Scrapers? but for what?

[skipskip]

three different shapes

no names

any ideas?


AOCT0186 by skipskip, on Flickr

[oldgoaly]

my guess would be for Babbitt bearing scrapers,  some different shapes to get into the places the standard 3 can not.

[mvwcnews]

Carbon scrapers (think pre-WWI auto & boat engines) are a possibility -- but the ads for those implied something a bit more flexible in the shaft.

[leg17]

Somehow just don't seem like they would work as bearing scrapers.
May even be custom made for some specific cleaning operation that is undefinable at this point.

[Branson]

Those look much lighter construction than the Babbitt bearing scrapers I remember.  On the other hand, I have a wider scraper looking tool that looks like it could make a fourth one of these.  I've thought it was a carbon scraper,

[Billman49]

They look a bit like saddler's tools - used for stuffing saddles and harness collars... but they usually have serrated ends to catch the stuffing when pushing it into place...

see: http://www.abbeyengland.com/Store/tabid/77/CategoryID/202/Category2ID/51/Level/2/ProductID/69080/language/en-GB/Default.aspx



see also: http://www.hlcollege.ac.uk/PDF/CraftPublications/Crafts/Making%20a%20saddle%201_tcm2-18972.pdf

Fig 4 Stuffing stick, Fig 5 Belly stuffer

[Nolatoolguy]

I always thought carbon scrapers were beefier an wider, any truth to that or am I immiganing things?

[Chillylulu]

I think billman is on the right track.

Chilly

[Branson]

I think billman is on the right track.
Chilly

Looks like it.  They would also be useful in doing reed chair seats.  These need to be stuffed as well.

[wvtools]

I think they are carbon scrapers.  They are very similar to the Mound Tool Co. cylinder carbon scrapers listed in the 1956 catalog.  Are there any markings on the shaft?

[Papaw]

Turnnut sent me this. Found in Floyd Clymer's " Scrapbook of Early Auto Supplies & Equipment... Vol 1"

 

[skipskip]

sure looks  like them


interesting book

I think I'll get it from the library

[Bill Houghton]

At one time, the quality of the gasoline was such that the factory recommendation was to pull the heads and de-coke/decarbonize/scrape the heads and cylinders every 1,000 miles.  Think about that - for many of us nowadays, that would mean a monthly ritual, taking up maybe half of a Saturday morning, although at the time, 1,000 miles was quite a distance between maintenance cycles (and, for most, quite a period of time, as well).  You would want as much help as you could get, including whatever specialized tools you could find, that would shorten the time spent on the work.

[gibsontool]

Bill. That's interesting info,Thanks for that.This is new to me, I have never heard of it before. Do you know what approximate dates that they would have recommended this and Do you know if it was an industry wide thing or just from maybe one or two manufacturers? 

[Papaw]

Into the Sixties we often "Decoked" heads and cylinders on small engines. Back in my bike shop days I spent a lot of time scraping on small bike engines. Can you imagine how caked up the exhaust ports got on small two-stroke engines?