Screen roller tool always in machinist toolboxes?

[1982fxr]

I've bought several and noticed it in others as well. Why did machinists always seem to have one of these double roller tools?

This pic is not mine, just one I saw for sale today.

 

[RTM]

That's funny. I've bought several machinist boxes, and never found one. One box was full of refrigerator magnets, another electrical stuff, an third electronic engineer tools, and 2 empties.

But I've never found one of those in any other box I've bought either, and that's 6 or 8 more.

 

[Tim in Indiana]

I always had a small roller but not a screen spline roller. Mine was about an inch wide and it was used to seal stainless steel foil pouches used when heat treating air hardening tool steel.

 

[NORTON'S SHOP]

I have one entire drawer in my toolbox that when I'm gone there will be a lot of WTF was this for?.

 

[Gunfixr]

I was a machinist over 20yrs, and while I have one, it was always at home, not in my machinist box.
While I did not go around looking in people's boxes, I don't recall ever seeing one in any drawer that happened to be open when I approached.

 

[FMB4]

I worked in a machine shop for several years and I do not recall any of the machinists using anything like those. But that 20 yrs ago.

 

[RoninB4]

Worked for 40 years in shops, never saw a toolbox with one and still don't have one myself. Have I lived an incomplete life?

 

[winnievan]

This must be why I cannot keep my parts with .0001.... damnit.

 

[Ole Slewfoot]

Because what machinist is going to pay some chump to put in a window screen all crooked?

 

[Squankum]

The first rule of machinist screen roller fight club is you don't talk about machinist screen roller fight club.

 

[Al Borland]

Father-in-law was a machinist/modelmaker in a prototype shop. Several spline tools in his toolbox. Wonder if they are useful for some "off-brand" purpose...

 

[txvwnut]

I use one for installing engine bay seals in aircooled veedub beetles.

 

[Squankum]

Transferring blueprints to sheet metal?

 

[LeonardY]

I've bought several and noticed it in others as well. Why did machinists always seem to have one of these double roller tools?

This pic is not mine, just one I saw for sale today.

Because it's the only way to get rid of them.

 

[Packard V8]

A cousin's stepfather was a US Steel millwright in the 1940s-'60s. When my cousin was going through his deceased stepfather's work tool box, in it was a .25 automatic pistol. The shop could be a rough place in those days.

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