Picked up along with a bigger lot of old tools.. Can't identify these 4 2019-11-22 20.34.09.jpg2019-11-22 20.34.27.jpg2019-11-22 20.35.05.jpg2019-11-22 20.35.41.jpg....Help, please..Thanks
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Picked up along with a bigger lot of old tools.. Can't identify these 4 2019-11-22 20.34.09.jpg2019-11-22 20.34.27.jpg2019-11-22 20.35.05.jpg2019-11-22 20.35.41.jpg....Help, please..Thanks
Jerry
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The two complicated looking, H shaped ones are saw setting gauges for large, one, and two man logging hand saws. Not sure about the others, but one looks like a tapering tool for a brace.
I think the smallest one may be a rivet setter. I have a new one that looks a lot like that, for setting copper rivets like in blue jeans.
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Best guess: The apex clamp vise...just what it says. The big part is screwed down to a surface, the small part slides inside it with the hook towards the narrow end. A board set on edge pushes against the hooked part and pushes it along to wedge the board in place.
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The tool for the brace looks like a rudimentary hollow auger.
It also looks to be for only one size unless it is missing a lot of parts.
jtk
"A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty."
- Sir Winston Churchill (1874-1965)
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The Pexto is a rivet setting tool.
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Jerry,
As Jim said, a hollow auger missing a lot of parts. It was patented by George Stearns Sept' 8 1869 (US 39841) and came with a series of "thimbles" to vary the size of the tenon it would cut. In a later patent (US234693) updating this tool Mr Stearns refers to the thimbles as ferrules. My two photos, the first is earlier, with seven thimbles from 3/8" to 7/8 and the drive tang doubles as a depth gauge. The second photo is, I think, the same as yours and the thimbles are interchangeable between the two models. I assume that to cut a one inch tenon you dispense with the thimble.
Cheers,
Geoff.
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Geoff, Thanks for the information on this.
Is the blade on Jerry's the same as yours?
Interesting history on the Stearns company:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E._C._Stearns_%26_Company
One of my finds at a hardware store closing sale was a spoke pointer branded G.N. Stearns.
G.N. Stearns Spoke Pointer.jpg
They help when using a hollow auger.
jtk
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- Sir Winston Churchill (1874-1965)
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Jim, blade is the same to the extent of having two holes, one screw but Jerrys is upside down.
I like the branding on your spoke pointer, so many are unmarked.
Cheers,
Geoff.
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