This set went for $293.
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This is a complete 18-R Deluxe Staking Tool Set with Accessories
Extended Staking Tools
Frame Complete with Die Plate, Micrometer Stop and Lever and handle 43-118-01
100 Customer Selected Punches and 20 Stumps
Balance Staff Removers 43-355, 43-360
Two adjustable Roller Remover Stumps 43-305, 305B
2 Canon Pinion Closing Punches and Stumps
2 Incabloc punches and 2 stumps No. 20A, 21A and 62, 67
10 Sub-punches and holder 43-316
Jeweling Tools
7 Jewel Pushers and holder 43-321
18 Jeweling Reamers & holder 43-322B
6 Friction Jeweling Stumps 43-324
Cone Miller 43 401- 130
Container
Hardwood Box 43-118-03
The user manual K&D Staking Tools and How to Use Them for the Inverto 18R Deluxe and 18R (23 pages).
This set is complete as configured by K&D for the original buyer. It includes all the items listed in the description above which matches the description of the 43-119 18-R Deluxe Staking Tool Set in the K&D catalog. K&D made over 150 different punches and over 75 unique stumps, not including those made before 1948. You will not find every punch, for example, listed in the K&D manual in this set as they never sold one with over 100 stakes and 20 stumps at once. K&D made sets with 30, 60, 80 and 100 punches accompanied by either 10 or 20 stumps. Specifically, the pallet arbor punches and center wheel pinion punches are not shipped with the standard 18R. Also, some punches such as numbers 57 and 87 were discontinued by K&D sometime during the 1940 war years.
The punches are made of hardened, tempered steel with satin finish – easy to maintain. The stumps are made of both hardened and soft steel to accommodate the tools you will need. Each tool is in its original slot as configured by Kendrick and Davis. I reconditioned this set by solution-rinsing, hand buffing and lightly oiling each punch while rinsing and buffing the stumps; complete over-haul of the frame including cleaning, oiling and buffing each component. The hardwood box is refinished.
The manual mentioned above explains the steps in Friction Jeweling. You’ll find the 32 components under “Jeweling Tools”, which are equal to or better than those produced by other manufacturers even today. If you choose to use the jeweling capabilities of the 18R Deluxe then you will appreciate the Micrometer setting component and the stop lever.
About K&D Inverto frames.
The Inverto principle allows a stake to slide into the the arm of the tool upside down into the die plate so that only the tip of the stake protrudes above the die plate. Each stake can be used as a stump. With 100 stakes, the Inverto offers 10,000 stake-stump combinations. Photo number 4 illustrates the use of the Inverto capability. Watchmakers use this capability when restaffing or repairing balances.
Shipping weight is 12.5 pounds. Punches are packaged out of their holders, so they won’t spill during delivery. They’re separated by row number and side.