Help Identify casting markings

[Laminatrap]

Trying to find out the markings in this part. I suspect a tool manufacturer or a supplier of engine parts. I figured in the past few years I found answers on these forums, so hoping the knowledgeable will know.

There is a K in a diamond and a W in a hexagon. It is from the 50s and I searched foundry markings of the era with no luck.

 

[gleman]

Did you try Alloy Artifacts?

 

[Laminatrap]

Yes I did. There was a hit for one of the markings, but those tools were all forged (I believe) and what I have appears to be cast, but not brittle. It can be be bent without too much force.

 

[3baygarage]

What are they on?

The K diamond was used by Kraeuter.

 

[Joe Huld]

Trying to find out the markings in this part. I suspect a tool manufacturer or a supplier of engine parts. I figured in the past few years I found answers on these forums, so hoping the knowledgeable will know.

There is a K in a diamond and a W in a hexagon. It is from the 50s and I searched foundry markings of the era with no luck.

Are you sure it is cast? The incuse markings and the fact that it stands bending suggest that it might not be.

 

[Laminatrap]

all the markings are raised




To me this looks like casting markings.




This was a scope bar for a for a military rifle made somewhere between 1950 and 1957, possibly later.
The military demilled stuff all the time and these were no exception. The cut the tips off and wacked the with hammers which bent them up good.

Long time ago I has someone asked me to straighten about 50 of them. I laughed and said they would snap. Initially I heated some of the worst and sort of straightened. Being still wavey I hammered them flat. Tweaking by putting in a vice and leveraging them till they were straight.
I also machined the tips and brazed them on.
They are ferrous and took brazing quite well.
But not so sure iron, maybe cast steel?



I did find Kraeuter, but noticed the vast majority of stuff did not look cast unless early wrenches were cast?
but if cast iron, would they hold up?



The next thing that I questioned was why have the W in hex marking as well?
I looked under a magnifying lens and this is what I think is what it looks like



Kreauter did have WW2 and Korean era contracts, but so did a great many tool companies, and many made things other than tools as well.

 

[Beerhippie]

What on earth is a "scope bar"? A scope mounting base? That seems incredibly crude if so--in fact, it seems crude for anything related to a scope or firearm.

Not questioning your expertise--I've just never seen anything like it on civilian or military firearms.

 

[d42jeep]

What are they on?

The K diamond was used by Kraeuter.

Here are two different markings on Kraeuter pliers. I think the diamond K was a price line.
-Don

 

[Laminatrap]

What on earth is a "scope bar"? A scope mounting base? That seems incredibly crude if so--in fact, it seems crude for anything related to a scope or firearm.

Not questioning your expertise--I've just never seen anything like it on civilian or military firearms.

Not sure if the firearms subject is allowed here? Mind you it is just a research project as I look into wartime production and how it revolutionized the manufacturing industry.
Simply, the scope is heavy, outdated, obsolete.

Back to the markings, If a price line, it does not seem to answer the bar markings. I am not ruling out yet, but need to figure out the W relationship.

For those that read my previous post early on, I added a picture of one of the bars that was bent.
What is the consensus on being a cast item vs forging etc?
Thoughts on just how bendable if it is in fact cast?

 

[Provincial]

Malleable iron meets the description of the material of these wrenches.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malleable_iron