Alright, no word on the table saw make/model or the jointer table. Both are at my dad's and he keeps forgetting to look at them.
No Inca equipment.
There is an old Walker-Turner Company Inc Bandsaw which meets the era.
Kev, I thought like you did, but the bar does not allow seemless guiding.. that is, it's not a true or flat guide so you're cutting would look poor.
BUT.. you and bullnerd may be onto something..
There were some pins frozen where you hammer them into wood and then the lever is used to pull-up the pin.
The next pic has a half-moon disc to place against an edge. You can position this tightly with a wingnut after you hug the edge.. notice the pin bullnerd pointed-out in this one hole.
The allen wrench is just to replace a metal pin for those slots on the shiny metal, but notice the j-hook on the far right.
This allows a small plate on the end to slide up and down to hug another edge of a board...
finally, there are 3 pins... one on each end and one in the center.
also, see how the bar bows in center? i think it's made like that.. could it be for tension?
There are some mechanics to the device which I may not be able to describe, so I'll attempt to get a video of this in-action.
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