I was advised that only a couple of companies in America made screws for all reels in the early years. What companies were they? (I don't know the answer, so this is a legit question).
And what did become of Craig Barber? Don't email him-he won't answer!
Bad Bob in Nashville, center of the civilized world
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jump yay-banana usa On the fastner or Screw mfg, one of them Was shakespere, they at one time had the most automated srew machines in the UNITED STATES! , I wont call this the next of them however western Automatic in elyria Ohio made scres from # 60 thru the 1&12 in diamitor, My Mothern in law now living with ys worked there for years from 193 thru 1942 , she is now 93 years old! As for the Three states of TENN? we from east TENN ie claiborne county Claim title as civilized world< Nashville? well I got a kid living there and I wont visit her, she must come east to see us! ha ha , heck Lee didnt want the western or central part of TENN. Nce place to go thru at a very fast pace! you all come see us in Eastern TENN! a transplaneted soul now living on Lake ERIE in a COLD OHIO! Col. Milton Lorens aka SWIM JIG LONG LIVE EAST TENN!
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Just had a message zonked by clumsiness, so hope this doesn't repeat. Thanks for replies Milt and Steve. The discussion that led to this question was between myself and a member who is a master fine parts maker. We were talking about Enterprise and the time frame was late 19th, early 20th century. Inference was other companies used subcontractors for screws. Why not? Surely other materials were subcontracted-hard rubber discs for plates, bronze for gears, brass, "plastic" ivoroid" for knobs, special alloys like Nickalum (I know about that one) and other materials. To do all of this in- house required a great amount of capital outlay, much expertise, and likely would have created (at least in some cases) an untenable economy of scale considering volume of certan high end reel styles. After all, the name of the game has always been profit. Inquiring reel historians want to know!
PS to Milt-Before I-75 was built Claiborne County TN was so remote (How remote was it?) you had to go somewhere else first to get to it. Bad Bob
PS to Milt-Before I-75 was built Claiborne County TN was so remote (How remote was it?) you had to go somewhere else first to get to it. Bad Bob
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. Claiborne county is the center of the civilized world? Come on Bob! Admit it. You live so far back in the sticks the sun just shines three hours a day and you don't get the Saturday night 'Grand Ol' Opery" till Wednesday morning.
Screw question: How common is for a screw from one reel to have the same thread as another companies reel from the same time frame? ( I am asking, I don't know) I would think that reel makers like the early New York makers would have made their own to fit what ever needs they might have. Since a limited number of reels were produced each month, it just doesn't seem that they would go to an outside supplier. I would think that once the process was set up, you could whip out enough screws to last you a while. I could understand why, say in the teens and twenties, people like Shakespeare, Pflueger and others would go to an outside supplier for them. but then again, in Shakespeare's case., fishing reels were a small part of their overall production gamut so they would need all types of screws to hold things together. When you hear stories about Henry S's first job was de-burring gears when they came off the lathe, that would lead me to believe they made their own screws too.
And at 11:00 in the morning, Steve is still staring at the coffee pot.
Screw question: How common is for a screw from one reel to have the same thread as another companies reel from the same time frame? ( I am asking, I don't know) I would think that reel makers like the early New York makers would have made their own to fit what ever needs they might have. Since a limited number of reels were produced each month, it just doesn't seem that they would go to an outside supplier. I would think that once the process was set up, you could whip out enough screws to last you a while. I could understand why, say in the teens and twenties, people like Shakespeare, Pflueger and others would go to an outside supplier for them. but then again, in Shakespeare's case., fishing reels were a small part of their overall production gamut so they would need all types of screws to hold things together. When you hear stories about Henry S's first job was de-burring gears when they came off the lathe, that would lead me to believe they made their own screws too.
And at 11:00 in the morning, Steve is still staring at the coffee pot.