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What's-It Forum => What's-It Forum => Topic started by: rustyric on June 04, 2018, 04:07:37 PM

Title: Re Threader - What is this tools proper name please ?
Post by: rustyric on June 04, 2018, 04:07:37 PM

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Title: Re: Re Threader - What is this tools proper name please ?
Post by: EVILDR235 on June 04, 2018, 05:14:41 PM

I would call it a spindle / axle re-threader. That is what I always heard them called by old time mechanics.

EvilDr235

Title: Re: Re Threader - What is this tools proper name please ?
Post by: leg17 on June 04, 2018, 09:00:40 PM

That is a screw plate used to form threads in malleable material, such as wrought iron.
It does NOT cut threads but swedges them, or forms them.
Commonly used by metalsmiths of all kind prior to the Civil War.
Jewelers and watchsmiths still use them some even today.
This particular one has sizes that would be found in a machine shop for general use.
Nuts would have been custom made, (by a similar process), to fit.

Title: Re: Re Threader - What is this tools proper name please ?
Post by: leg17 on June 04, 2018, 09:02:28 PM

Is it for sale?

Title: Re: Re Threader - What is this tools proper name please ?
Post by: Chillylulu on June 06, 2018, 04:15:05 PM

Most threaded rod is rolled, not cut with dies.  Some are pressed,  I've seen a 3/8" rod that looked like threads but it was only concentric rings.

I've always thought if those as chasers, not cutters.

Chilly

Title: Re: Re Threader - What is this tools proper name please ?
Post by: bill300d on June 06, 2018, 09:43:24 PM

Nice job on the description Leg, I couldn't have said as well in as few words.