To avoid these ads, REGISTER NOW!

Help ID these tools?

AKmud

Member
Joined
Jan 14, 2013
Messages
9
Location
Alaska
Hi,

My friend recently picked up this set of what looks like brace and bit style tools. Can anyone help identify what exactly they are and about how old?

Thanks in advance.
 

Attachments

  • John tool box.jpg
    John tool box.jpg
    147.9 KB · Views: 81
  • John tools.jpg
    John tools.jpg
    150.3 KB · Views: 186
To avoid these ads, REGISTER NOW!

unslow1

Well-known member
Joined
Mar 3, 2012
Messages
7,879
Location
Illinois
That looks like a case of tools my Grandfather left me for working on an old Ford. They aren't the same as mine but I'll bump the thread.
 

RTM

Well-known member
Joined
May 13, 2019
Messages
13,061
Location
SF Bay Area
Almost looks like it would be a chamfering tool for circles. Where do the shafts join into the disks, assuming on the side we don’t see? The 2-1/2 and 3 pieces top right, are they exactly that size at the tip, or the base, or somewhere in the middle. Those sizes seem too big for car valve stuff. The bells, center left, seem like they are for centering you in a hole, and the working larger below a surface ( like in an engine cylinder with the head on) which seems really odd.

The teeth look like they move vertically in the disks, is that depth fixed, variable, or does it change while in operation?

Cool whatzit tho, hope someone knows.
 

ClappedOutBport

Well-known member
Joined
Mar 30, 2016
Messages
998
I didn't want to chime in because I wasn't totally sure, but they look like valve seat cutters to me.
 

MrSurly

Well-known member
Joined
Jan 15, 2014
Messages
1,671
Location
East Texas
I agree they look like valve seat cutters, likely for cutting brass seats (think plumbing) I would guess as they look to be hand operated.
 
To avoid these ads, REGISTER NOW!

Old Man Roger

Well-known member
Joined
Apr 6, 2017
Messages
17,394
Location
Palm Coast Florida
I didn't want to chime in because I wasn't totally sure, but they look like valve seat cutters to me.

I agree they look like valve seat cutters, likely for cutting brass seats (think plumbing) I would guess as they look to be hand operated.
I think you guys got it. A google search brings up some similar looking tools for plumbing.
 

RTM

Well-known member
Joined
May 13, 2019
Messages
13,061
Location
SF Bay Area
Arg, lost it all, let’s try this again.

Giving credence to MrSurly’s assertion

M.B. Skinner Seal company - Indiana, South Bend....
valve and bibb reseater ( for automobiles )
re-seating valves , re-seating bibbs , small valves
----- size: 2" capacity........1/4" to 2" globe or angle valves....and 1/4" to 3/4" inch bibbs.
- all manual style
vintage set
all metal

80A3002A-5527-460C-81C1-F49F85C18E40.jpg


https://sfbay.craigslist.org/sby/tls/d/santa-clara-skinner-valve-and-bibb/7134243377.html
 
To avoid these ads, REGISTER NOW!
Top Bottom