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JRH,
The switch box was only there for about the first year. Same with the two-piece change gear cover and the round knob instead of crank on the compound. If yours has two of the changes but not the third, it must have been made late in 1936.
The serial number stamped into the front way is in the area that neither the tailstock nor the carriage run on. And near but not right at the right end. There were two locations for the nameplates. Right end (which seems to be later) and on the rear of the bed about 1/4 of the way from the right end. With babbit bearings, if yours has back gears it is either a 101.07380 or an early production 101.07381. Which style of legs does it have (almost square, and symmetrical left to right, or sorta trapezoidal and not symmetrical)? That was the fourth change between "1936" and "1937".
The blue paint could be original. It's hard to say as the only vintage color photographs we have of the early models are in the Craftsman catalogs. And who knows how accurate the colors in those are.
Robert D.
The switch box was only there for about the first year. Same with the two-piece change gear cover and the round knob instead of crank on the compound. If yours has two of the changes but not the third, it must have been made late in 1936.
The serial number stamped into the front way is in the area that neither the tailstock nor the carriage run on. And near but not right at the right end. There were two locations for the nameplates. Right end (which seems to be later) and on the rear of the bed about 1/4 of the way from the right end. With babbit bearings, if yours has back gears it is either a 101.07380 or an early production 101.07381. Which style of legs does it have (almost square, and symmetrical left to right, or sorta trapezoidal and not symmetrical)? That was the fourth change between "1936" and "1937".
The blue paint could be original. It's hard to say as the only vintage color photographs we have of the early models are in the Craftsman catalogs. And who knows how accurate the colors in those are.
Robert D.
