Recent content by RickV78

That's great and thanks! I found 2 different pages showing my tool.

I bought this at an estate sale and was told the shape of it was designed to hold old rock drills on an anvil so they can be sharpened. The engraving on this Hardy tool has IR stamped in the center and Ingersoll Rand apparently started their business making rock drills. I thought this was...

Yeah I guess there is a "3" hiding in there.

Oh man that's great! Thanks so much for researching that! I can't believe all the help I just got from this forum. Well now that we know what it is I'm now wondering what I should do with it. I don't collect old tools and these seem pretty rare so should I put them on eBay or is there an old...

Wow that's impressive. Thanks for that. That's crazy they're 100 years old. The stove pipe use makes sense as well. I honestly can't seem to find another one like it online.

Oh yeah that makes sense. It probably would crimp an end of a round pipe to turn that end into a male so it would fit into another pipe of the same size. Probably one of the first ones ever made.

Hey guys I recently found this and was wondering what it's used for and about how old it is. It appears to be some kind of sheet metal crimping shears. It was made by Champion and has a patent number stamped on it.