A Hard Way To Cut Steel!

A Hard Way To Cut Steel!

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29 June 2026 at 18:04 #853987
Martin King 2
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Hi All,

Just got this interesting little Cased set of Swiss Made tools in with a bunch of tooling etc.

It is fortunate that there was this old photo of the tools being used as There is no info online about them, not even a name for them.

Looks like a hard way to cut a block of steel by hand! Cheers, Martin
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29 June 2026 at 19:53 #854005
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Chain drilling is a well-established way of forming cut outs in material.

The tools shown are an improved mousetrap take on chiselling away the webs between the holes.
29 June 2026 at 20:16 #854006
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This is more like how large stone blocks are, or were, split. It still leaves a lot of work.

JA

edit. Looking again at the picture, not quite. But it still leaves a lot of filing.
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