Tool Talk
What's-It Forum => What's-It Forum => Topic started by: skipskip on August 10, 2013, 07:23:35 PM
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Looks like a scraper?
(http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7383/9483269458_4cb60a8a60.jpg) (http://www.flickr.com/photos/skipskip/9483269458/)
AUG 184 (http://www.flickr.com/photos/skipskip/9483269458/) by skipskip (http://www.flickr.com/people/skipskip/), on Flickr
a small pump?? coleman stove?
(http://farm6.staticflickr.com/5517/9479485765_2da7e2dbfc.jpg) (http://www.flickr.com/photos/skipskip/9479485765/)
AUG 181 (http://www.flickr.com/photos/skipskip/9479485765/) by skipskip (http://www.flickr.com/people/skipskip/), on Flickr
and a leather thing, about 6 inches ling
(http://farm3.staticflickr.com/2879/9479086011_1eb2885d41.jpg) (http://www.flickr.com/photos/skipskip/9479086011/)
AUG 174 (http://www.flickr.com/photos/skipskip/9479086011/) by skipskip (http://www.flickr.com/people/skipskip/), on Flickr
more pics here
http://www.flickr.com/photos/skipskip/sets/72157635010183103/
thanks
Skip
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The first item is definitely a scraper. The hole on the underside may have been for a handle. The second item fits in a blow torch, I believe. I think the third item, the leather thing, would hang from your belt and hold a sharpening stone for a scythe.
Lynn
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+1 with dowdstool across the board on these. No. 1 would be uncomfortable to use without a handle, so I would agree it probably had one at some point. Whenever I see a scraper that came from a farm, I tend to think of hog butchering rather than cabinetry. This would not be the ideal tool for the job -- most hog scrapers have a belled blade and a straight handle - but it would fit with the "make it do or do without" philosophy of an old farmer. No. 2 is clearly a pressure pump from some sort of gas fueled device. Possibly a stove, but not a Coleman stove, the nut that holds it to the fuel reservoir doesn't look like a Coleman part. Pressure lamps generally used a seperate pump, so I'm thinking a blow torch is a good guess. My first thought looking at No. 3 was also that it was a holder for a scythe whetstone. Generally they were made of horn or wood (though now of plastic) as they held a little water to help keep metal from the blade from filling the pores of the stone, but I did find a posting from a fellow in England who gardens with traditional tools where he talks about the leather holder he made for his scythe stone. Just my two cents worth.
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Second item is definitely from a blow torch, looks almost identical to the pump assembly on my Clayton and Lambert plumbers furnace, but the C&L ones have a little lock down feature to hold down the handle once done pumping. That may be a Turner or Bernz one.
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Second item is definitely from a blow torch, looks almost identical to the pump assembly on my Clayton and Lambert plumbers furnace, but the C&L ones have a little lock down feature to hold down the handle once done pumping. That may be a Turner or Bernz one.
Turner I'll say, show me the pump handle and I'll tell you.
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C.S. Osborne Co. still sells a bearing scraper similar to your No. 1 item. ( http://www.csosborne.com/brscrape_1.htm ) It goes to show that there still is a demand for babbitt metal bearings I guess.
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I believe the item on the Osbourne page is a block scraper, to scrape a butcher's block when cleaning it.
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I'd go for a butcher's block scraper, but very similar are used by bakers for cutting dough. Wood scrapers of this type are also found, especially for cleaning paint stencils of wooden crates/packing cases for re-use... although they often have a handle at right angles to the blade, c.f. a veneer hammer...