I’ve had this for some time, don’t know what it is. Triangle in cross section, tapering to point, maybe a reamer of some kind? Too steep for a countersink. Seems pretty hard and the point appears to have been honed.
Any ideas?
PJ
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Its a bit hard to tell, is is home made?
Perhaps some sort of shaping iron for metal working/ blacksmithing?
It looks factory made the way it is. I wondered if it might be modified, but I don't think so.
I just noticed it has MARCY stamped on the shaft near the ferrule.PJ
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Machinist's de-burring tool."Logic, like whiskey, loses it's beneficial effect when taken in too large quantities." Lord Dunsany
Looks like it would make a good letter opener.
Dan"Life is what happens when you are making other plans." - John Lennon
I'm pretty sure mike rooney's got it right. I did enough of that myself.
I'll second that. Done plenty myself.
I agree.Deburring tool. It may be a home made version.
Clay shapimg tool? Artists use many tools for tooling hard and semi hard clay and pottery items, some even look a little familar to me now and then.
Looks like it would be handy for filling scratches with shellac sticks. Can I have it?
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Cabinet scraper burnisher.You get out of life what you put into it......minus taxes.
Marv
I used one of these in a machine shop! Rooney, is right. De-burring tool.
If, at first, you fricascee, fry, fry a hen!
We used to make 'em out of worn-out triangular files.
That was in 1966 - funny I can remember that and I can't remember what I did last week."Logic, like whiskey, loses it's beneficial effect when taken in too large quantities." Lord Dunsany
The tool is a bearing scraper. Back in the days before premanufactured bearing. You poured lead into the babbitt and than sized it with your scraper. Today it mostley os used as a deburring tool.Tim
"The tool is a bearing scraper. Back in the days before premanufactured bearing. You poured lead into the babbitt and than sized it with your scraper."I agree. Was working on some Burmeister & Wain engines (the Danes hid them from Hitler) back in early '80s. We paid $750 i believe for one shell (6 shells / engine) & still had to shave it to make it fit!!!!! LOL.
They were still hiding stuff from Hitler in the early 80's???
didn't anyone tell the the good news??
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Babbitt is the name of the alloy used to pour bearings. It has a lot of lead in it and I don't know what else.
It's not that long ago I poured a set of bearings for an Acadia 4 hp make-and-break marine engine I owned. I was longing for a proper bearing scraper.
Ron
...and I was gonna say its an old-fashioned flame heated soldering iron!
Just FYI..babbit can also have zinc, tin, and antimony in it..close to pewter in its make up.
Its the antimony that will really cause health issues..worse n the lead , when smelted. Spheramid Enterprises Architectural Woodworks
I kidnapped the runaway bride..her eyse weren't like that in the before pics.
Actually alimony can be a lot worse.;-)
I hear that. Preachin to the choir. ( how is that spelt anyway?) Spheramid Enterprises Architectural Woodworks
I kidnapped the runaway bride..her eyse weren't like that in the before pics.
I used those often in the machine shop I worked in while in high school. Used to debur parts after they were machined. Spent hours with one, thousands of parts, lots of blue steel threads, not to mention band-aids.
It looks like something for soldering. Heat up the point and touch it to metal when you don't want the heat to spread far.