Block "buttons"

[Dan McCosh]

Anyone know where to get the little bronze buttons that hold in the shaft on Wilcox-Crittenden blocks? The ones with the trident stamped in them?

[Dan McCosh]

Anyone know where to get the little bronze buttons that hold in the shaft on Wilcox-Crittenden blocks? The ones with the trident stamped in them?

[Dan McCosh]

Anyone know where to get the little bronze buttons that hold in the shaft on Wilcox-Crittenden blocks? The ones with the trident stamped in them?

[Nicholas Carey]

The trident logo is Merriman; Wilcox-Crittenden is a crossed W-C:

http://www.wilcox-crittenden.com/home/logo_big.gif

Merriman's long gone. So...if you absolutely want the trident logo, find an old Merriman block and have dupes investment cast off the old buttons (what do you call those little bronze plates that keep that axle in the block? There must be a real name for them.)

I've hear tell of people using loonies (Canadain dollar coins) to make these buttons. They're made of an alloy of 91.5% nickel and 8.5% bronze. And at ~ US $0.65 or so, downright cheap. Not to mention attractive.

http://www.mint.ca/NR/rdonlyres/epdiwvxnrmbu5b6v5bo4qny2po2bttni7snv7qxmfe4jyte2h7 6r7fs6vdouawoa6lm6trwycfdiav5bixurj7y2yke/2001_100.jpg

The US Sacajawea dollar

http://www.coinfacts.com/silver_dollars/sacagawea_dollars/sac_small_obv.jpg

has a solid copper core clad with maganese brass (77% copper, 12% zinc, 7% manganese and 4% nickel). It would probably work as long as you avoided brasso. It's a little more expensive than the loonie :D and not quite as beautimous.

[Nicholas Carey]

The trident logo is Merriman; Wilcox-Crittenden is a crossed W-C:

http://www.wilcox-crittenden.com/home/logo_big.gif

Merriman's long gone. So...if you absolutely want the trident logo, find an old Merriman block and have dupes investment cast off the old buttons (what do you call those little bronze plates that keep that axle in the block? There must be a real name for them.)

I've hear tell of people using loonies (Canadain dollar coins) to make these buttons. They're made of an alloy of 91.5% nickel and 8.5% bronze. And at ~ US $0.65 or so, downright cheap. Not to mention attractive.

http://www.mint.ca/NR/rdonlyres/epdiwvxnrmbu5b6v5bo4qny2po2bttni7snv7qxmfe4jyte2h7 6r7fs6vdouawoa6lm6trwycfdiav5bixurj7y2yke/2001_100.jpg

The US Sacajawea dollar

http://www.coinfacts.com/silver_dollars/sacagawea_dollars/sac_small_obv.jpg

has a solid copper core clad with maganese brass (77% copper, 12% zinc, 7% manganese and 4% nickel). It would probably work as long as you avoided brasso. It's a little more expensive than the loonie :D and not quite as beautimous.

[Nicholas Carey]

The trident logo is Merriman; Wilcox-Crittenden is a crossed W-C:

http://www.wilcox-crittenden.com/home/logo_big.gif

Merriman's long gone. So...if you absolutely want the trident logo, find an old Merriman block and have dupes investment cast off the old buttons (what do you call those little bronze plates that keep that axle in the block? There must be a real name for them.)

I've hear tell of people using loonies (Canadain dollar coins) to make these buttons. They're made of an alloy of 91.5% nickel and 8.5% bronze. And at ~ US $0.65 or so, downright cheap. Not to mention attractive.

http://www.mint.ca/NR/rdonlyres/epdiwvxnrmbu5b6v5bo4qny2po2bttni7snv7qxmfe4jyte2h7 6r7fs6vdouawoa6lm6trwycfdiav5bixurj7y2yke/2001_100.jpg

The US Sacajawea dollar

http://www.coinfacts.com/silver_dollars/sacagawea_dollars/sac_small_obv.jpg

has a solid copper core clad with maganese brass (77% copper, 12% zinc, 7% manganese and 4% nickel). It would probably work as long as you avoided brasso. It's a little more expensive than the loonie :D and not quite as beautimous.

[Hughman]

Or a Portugese 20 escudo coin - it has a compass rose on the back

:cool:

[Hughman]

Or a Portugese 20 escudo coin - it has a compass rose on the back

:cool:

[Hughman]

Or a Portugese 20 escudo coin - it has a compass rose on the back

:cool:

[Jonathan Kabak]

Here's my 2 cents on what I have always called "keeper plates" (score one for the obvious)

You can make them out of circuit board, copper sheeting or you can go the coin route. Some vessels replace the keepers with coins from the ports and countries that they visit. Although while writing this post I was staring at a blank CD-R....I wonder...experiment to be conducted later.....

JK

[Jonathan Kabak]

Here's my 2 cents on what I have always called "keeper plates" (score one for the obvious)

You can make them out of circuit board, copper sheeting or you can go the coin route. Some vessels replace the keepers with coins from the ports and countries that they visit. Although while writing this post I was staring at a blank CD-R....I wonder...experiment to be conducted later.....

JK

[Jonathan Kabak]

Here's my 2 cents on what I have always called "keeper plates" (score one for the obvious)

You can make them out of circuit board, copper sheeting or you can go the coin route. Some vessels replace the keepers with coins from the ports and countries that they visit. Although while writing this post I was staring at a blank CD-R....I wonder...experiment to be conducted later.....

JK

[Dan McCosh]

I ended up making some out of sheet brass, using a 5/8 hole saw. They are about the same size as a U.S. nickel, but that just doesn't look right. I've still got lots of old Merriman blocks I'm putting together, and would like to get the old style. As for coinage, the Canadian dime with the Bluenose would be great, but it's too small.

[Dan McCosh]

I ended up making some out of sheet brass, using a 5/8 hole saw. They are about the same size as a U.S. nickel, but that just doesn't look right. I've still got lots of old Merriman blocks I'm putting together, and would like to get the old style. As for coinage, the Canadian dime with the Bluenose would be great, but it's too small.

[Dan McCosh]

I ended up making some out of sheet brass, using a 5/8 hole saw. They are about the same size as a U.S. nickel, but that just doesn't look right. I've still got lots of old Merriman blocks I'm putting together, and would like to get the old style. As for coinage, the Canadian dime with the Bluenose would be great, but it's too small.

[Nicholas Carey]

Originally posted by Dan McCosh:
I ended up making some out of sheet brass, using a 5/8 hole saw. They are about the same size as a U.S. nickel, but that just doesn't look right.Wouldn't the pilot drill on the hole saw leave a hole in the cutout?

Someone must make brass or copper slugs like these, as findings for jewellery making or enamelling if nothing else.

[Nicholas Carey]

Originally posted by Dan McCosh:
I ended up making some out of sheet brass, using a 5/8 hole saw. They are about the same size as a U.S. nickel, but that just doesn't look right.Wouldn't the pilot drill on the hole saw leave a hole in the cutout?

Someone must make brass or copper slugs like these, as findings for jewellery making or enamelling if nothing else.

[Nicholas Carey]

Originally posted by Dan McCosh:
I ended up making some out of sheet brass, using a 5/8 hole saw. They are about the same size as a U.S. nickel, but that just doesn't look right.Wouldn't the pilot drill on the hole saw leave a hole in the cutout?

Someone must make brass or copper slugs like these, as findings for jewellery making or enamelling if nothing else.

[John E Hardiman]

I've seen a ha'penny (?, the one with the Golden Hind on the reverse) used on older blocks, old ones were solid copper, newer ones were bronze.

[John E Hardiman]

I've seen a ha'penny (?, the one with the Golden Hind on the reverse) used on older blocks, old ones were solid copper, newer ones were bronze.

[John E Hardiman]

I've seen a ha'penny (?, the one with the Golden Hind on the reverse) used on older blocks, old ones were solid copper, newer ones were bronze.

[Dan McCosh]

I like the half-penny. The price is right.
Re: the question about the hole saw. I left out the pilot drill, and clamped the sheet on a drill press table to do the cutouts.

[Dan McCosh]

I like the half-penny. The price is right.
Re: the question about the hole saw. I left out the pilot drill, and clamped the sheet on a drill press table to do the cutouts.

[Dan McCosh]

I like the half-penny. The price is right.
Re: the question about the hole saw. I left out the pilot drill, and clamped the sheet on a drill press table to do the cutouts.