Porter-Cable Homemaster Circular Saw

[TRex10]

Hello! I inherited my grandfathers Porter-Cable HOMEMASTER 6 INCH SAW MODEL 25 (possibly 125?) 115 VOLT, 9 AMP AC-DC Serial No. 19835
PORTER-CABLE MACH, CO. SYRACUSE, NY

My grandfather died in 1961 and my father kept it in his shop. I had earmarked/claimed it many years back.

Any information you guys might can glean for me would be great.

 

[DuroChrome]

Pics?

 

[woody 73]

Trex 10 could you look for at the number again is it two numbers or three numbers?

They made a model 125 but it was a planer not a saw.

Edit they did make both the model 125 saw/planer

 

[woody 73]

I am stumped on this one, I went back to 1953 and I could not find those numbers, must be a very old model:

http://vintagemachinery.org/pubs/detail.aspx?id=4881

 

[woody 73]

Bingo I found the model 125 not sure about the Homemaster name but I found the Model.

http://www.woodworkinghistory.com/porter_cable_portable_tools_catalog_no-104_1956.pdf

 

[woody 73]

Some interesting reading material:

http://www.asktooltalk.com/articles/toolhistory/divide.php

 

[sselander]

That reminded me of something I read years ago, which I found ...

I own a PC 743K circular saw which has the blade on the left.

 

[woody 73]

I have had zero luck with the word homemaster but I am sure if we could locate some old store catalogs we could find it.

 

[sselander]

Google is your friend ...

 

[jame]

Fifty bucks back in 1955? Holy ****! That's a one week paycheck back then!

I'm guessing they didn't sell many of these.

 

[woody 73]

sselander good job I had given up on google but you got it!

What ever happened to the op I hope it was not a one post wonder and they left the building for good?

jame yes indeed hand and power tools were more expensive back in the day, but the were not throw away items like in todays World.