Nice find, congrats!
I'm the one who bought the other door, first one I've ever seen come up for sale anywhere, and the bidding was fast and furious and I'm glad to get the door, I had an $1800 bid in on it so essentially I made sure no one else was going to out bid me on that
3378 was only 6 blocks away from the pedestal I owned in 1980 with the same door- #3393.
3378 will go on my pedestal I bought last summer (#4788) that I had installed a "peek-a-boo" door on to replace the electronic plate it had, I wasn't happy with how the guard on that style is so jammed up close to the spade handle that you can't get your fingers over the top of the handle but have to grab it from underside. The 2 coil springs they used on this guard were really poor, they have a couple of holes the ends fit into to hold them in place but they don't want to stay there and they didn't work well at all, so I left the springs out.
I get the impression the guard is a jury rigged add-on since they are held on with 4 machine screws from the back and if the guard is removed the door is a typical spade handle door. I don't know if they made the doors this way specifically with the peek-a-boo guard, or if they were all add-ons to existing doors, or a combo of both.
The later, larger guarded style with the lock on the left requires drilling and tapping 2 machine screws in the cast iron shell for the lock catch, which I didn't want to do.
Then this double action door appeared and it has the same 3 holes per hinge bolt pattern my pedestal has.
Now I'll probably machine another new code wheel for the this, but now for the 3378 door plate since I doubt the two door plates' 4 mounting pin holes match up so perfectly they would just swop out, and I don't want to start drilling new holes in an antique casting.
Making the code wheel to match the door plate and fit the Stewart Steel movement will be better.
I'm the one who bought the other door, first one I've ever seen come up for sale anywhere, and the bidding was fast and furious and I'm glad to get the door, I had an $1800 bid in on it so essentially I made sure no one else was going to out bid me on that
3378 was only 6 blocks away from the pedestal I owned in 1980 with the same door- #3393.
3378 will go on my pedestal I bought last summer (#4788) that I had installed a "peek-a-boo" door on to replace the electronic plate it had, I wasn't happy with how the guard on that style is so jammed up close to the spade handle that you can't get your fingers over the top of the handle but have to grab it from underside. The 2 coil springs they used on this guard were really poor, they have a couple of holes the ends fit into to hold them in place but they don't want to stay there and they didn't work well at all, so I left the springs out.
I get the impression the guard is a jury rigged add-on since they are held on with 4 machine screws from the back and if the guard is removed the door is a typical spade handle door. I don't know if they made the doors this way specifically with the peek-a-boo guard, or if they were all add-ons to existing doors, or a combo of both.
The later, larger guarded style with the lock on the left requires drilling and tapping 2 machine screws in the cast iron shell for the lock catch, which I didn't want to do.
Then this double action door appeared and it has the same 3 holes per hinge bolt pattern my pedestal has.
Now I'll probably machine another new code wheel for the this, but now for the 3378 door plate since I doubt the two door plates' 4 mounting pin holes match up so perfectly they would just swop out, and I don't want to start drilling new holes in an antique casting.
Making the code wheel to match the door plate and fit the Stewart Steel movement will be better.
