Help Identifying Tool

January 29, 2021, 04:15 PM

Cyber-friend rescued this tool that was being discarded by a school. I can't quite picture what it is for, other than some sort of swage perhaps. Interchangeable ends numbered 1-50, #50 is 15/16ths diameter.

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January 29, 2021, 04:57 PM

bendable

Grommet setter,
Not a Wallace setter

A very elaborate setter.

I could be wrong, this is only January, I am usually not correct until mid May

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January 29, 2021, 04:59 PM

PHPaul

quote:
Originally posted by bendable:
Grommet setter,
Not a Wallace setter

Wonder how many folks will get that reference?

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January 29, 2021, 05:22 PM

egregore

They look like mandrels for forming a flare/chamfer in a hollow tube of some sort. What application there is for such a thing is still a mystery.

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January 29, 2021, 05:27 PM

P250UA5

quote:
Originally posted by PHPaul:
quote:
Originally posted by bendable:
Grommet setter,
Not a Wallace setter

Wonder how many folks will get that reference?

That's a good one.

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January 29, 2021, 05:32 PM

Rey HRH

quote:
Originally posted by egregore:
They look like mandrels for forming a flare/chamfer in a hollow tube of some sort. What application there is for such a thing is still a mystery.

That's what I thought when I looked at it. The kind that flares up the ends of copper piping for brass connectors.

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January 29, 2021, 05:40 PM

pbslinger

Dent balls for brasswind instrument repair.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Di1FyeI_9nk

Here is how you use them:

https://musicmedic.com/the-dent-eraser

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January 29, 2021, 05:56 PM

nhtagmember

quote:
Originally posted by PHPaul:
quote:
Originally posted by bendable:
Grommet setter,
Not a Wallace setter

Wonder how many folks will get that reference?

Very clever

January 29, 2021, 06:12 PM

bald1

quote:
Originally posted by pbslinger:
Dent balls for brasswind instrument repair.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Di1FyeI_9nk

Here is how you use them:

https://musicmedic.com/the-dent-eraser

This certainly makes sense coming from a school where they probably had a band and music courses.

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January 29, 2021, 06:19 PM

Mars_Attacks

Yes, it is a brass instrument dent remover. Marching bands will have many dented tubes.

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January 29, 2021, 06:21 PM

egregore

Hey, I knew they were mandrels for something.

Something like that (in principle) would be used by gunsmiths to get dents out of shotgun barrels.

"The Almighty, He put some livin' things on this earth so a man can eat." - Festus Haggen, Gunsmoke

Be careful when following the masses. Sometimes the M is silent.

January 29, 2021, 07:40 PM

LS1 GTO

quote:
Originally posted by PHPaul:
quote:
Originally posted by bendable:
Grommet setter,
Not a Wallace setter

Wonder how many folks will get that reference?

It's all about the cheese.

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