Millers Falls No. 701R 1 inch micrometer in original box
There is joy in Mudville tonight! My son-in-law collects old USA made mechanics tools; wrenches, ratchets, sockets etc. He likes old Plomb (Plvmb), Proto, Williams, and Sherman Klove (S-K) as well as others.
During one of his rust hunting excursions to a local estate sale he bought a box lot which included many auger bits for a brace, a couple of hand planes and a little 1″ micrometer in addition to the wrenches he wanted.
My S.I.L. Sent me pics of the tools he picked up at the estate sale and I gushed over the mic. Now, he and I trade tools from time to time. I might find a good bargain on old wrenches, he may find old planes or chisels and we just pass them back and forth. It has been a good basis for bonding and we enjoy the interaction. Today he gifted me the mic he picked up in exchange for whatever I might find to trade him for. I wanted to pay him for it, but he wouldn’t have any of that. He is a good guy.
This wasn’t just any mic, this was a pristine, like new, in-the-original-box, Millers Falls No. 701R 1 inch micrometer.
I have been looking for a 1″ mic for a while now, but budgetary constraints have made me hold off on purchasing one. I am not a machinist, but I do have occasional need for a mic to determine sizes for parts I am needing to replace on machines, or wanting to mic out a handsaw plate thickness, or just for giggles see how thin my smoothing plane shavings are…(oh, come on, you have wanted to check your shavings too…) And, I like me some Millers Falls tools!
So here it is, my (for all practical purposes) New Old Stock Millers Falls 1″ micrometer.
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