
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