mystery tool

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11 September 2019 at 23:46 #428608
mal webber
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Hi can anyone enlighten what these are for ,the only thing I good come up with are some sort of injector seat cleaning or something to that effect.

Thanks Mal.
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11 September 2019 at 23:46 #35611
mal webber
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mystery tool
11 September 2019 at 23:50 #428609
charadam
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Domestic (or other) water tap seat recutting tools.

Edited By charadam on 11/09/2019 23:52:20
11 September 2019 at 23:51 #428610
Bill Phinn
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They look like tap reseating tools to me, Mal.

eta: beaten to it.

Edited By Bill Phinn on 11/09/2019 23:51:49
11 September 2019 at 23:51 #428611
Swarf Maker
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It's a re-seating tool for water taps. The brass bodied kind of tap with a rubber washer.
11 September 2019 at 23:52 #428612
Swarf Maker
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All together now chaps!
11 September 2019 at 23:52 #428613
Dennis R
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They are valve seat cutters, the tapered threaded part screws into different size valve holes inorder to make it more adaptable.

Dennis

Beaten to it!

Edited By Dennis R on 11/09/2019 23:54:02
11 September 2019 at 23:59 #428614
mal webber
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Thanks every one now I know what there for now 'had these for years but had no idea what they were

Mal.

Edited By mal webber on 12/09/2019 00:00:31
12 September 2019 at 00:01 #428615
Jeff Dayman
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I'm pretty sure it is for doing dental work on elephants.

(could be wrong, the plumbers above could be right)
12 September 2019 at 03:54 #428623
I.M. OUTAHERE
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Sphincter surfacing tool 😀

I once machined down the diameter of the cutter to use as a spot face cutter for spot facing the opposite side of a base mounting hole on one of my model engines , a bit fiddly but it worked !
12 September 2019 at 06:41 #428627
Speedy Builder5
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Similar ones used for removing piles ?
12 September 2019 at 07:02 #428628
not done it yet
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@notdoneityet
Last two posts are a load of ‘excrement’!

Any more anal ideas?
20 September 2019 at 21:35 #429819
Nigel Graham 2
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I have a random bound volume of about WW1 vintage, of Model Engineer. In it, one correspondent describes how he re-cut his kitchen tap seat.

Essentially he made something like a Keats Angle-plate from wood and bolts, to hold the lower half of the tap on his lathe face-plate.

Obviously he cannot have had a Mystery Tool, Taps, Domestic, for the Re-seating of.

The taps of his day were simple bib-cocks whose upper half could be unscrewed from only just above the seating. He probably had only one, cold, tap – and possibly in the whole house, not just on the scullery's porcelain sink – so not worth the cost of a Mystery Tool, ditto, when he already had a lathe.
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