On Nov 8, 2011, at 4:53 PM, John wrote:
> I acquired a Marsh 100 miter machine from a neighbor. I'm tickled.
> I've always wanted one of these. Judging from the PDF at Stan
> Faullin's site the only pieces missing are the ruler and whatever you
> call the heart shaped thing that slides along the ruler. So I
> understand what these parts look like but what were the originals made
> of? Does anybody have some pictures of them somewhere? I checked the
> Archives and Stanley no longer seems to stock parts for its older line
> of tooling anymore. If (and it's a big IF) I ever get around to
> cobbling up some sort of replacement I'd like to attempt to make it
> seem like it belongs to this tool.

        I can't seem to find this item on Stan's ToolTrip site (could
        you provide a link to that page?), but I can visually inspect
        the items in question on the shelf in my shop. The ruler seems
        to be of maple. The width is determined by the slot in which it
        is meant to fit, but it is extra thick for a yardstick-type ruler--
        a solid 1/4" tick, or maybe a hair more. the markings start at
        just shy of 7 1/2", which is the distance from the far point of
        the mitered corner to the point at which the ruler is attached
        to the frame of the tool. The movable stop on the ruler, which
        has 45 deg. sloping angled surfaces against which to register an
        already-cut end of the piece of the frame you're working on, is
        made of casting. I'm assuming it is iron, but the one I got from
        Laurie at Stanley about 1998 (apparently from the last small
        stack on their shelf) is painted black, and I don't want to
        scratch it to see what that might tell me about the material. It
        came with what looks like a common hex-head 3/16" plated bolt
        for a set screw. Surely the Marsh original had a more elegant
        wingnut of some sort. Tom Holloway

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