Show your Millers Falls tools!

[Bryan Burns]

Nice collection, Bryan! Looks like your 170 is in better shape than mine.

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Thanks.

I believe yours is better as mine has a bit of a flaw!

 

[davethorik]

Miller's Falls no. 18 clamp-on swivel base vise, in original box, looks unused.

 

[RubiconJK]

Miller's Falls no. 18 clamp-on swivel base vise, in original box, looks unused.

Wow! Museum piece! Congrats.

 

[davethorik]

Thanks! These little vises are fun to collect. And use, I have a similar 2.5" Stanley clamped and screwed to my coffee table.
The box is deceptively large, 8.5" × 5.5" × 3.5"

 

[3baygarage]

Very nice.

How about 3/8 and 1/4 ratchets.

 

[Provincial]

I picked up this MF #1408 Sliding Bevel Square this morning. Buck Rogers!

 

[lilredex]

My MF No. 440 speed indicator and swivel clamp on vise are both from garage sales. The indicator, in its original box appears to be unused.

 

[Downwindtracker 2]

I'm sorry I don't have the confusser skills to post photos.
Millers Fall were the leaders in hand drills and near the top in braces. They were late to the party with planes, so theirs tended to be a step up from the Stanley. Highly worthwhile and less expensive than tools marked with Stanley.

 

[bonneyman]

Nice tools, guys!

 

[Leviton]

Although they were not as attractive as their predecessors, Millers Falls also made drills that didn't require hand cranking.

Here are my Millers Falls users.

 

[Downwindtracker 2]

When Millers Fall were bought, I think it was Ingersoll Rand, it was for their power tool division.

 

[ganymede]

Very nice.

How about 3/8 and 1/4 ratchets.

Wow ! yet another Penens off brand.
Trying to remember if I had seen any inforcer ratchet commercials as a kid .
On the original card

 

[BlueBomber]

I picked this MF key hole saw today. Not a Buck Rogers, but still has that Spaceman Spiff look to it.

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[gman007]

Millers Fall Drill (sorry I did not take any good photos of before restoration, in fact the before photos were taken as a reference point for rewiring)

 

[bonneyman]

Millers Fall Drill (sorry I did not take any good photos of before restoration, in fact the before photos were taken as a reference point for rewiring)

Nice!

 

[LesserSon]

I cleaned the rust and goo off some nail sets, and found a few were MF. One advertises a specific alloy. Now I’m curious about the chronology of knurl styles...

 

[LesserSon]

Picked this push drill today. The bits with it included three marked “Yankee,” so they’re not original, but I don’t know about the unmarked ones.
The tiny bits in the red vinyl pouch were in the box, but don’t go with it.

 

[daltonathomas94]

My 1900 no. 1 drill press with a goodell pratt brest drill mounted with some home blacksmith ingenuity $10 since it was all rusty and frozen

1920s hand drill $5 rusty with blue paint


1940s (Stanley #5 sister) Hand plane $8

And since GP was absorbed by MF a 1930s GP miter box with disston "made expressly for Goodell Pratt" saw

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[bonneyman]

Great pics, guys!

 

[Old Radar]

Here's my collection so far...

1218 Inside Micrometer


Brace #33A 1917-1933


Brace #1710 1935-1948

 

[Old Radar]

More of my collection:

Buck Rogers Brace #1950 1950-1976


Buck Rogers Hand Drill #100 1948-1968


Breast Drill No.12 Mid-1890s


100 foot Steel Tape Measure - missing clip

 

[Old Radar]

Finally, my prized piece:


Push Drill No.2 (Graves--later) 1894-1898


This feels so comfortable in the hand and has five of the eight flute-shanked drill points.
Well that's all for now, but I'm always on the lookout for more Millers Falls hand tools.

 

[Rick B.]

UPDATE:
Research has shown that this tool handle is not a Miller Falls tool. Rather, it was patented by G.W. Wright of the Sargent Tool Co. in New Haven, CT. less than 10 miles from my home town of Milford and is older and considered harder to find than the Miller Falls model. Cool.

See that. There IS more than **** on the internet!


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[daltonathomas94]

It's an early multitool of sorts. I'll try to find a picture in my whites hardware dealer catalog. They came with a small hammer head, crosscut saw blade, driver's, awls, prybars, you name it.

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[LesserSon]

Here’s a no1 hurdy-gurdy/eggbeater I acquired today. Totally seized with rust, but the rosewood handle/cap is just fine. It even has a broken drill bit in the chuck.
I may punch out the retaining pin to work on the metal and wood parts separately. May not be necessary.

 

[davethorik]

Here's my collection so far...

1218 Inside Micrometer

Old radar, I have that same inside micrometer set, except mine is a Goodell-Pratt. Same case, different lettering. One of the tools M-F got from G-P. I took it in to work and had the boys in the gage lab check it.

My mind was blown how accurate it was. The micrometer itself was dead nuts thru the entire range, and less than half of the extensions needed minor adjustments. I've seen much newer inside mics in the same condition from good name brands be much further out. Since the initial calibration, it's still accurate (I don't use it much but I keep it calibrated because I know it's good).

Some of these old tools can't be beat.

 

[daltonathomas94]

Here’s a no1 hurdy-gurdy/eggbeater I acquired today. Totally seized with rust, but the rosewood handle/cap is just fine. It even has a broken drill bit in the chuck.

I may punch out the retaining pin to work on the metal and wood parts separately. May not be necessary.

Just be careful with that pin. I found out too late on a GP drill that it was tapered and offset due to being drilled after assembly. When you do get the wood off just throw the whole kit-n-kabootle in some evaporust or vinegar depending on how much you want to clean up afterward and it should free things up nicely. I like to scrape the wood before sanding with the side of a chisel just to make things a little quicker and finish up with BLO.

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[RTM]

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For the Millers Falls fans among us, here are links to some catalogs from the day. The 1925 and 1938 are my favorites, as they represent the largest diversity of tools IMO.

https://archive.org/details/internationaltoolcataloglibrary?and[]=Millers+falls&sin=&sort=dat

I'm a wood worker, so I have lots of their stuff, will try to put up some of the non-plane, drill and bit brace stuff in the shop later. Gotta corral them and get a pic or two.

 

[PaulRex]

Found a couple in my toolbox, the micrometer actually came in the toolbox when I bought it and the depth gauge I picked up an an estate sale a while back for a buck.

 

[gml1998]

Miller's Falls Model 9B plane. Given to me by one of my customers. Appears to have never been used, I also have it's box.

 

[Old Radar]

Very nice! According to Old Tool Haven, http://oldtoolheaven.com/bench/benchtable.htm#9, MF started adding a "B" to some of their planes in the late 60s and the No.9 went out of production in 1976.

That's a pristine looking 43-50 year old plane.

 

[Stuart in MN]

UPDATE:
Research has shown that this tool handle is not a Miller Falls tool. Rather, it was patented by G.W. Wright of the Sargent Tool Co. in New Haven, CT. less than 10 miles from my home town of Milford and is older and considered harder to find than the Miller Falls model. Cool.

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I have one that's very similar. I posted it in the garage sale thread back in May: https://www.garagejournal.com/forum/showpost.php?p=7882334&postcount=2881 Mine has no name markings on it.

Private Lugnutz posted a reply to my post, showing a page from the 1886 Bonney Vise and Tool Company catalog: https://www.garagejournal.com/forum/showpost.php?p=7884011&postcount=2920

 

[PFSard]

Miller's Falls Model 9B plane. Given to me by one of my customers. Appears to have never been used, I also have it's box.

Wow!! I don't see any rust on the metal or cracks in the wood. Nice.

 

[KMScott]

Here is a Miller Falls 2" vise I repaired. It has 2" cast in jaws that I removed and added replaceable ones. I have worked on many vises this is the first one that machined like Nodular Iron. The 6:32 tapped holes for the jaws were a killer to tap. The pad on the Static is a hardened cast insert too. I am very impressed with the quality of this tool.

 

[Old Radar]

Very nice job! What did you use as a finish--wax or oil?

 

[KMScott]

Very nice job! What did you use as a finish--wax or oil?

Metal oil from Sculpt Nouveau.

 

[d42jeep]

I found this 6” rule a while back, but the other two I found at an estate sale yesterday. Upon closer examination the little vise grip type pliers are discreetly stamped Japan.
-Don

 

[gml1998]

Wow!! I don't see any rust on the metal or cracks in the wood. Nice.

just a lot of dust from sitting on the shelf,lol

 

[LesserSon]

I have one that's very similar. I posted it in the garage sale thread back in May: https://www.garagejournal.com/forum/showpost.php?p=7882334&postcount=2881 Mine has no name markings on it.

Private Lugnutz posted a reply to my post, showing a page from the 1886 Bonney Vise and Tool Company catalog: https://www.garagejournal.com/forum/showpost.php?p=7884011&postcount=2920

That’s really interesting; I've posted a Buell Bros one with a BHMCo one on the Bridgeport thread.

 

[Old Radar]

Adding to the MF Collection. I got the No. 43 coping saw and the No. 98 T-Bevel as part of a 5-gallon Bucket Boss Tool Bag/Seat that I picked up for $6.