Thread: todays tools gloat

Originally Posted by KBs PensNmore

Nice haul of stuff, the drive dogs look nice.
Kryn

Thanks Kryn yep I have one midway of those two so should keep me out of trouble.

Wheelinround
I like the wood plane cutters in the first picture.
Nice
Bruce

Bruce it now adds to the collection of those which came with my No45 which is being restored, hard to believe they still there in mid afternoon I spotted them at about 9ish. They have been cleaned up since now to hone them.

BaronJ

Those taps and dies look useful, there seems to be some two flute cutters in there as well. Nice...

BJ LOML spotted the box and at $20 couldn't pass up on it mostly UNC, UNF Whit with a metric 10mm and BSF & a couple of BA's a good selection size wise with some quadrupled usual easy breakage ones I liked the good quality die holders
No two flute cutters wish there had been

I came across this unusual (to me at least) hammer at a garage sale this morning, it has a sharp curved claw, a screw in the side of the claw and a slot with some captive ball bearings on top, I thought it was unusual so I bought it, it wasn't until I did some research before I figured out what the unusual feature was all about.

So, if you haven't seen one of these hammers can you guess what the feature is for..?
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Is it for holding nails?

Standard carpenter's hammer with 'feature' for holding the nails when they have been extracted.
My hammer does not have the ball.

Cheers
Roger

Agree with rcaffin. My old man had one. Held a nail so you could start it without holding it in your fingers. Mainly in difficult spots.
Very rarely used.

Hooroo.

John

We had a hammers like that when I was working on concrete form work and we also used that feature to help remove long nails.
When using the claw it can only pull a long nail out so far and then it runs out of distance and that's when you have to find a block of wood to place underneath the claw to lever the rest of the nail out. That slot was used to gain that bit more distance.

Here's a US construction hammer with a magnetic slot at the head and another at the side.
The nail is placed in the head slot so the nail can be started one handed.
The side slot provides more leverage to help start removing a nail.
The square head top is for getting into corners.
Its a well balance hammer and use for lots of things.


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Henry Cheney Hammer Company — The Cheney Nailer

Frank

Yep, it's the Cheney Nailer and it holds the nail while you start it, this tool might have saved a lot of thumbs in its life

In between slowly working on my shed and spending time with the family I quickly gave my local market surface plate purchase a clean up with a scraper. It was mainly rust and aged dust on the surface. It came up pretty good, my scraping is lacking but it will do the job.

I also bought this Smiths Rev counter off Gumtree, its in good condition but I haven't used it yet.

Ben.

A while ago i bought these three Bowers internal three point mics for $60. Just used them for the first time and they are excellent. This covers 1 - 2.5" although i am missing one of the 1.25 - 1.5 anvils.20170505_221018.jpg

Originally Posted by caskwarrior

A while ago i bought these three Bowers internal three point mics for $60. Just used them for the first time and they are excellent. This covers 1 - 2.5" although i am missing one of the 1.25 - 1.5 anvils.

I have a couple in metric. They are indeed very nice. On par with my Tesa sets without a doubt.

Long time between visits. i needed to get some stuff to keep things moving so grabbed this stuff.

Well, I won't be picking this up for a couple of weeks but I just bought it.

https://www.gumtree.com.au/s-ad/yarramundifelipe suniga/miscellaneous-goods/milling-machine/1146802637

I'm taking a bit of a gamble buying sight unseen but have spoken to the owner and I think I'm a fair chance at being able to fix/fit all the bits that are disassembled. The DRO works, you will also notice it has a riser block fitted and theres some tooling that comes with it including an indexing head. He assures me the ways and the spindle bearing are both pretty good....

Simon

Gee Simon - what is it about travelling half the length of the country to pick up old machinery?
You're as bad as the rest of us.

I'll be interested to see how complete it is and what needs to be done.

Michael

Simon,

Nice buy. I have one of your machine's siblings, an FTV-2S. It's a lovely machine. Let me know if you need any photos of how it goes back together.

Graham.