Identify tools

[Dan ShillingParticipant @danshilling]

Hopefully somebody can identify in picture what these tools are for:

1 cone shaped (tools centre and left)

2 inner spline shaped (tool right)

Edited By Dan Shilling on 12/04/2023 16:32:25

Edited By Dan Shilling on 12/04/2023 16:33:45

[Dan ShillingParticipant @danshilling]

came with milling machine

[Tim StevensParticipant @timstevens64731]

The two cones may well serve as formers for sheet metal bending or forming. Or as parts of a spinning lathe (no, not a lathe which is spinning, but for the operation called metal spinning where you start with a flat circle of sheet and press the metal as the former spins, in stages, to produc cups, headlamp reflectors, etc). The thing with the big tommy-bar looks like a spanner to turn, or hold, a splined shaft while you do things to it, or perhaps with it. It might be used to control the chuck which holds one or other of the conical tools.

Was anything else included in the same job-lot?

Cheers, Tim

[BazyleParticipant @bazyle]

Possibly home made BT30 and BT40 taper tooling. Not necessarily from your machine, just 'collected'.

[Dan ShillingParticipant @danshilling]

Posted by Tim Stevens on 12/04/2023 17:27:47:

The two cones may well serve as formers for sheet metal bending or forming. Or as parts of a spinning lathe (no, not a lathe which is spinning, but for the operation called metal spinning where you start with a flat circle of sheet and press the metal as the former spins, in stages, to produc cups, headlamp reflectors, etc). The thing with the big tommy-bar looks like a spanner to turn, or hold, a splined shaft while you do things to it, or perhaps with it. It might be used to control the chuck which holds one or other of the conical tools.

Was anything else included in the same job-lot?

Cheers, Tim

nothing exept some chipped end mills – those cones are about 1 1/2" long. I thought they could be some kind of hole centre finders. Came with vertical milling machine.

Edited By Dan Shilling on 12/04/2023 19:04:29

Edited By Dan Shilling on 12/04/2023 19:06:46

[DiogenesIIParticipant @diogenesii]

..redundant post..

Edited By DiogenesII on 12/04/2023 19:32:21

[Michael GilliganParticipant @michaelgilligan61133]

I think your own guess is better than either of the others, Dan

The two cones look to have the same spigot fixing, so are presumably interchangeable in whatever fixture is missing from the set.

The splined device is presumably a glorified box-spanner, to fit ‘who knows what’

MichaelG.

[Dave HalfordParticipant @davehalford22513]

Parts of a power feed cone clutches?

The splined box spanner might be a tappet adjusting tool given the cutouts, though why have a splined nut?

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