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TimGud
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 Posted: Tue Feb 17, 2015 1:31 am Post subject: Anyone know what this tool is? |
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Picked up some tools and have no idea what this is.
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anthracitedub
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| Looks like a pick. |
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enjoyther1de
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Looks like it might work to adjust brakes?
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2weel
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| Posted: Tue Feb 17, 2015 8:48 am Post subject: Tool |
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I am just guessing. My 2 cents it is an old leading tool. Used for working solidifying lead into position.
Old Farts 2 centavo's |
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cdennisg
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| Posted: Tue Feb 17, 2015 11:03 am Post subject: |
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| enjoyther1de wrote: |
| Looks like it might work to adjust brakes? |
Agreed. Looks like a brake spoon to me. Hard to tell with no size reference. How long is it?
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TimGud
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| Posted: Tue Feb 17, 2015 12:37 pm Post subject: |
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| enjoyther1de wrote: |
| Looks like it might work to adjust brakes? |
Agreed. Looks like a brake spoon to me. Hard to tell with no size reference. How long is it? |
Approx eight inches long. The spoon portion is very thin. I would think it's so thin that it would bend on a star adjuster. |
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cdennisg
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| Posted: Tue Feb 17, 2015 1:01 pm Post subject: |
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| TimGud wrote: |
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| enjoyther1de wrote: |
| Looks like it might work to adjust brakes? |
Agreed. Looks like a brake spoon to me. Hard to tell with no size reference. How long is it? |
Approx eight inches long. The spoon portion is very thin. I would think it's so thin that it would bend on a star adjuster. |
HMMM... you're right. It looked bigger than that to me, but when you say it is @ 8", that makes the spoon pretty thin by comparison. That square butt on the other end looks like it may have accepted a wooden handle and ferrule at one point. maybe a lead spoon is a good guess by 2weel
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oorwullie
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| it looks to me exactly like an imitation african warriors spear tip, they used to be regularly on sale at markets or african "speciality" stores by ethnic minority characters touted as "genuine zulu" or whatever. |
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TimGud
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| Posted: Wed Feb 18, 2015 9:37 am Post subject: |
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Tool for sculpting clay?
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That was my guess, but couldn't find any on google images. Most of the tools from this shop were from the 1930's to 1950's though so it just may be its age that his hindering my search. |
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TimGud
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| oorwullie wrote: |
| it looks to me exactly like an imitation african warriors spear tip, they used to be regularly on sale at markets or african "speciality" stores by ethnic minority characters touted as "genuine zulu" or whatever. |
Hmm, new search words. Thanks.
EDIT: When I do a search on google some of them look similar but the spoon is not curved. Funny thing is now my image of this tool is on Google images. I got a chuckle out of that!
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TimGud
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| cdennisg wrote: |
| TimGud wrote: |
| cdennisg wrote: |
| enjoyther1de wrote: |
| Looks like it might work to adjust brakes? |
Agreed. Looks like a brake spoon to me. Hard to tell with no size reference. How long is it? |
Approx eight inches long. The spoon portion is very thin. I would think it's so thin that it would bend on a star adjuster. |
HMMM... you're right. It looked bigger than that to me, but when you say it is @ 8", that makes the spoon pretty thin by comparison. That square butt on the other end looks like it may have accepted a wooden handle and ferrule at one point. maybe a lead spoon is a good guess by 2weel |
My father said it was a brake spoon too. You know I've seen one of these many moons ago in someones stash of tools. Alzheimers on my part? lol |
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you guys are all way off! It's a bearing scraper. Used back in the days before hones and other fancy machining equipment 
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Funny, I was just contemplating babbit scraper.
Could also be some sort of leather working or upholstery tool, looks like it'd be handy for many things in the hands of a skilled craftsman.
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TimGud
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| Posted: Wed Feb 18, 2015 7:35 pm Post subject: |
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| gonebuggy wrote: |
you guys are all way off! It's a bearing scraper. Used back in the days before hones and other fancy machining equipment
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I Think you nailed it!
The square end is for a long gone wooden handle.
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Picked up some tools and have no idea what this is.
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That makes sense. The edges of the spoon portion are sharp. |
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nsracing
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Those scraping tools are used to this very day to rebuild older lathes. They are used plenty in scraping babbit-type bearings in lathe headstocks. They are hollow in the middle so you just have to lay both edges on the honing flat and scrape to sharpen them.
I have lots of those. Some are tool steels.
I have scraping tools too for the lathe bedways or mill tables. There are times you need to re-scrape a worn mill doveways or lathe. |
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