Thread: Tool ID

We have some old tools at the school where I work. Nobody has a clue what they are.
Can anyone shed any light?

And this too please.

Top lot are tinsmiths or sheetmetal workers tools. One uses them to set the pitsburgh joints and other forms etc.

Originally Posted by eskimo

Top lot are tinsmiths or sheetmetal workers tools. One uses them to set the pitsburgh joints and other forms etc.

I think they are called seam groovers. I remember using one in 1967 to make a small sheet metal tool tray.

Originally Posted by jack620

We have some old tools at the school where I work. Nobody has a clue what they are.
Can anyone shed any light?

#2 and #3 are blacksmith tools #2 is a hardy tool that sits in the hardy hole of an anvil and #3 is a handled top tool. Both for making material round.

Originally Posted by BobL

I think they are called seam groovers. I remember using one in 1967 to make a small sheet metal tool tray.

Bob, surely you must have some pachyderm DNA in you.....

Originally Posted by shedhappens

Bob, surely you must have some pachyderm DNA in you.....

SWMBO is constantly amazed at what I claim to remember.
My youngest clear memories are from kindergarten and grade one when I was four and a half.
Strange thing is it didn't help me much in exams and I still found it tricky to remember all those formulas etc I needed for maths, physics and chemistry.
I used to be able to remember odd things like the location and year of each olympic games and how many medals Australia won in gold, silver and bronze but that's faded these days.
But I can still remember things like what year I cut what logs or made what tool, more important to me these days I guess.

BTW found this online - from a sheet metal fabrication quiz
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Thanks for the replies. I found another box full of bits. It's so heavy I can't lift it. They all have a tapered square tang that fits into a square hole in the workbenches. I assume they are for hammer-forming sheet metal over? Some have a sharp edge which I guess is for cutting.

There also a few very heavy round steel pieces with concave sections on both sides. The concaves are of various depths.

Chris that thing in the middle picture is a glove....
Has the steetmetal teacher been dumped into the offcuts bin?

Blimey, I was wondering where my other glove went!

Yes John, metalwork classes at our school are very basic. I doubt the tools in my pics have been used for 20 years.

Originally Posted by jack620

Blimey, I was wondering where my other glove went!

Yes John, metalwork classes at our school are very basic. I doubt the tools in my pics have been used for 20 years.

I am going to vote all of the major parties dead last right down the bottom this time around, all our gov has been taken over by retards a while back and now they have all their retarded mates in there with them, they have sold us out.

Originally Posted by jack620

Thanks for the replies. I found another box full of bits. It's so heavy I can't lift it. They all have a tapered square tang that fits into a square hole in the workbenches. I assume they are for hammer-forming sheet metal over? Some have a sharp edge which I guess is for cutting.

There also a few very heavy round steel pieces with concave sections on both sides. The concaves are of various depths.

They are sheet metal stakes, used for forming different features in the metal. The ones with a sharp edge are for folding the metal, usually tin plate, so that you can fit wire to the edge as in a safety edge on a pannikin for example, folded the opposite direction creates the base of the pannikin. The edges are folded using the stakes and a flat faced wooden mallet, usually round.
For the young whipper snappers out there that don't know what a pannikin is, it's a cup normally with straight sides made from tin. Yes I made a few at school.
Your pieces that are concaved in the bottom are for forming items like a soup ladle, also using a wooden mallet but with domed ends.
The piece that has the stake at the bottom and is long and tapered is for making cone shaped things like funnels.
HTH
Kryn

Originally Posted by KBs PensNmore

The edges are folded using the stakes and a flat faced wooden mallet, usually round.

There's a box full of those too. And some with a dome faced head.

Originally Posted by shedhappens

I am going to vote all of the major parties dead last right down the bottom this time around, all our gov has been taken over by retards a while back and now they have all their retarded mates in there with them, they have sold us out.

Gentlemen Please!!!!

As much as I may agree with the above , it is coming to the point where I may put on the mods hat and have to step in and caution about talking politics , etc etc.or worse!.

Please lets go back to the talk about tools.

Back on the subject I can remember using the tools in making a Galvanised Iron laundry dipper and Oil Jug with spout.

Guess whose mother still has the bloody laundry dipper when I visited her a while back. Doesn't throw stuff away.

Making useful stuff like that gave a kid a sense of of achievement even though it was hardly spot on perfect.

Yes very definitely the tools shown are seam setting tools. Also I remember the slapper tool and the long saw horse of bick irons.

Freeeeking deafening when all 24 students were bashing- sorry folding - sheet metal. It could not not be done today due to risk of getting cut or burnt by the soldering iron.

Yes, times are definitely a -changing.

Grahame

So nobody knows what this is? It's killing me. When you remove the cap it has a conical shaped brass tip with about a 1.5mm hole in it. Could be some sort of clamping collet, like in a pin chuck. At first I thought it was a silver solder dispenser, but I couldn't imagine what the lever would do on such a device.