Thread: My First Good Antique Shop Find

Sweet went out and bought some, will pick up a vice tomorrow. I don't think i'm going to be able to glue the little chip back in, seems to have stopped fitting, but i should mange the bit up round the pivot alright. Might not be pretty, but determined to rescue these.

well, have been kindly informed , by a very experienced restorer that these scales are junkers.. however i've also been offered an old set of scales that may match the shagged ones by the same gent

Either way it's a nice find for the price. I love the magic of finding stuff at antique stores. Best of luck getting it cleaned up.

Oh yeah definitely, can't complain for 5 quid (about 8 dollars). And definitely on antique store magic as well, been popping in around the edinburgh stores for months and this is the first I've found. It's even better when you've learned to clean them up and hone (a little) and know you can (mostly) get it going yourself. This was a great little self birthday present. Really chuffed with it.

CA = CyanoAcrylate (ester). A cyanide-based ester as opposed to a carboxylic acid-based ester. Used in "Superglue," (methylmethacrylate ester) and "Dermabond" (skin/cell glue, octylmethacrylate, IIRC). Infamous in history for the deaths and injury of thousands in an industrial disaster in Bhopal, India back in the 1980s (?). Some cyanide gas was released from a plant where they made the adhesives based on CA and the rest is history.

Look for Paraloid B-72 (formerly known as Amyloid), if you can find it, I'm reading that this is the stuff for use on Ivory. Dissolved in acetone you use it just like "superglue".