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2 minutes ago, RichardHarris123 said:

Nit size?  Like the thing's people get in their hair?  Hehe. 

Yeah, that threw me.  The size of the hole is the same as the stake: 4.7mm.  All of my "standard" stumps are 4mm, so this little thing is a **BLEEP**.  One would think that my Dad (the source of this thing) would have had some stumps to fit it, but I have not seen anything that fits the bill, but I may have overlooked them.

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1 minute ago, RichardHarris123 said:

Could you make stumps ?

Yes, but it would be a lot of work.  I think they have to be hardened--still trying to get my head around metallurgy.

But...at the end of the day, I don't need another staking tool.  I think I have five now.  What I do want to know is how my Dad used the tool.

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On 5/21/2021 at 8:54 PM, LittleWatchShop said:

I am gonna search around the watch bench and see if I can find these additional parts.

I was thinking that looks like the one that I have. Not sure where mine is right now and no there were no little bits and pieces with it. But my guess is that a long time ago before we ever had ours the bits and pieces migrated to a standard staking  Set.

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As an aside...Ebay is a great place to do research when you are trying to suss out the purpose of a tool are dig up information on a watch.  Odd to use it that way, but it works.

I actually have two of them!!  One from my Dad and the other was in a watch bench I bought (I think that is where it came from...stuff just shows up around here!)

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13 minutes ago, JohnR725 said:

I was thinking that looks like the one that I have. Not sure where mine is right now and no there were no little bits and pieces with it. But my guess is that a long time ago before we ever had ours the bits and pieces migrated to a standard staking  Set.

Maybe. 

13 minutes ago, LittleWatchShop said:

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As an aside...Ebay is a great place to do research when you are trying to suss out the purpose of a tool are dig up information on a watch.  Odd to use it that way, but it works.

I actually have two of them!!  One from my Dad and the other was in a watch bench I bought (I think that is where it came from...stuff just shows up around here!)

It's disappeared from my house, other side of the worm hole. 

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