Moore and Wright Sheffield England
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3baygarage
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Bearing scrapers I think.
Yep thanks for the help!
Private Lugnutz
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Those are really nice. Of all the Babbitt scrapers I have, only two are marked. Not only are those you have marked, but they came in their own wooden box!
3baygarage
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Never seen one with the squared end.
Private Lugnutz
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Me neither. That one is probably not for bearings. So more generically, engineers scrapers.
Provincial
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The scraper with the squared end is probably for scraping in flat surfaces, such as ways on a machine tool.
My first thought too however scrapers for machine ways are not square for the most part. They are a convex shape so they only contact a small area of the surface. That one in the picture is hard to judge and/or has been improperly ground at some point in it's life.
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Stubby1743
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I have recently got one of these in a box with other tools. I'm still not clear as to its intended purpose.
As can be seen, it's not very large. The blade tapers along its length. It also tapers very slightly across its width. The handle is hollow for most of its length with an 8mm hole extending for 93mm of the 115mm length of the handle. It is marked "Moore & Wright Sheffield England like the one in the Ops picture, but on mine the "Moore & Wright" is straight rather than curved, which may mean that mine is a bit later.
I have other bearing scrapers and this tool seems very different. However, the fact that the OPs came in a set with two other tools which clearly are bearing scrapers means that it must also be one.
Anybody got any info as to its use or maybe have a M&W catalogue that shows it?
As can be seen, it's not very large. The blade tapers along its length. It also tapers very slightly across its width. The handle is hollow for most of its length with an 8mm hole extending for 93mm of the 115mm length of the handle. It is marked "Moore & Wright Sheffield England like the one in the Ops picture, but on mine the "Moore & Wright" is straight rather than curved, which may mean that mine is a bit later.
I have other bearing scrapers and this tool seems very different. However, the fact that the OPs came in a set with two other tools which clearly are bearing scrapers means that it must also be one.
Anybody got any info as to its use or maybe have a M&W catalogue that shows it?
RTM
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Yes, amazingly, the first one I looked in
Moore & Wright Engineers' Tools : List No. 38.A : Moore & Wright (Sheffield) Ltd. : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
168 p., illus., 21.3 cm, trade catalog
archive.org
Stubby1743
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RTM
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More Moore catalogs Wright here for your perusal
Firebrick43
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