Which brass to use

Hi folks,

My son has "presented" me with a broken drawer plate from an ancient dressing table. To my personal knowledge said dressing table is 60+ years old as I used to use it in my bedroom when living with my parents. Unfortunately, I don't know if they bought it new, or secondhand, or were given it. Somehow, I don't think it was new because we are talking about the latter part of, or just after, WW2. All of which has nothing to do with my question!

Ok, all the son wants is a new swivel making to replace the "lost" one, and which will have a screwed shank going through the wood thus allowing the swivel to clamp the plate onto the wood. That seems reasonably easy to do. But looking at it, it seems to me that as the plate is broken, and is a reasonable simple design, then it might be worthwhile making a new plate as well. Which means some filing to create the cutouts. So, which brass would be best and easiest for filing? I have seen CZ106, CZ108 & CZ120.

Ideas, thoughts, suggestions please.

Incidently, the plate is 1.5mm thick which suggests possibly 16g or about 1/16" which in turn suggests that filing provided it is properly supported should be reasonably easy.

Regards,

Peter G. Shaw

The CZ120 is the easiest to file and machine as its harder, the others can get a bit sticky.

J

Thanks Jason. CZ120 it is then.

Peter

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