On Thu, 29 Sep 2011 23:26:18 +1000
"Grumpy" wrote:

It's a early beading tool to turn the ends of boiler tubes. The "hammer" is
hit with a larger hammer and the beading tool indexes around with each hit.
Thank heaven for air hammers!


There is another one (maybe the same one?) pictured on this page:

http://www.smokstak.com/forum/showthread.php?t=47189

about 1/4 of the way down, thumbnail link to larger image. He also says
that it's a beading tool.

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Leon Fisk
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