North Bros Yankee Brace

North brothers was acquired by stanley in 1946 and their line of tools was incorporated into stanleys offerings.

North bros yankee brace. North bros yankee 3150 auger brace drill bit extension extra brace and extensio. This is a yankee brace made by stanley just after ww2. When stanley acquired the company in 1946 they continued to make the brace with only minor changes. North bros yankee 3150 auger brace drill bit extension extra brace and extensio.

If your yankee brace is giving you fits. 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. It is well known by most woodworkers that this is one heck of a fine brace. This brace is one of those made by stanley.

However when i saw the north bros yankee 2100 i realised this was a brace i could learn to love. Yankee braces 12 2100 10 2101 8 2100 north bros 2100 12 yankee. This brace was used by bell telephone and many of them are marked bell systems. Originally made and sold by the north bros these braces feature the mechanical elegance and simplicity for which the firm was justly renowned.

The condition of this brace is superb with full nickel. The chucks on these bad boys have ball bearings all round so they spin like a dream. Even after replacing the original ratchet pawls and the original spindle with parts from a suitable donor brace it was still nogoback. 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.

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. 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. North bros must have done a very fine piece marketing for the yankee brace at its inception.

They were family owned and operated for over 60 years before being acquired by the stanley works in 1946. 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. But the 2101 is made more inexpensively with different internal packing and a lower quality finish. The two models 2100 and 2101 are quite similar in outward appearance.

Millers falls holdall brace with leland universal jaws. 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. An old but very nice yankee brace of the north bros variety arrived at my doorstep with a serious problem. Yankee brace 2101a 8 inch 13981.