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Offline DOC

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Hoping y'all may recognize this strange tool...
« on: January 07, 2018, 07:03:54 PM »
A friend sent me the pictures and asked what it was...I have never seen anything like it !
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Offline kwoswalt99

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Re: Hoping y'all may recognize this strange tool...
« Reply #1 on: January 07, 2018, 07:29:31 PM »
It's an assayer's tool for grinding ore samples.
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Offline turnnut

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Re: Hoping y'all may recognize this strange tool...
« Reply #2 on: January 07, 2018, 07:33:33 PM »
 I was thinking on the same line, that it was used to crush some think, but did not know what ?
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Re: Hoping y'all may recognize this strange tool...
« Reply #3 on: January 08, 2018, 06:07:30 PM »
Thanks a bunch for the instant answer ! I googled "assayers tools" and there it was in all it's glory. It's called a muller and goes with a bucking board to grind ore samples to a certain sieve size for assaying !
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Re: Hoping y'all may recognize this strange tool...
« Reply #4 on: January 08, 2018, 06:16:33 PM »
Hello, Kwoswalt99. Great job on identifying that tool. How heavy is that tool?? Regards, Lou
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Re: Hoping y'all may recognize this strange tool...
« Reply #5 on: January 08, 2018, 10:07:29 PM »
Martin Donnelly had one and it weighed 50 lbs.

Mike
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