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Used Craftsman machines

Sears registered the Craftsman name in 1927 and sold it for ninety years, but it never built a machine. Other companies made them, and the first three digits of the model number name the maker. 113 is Emerson Electric, 103 is Central Specialty of Ypsilanti, Michigan (part of King-Seeley from the mid-1940s), 102 is Walker-Turner and 101 is Atlas. The digits after the decimal are a Sears catalog number, not a serial or a date. Central Specialty supplied Sears from the early 1930s until Sears let its contracts lapse in 1963, and Emerson, which had sold motors through Sears since about 1940, built the shop machines from the 1960s until it lost the contract around 1998. Stanley Black and Decker bought the brand in 2017. Craftsman machines were made in huge numbers. The one big recall on 113 machines covers radial arm saws, not table saws.

5 models we cover.