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Anyone know what this brass tool is?

Started by barbb0, October 03, 2011, 03:23:04 PM

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barbb0

This brass tool (?) was with my deceased husband's tools.  Has anyone seen one like it or is it even a tool???
Appreciate any help you can give me with this.

scottg

Its a big brass pin punch. It was for hammering something out of something kind of fragile, that you didn't want to mark up.
Either that, or a gunpowder/gas/gasoline/propane plant where you couldn't afford any stray accidental sparks, or the whole place could go bloooey!
  You can see it has been used a whole lot. That "mushroom" of metal on the top? Where it widens out??
  That comes from hammering and hammering.

  The fact that the little end is still smooth means it was dressed down after every few uses, or it would be all swelled up too.
  yours Scott
PHounding PHather of PHARTS
http://www.snowcrest.net/kitty/sgrandstaff/

barbb0

Thank you so much Scott.  Very useful info.
Barb

rusty


Bushing/bearing driver. Brass so it doesn't muck up the precision hole the bushing goes into.
Just a weathered light rust/WD40 mix patina.