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Post by squawberryman on Jun 4, 2017 14:01:07 GMT -5
This will be a photo thread of tools, cool tools. Lee's new Sinclair rest? Cool. His Dad's hacksaw? OLD, therefore cool. Any tool that is American made, steel, and old is probably cool. The Japanese and Germans also make neat tools. It's hard to include something Chinese, but this is the your thread, YOU make it. Please nothing battery powered, unless it's a battery powered plasma cutter or the kind of tool they hog out a femur with during a hip replacement, THAT would be cool. You get the jist. I'll open with a tool I never knew I needed until I had to drill 24 3/8" holes in the tongue of my boat trailer to eliminate the folding tongue function. Another member (please chime in, it's over in STUFF) posted his pic and I looked it up and could not justify twelve hundred dollars for it. Then I fixed the boat so I was bound to get one. I now am the owner of TWO of these and yes one's for sale at less than retail. If you've ever had to drill through a frame rail with a half inch bit, this thing will blow your mind. Please show us your tools, thank you.  |
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Post by nolongcolt on Jun 4, 2017 18:13:01 GMT -5
Please show us your tools, thank you. Be careful what you wish for... as to tools, I have many but will have to think if I have anything not commonly seen,,  OK here is one I used for years.. any guess's? |
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Post by contender on Jun 4, 2017 21:09:09 GMT -5
Here ya go,,, Ruger tools.  |
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Post by nolongcolt on Jun 4, 2017 21:40:23 GMT -5
Egg beater and a space pistol, that's easy!!
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Post by JM on Jun 4, 2017 21:44:45 GMT -5
...OK here is one I used for years.. any guess's? Brass Tack Hammer? |
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Post by nolongcolt on Jun 4, 2017 22:57:22 GMT -5
LOL, a little big for brass tacks.. see if anyone knows what it is.
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Post by Robster on Jun 5, 2017 4:01:13 GMT -5
a little small for railroad spikes I would imagine
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Post by foxtrapper on Jun 5, 2017 11:40:47 GMT -5
Please show us your tools, thank you. Be careful what you wish for... as to tools, I have many but will have to think if I have anything not commonly seen,, OK here is one I used for years.. any guess's? Tommy knocker lol |
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Post by nolongcolt on Jun 5, 2017 12:09:08 GMT -5
Well OK, no its not a tommy knocker, lol. Its whats known as a caulking mallet, used to drive cotton and oakum into planking seams on ships and boats. Commonly referred to as "corking", not certain the origin of the term. Using a series of hand held irons best shaped to the width of the seams, the material is drivin into the seams with varying force depending on width and depth and material used. The last ten or so years that I worked as a shipwright probably 75 percent of the time it was doing this. Its sort of mindless labor, but hard on the joints and hearing. The contact between the irons and the mallet creates a sharp ringing sound. There, shipwright lesson of the day!
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Post by magnumwheelman on Jun 5, 2017 15:20:53 GMT -5
anyone up for splitting some wood??? Dang it... Photobucket is not working this afternoon... maybe later   not sure how much black powder you're supposed to put in it... I was using a 50 A.E cartridge case full, & a paper wad, & a couple inches of cannon fuse... blows soft woods to toothpicks  |
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Post by magnumwheelman on Jun 5, 2017 15:27:41 GMT -5
This is a hammer... but not the one I use to drive the black powder wedge   480 Ruger Alaskan |
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Post by JM on Jun 5, 2017 21:55:18 GMT -5
Here's mine.  Bought it in 1986. Broke several before this one. Modified it with a rat-tail file & heat shrink tubing. The tubing reinforced the areas where the predecessors had failed. The waffled face is now worn smooth. I earned 4 cents a square foot & I could move! |
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Post by awp101 on Jun 6, 2017 20:42:45 GMT -5
Pulled these out of my Grandfather's garage when we were cleaning it out a couple of years ago. Never saw him use them, they were probably excess when new torches came in at his plant so he brought them home.  |
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Post by squawberryman on Jun 24, 2017 18:50:29 GMT -5
This thread died out quicker than I'd hoped. Here's a Ryobi EJ100 gas powered sawzall. My buddy paid 150 for it and sold it to me for 100 ten or m ore years ago. It's never had fuel. Tool kit, instructions etc all intact. I saw one of these almost like this for twelve on Ebay, it didn't sell. The guy stated it was like mine but he gassed it and fired it before listing to make sure it worked.  |
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Post by awp101 on Jun 28, 2017 19:07:44 GMT -5
Made some time to get pics of a couple more of my Grandfather's tools. Stand by...
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