Re: Jacques Board Shear Query

["Eric C. Alstrom" <Eric.C.Alstrom@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

--- On Mon, 30 Oct 2000  "John J. Cooney" <cooneyform@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>        Does anyone have a vintage 'owner's manual' for an iron-topped
>Jacques board shear?  The manual I have is a recent one obtained from the L.
>Hardy Company of Worcester, MA which presently manufactures the Jacques.
>This is useful, but I'd still like to see what sort of manual may have
>accompanied my tool when it left the factory some 100 years ago.
>
>         I called L. Hardy to ask about obtaining a vintage manual and
>learned that their archive goes back but a few years.  Does anyone have a
>vintage Jacques 'owner's manual' from c. 1900?


I too would be interested in seeing such a manual if one does exist, so please
share your findings with us.

We have a Jacques shears which I always tell people is about 75 years old, but I
really have no idea.  Is there a way to tell model and year or are there vintage
product catalogs out there?

This could open up a whole new academic realm of board shear studies.

Eric

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