Funny Screwdriver/Proto Gasket Scraper

[bczygan]

So I'm looking through my misc. tools and spy a big funny looking screwdriver. Says Proto on it and the number (2336). Internet indicates it's a gasket scraper. Not something I would have bought on purpose. But maybe I can use it in the future. It's 1 1/2". Can I use it on any size gasket? What's the technique...I'm a butter-fingered and ham-fisted guy. And it is dull. Wouldn't cut warm butter. How sharp should they be? Ground straight across or a little rounded as it is? Looks like a little reverse bevel on it, so no flattening the back?

 

[adamsredlines]

Its for scraping old gasket material that is left on the parent part....so it can scrape wherever it fits.

It should be pretty sharp, but mine (Wilde) are not knife sharp. Nice crisp edge.

 

[claymont]

Want to sell it?

 

[1982fxr]

since you said you're hamfisted.......


not for use on aluminum!

 

[bczygan]

Want to sell it?

I think you can buy these retail. And I'm thinking of keeping and using it. Although I don't usually do water pumps or heads, I might change a thermostat or crack the case on a Rotax. It's not mint, so not a museum collectors piece.

 

[Altec]

Use a file to put a edge on it. That's plenty Sharp, and it'll last forever.

 

[Conductor562]

I've got a long handled model. I'm always finding uses for it. Definitely worth keeping around!

 

[Outlawmws]

The edge should NOT be at a sharp angle like a wood chisel and certainly not like a knife. probably about 45 degrees from vertical. The edge on the rather blunt angle however should be sharp with no rollover. It should be cutting more like a snow plow...

Nice find!

 

[Stuart in MN]

I just bought a Proto yellow handle clutch head driver this weekend at a yard sale; I did some looking here and on the web when I got home and it appears the old yellow handle Proto tools are somewhat rare and collectible these days, I found a couple people in older posts who were looking for them:

http://www.garagejournal.com/forum/showthread.php?t=100394
http://www.garagejournal.com/forum/showthread.php?t=32422

Besides that gasket scraper and all different types of screwdrivers they also had nut drivers.