North Bros Yankee Brace

Previous price 4999.

North bros yankee brace. North bros yankee 3150 auger brace drill bit extension extra brace and extensio. Originally made and sold by the north bros these braces feature the mechanical elegance and simplicity for which the firm was justly renowned. The design is beautiful and if you strip it down you can see that the component parts have really been thought through to give smooth as silk performance. Yankee braces 12 2100 10 2101 8 2100 north bros 2100 12 yankee.

The condition of this brace is superb with full nickel. Stanley north bros. If your yankee brace is giving you fits. Even after replacing the original ratchet pawls and the original spindle with parts from a suitable donor brace it was still nogoback.

They were family owned and operated for over 60 years before being acquired by the stanley works in 1946. This brace was used by bell telephone and many of them are marked bell systems. But the 2101 is made more inexpensively with different internal packing and a lower quality finish. North bros yankee 3150 auger brace drill bit extension extra brace and extensio.

The north brothers manufacturing company north bros. It is well known by most woodworkers that this is one heck of a fine brace. Millers falls holdall brace with leland universal jaws. When stanley acquired the company in 1946 they continued to make the brace with only minor changes.

Free shipping on many items browse your favorite brands. Of philadelphia pennsylvania made a line of high quality braces starting within the year preceding march 6. However when i saw the north bros yankee 2100 i realised this was a brace i could learn to love. Or more simply north bros was an american manufacturer based in philadelphia pennsylvania that specialized in the making of hand tools small appliances and some specialized power tools.

North bros must have done a very fine piece marketing for the yankee brace at its inception. In spite of being utterly free of any green goo and in spite of being throughly oiled it would not ratchet in the undo direction. Yankee braces a type study of sorts by george langford february 17 2007 additions april 21 2008 only a few of these are left unsold see the list here. The chucks on these bad boys have ball bearings all round so they spin like a dream.

Stanley yankee brace 2101a 8 inch here is an excellent brace for the woodworker who wants one of the finest braces ever made in fine condition. The two models 2100 and 2101 are quite similar in outward appearance. This is a yankee brace made by stanley just after ww2. This brace is one of those made by stanley.