The restoration of this saw filer was the most amount of work yet!
0:00 Life-changing introduction
0:47 Disassembly
14:34 Head smash
16:09 Pouring new babbitt bearings
19:46 Brazing cast iron
20:47 Machining new brass knobs
24:16 Reassembly
36:38 Pain
This tool is a saw filing and setting machine made by Black Diamond Saw & Machine Works of Natick, MA, . sometime after 1911. The original patent from 1909 can be seen here:
Unfortunately, the saw setting attachment has been lost, but I would love to find it one day.
This particular machine showed signed of been very well used and repaired in ways that suggest it was used in a production environment. I ended up needing to pour new babbitt bearings, machine new parts, repair old parts, replace fasteners, and completely change all the paint colours to get the tool back to a more original state.
I absolutely love saw filers and settings since they have
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