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What's-It Forum => What's-It Forum => Topic started by: DOC on January 07, 2018, 07:03:54 PM

Title: Hoping y'all may recognize this strange tool...
Post by: DOC on January 07, 2018, 07:03:54 PM

A friend sent me the pictures and asked what it was...I have never seen anything like it !

Title: Re: Hoping y'all may recognize this strange tool...
Post by: kwoswalt99 on January 07, 2018, 07:29:31 PM

It's an assayer's tool for grinding ore samples.

Title: Re: Hoping y'all may recognize this strange tool...
Post by: turnnut on January 07, 2018, 07:33:33 PM

 I was thinking on the same line, that it was used to crush some think, but did not know what ?

Title: Re: Hoping y'all may recognize this strange tool...
Post by: DOC on January 08, 2018, 06:07:30 PM

Thanks a bunch for the instant answer ! I googled "assayers tools" and there it was in all it's glory. It's called a muller and goes with a bucking board to grind ore samples to a certain sieve size for assaying !

Title: Re: Hoping y'all may recognize this strange tool...
Post by: lptools on January 08, 2018, 06:16:33 PM

Hello, Kwoswalt99. Great job on identifying that tool. How heavy is that tool?? Regards, Lou

Title: Re: Hoping y'all may recognize this strange tool...
Post by: mikeswrenches on January 08, 2018, 10:07:29 PM

Martin Donnelly had one and it weighed 50 lbs.

Mike