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As discussed previously, you have examples from two different stamping dies and corresponding different text stamping detail. (The one in the middle was actually stamped upside down from the view shown) Two different suppliers for one agent or two competing companies?? Intended application...

Thanks. I never noticed that. (And I am a believer in studying the catalog!!!)

The locking nut looks wrong.

Are they marked?

For some lathe with compound nuts and tool post rocker dimensions to fit.

Those are excellent quality. Keep it.

You might investigate lacquer stik. Available in variety of colors.

I might guess that is for burrs, end mills, or, as suggested, dremel bits. Think 3/8 shank, 1/4 shank, 3/16 shank, and 1/8 shank tools.

I believe that the earliest Starrett square sets used a thinner blade, similar in thickness to the Bates example.

Looks like it could be a recent Starrett.

We know your type. You ripped the tag off of your mattress didn't you?!

Me too. Lots of BeCu over the years. Used to clean mold parts in a big tank of carbon tetrachloride. I'm 80 now. I might have missed it all. But, all in all, the trade was very good to me. Have a good one.

Thanks. BeCu is only about 2-3% Be and 'usually' is not a problem. Worked around BeCu for a large part of my 50 years in the shop. Only problem I heard of was in Argonne lab in Chicago area using pure Be for space parts. Had to get real serious about ventilation of the dust. Hate it for...

Rules are made to be broken

Was that in a Be environment, space lab, etc., or in a shop using BeCu, such as mold making???