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Fiftyfour

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What are these tools?
« on: December 19, 2017, 01:35:27 AM »
Do the have a use in stock making? What are they called.
They were forged from files.


Offline okieboy

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Re: What are these tools?
« Reply #1 on: December 19, 2017, 01:50:38 AM »
 Those appear to be bearing scrapers.
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Re: What are these tools?
« Reply #2 on: December 19, 2017, 01:54:20 AM »
They look like metal scrapers to me.   I have a couple I got from my grandfather.  They were intended to use with cast bearings (babbet, etc...).   I have used them with cast pewter mounts like a nose piece.   You really can't file soft metals like pewter or lead.    They have to be scraped.     I have also tried them with not a lot of success on brass butt pieces and trigger guards.    Actually,  my scraper made from a utility knife blade works better on brass.   

Offline BOB HILL

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Re: What are these tools?
« Reply #3 on: December 19, 2017, 02:07:06 AM »
Yes, scrapers for babbit bearings.
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Re: What are these tools?
« Reply #4 on: December 19, 2017, 02:42:28 AM »
 The middle one is a burnisher.
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Re: What are these tools?
« Reply #5 on: December 19, 2017, 03:17:47 PM »
The scraper shown at the bottom is nearly the same as the one I made during my tool and diemaker apprenticeship. We scraped  the stamping presses' flywheels brass bushings after they were pressed into the hub.  The scraper was made from a large triangular file. .....Fred

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Re: What are these tools?
« Reply #6 on: December 19, 2017, 04:04:36 PM »
 The bottom one looks like a spoon bit used to fit spindles in chair making.

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Re: What are these tools?
« Reply #7 on: December 19, 2017, 07:53:17 PM »
The one at the bottom sure looks like one of these:

Millers Falls bearing scraper.

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Re: What are these tools?
« Reply #8 on: December 19, 2017, 10:43:17 PM »
Colonial dental tools? You could get a stubborn molar out in jiffy with those.  :o
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Re: What are these tools?
« Reply #9 on: December 20, 2017, 06:09:18 PM »
Yes, Bearing scrapers. we have a few that belonged to grandfather.
We also used the larger ones for scraping carbon from cylinder heads.