1939 Federal Standard Stock Catalog Specifications

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Re: 1939 Federal Standard Stock Catalog Specifications

Post by mudbox » Fri Apr 10, 2015 4:26 pm

Perhaps separate threads for each item with a link to each here in this thread. Like what you've done with the GMTK specs.
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Re: 1939 Federal Standard Stock Catalog Specifications

Post by Wingnutt » Fri Jul 17, 2015 10:02 am

BTT - and links added for individual specs on the list above
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Re: 1939 Federal Standard Stock Catalog Specifications

Post by Wingnutt » Thu Nov 16, 2017 11:59 am

I’ve made some incremental progress on the Fed Specs front.

First of all, I’ve located what looks like it might be a good source for the Federal Standard Stock Catalog, Section IV, Part 5, Federal Specifications. In searching Google Books on “Federal Standard Stock Catalog,” Section IV, Part 5 Fed Specs (which is what I have a copy of for 1939), all kinds of things (e.g., hand centrifuges, ink, bicycles, wool bunting, waste receptacles, scouring powder, babbitting helmets, brass castings, etc) from 1930 to 1953 turn up. No PDFs are available for download. But the location for every single one of them is the same:

U.S. Government Publications Stacks
T58.10/3, or T51.7/8
Suzzallo and Allen Libraries
University of Washington
Seattle, Washington


Searches on “Federal Standard Stock Catalog” and “Wrench” or “Screwdriver” etc turn up nothing, but it’s a possibility they have them. Do we know anyone in Seattle that can visit the UW libraries for a closer look and perhaps prodding one of the assistants to go down to the stacks and look?
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Re: 1939 Federal Standard Stock Catalog Specifications

Post by Wingnutt » Thu Nov 16, 2017 12:00 pm

Secondly, I have ascertained with definitive proof that the Federal Standard Stock Catalog (and its assigned Federal Stock Numbers, i.e., 41-W-xxx...) was an interwar thing. In fact, it was authorized by Congress in March 1929! These snippets are from a book called the 1932 “Standards Yearbook”, published by the US Dept of Commerce, Bureau of Standards.

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The Federal Standard Stock Catalog was initially the responsibility of the Dept of Commerce, Bureau of Budget.

In 1938 or thereabouts it was turned over to the Dept of Treasury, Procurement Division.

By 1953 it was being administered by the Government Services Administration, Federal Supply Service. That is the FSN/NSN system that still exists today.
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Re: 1939 Federal Standard Stock Catalog Specifications

Post by Wingnutt » Thu Nov 16, 2017 12:07 pm

Lastly, this 1945 US Dept of Commerce book...

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...is a compendium or directory, of sorts, for a wide range of federal specifications. It has a whole section devoted to hand tools, some of which I have excerpted below. In short, it doesn’t tell us anything about the tools, but it does confirm that many Fed Specs were updated (from my 1939 version), especially after the early spate of WPB E, M, and L orders, etc, and it tells me/us what dates to look for.

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Re: 1939 Federal Standard Stock Catalog Specifications

Post by henry501 » Thu Nov 16, 2017 1:04 pm

Greg,

I have a friend that lives in Seattle and would likely do the search, etc. PM me with your thoughts and specific desires and we'll go from there.

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Re: 1939 Federal Standard Stock Catalog Specifications

Post by Wingnutt » Thu Nov 16, 2017 1:46 pm

The name of the libraries and the codes, presumably for their location in the US gov pub stacks, as provided by Google Books' "Find it in a library..." feature, are posted above, Henry.

The spec numbers to look for are on page 1 of this thread. This post:
viewtopic.php?p=1485703#p1485703

Goal is to find out if they have them, and if so, if they'll scan.
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Re: 1939 Federal Standard Stock Catalog Specifications

Post by henry501 » Thu Nov 16, 2017 3:26 pm

Greg,

Sounds good we'll start with that.

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Re: 1939 Federal Standard Stock Catalog Specifications

Post by lt.luke » Thu Nov 16, 2017 5:44 pm

Wow Greg! Great progress.


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