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05-20-2008

Posted by Steve Mulhollan on May 20, 2008, 10:59 am

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Can anyone identify this set of tools? I picked it up at a garage sale
the other day. Who could resist for $2 ?

http://s29pi.tripod.com/mystery_tool/

Thanks.

Steve

Posted by nospam on May 20, 2008, 11:26 am

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Steve Mulhollan wrote:

> Can anyone identify this set of tools? I picked it up at a garage sale
> the other day. Who could resist for $2 ?
>
> http://s29pi.tripod.com/mystery_tool/
>
> Thanks.
>
> Steve

Looks to me to be hand turning tools for a metal lathe. the ones with
teeth would be for threading.

My guess anyway.

Steve

--
The answer to this is very simple. It was a joke. It had to be a number,
an ordinary, smallish number, and I chose that one. Binary
representations, base thirteen, Tibetan monks are all complete nonsense.
I sat at my desk, stared into the garden and thought '42 will do.' I
typed it out. End of story.

Posted by DoN. Nichols on May 21, 2008, 2:12 am

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> Steve Mulhollan wrote:

>> Can anyone identify this set of tools? I picked it up at a garage sale
>> the other day. Who could resist for $2 ?
>>
>> http://s29pi.tripod.com/mystery_tool/
>>
>> Thanks.
>>
>> Steve

>
>
> Looks to me to be hand turning tools for a metal lathe. the ones with
> teeth would be for threading.

        Yep -- the original "thread chasers" -- some for exterior
threads, some (the ones with the threads on the side for internal
threads.

        They took some skill to use. :-)

        Enjoy,
                DoN.

--
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Posted by lemel_man on May 20, 2008, 11:31 am

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Steve Mulhollan wrote:

> Can anyone identify this set of tools? I picked it up at a garage sale
> the other day. Who could resist for $2 ?
>
> http://s29pi.tripod.com/mystery_tool/
>
> Thanks.
>
> Steve

They are internal and external thread chasers - used for cleaning up or
finishing threads cut on a lathe or. cleaning up old threads.

--
Regards, Gary Wooding
(To reply by email, change feet to foot in my address)
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Posted by Jim Wilkins on May 20, 2008, 2:35 pm

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> They are internal and external thread chasers - used for cleaning up or
> finishing threads cut on a lathe or. cleaning up old threads.
> Regards, Gary Wooding

See if the pitch matches standard threads.

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