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Woodworking Forum => Woodworking Forum => Topic started by: Dustin21 on June 04, 2011, 10:48:47 PM

Title: brace bits..
Post by: Dustin21 on June 04, 2011, 10:48:47 PM

 heres a couple ... (name slipped from my mind) anyone have any info on them and if there worth anything ?

big one is marked No 2 G T D in a logo

small one is marked  MAYHEW

(http://i750.photobucket.com/albums/xx148/dustin32690/tools/DSCF0299.jpg)

Title: Re: brace bits..
Post by: scottg on June 05, 2011, 12:02:00 AM

Pipe reamers.
  When you cutoff pipe with a pipe cutter, it leaves a huge burr on the inside of the pipe. These ream off that burr.
They are usually pretty dull when you find them like this. You can spend a lot of time with a small slipstone or a fine stone in a Dremel and bring them back.  I have.
 
 They are actually pretty fragile. People think they are big and tough and bang them around and toss them into the bottom of buckets of fittings
  and then wonder why they are dull??
 
  If you sharpen them, protect them.
  yours Scott

Title: Re: brace bits..
Post by: keykeeper on June 05, 2011, 10:13:31 AM

GTD in logo should be Greenfield Tap & Die, if I'm not mistaken.

Title: Re: brace bits..
Post by: Dustin21 on June 05, 2011, 07:28:26 PM

thanks for the info guys :)