"Why do you have a Brake spoon in this cabinet of Ruger memorabilia" I asked..........
The story is that the employees were buying brake adjusting tools at a local parts store and using them to pop open the molds they were casting cylinder frames in. When the boss found out ( I can't remember his name) he said, We can make those!
Of course I had to have it
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JAYDAWG
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The foundry in Prescott was not casting cylinder frames. That was done in Newport. In Prescott we had many different customers and each had to have a wax mold to make the part that a wax pattern which was used was made to produce the steel or titanium part. Our employees did not purchase the parts they used. Sturm Ruger furnished all equipment for employees to do their job. At times some molds would be hard
to open and the brake end would chip off. I do not know who came up with a brake adjusting tool to open the aluminum wax tool but it worked fine. That may have been passed down from Newport or even before. When we needed more brake tools I would go into Prescott and go to various part houses and purchase more. As we grew in the foundry, we required more brake tools. At this time we had an engineer who could make a wax injection tool. We had him produce a tool to make the brake tool. Since I was a Ruger collector I had the Ruger foundry put on the handle. We produced them in 4140 steel and Ti-6-4. These were never offered for sale. When Sturm Ruger closed the foundry in Prescott they walked away as there was no use for them.
Jim Hoobler wrote: ↑Mon Apr 20, 2026 1:53 pm
The foundry in Prescott was not casting cylinder frames. That was done in Newport. In Prescott we had many different customers and each had to have a wax mold to make the part that a wax pattern which was used was made to produce the steel or titanium part. Our employees did not purchase the parts they used. Sturm Ruger furnished all equipment for employees to do their job. At times some molds would be hard
to open and the brake end would chip off. I do not know who came up with a brake adjusting tool to open the aluminum wax tool but it worked fine. That may have been passed down from Newport or even before. When we needed more brake tools I would go into Prescott and go to various part houses and purchase more. As we grew in the foundry, we required more brake tools. At this time we had an engineer who could make a wax injection tool. We had him produce a tool to make the brake tool. Since I was a Ruger collector I had the Ruger foundry put on the handle. We produced them in 4140 steel and Ti-6-4. These were never offered for sale. When Sturm Ruger closed the foundry in Prescott they walked away as there was no use for them.
Thank you sir for the first hand account, always fun to learn about Ruger and their manufacturing, especially from someone who was there.
I obviously "mis" remembered what I was told and inserted "cylinder frames" rather than just "molds"
Thanks for the clarification
Jay
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