Old tools - found in boxes from my in-laws - what are these things?

[Dan_69GTX]

My sons and I had the "pleasure" of cleaning out my in-laws home after they moved into a retirement home/apartment. Other of their family was of little help and I'm none too pleased with that.

However, after getting all the stuff home (and filling my garage) I'm going through the boxes to see what I now have (besides a LOT of junk).

Any idea what these old tools are for? I've got no idea.

 

[Dan_69GTX]

The three pics are of the same tool - different angles.

 

[BSeyler]

First pic is a marking gauge. We learned to use them in junior high woodshop. Oops, just dated myself...
I believe the other one could be a rivet set.

 

[TMyers]

The wood piece is a scribe. You set the round part against the edge of a board. You then run the scribe down the board with a pencil giving you a straight line.

This is a SWAG. (Scientific Wild Ass Guess)

 

[BIGNASTY]

The wood piece is a scribe. You set the round part against the edge of a board. You then run the scribe down the board with a pencil giving you a straight line.

This is a SWAG. (Scientific Wild Ass Guess)

Thats exactly what it is I have several that I use on wood. My Dad was an aviation Metalsmith that used a different version to scribe lines off of obsolete parts to make new pieces. He retired from the Navy went to offer his skills at Plane of Fame Museum Chino Calif. No parts for WWII war birds.

 

[BIGNASTY]

Would like to know if the holes in the last two or three are shallow with a bowl shape inside or or just holes connected together. If its a rivet set it had to be for some pretty stout rivets being hammered to a mushroom unless the rivets were Railroad Track spikes. If it is its called Bucking Rivets

 

[Dan_69GTX]

The hole in the side of the metal tool goes 3/4 of the way through it. That hole is a tad bigger than the bottom hole. The bottom hole ends when it meets the side hole.

 

[Jim W]

Dan, as far as the wood marking scribe, I have three of them in my shop. One is set of for making the Mortises, another one is for the Tenons these never change as I standardize my Mortise and Tenon joint. My last scribe is for general scribing for cutting rabbits and Dovetail joints!

 

[SnoKing]

So the beatup metal thingy has a concave area on the bottom it next to the hole. It is a rivet setting tool. Well used to boot!



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[Dan_69GTX]

So the beatup metal thingy has a concave area on the bottom it next to the hole. It is a rivet setting tool. Well used to boot!

Cool - thanks for the video!!!

 

[BSeyler]

Would like to know if the holes in the last two or three are shallow with a bowl shape inside or or just holes connected together. If its a rivet set it had to be for some pretty stout rivets being hammered to a mushroom unless the rivets were Railroad Track spikes. If it is its called Bucking Rivets.

 

[BSeyler]

From the looks of that rivet set, perhaps it was a case of someone not knowing what it was and abusing it. We learned to use these in high school metal shop and also how to form rivet heads with a ball peen hammer. Definitely old school stuff. Not sure why this came through as two posts...

 

[BIGNASTY]

From the looks of that rivet set, perhaps it was a case of someone not knowing what it was and abusing it. We learned to use these in high school metal shop and also how to form rivet heads with a ball peen hammer. Definitely old school stuff.

Exactly!! When in the AIR FARCE and in-country I spent many hours with the metalsmith bucking rivets using a similar tool & on the other side of the structure was a pneumatic version of a hammer. Aircraft skins are generally honeycomb composits and use nut-plates to fasten them usually held into the metal structure by rivets OR huck bolts a Heavy-duty Pop rivet.

 

[Dan_69GTX]

Ok, thinking about it - He was a farmer. Initially they had horses, then they got a tractor in 1937.

I know the blades to a sickle mower are riveted on - I wonder if they used it for that?

 

[BIGNASTY]

Ok, thinking about it - He was a farmer. Initially they had horses, then they got a tractor in 1937.

I know the blades to a sickle mower are riveted on - I wonder if they used it for that?

Some of the Harnesses that my Mules have when I use the as a team for pulling has some very very large rivet type connecting the leather pieces is place. COULD BE??