I picked up this tool a while back.

http://i486.photobucket.com/albums/r.../PICT2082e.jpg

I think it is a threading plate. Sizes marked are 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, & 18,
the second digit being a little smaller and superscripted. Are these tenths
of mm. and does someone know how this tool is used?

Thanks, John.


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On Sat, 11 Oct 2008 20:46:46 -0400, the infamous "John"
scrawled the following:

I picked up this tool a while back.

http://i486.photobucket.com/albums/r.../PICT2082e.jpg

I think it is a threading plate. Sizes marked are 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, & 18,
the second digit being a little smaller and superscripted. Are these tenths
of mm. and does someone know how this tool is used?

If it's for threads, I believe it would be a re-threading device.
You would open it, hold the two dies against the bungled threads on
the bolt, and tighten it down, then unscrew it from the end of the
bolt. All better now! I had one for axle threads which was hinged on
one end, the open side closed with a swing-out screwdown similar to
the way shown in your pic. It was liberated from my toolbox one day
and I never found it. It looked similar to the flaring tool in this
pic, the bottom portion.
http://www.ted-kyte.com/3D/Pictures/Flaring%20Tool.jpg


From your picture, your tool looks more like a complicated wire
stripper. g

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On 2008-10-12, John e_john_wilson.no.spam wrote:
I picked up this tool a while back.

http://i486.photobucket.com/albums/r.../PICT2082e.jpg

I think it is a threading plate. Sizes marked are 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, & 18,
the second digit being a little smaller and superscripted. Are these tenths
of mm. and does someone know how this tool is used?

Hmm ... not sure, without a closer shot square on to the plates,
but from here it looks more as though it is a tool to restore damaged
threads, not to cut new ones.

In any case, a finger or a thumb goes in the ring to spin it
around the shaft being threaded or restored, once it is tightened
sufficiently by the thumbscrew.

Enjoy,
DoN.

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John writes:

http://i486.photobucket.com/albums/r.../PICT2082e.jpg

Wire drawing dies?

What ever it is - it is nicely designed. It can fit over a nut and onto
a bolt - e.g. fix without getting the nut off...

firm it a bit and run it around with the finger in the hole.
Firm it again - and do it again....

Much like the process of a tubing cutoff tool.

Martin

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Larry Jaques wrote:
On Sat, 11 Oct 2008 20:46:46 -0400, the infamous "John"
scrawled the following:

I picked up this tool a while back.

http://i486.photobucket.com/albums/r.../PICT2082e.jpg

I think it is a threading plate. Sizes marked are 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, & 18,
the second digit being a little smaller and superscripted. Are these tenths
of mm. and does someone know how this tool is used?

If it's for threads, I believe it would be a re-threading device.
You would open it, hold the two dies against the bungled threads on
the bolt, and tighten it down, then unscrew it from the end of the
bolt. All better now! I had one for axle threads which was hinged on
one end, the open side closed with a swing-out screwdown similar to
the way shown in your pic. It was liberated from my toolbox one day
and I never found it. It looked similar to the flaring tool in this
pic, the bottom portion.
http://www.ted-kyte.com/3D/Pictures/Flaring%20Tool.jpg


From your picture, your tool looks more like a complicated wire
stripper. g

--
Guard well within yourself that treasure, kindness. Know how to give without
hesitation, how to lose without regret, how to acquire without meanness.
-- George Sand


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John wrote:

I picked up this tool a while back.

http://i486.photobucket.com/albums/r.../PICT2082e.jpg

I think it is a threading plate. Sizes marked are 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, & 18,
the second digit being a little smaller and superscripted. Are these tenths
of mm. and does someone know how this tool is used?

Thanks, John.


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No, what you have is a stock & dies set.
See the difference he

http://www.metalworking.com/dropbox/stocksndiesetc.jpg

From a 1910 cat.
Tom

Thanks Tom for the catalog picture, it matches perfectly. The stock part of
the name is obvious when you think about it. I should have stated that the
slightly larger central hole between each block has thread cut in it. I now
remember a similar ancient tool on a much larger scale in one of our farm
sheds back in Tasmania. My father had a conventional set of dies so I never
saw the stock and die set used, and it may have been missing some of the
dies.

Thanks all, Happy thanksgiving, John.
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"Jack" wrote in message ...
John wrote:

I picked up this tool a while back.

http://i486.photobucket.com/albums/r.../PICT2082e.jpg

I think it is a threading plate. Sizes marked are 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, &
18, the second digit being a little smaller and superscripted. Are these
tenths of mm. and does someone know how this tool is used?

Thanks, John. ** Posted from http://www.teranews.com **

No, what you have is a stock & dies set.
See the difference he

http://www.metalworking.com/dropbox/stocksndiesetc.jpg

From a 1910 cat.
Tom


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