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A recent find at a local auction house, at a steal price really, but how does it work?? My first initial reaction at seeing what I got, sight unseen, was, Oh wow. Then looking at it more closely, I'm thinking, hum, I would had expect maybe a tad better blade tensioning system, and the lack of ability to park the saw up was I thought a bit of a dissapointement. Redeeming features are the use of a cast metal (Zamak or aluminum?) for the saw carriage. I have seen too many cheap ones with plastic components, it is impossible to tension properly a plastic frame... Similarly, the MB bed is made of cast aluminum with machined surfaces were it count. The only plastic is on the saw guides themselves, making for a smooth action. But was I missing parts, is it complete? And then I had this part which I have no idea if it even belong to this MB?? Strange looking part found at the bottom of box lot Looking it up on line I saw a video which explain the features on this model. Lo and behold it is...

Today, my girlfriend said, lets go have a look at the auction... It has been a while I have been there, since loosing Heather, we used to go often. So off we go, just to have a quick look, and 4 hours later we brought some "stuff" home... As per my last visit, we needed a truck to bring everything home.  But we went just to look, so we took my car :-) When we got there, the auction had already started, so could not look at everything. Took a quick gander around trying to spy some tools, did not saw much that interested me, but there was a bunch of Matchbox car's collections that pique my interest, dutifuly recorded those numbers for later... And saw a sort of promising miter vise, in a lot box. As the auction went, bought a few things here and there, bunch of weave baskets for Jean, flower pots and etc, then this miter box comes up. I know, I don't need another, but, it went down to $5 before I put the first bid on it, at $7 it was mine... I did not saw that MB before...

Another recent Kijiji finds, this one came with the instruction sheet and the spider. The Crescent No 340 crosscut tool set Besides obviously the box that it came in,  it is also missing the setting skate (in foreground) Pic from Time Tested Tools blog  The adjustable wedge is to set the height of the raker tooth  showing, to be filed flat The two screws on the sides are to hold the file, but also it is capable of slightly bending the file to accomodate the curvature of the breasted blade My Simonds spider.  You can see by the glare and rust still showing around the sharp area,  that it was power cleaned by a wire brush.  So was the Saw jointer tool.  Hopefully the critical lenght of the boss did not get muck with...too much I wrote previously about these types of tools, here The spider is used to check the set of the tooth, by placing it against the saw blade plate and resting the long end against the tip of the tooth. Because there is a shorther and...