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BUYING/SELLING/TRADING/VENDORS AND BUSINESSES => MEMBERS ONLY, BUY/SELL/TRADE => Topic started by: Uncle Buck on January 26, 2024, 07:10:27 PM
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Slim chance anyone will have B & S Universal Protractor head blades to fit a model # 495 Protractor head, but I want to make sure I can't buy one or both before buying stock to make a set. Blades are 6" & 12" long, and each end is not square, but angled at 45 degrees.
Like I said, not likely anyone has just blades, but still worth asking.
Also, B&S blades has a groove that runs it's length and is dead center of the blade just like a blade for a tri square.
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I'm not going to be much help. My Vernier Protractor is a German Stiefelmayer. But quite sure there's someone with a Brown & Sharp out there somewhere.
(https://hosting.photobucket.com/images/c239/OldCarGuy_1955/D4BB0748-ED59-488F-80BF-48AFCB81ED44.jpeg)
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Beautiful example OCG I share your obvious appreciation of German engineering.
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It's common place to hear that German engineering is difficult to beat. Consequently I appreciate German Fine Measuring Instruments, Machinery, and Cars.. This German Stiefelmayer Vernier Protractor was given to me by a old retiring Tool Maker nearly 50 years ago. Though it's been used sparingly, I guard this treasure entrusted to me...