Craftsman 4 Foot Wood Lathe

	Although from the belatedly 1800s Sears, Roebuck & Co." had offered a number of forest-turning lathes, it was not until 1933 that the range was rationalised around two labels: Companion the for cheaper models and Craftsman for more than expensive types. Prior to this the machines on offer had been a rather miscellaneous selection - of flimsy structure -  many by long-forgotten minor manufacturers and some of which were in the catalog for but a year earlier being replaced; today, they are very rare. The Craftsman and Companion labels were used not just for metallic and woods-turning lathes, only a very broad range of power and hand tools. Some other name used was "Dunlap" - this replacing the "Companion" branding in 1941. Research published on the One-time Wood Working Machines Group (http://owwm.com) has discovered the post-obit more of import makers of Companion, Craftsman and Dunlap-branded woodworking machines: Herberts Mechanism Co. King-Seeley Corp. (model-number prefix 103 ) woods lathes until 1934/5 American Auto & Tool Co., Inc. (model-number prefix 149 ) Atlas Press (model-number prefix 101 ) Belsaw Machinery Co. (model-number prefix 306 ) Brown-Brockmeyer Co. (model-number prefix 410 ) Clausing Industrial, Inc. (model-number prefix 534 ) DeWalt Products Co. (model-number prefix 901 ) Double A Products Co. (AA Products) (model-number prefix 109 ) Emerson Electric Co. (model-number prefix 113 ) Parks Woodworking Machine Co. (model-number prefix 112 ) Power King Tool Corp. (model-number prefix 534 ) Syncro Corp. (model-number prefix 110 ) Sypher Manufacturing Co. Walker-Turner Co., Inc. (model-number prefix 102 ).

1929 Clipper - near basic of lathes from the belatedly 1920s with a single-speed, babbit begetting headstock- and 'fresh-air' tailstock. The heart elevation was 5.five" and, depending upon how brave yous were, and what timber you had to hand, the distance between centres could be as neat as you wished. Even today this method is withal a valid fashion of amalgam a large woods-turning lathe at minimum cost, the Conover Company in the United states being a recent example. The spindle was 1 inch in diameter and threaded on the right to accept a faceplate (with a centre socket" of unknown specification) and at the rear allow a circular saw or grinding cycle to be mounted between two flanges. The lathe came complete with 1 bulldoze centre, a rather pocket-sized radially-slotted faceplate, an adjustable chisel residue and weighed - despite the flimsy tailstock - a respectable threescore lbs. The toll, in 1929, was $15.fifty.

1929 Progress - with a much heavier headstock (though hardly improved tailstock) this thirteen-inch swing lathe had a 1 3/16 " diameter spindle carrying two pulleys (of 6 and 4 inches in diameter) driven by a i 1/2 " wide flat belt. With the lathe was a complete fast-and-loose countershaft unit - that allowed the motor to exist left running when the belt was shifted, by the belt forks, from the drive to the gratis caster. The lathe and countershaft had a shipping weight of 130 lbs - and price an expensive $38.

	1929 Wood-lathe ii-speed countershaft with fast-and-loose pulleys.

1930 "Peerless ". Probably made past the Sypher Manufacturing Company of Toledo, Ohio, this was an interesting endeavour to market a cocky-independent motorised wood lathe. The swing was 12" and the  capacity between centres 36"; the motor, an ordinary single-speed, i/3 hp, 110 volt Air-conditioning unit that ran at 1750 rpm unit of measurement, carried a faceplate and heart on its spindle. The bed was made from cheap, angle-steel sections and carried the simplest-possible kind of tailstock and toolrest. The lathe was priced at $33 - which included a freight charge to anywhere in the USA. Sypher'south own electrical-motor headstock lathe had a better toolrest, a proper tailstock with a screw-feed, self-squirt butt and, considering the mass of the machine, a more bourgeois swing of seven.75" - strangely however, the motor was less-well supported and the machine cost $12 more than the "Peerless".

	1930 "Challenger Home Workshop" Build in the depths of the Great Depression, and only available equally part of the $85 "Challenger Habitation Piece of work Shop",  the wood lathe above was yet another minimalist Sears product that used every bit little material as possible to exercise the greatest corporeality of work. Whilst the 8-inch saw bench and 4-inch planer announced to have been robustly constructed, the six-inch swing 3-speed lathe was very lightly built with both the headstock and tailstock unbraced and clamped down by single bolts to the track of a simple bending-steel bed. Note, however, that the drive was by V belt to an overhung pulley - the first time a V belt had been used on a Sears lathe - and quite possibly its first use ever on an apprentice machine tool.

	1932 "Driver" Built on an angle-steel bed with cast-atomic number 26 headstock, tailstock and toolrest (and with an overhung drive pulley) this was a very small lathe - then tiny that, conveniently, the advertising literature failed completely to mention its dimensions and gave instead the weights of the individual components: the bronze-bushed headstock ii lbs four ozs, tailstock 2 lbs 8 ozs, bed 7 lbs, toolrest two lbs and the 2 4-footstep pulleys 1 lb each. The price, including wagon, was $6.65. That was cheap - even in 1932 - but less expensive and even smaller lathes were to come up �.

1932 "Commuter Heavy Duty" The last wood-turning lathe manufactured by Sears before the introduction of the "Craftsman" range, this (remarkable for its era) "Driver Heavy Duty" was built with a cocky-contained, 4-speed, 5-belt drive motor-platform behind the headstock. With a 12 inch swing , a capacity of 30 inches betwixt centres and a shipping weight of 78 lbs (without a motor) this was a much more substantial affair than its junior brother, shown higher upwardly the page. The 42 inch long bed (which was iv.5" wide and 2.five" deep) was constructed from bending steel and carried a headstock, toolrest and tailstock in cast iron. The headstock, (unusually for a forest lathe of any historic period or type) was fitted with Timken taper-roller bearings. The price was $39.50

Craftsman, Companion & Dunlap Forest-turning Lathes 1933  - 1943 In 1933 the Sears, Roebuck Company launched the get-go of their Herberts (of Los Angeles) manufactured "Craftsman" and cheaper "Companion" lathes. The Companion was a half-dozen-inch heart height machine that admitted 24" betwixt centres; the 3-speed, Five-belt drive headstock was built around a 5/viii" diameter spindle running on bronze bearing lubricated through wick feeds.  The lock for the tailstock barrel was a spiral that simple pressed down against it - a crude, not very effective, merely very cheap solution. The bed carried a pair of feet mid-way downwards for extra back up, the tool rest was 5 inches long and information technology was suggested that a i/four hp motor would exist fairly powerful to run the lathe. The shipping weight was 22 lbs and the cost $4.fifty.

	Companion 6" x 24" - cheapest in the range

Least expensive of the Craftsman lathes was the "eight-inch", a machine very similar to the Companion "half-dozen-inch" just with an increased swing and an additional half dozen inches between centres. The headstock spindle was no larger at 5/viii" simply fabricated from Chrome vanadium steel, ran on bronze bushes and carried a iv instead of a 3-step 5 pulley. The spindle was extended to the left, that Sears claimed allowed outboard turning - but for which a faceplate from the range of 3, 6, eight and  9-inch diameters in the options' list would take been needed. The tool rest was six inches long and, ready for shipping, the lathe weighed about 35 lbs. The price in 1933 was $9.l - at a time when the average weekly earning of a worker in industry was $1786

The 9-inch Craftsman wood-turning lathe was very much more than heavily built than the cheaper models in the range - ready for shipping information technology weighed nearly two-and-ane-one-half times as much as the eight-inch model. Double-concluded, the five/8-inch diameter headstock spindle ran in "sealed-for-life" ball bearings and was driven past a 4-step, V-belt pulley whose face up was ringed with 60 indexing holes with an extension to the front of the headstock casting holding the spring-loaded plunger. The lathe came complete with cup and spur centres, 4-inch and 8-inch T rests, a four-stride V pulley with i/2-inch bore to fit the drive motor, one 5 chugalug and a double-ended wrench.

	Heaviest, and best of the 'first-edition' Craftsman wood-turning lathes was the 12-inch model. With a shipping weight of 97 lbs and a nine/16" bore, No. 2 Morse taper headstock spindle (properly threaded at both ends) running in sealed-for-life brawl bearings, this was a usefully strong and workman-like machine. The impression would have been reinforced by the proper barrel lock on the tailstock and the provision, as standard, of both iii 1/two " and nine" faceplates that were threaded to fit both the left and right-hand sides of the spindle. Like the lighter 9-inch lathe, the larger end confront of the V pulley was drilled with a circle of 60 indexing holes - with the locating plunger congenital into an ear formed on the front face of the headstock casting.

	The tailstock of the 12-inch Craftsman was of almost metallic-lathe proportions and even included a proper butt lock - an well-nigh unheard of refinement on a 1930s forest lathe intended for use by amateurs

	A circle of 60 indexing holes - with the locating plunger built into an ear formed on the forepart face of the headstock casting - was standard on the 1933 12-inch Craftsman wood-turning lathe.

	The 12-inch model was the but lathe in the 1933 Craftsman range to exist offered with the option of an actress-long, twin-support toolrest .

To a higher place: wood lathes manufactured by Herberts and marketed by Sears, Roebuck and Co. during 1933. Lathes branded "Companion" were always the cheaper choice

	To a higher place: 1933 - lathes made by Herberts Machinery and a cheaper option (than the one beneath) for a Craftsman-branded brawl-bearing lathe

Above: 1933 advertizing for a tiptop-of-the-range Herberts'-manufactured brawl-begetting spindle wood lathe

Craftsman & Dunlap Woods-turning Lathes 1947-1966

	1947 Craftsman Model "80"  9-inch swing by 30 inches between centres. When production of Craftsman woods lathes started once again after World War Two the improve of the two machines introduced in 1947 (1948 catalog year) was the Model "80". Despite its No. 1 Morse taper, 3/4" diameter headstock spindle running on patently, "Oilite" self-lubricating bronze bearings (and ane brawl-bearing race for thrust) this was a respectably heavy (78 lb) machine with all its main components in bandage atomic number 26. Unusually, the headstock spindle carried no thread, instead a square section was formed on its end - with faceplates and other fittings held on by grub screws - a horribly crude system that only lasted for ane year - the 1948 models being fitted with non only a proper thread, but a brawl bearing spindle as well, of a type starting time used in 1933 .... Iv spindle speeds were provided of  875, 1350, 2250 and 3450 rpm - although the motor and four-footstep 5 pulley required to produce them were just available at extra cost and,  at $18.l, increased the cost of the basic lathe by a massive 39%. If you lot could discover your own motor it was recommended that a 1/three hp, running at 1760 rpm, be considered the minimum that would provide a satisfactory performance. The lathe could be driven from either behind or, with suitable slots cut in the bench, from beneath. No speed- reducing countershaft (Sears called them 'jack shafts') was used, the motor, as on near wood lathes, collection the spindle directly. A comprehend could be removed from the left-hand end of the headstock spindle to reveal a left-hand thread on which a faceplate could be mounted for large-bore "outboard" bowl turning. Strangely, Sears missed the opportunity to offer a proper bench-mounted tool rest for this activity for non was ever listed in the accompaniment pages. The lathe was finished in grey enamel with chrome plated fittings and decorated with what was to become a trademark of Craftsman products, an false "engine-turned" decorative encompass over the headstock. The automobile was 10 i/4 " high, 8 v/viii " wide and 10 i/8 " long - and when introduced cost $47.50. Production of the lathe in an identical grade connected until effectually 1959, when it was replaced past a new round-bed 12-inch swing model.

	A square section was formed on the finish of the spindle - with faceplates and other fittings held on by grub screws - a horribly crude organization that lasted for just one year on the Model fourscore but for over thirteen on the Model "40" (later "Dunlap").

1947 Craftsman Model "40" viii-inch swing by 24 inches betwixt centres. Introduced alongside the Model "eighty" this lathe cost just $xxx.l, some 36% less. The same cast-iron construction was used for the major components - the weight of the basic machine was 54 lbs - and the motor could be made to drive the spindle from either behind or below. The electric motor and its 3-step pulley were, of course, extras - non surprisingly for, when supplied with the lathe, they raised the cost to  $49, an increase of over 61%. A cover could be removed from the left-hand end of the headstock and a large faceplate fitted for bowl-turning - although, as for the Model 80, no tool rest for this kind of piece of work was to be found in the accessory lists. The "Craftsman" proper noun was used until 1951 when it was changed to one last used on a wood lathe in the early on 1940s - Dunlap. The auto continued in production until the early 1960s - outlasting, by a few years, the original Model "eighty"

	Mid 1950s Craftsman Ball-bearing spindle wood-turning lathe with the optional bed-extension piece in identify.

	Having disappeared from the lists in 1954, by 1956 the demand for a really cheap wood-turning lathe must have persuaded Sears to reintroduce the 8-inch past 24 inch "Dunlap" model. With a 3-speed (1025, 1750 and 2985 rpm) spindle it was priced at $29.50 against the $51.l of the Craftsman ball-begetting spindle lathe; it nevertheless retained the unthreaded spindle nose and plain Oilite bearings of the original model.

Equally the  1950s ended, Craftsman introduced this ball-begetting headstock, 12-inch wood-turning lathe. Built on a nicely ground, heavy-walled 2 1/4 "-diameter steel tube with a bandage semi-steel headstock and tailstock, the lathe had a 6-inch heart height, admitted 37 inches between centres and was provided with a 12-inch long tool remainder, the working edge of which was handily marked out in inches. A riveted-on 1/ii" inch wide steel central ran almost the length of the round bed to locate the tool rest and tailstock. The spindle pulley was drilled with a ring of 36 holes indexing holes on its inner face up that could exist engaged in the usual way past a spring-loaded pin. Threaded 3/4" x 16 t.p.i., the spindle had a No. one Morse taper, ran on sealed ball races and could be driven from either behind or below. The recommended motor was a 1/3 hp, 1750 rpm that, with a 4-step pulley matching that on the headstock, produced speeds of 875, 1350, 2250 and 3450 rpm. This was probably the last American-built woods lathe to be offered with a "Craftsman" label and, unfortunately, in an effort to make the lathe as inexpensive as possible to produce (in 1959 it cost $56.95) blueprint features were introduced that both limited the machine'south specification and its ease of utilize: in that location was no provision for outboard bowl turning, the centrally-disposed and awkward-to-operate handwheel on the tailstock spindle made drilling difficult; the No. ane Morse centres and tiny headstock spindle reduced the lathe'southward chapters for hard work and the too-short locking handles on the tool rest and tailstock were fiddly to operate. The left-hand half of the "headstock" (that appears in the motion picture to be function of the casting) is really a removable, stamped canvass-metallic comprehend for the pulley and belt - the bodily headstock casting existence rather shallow and the outer surfaces of the ball begetting assemblies only virtually 2 one/4 " apart, that is, also close together for really adept spindle support confronting side loads. Withal, these various departures from an ideal machine blueprint are not equally serious in a forest lathe as they are in a car for metallic-turning and the round-bed Craftsman was an entirely adequate machine for its intended hobby use in a abode workshop.

Craftsman, Companion & Dunlap Woods-turning Lathes 1933 - 1943 Past 1935, and with the dropping of the Herberts "Wood Wizard" range, the unabridged range of Craftsman wood-turning lathes had been changed. The cheapest machine, illustrated below, was the 6-inch swing by 24 inches between centres model which, similar its forebears, had a v/8-inch spindle running in bronze bearings driven past a 3-step V pulley. Instead of a central pes, the cantankerous-braced bed was deepened in section over its central portion. The price, at $4.85, remained below the crucial $5 marking.

	Craftsman vi-inch x 24-inch wood-turning lathe of 1935 - this inexpensive model remained in the lists until 1938.

	1935 to 1936 Craftsman 9-inch lathe. Different the earlier 9-inch lathe, with its ball-bearing headstock, this model made do with cheap "Oilite" porous-bronze bushes. However, the spindle was bored hollow, took a number 1 Morse-taper middle and could exist fitted with a faceplate on its left-manus end for large-capacity basin turning.. Unfortunately, the ring of 60 indexing holes on the headstock caster was missing and the bed had lost its mid-fashion pes.  However (and rather surprisingly) the tailstock could be set over for taper turning and a limited range of accessories - a compound slide residue, 3 and four jaw chucks and a fixed steady - was available to catechumen it into a metal-turning lathe.

	The Craftsman ix-inch lathe fitted for metallic turning with a 16-speed countershaft unit, compound slide residuum and 4-jaw chuck.

	1935 - 1939 12 one/4 -inch swing  by 36-inches between centres Craftsman Universal Heavy Duty Lathe . The Universal was the best forest-turning lathe to be offered by Sears, Roebuck during the 1930s and designed by Atlas to exist non only a very strong motorcar (it weighed 140 lbs) merely also the footing upon which the 1936 Craftsman backgeared and screwcutting metal-turning lathe would be constructed.  (For more than details of contemporary Atlas lathes, particularly the basic 1042 models on which, in plough, the Craftsman wood-turning lathe was based, click hither). The Universal could likewise be converted, past the addition of diverse parts, to a proper backgeared and screwcutting metal lathe, the makers challenge that: Information technology grows with your shop! It actually gives you 2 lathes in one. Well, it might have washed, but on its introduction in 1935 the lathe cost $29.95 in basic form - yet equipped with all the accessories necessary to turn it into a proper metallic lathe with the correct speed range, this rose to $101.55 - an uncompetitive figure when compared to that season's (identically-specified) dedicated metal lathe at $fourscore In 1936 two versions of the Universal were being listed: a $32.l model, the 99-PM-2026 with high speed line reamed babbitt bearings with laminated shim adjustment and the $34.50 99-PM-2024 with heavy-duty, deep-groove precision ball bearings. The 2026 had a spindle 1.five-inches in diameter bored to laissez passer a iii/4-inch rod with a ane.v-inch, 8 t.p.i. nose and a No. 3 Morse taper sleeved downward to a No. 2. To fit the ball races into the same headstock casting the spindle of  2024 was reduced in diameter to 1-inch, bored to laissez passer one/2-inch clear and with a ane-inch by 8 t.p.i. nose.  Both models had a spindle threaded left-paw on the outboard end intended for big-diameter bowl turning - though strangely no accompaniment kit was offered to facilitate this. Although the outboard spindle was listed as having a No. 2 Morse taper - some lathes of this type accept been found with a plain 9/xvi" bore. All models were fitted with a balanced 4-stride cast-iron V-chugalug pulley with a ring of 60 indexing holes  The tailstock - modelled on metal-lathe practice - could exist prepare over for taper turning and was fitted with a No. 2 Morse taper barrel locked by a proper clamp which brought together upper and lower clamping pads. At some point during 1936 the ball-bearing model changed over to sealed brawl races - with an SKF cartridge type existence the selected version - yet, oddly, the headstock-mounted oil cups were still retained, though they had no connexion to the bearings. In 1937 the range was reduced to one model only: the $45 Blazon 99-PM-2025 with a 1.5-inch diameter headstock spindle running in Timken taper roller bearings, able to pass a 3/four-inch diameter rod and available with a No. 3 Morse taper olfactory organ sleeved down to a No. 2 - the outboard bowl-turning thread being abandoned. Whilst the earlier models had a speed range (driven directly from the electric motor) of 700 to 4300 r.p.m later ones spanned 5 75 to a more sensible 2875 r.p.m.  - the reduction in meridian speed probably coming as a result of over-enthusiastic owners melting their plain bearings by running them on top speed for too long. The Universal was bachelor until 1939, when it was replaced in the past a lighter and inferior 10-inch model illustrated here.

	1937 Craftsman 10 inch by 36 inch "De-lux Combination". This lathe, which was rather more substantially built and better specified than previous "mid-range" Craftsman models, was listed for only two years - 1937 and 1938 - and was unusual in having raised bedways which were semi-round in section. The ball bearing, No. 2 Morse taper 9/16-inch bore spindle ran inside a partially-enclosed headstock and was fitted with 1-inch x 8 t.p.i threads at both ends. A 4-step Five pulley - with a ring of lx indexing holes in its front end confront - provided the drive which, with the recommended 1750 rpm, i/2 hp motor gave spindle speeds of 700, 1300, 2300 and 4300 rpm. The heavily-built tailstock could non be set over, but was given a No. 2 Morse taper, footing-steel barrel and chromium-plated handwheel. In 1937 the price was $23.95 - when the cheapest "Companion" lathe was $4.95 and the well-nigh expensive 12-inch "Craftsman" $39.90.

	A new Companion 8-inch x 34-inch was introduced for 1939 - gone was the bed with the deepened eye department only otherwise the specification, including the skeletal tailstock, and the cost of $5.45, were little changed.

	1939 Craftsman 9-inch x  xxx". This model retained the bed of the earlier nine-inch lathe but was fitted with an improved headstock (with a hinge-up guard over the 4-step Five-caster) and a much heavier tailstock that could be set over for taper turning - useful when the lathe was fitted with metal-turning attachments. The spindle, which still ran on plain and cheap "Oilite" bearings, had 4 speeds from 700 to 4000 rpm - or, if the optional countershaft was used, 16 speeds from 350 to a ludicrous (from the bespeak of view of bearing wear) 8600 rpm.

During the 1930s the largest of the Craftsman 12-inch wood lathes had been based on an Atlas metal lathe (reduced to its basic elements) just with its taper roller begetting headstock and other refinements it must have been considered both over-engineered - and over-priced at $45 - for its role every bit an apprentice'due south wood-turning lathe. It's replacement, introduced in 1939, was almost certainly manufactured by "Ability King" (a company later absorbed by Atlas/Clausing) with the aforementioned" 534" prefix being used on both Craftsman and Ability King models.  This 10-inch x 36-inches model was a much simpler machine, though perfectly well made and, at $26.50, a very much more than pocket-sized price. The lathe featured apartment ways 11/2 inches wide with the edges of the primal slot machined to guide the tailstock. The headstock spindle, which was threaded at both ends, ran in the by-at present-familiar and sealed-for-life SKF brawl bearings - and featured a cast-in guard over the front of the headstock belt run. The model number associated with the auto above was 534-06260.

	New for 1939 was the tiny five-inch swing by 12 inches between centres "Junior" lathe. Only 23 i/2 inches long by 4 1/2 inches broad and 6 1/4 inches high information technology had a 5" tool balance and cost just $1.59 ...

	Past 1941 even the Junior lathe had been given "Streamline" cosmetic treatment - whilst the cost near doubled - to $2.95.

	The only real change for the 1940  flavour was the introduction of a semi-enclosed headstock for the eight-inch Companion lathe - and the start hints of ornamental styling in the "streamline" flashes on each side of the headstock and tailstock. In 1941 the identical lathe was renamed the "Dunlap" (why?) - which was Sears new label for the cheaper machines in their range.

	In 1941 both the eight-inch and 9-inch Companion lathes were renamed "Dunlap".

	1942/three Dunlap 8-inch wood-turning lathe - the terminal catalog moving-picture show until production restarted in 1946 and they became freely bachelor over again for the 1947 selling season (1948 Itemize).

	1942/iii Dunlap 9-inch wood-turning lathe

	In 1935 the first Craftsman forest-turning lathe with the choice of a metallic-turning kit was marketed. With many similarities to the company'due south metal turning lathe (fabricated past Atlas) this was a very different machine in comparison with the cheaper lathes in the range. The kit was very comprehensive and included a leadscrew, changewheels, tumble contrary associates, a proper carriage, compound slide residual and consummate backgear assembly - that, in conjunction with the eight-speed countershaft, gave the lathe 16 speeds  from a low of 28 to a high of 2540 rpm. The just snag was that, past the fourth dimension the complete kit was purchased and fitted, the price exceeded that of the contemporary metal-turning lathe by at least fifty%.

	1935 12-inch wood-turning lathe fitted with the complete metal-lathe conversion kit.

	Part of the Screwcutting Attachment - the changewheels, baby-sit and electrical switch.

Wood-turning lathe headstock equipped with backgear to provide low speeds for big-diameter metal turning and screwcutting.

	Fixed steady (with, surprisingly, screw-feed fingers) and the screwcutting dial-thread indicator.

The rest of the screwcutting conversion - twin-arm banjo to carry the changewheels, tumble-reverse mechanism and the left-hand leadscrew hanger bracket and leadscrew itself.

	The two tool slides which fitted the full wagon model. Summit: the compound slide with swivelling top slide. Below: the simple cantankerous slide with integral tool mail service.

	The full carriage assembly for the conversion to a metal lathe. A choice of ii slide rests was offered - a unproblematic cross slide and combined tool mail, or a compound slide rest - illustrated below.

Countershaft unit of measurement with adaptable motor platform.

	A mysterious associates of a 9" x 24" Craftsman woods lathe equally first sold in 1939. Possibly a model 101.06242, with the optional countershaft (labelled "Companion") the lathe is mounted to what looks to be a rather remarkable stand clearly formed specifically for the lathe. The legs and frame are in cast iron with a wooden tray and additional wood framing wrapped in steel "straps".  The table has a solid steel bar mounted vertically on the front end onto which two odd tools can exist affixed--only this fixture does not appear in any of the maker'due south catalogs. The steel tool that slides onto the bar contains a spring loaded piston and is labelled B 295. At that place is also a flat wooden table with the guide slots cut into it that rotates on the fastened bar mounting clamp.  The light-colored wood "box" on the top of the table looks like it is a bootleg device meant to slide onto the main bed rails. Can anyone tell me what this is all about?

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