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What's-It Forum => What's-It Forum => Topic started by: barbb0 on October 03, 2011, 03:23:04 PM

Title: Anyone know what this brass tool is?
Post by: barbb0 on October 03, 2011, 03:23:04 PM

This brass tool (?) was with my deceased husband's tools.  Has anyone seen one like it or is it even a tool???
Appreciate any help you can give me with this.

Title: Re: Anyone know what this brass tool is?
Post by: scottg on October 03, 2011, 03:56:50 PM

Its a big brass pin punch. It was for hammering something out of something kind of fragile, that you didn't want to mark up.
Either that, or a gunpowder/gas/gasoline/propane plant where you couldn't afford any stray accidental sparks, or the whole place could go bloooey!
  You can see it has been used a whole lot. That "mushroom" of metal on the top? Where it widens out??
  That comes from hammering and hammering.
 
  The fact that the little end is still smooth means it was dressed down after every few uses, or it would be all swelled up too.
  yours Scott

Title: Re: Anyone know what this brass tool is?
Post by: barbb0 on October 03, 2011, 04:10:08 PM

Thank you so much Scott.  Very useful info.
Barb

Title: Re: Anyone know what this brass tool is?
Post by: rusty on October 03, 2011, 05:56:40 PM

Bushing/bearing driver. Brass so it doesn't muck up the precision hole the bushing goes into.