More carboot tools

[hog]

''This pair of pliers, are they meant for a specific job as they are somewhat different to the run of the mill side cutting wire cutters...


Probably part of a UXB kit, I am sure they would have had something similar...or maybe just mechanics snips.
Just a thought.

 

[weekender]

"and weird metal hook thing that no one knows the use for and I intrigues herself, also no markings."

If your meaning the thing under the pipe if it has a rounded edge under it then it does look like a home made brickies jointer sometimes made from an old bucket handle..?


Sent from somewhere?

 

[tombear]

Cheers folks!

The pliers are steel rather than the bronze you normally get in a uk bomb kit. For all I know they could have been made up for a specific job in one factory to make life easier and if there's any others like it out there it could be a pure coincidence. Firms like Mauns still offer to make specialised pliers to the users specs, I've a pair of theirs that put a distinctive bend in anything that is squished between the parallel jaws. I've no idea what they are for! A bit like the ones sold in RC plane shops for putting Z bends in the ends of control wires.

it could indeed be for pointing but at one point he had several and they look to be made in that shape. They remind herself of a crude iron strigil we saw in a museums o I may end up grinding them to work a such! Yeah so far pointing tool looks most likely but there's been some effort to flatten the back of the curved section, would they bother for a pointing tool?

I'll be doing the metal work up later and will see if any markings turn up.

atb

tom

 

[tombear]

Ps. The wee pipe cleaned up lovely, and since I'd got the doings out I cleaned and polished my other briars to get them ready for when we go off to the inlaws cottage for our holiday in Wales. The rest of the year I may never bother to smoke but I binge when on holiday. I picked up 4 oz of black cherry mixed with American cherry and vanilla ( yes I know I'm a heathen ) last week.

I keep a small pipe there hidden in a peanut tin, but I will retrieve it this year as we think that due to their advanced years and health issues they will be getting rid of the place before we are likely to go again.

the snow gaiters have cleaned up well but I'm waiting to see them when they are totally dry. If I can find it ill treat them with the goretex re proofing stuff that makes water bead on the surface.

atb

Tom

 

[Fraxinus]

Woke late and then put the clocks forward so didn't get to the boot until 11.30 so there wasn't much left. Did get a nice old spiralux screwdriver for 30p. However I did, or rather the wife did to use as a hanging weight, pick up a 1951 dated broad arrow marked, thing, which I would like to know the proper use of. Something for the plumber? See bottom, below.

The tins are yellow mineral jelly.

The weight thing has a code of G (or C) 1488

atb

tom

Just a thought but it looks like an old soldering iron, the bulbous end retaining heat while the narrow handle dissipates heat quickly and is hooked to form both a grip and to allow it to be hung out of harms way or a method to control what part gets to the heat source. Possibly for lead work, downpipes, gutters etc.

Rob.

 

[twyforge]

You sure have brilliant carboots near you! I wish I could pick up the sorts of things that you do on my Sunday mornings, then again sometimes you do have a good day, but more often that not its a washout. Tbh its the one day I bother to get up before 11!

 

[weekender]

"pointing tool looks most likely but there's been some effort to flatten the back of the curved section, would they bother for a pointing tool?"

They may flatten it to get the curve possibly? Or maybe it was possible to use it for different styles of pointing weather struck, half round (bucket handle) or penny rolled

 

[tombear]

Well, that shows you how little I know about pointing! Ill stick it with the other brickies tools I've acquired and never used!

Wednesday I picked up a couple of 50p tools at Burnley flea, which after a couple of years decline seams to have picked up. A small gents saw, no makers mark but before I cleaned the blade it said Cast Steel. Made in England. Sheffield. and a sharpening file . Says Best Refined Cast Steel on the one side and Swift Sheffield on the other.

Anyhoo I cleaned them up today along with the ones I got on Sunday.

The cosmolene or whatever on the sledge hammer was a pig to get off, I had to use Gunk and the wire wheel in the end. The stuff rubbed off on everything it got near so I couldn't leave it on. The handles had 5 coats of linseed oil so far, ill soak the head at some point.

I've had no joy with the markings on the depth gauge thing

There was a Navy Ordnance Department from the late 19th Century to the mid 1950s. Can't think of another NOD.

We are now playing find where herself hid the other blocks to put the new one away.

ATB

Tom

 

[British Red]

Looking good - none I'm going to fight you to get in this weeks haul though

 

[tombear]

Yeah, pretty mundane stuff. I'll have to finish doing up the I Sorby goose neck gouges I started on years ago. They is pretty!

ATB

Tom

 

[British Red]

Yes...need a tool porn fix

 

[Tjurved]

Very nice to see old tools be saved and taken care of.

 

[tombear]

Cheers!

here's the work in progress, the gouges on the right only need sharpening and the wood seeing to, may do that today, the turning chisels ( got for peanuts, red with rust but unused, cleaned up lovely) need a final polish and checking for sharpness/ touching up. Ok not of the first water but good enough for the lads.

The numeral brands just need the handles sanding and oiling. Why I got them I've no idea, was cheap but what for? The Thor hammers I need a special tool thingy to open up the holes and closing them up again so they are on hold. The rawhide heads were pence bought on spec and then the heads turned up for equally little.

These planes are waiting me getting them professionally skimmed, I could spend the rest of my natural with a sheet of glass wet and dry or grinding paste but I have a decent Jack and a bailey got new from a closing down sale already. I have spare blades got for pence as well.

And here's box of dross got in job lots that I will never sort.

http://i1137.photobucket.com/albums/n503/tombearspics/imagejpg1_zps3055b189.jpg
If anyones passing they can pop in and take what they like!

ATB

tom

 

[British Red]

Its a good job I am not closer my friend - I'd love to pick over your dross!

I love the branding irons too - and also have no idea what they would be good for

 

[tombear]

Well if anyone needs the irons they are up for swaps.

Atb

tom

 

[tombear]

Didn't go to the boot today myself but the wife did and came back with some random bits. Does anyone have a idea what this thing is for? The spring part has a plate on the side that's marked 0 to 200 and on the other end is stamped on one side 100LB and on the other 150LB over 200LB.

The rest of the stuff ill clean up and show later but this thing has me baffled.

atb

Tom

 

[Grebby]

It could be some form of fence wire tensioner
The jaws on left clamping near the end of the fence wire and another piece wound round the drum on the right, pulling them together so they could be be joined.
Also gives a measurement of the tension

 

[British Red]

That was my thought Grebby.

 

[tombear]

Well that's more sensible than my friends suggestion of a RAF wire rigging strainer for a Swordfish....

here the other bits she brought home, post de rusting and oiling.

uk made except the thing at the bottom is unmarked.

Atb

tom

 

[British Red]

Well that's more sensible than my friends suggestion of a RAF wire rigging strainer for a Swordfish....


tom

But that does make sense - the requirement for a tension gauge makes more sense in that application