3baygarage
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Picked up a small Beaver No. 100 pipe cutter. Pretty neat. I like the way it looks like an adjustable wrench. There is a spring to keep tension on the jaw as it opens.
Beaver Cutter
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woody 73
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Interesting design, any patent information about the person who came up with that idea ?
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steaks&anvils
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That is so cool!!!!
It never ceases to amaze me how the simplest tool can have such a pleasing design and be so cool to look at. I'm sure it is great to handle too.
Crazy is, I don't ever get that feeling from adjustable wrenches, they are all just meh, just OK, to me.
It never ceases to amaze me how the simplest tool can have such a pleasing design and be so cool to look at. I'm sure it is great to handle too.
Crazy is, I don't ever get that feeling from adjustable wrenches, they are all just meh, just OK, to me.
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3baygarage
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After looking around Datamp I see several entries for the company and several patentees, but not this design Woody.
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3baygarage
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I thought it was neat. I agree, it has a cool look. Pretty sure I’ve run into these before, but finally the right buying opportunity.
rlitman
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Nice Beaver! (It had to be said.)
Private Lugnutz
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Sweet find, 3bay.
Provincial
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Nice find, 3bay!
I suspect that the shortage of materials and foundry castings was likely due to the orders from France and Great Britain for war materials. They had been fighting since August of 1914, and American factories were fully engaged at the time of this letter.
It is interesting that the small producers were being squeezed this way. The large outfits must have been leveraging their suppliers to get priority in deliveries.
I suspect that the shortage of materials and foundry castings was likely due to the orders from France and Great Britain for war materials. They had been fighting since August of 1914, and American factories were fully engaged at the time of this letter.
It is interesting that the small producers were being squeezed this way. The large outfits must have been leveraging their suppliers to get priority in deliveries.
Miss the Pontiacs
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Cool tool
Never seen one like that before.
Never seen one like that before.
disston
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Excellent tool find. Looks in very good usable shape. The cutting wheel is in good shape. They chip when worn. No chips is good to go.
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3baygarage
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Not mine. Slightly different version that was on eBay. Different stampings and different handle end with removable deburring blade.
I haven’t seen a catalog example of the No. 100 in the 20’s and 30’s documents available online.
I haven’t seen a catalog example of the No. 100 in the 20’s and 30’s documents available online.
slowtwitch73
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Pleasing to the eye..prob not so great in use.
crguy
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No, it didn't.
crguy
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My thought also. There are better designs.
crguy
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It's the wrenches with odd adjustments that are the most appealing to collectors.
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3baygarage
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Beerhippie
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I was thinking it was a Navy pilot's call sign....
Miss the Pontiacs
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So there has been a lot of pipe placed in that Beaver?
rlitman
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Please, there was something wrong on the internet, and he managed to fix it. Bravo!“And the Grumping at a Post 4 Years Later Award goes to…”
…Crguy!
I'm not going to be judgmental. I've got countless projects (even a few I've posted about here), that were "in-progress" when I posted that compliment that are no further along today.
So, back to the topic at hand. Can we discuss why only your beaver was made for reaming?
Private Lugnutz
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The progression from vacant hanging hole to making use of that opportunity for mounting a second, functionally related tool, reminds me of the progression of "The Elgin" adjustable alligator nut and pipe wrench from open loop handle (1897), to solid handle with vacant hanging hole (interim production), to solid handle with a die cutter holder in that space (1906).
Borden made all kinds of pipe cutters and threaders, etc, under the "Beaver" name, from small (Google Books ads and notices say your No. 100 was 1/8" to 3/4" capacity) and handheld, like yours, to mounted and very large.
Incidentally, if you're interested in investigating further, it looks like they went the route of Champion DeArment, Park Metalware, and so many others, channellocking and xceliteing themselves from The Borden Company with a catchier brand name into the Beaver Pipe Tools Company sometime between 1932 (last instance of Borden I could find) and 1937 (new name, same address).
Private Lugnutz
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@3baygarage
It took longer than normal for my stealthy Google Books team insiders to grant my unlock request for this reference so I could grab this ad. Note that it also helps narrow down the date of the name change. Still Borden in January 1933. But note that they seem to be introducing it for the first time. So maybe yours is just missing the reamer? Or they made and sold some without?
It took longer than normal for my stealthy Google Books team insiders to grant my unlock request for this reference so I could grab this ad. Note that it also helps narrow down the date of the name change. Still Borden in January 1933. But note that they seem to be introducing it for the first time. So maybe yours is just missing the reamer? Or they made and sold some without?
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3baygarage
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Cool find! Thanks.
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3baygarage
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I've acquired a second Beaver pipe cutter. The third different example in the thread.
It's stamped
THE BORDEN CO.
WARREN,O.
It's stamped
THE BORDEN CO.
WARREN,O.