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  • #735189
    simondavies3
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      @simondavies3

      Looking for some collective wisdom here….I have completed sorting and emptying my late father’s workshop, but whilst I know what the vast majority of the ‘stuff’ is (including some tools that I bought him), there are a few that are totally beyond me
      Photos below in the hopes that someone may be able to shed some light on what they are:

      Photo 1-6 is a tool that looks like it would pull something – bowden cable?? – I suspect it is just something from an industrial process, but no clue how Dad would have acquired it:
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      #735190
      simondavies3
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        @simondavies3

        next photos are pins of two different diameters – 2.0mm and 2.4mm – I have a vague feeling these may be knitting/darning/similar functionality:

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        #735191
        simondavies3
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          @simondavies3

          next, these tools are in a custom made cloth roll – possibly purchased, equally possibly hand made:

          They appear at first glance to be wood chisels but the odd ends and the channel on the bevelled side leave me wondering.

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          marked ‘Marples’, I suspect they date from my Grandfather’s time, so inter-war period

           

          #735192
          simondavies3
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            @simondavies3

            and lastly (for the moment), some blocks from Axminster tools that should be obvious….but I can’t find them in their catalogue, nor do they have any part numbers or ID.
            Size is about 50x25x25 and the two pads are “squishy” as if they should be pads or feet. Pack of 4 in a vac formed pack.

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            #735193
            Nealeb
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              @nealeb

              The Axminster blocks are for jobs like holding a flat panel while sanding – non-slip. Put 3 or 4 on a bench then panel on top.

              The blades in the cloth roll look like moulding plane cutters to me. Was there a wooden (probably) pliant among the collection the might take them?

              #735196
              Robert Atkinson 2
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                @robertatkinson2

                First item is an early blind rivet setting tool. Thik pop-rivet. probably aircraft use.

                Robert.

                #735199
                Mark Easingwood
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                  @markeasingwood33578

                  As said, the pads are for plonking your plank onto, so you can sand, or router it, without chasing it across the bench or using cramps.

                  The cutters are known as Irons, and as said, are for use in a wooden plough plane.

                  Mark.

                  #735207
                  simondavies3
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                    @simondavies3

                    Thanks all,

                    I knew that the collective wisdom would help out!

                    • Axminster blocks – makes total sense
                    • blades – yes absolutely, Dad (and Grandad) were primarily woodworkers and I have already passed on a number of planes, hopefully for use elsewhere rather than becoming ornaments. I did retain a hugely complicated Stanley moulding plane from the US, probably dating to the 30s
                    • Blind rivet tool – again, makes sense although no clue where Dad/Grandad would have got it from. Be interesting to see if it does pop rivets, certainly massively weightier than the common pressed steel tools of today

                    Simon

                    #735212
                    Neil A
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                      @neila

                      I think that you are probably right about the double pointed pins. My mother’s sewing box has a set of 4 such pins approximately 6 inches long that she used for knitting round items such as socks, gloves and the like. Knitting from one pin to the next in a circle, hence the double end.

                      Neil

                      #735255
                      MichaelR
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                        @michaelr

                        I agree with Nealeb the cutters with the cloth roll are plough plane irons, the top one with the the slot at the cutting edge is for forming a tongue on the edge of a board the other two are for forming a groove.

                        MichaelR

                        #735275
                        Martin King 2
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                          @martinking2

                          Plough Irons come in sets numbered 1-8, usually with a makers name. They are usually laminated steel. We have literally hundreds of these and from time to time we sort through them to try and make full sets by any particular maker.

                          Good clean full sets by early makers sell VERY well for owners of a good plane by the same maker minus the irons. the planes are usually only found with the one iron that is in the plane.

                          An 18th century USA set we had recently went to the USA for over £200. Sound s a lot but it nearly doubles the value of the buyers plane when it has a full set of irons.

                          Cheers, Martin

                          #735401
                          simondavies3
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                            @simondavies3

                            Thanks Robert.
                            So last night I found a spare 4mm pop rivet and duly tried to use the tool as a standard riveter. First squeeze worked fine, released for the next one and the squeeze was massively more difficult……squeeze #3 required the aid of my bench vice, as did #4-6 until the pop rivet popped. Another 5 minutes to remove the used pin…..

                            Probably not exactly the right rivets, but even so, they had much bigger hands with a far greater grip in those days!
                            Tool is now in my “may come in useful” pile

                            Simon

                            #735433
                            mark costello 1
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                              @markcostello1

                              After the first pull on the tool, just open the jaws if possible and move the end of the jaws a 1/4″ away from the rivet and take another squeeze. If possible to do this it may put the harder squeeze on a better spot on the cam. I don’t know Your model so it may not work.

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