The Tool Thread

Well you can probably set one measurement in the one side, and another one in the other side.

That's a really cool find!!

 

Shawn, you'll like this one. My uncle picked this up at an estate sale. Nice little oak bow saw. It is missing the tensioner stick. I twisted the wire by hand and the saw tightens nicely. I don't think it was refinished, but well kept in a tool chest. Maybe used for making musical instruments? I'd like to know more about it.

 

Maybe a GO-NO GO setting.....I've never seen calipers like that.

 

Possible. I checked around on the net tonight with no luck. I'll get a picture tomorrow to my FIL who was a machinist.

 

It looks like a caliper used while turning things on a lathe.

 

My good friend and fellow FHC'er walt gave this to me recently. 10-1/4" Milwaukee circular saw. Now I can cut all the way thru a 4x4! Thanks Walt!

 

Double calipers. Set it for the original turning, then use the other side to see what you have on your working turning adjusting it as you progress. Not common though as two calipers would give you the same thing.

 

I was sitting at a spare desk at a plant I was visiting last week and when rummaging through the drawers looking for a pen I ran across a set of vernier calipers. I have no problem using dial calipers, but after playing with the vernier one's for a few minutes I had to cheat with Google images to figure them out!

 

My oldest "daughter" bought a cheap mobile home and her BF and I are fixing it up.
The other day nailing in some floor joist scabs in a precarious position my shoulders told me to go buy a palm nailer ,,,, so I obliged .Oh and a torx bit set that was on sale cheap.

 

I couldn't pass this one up today. I believe it is a metal working hammer. Date says 1854, but it could have been incised at any point. Square socket, nicely worn thumb grip and it looks like a hole was drilled and filled with lead for added weight.

 

Really? I thought it was typical to show you how to read a vernier in high school. It was in my high school.

 

Ha! Back in the day. We didn't get anything remotely like that in highschool.

 

Well I did need to fend off the dinosaurs on the way to school but measuring tools was as much a part of the curriculum as using a slide rule. How many kids these days even know what a K scale, or a CF scale are good for much less an LL scale? My kids, now in their 40s, were amazed that I could use a tool with no batteries to do rapid calculations when they were in high school.

 

I never used them in high school, but I never took any shop classes either. One of my college classes spent a day with vernier calipers, but that was 15 years ago and I've never even seen a set like that since then!

 

BassJAM and I are about the same age. My high school didn't have the first shop class, wood working, automotive, or machine shop type.

 

Man you guys find all the steals!! Nice!!!

 

Never saw them in a shop class myself but the physics lab sessions used them at least once. I was one of those nerds that never took a shop class but I worked summers as a carpenter's apprentice. Carpenters never need a vernier for what they do.

 

I went to high school during the "Everyone should go to college era". We still had shop classes (including forestry) but they stopped only a year or two after I graduated. The sad part was, if you were like me and said you were going into a blue collar line of work they wrote you off. I said I planned to be a diesel mechanic to a guidance councilor as a Freshman and never heard from her again.

The interesting thing was my career path. I never got into being a diesel mechanic but rather a welder instead. I did some construction jobs at the start, then went into the railroad and rose from welder to being a safety coordinator. From there I got into the Merchant Marines (because tug boats have locomotive engines aboard) and then into shipbuilding making US Navy Destroyers. It was a roundabout career path, BUT I mention this because at 42 I am now retired when some of the teachers I had in High School are still working, and the jobs I had were lucrative, most likely being paid more then they were.

I just wonder how many kids who enjoyed the trades were written off and now are doing quite well?

I can tell you this, my sister (adopted) has the equivalent of Down Syndrome and yet stocks shelves at a grocery store. I admit she is not paid much, but her boss LOVES her because she has never missed a day of work in 3 years, and most normal workers cannot say that. No one should be written off in the work force, everyone has a place.

 

Blacksmiths use double calipers to do quick checks on width and thickness.