rslaback
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Bought an auction lathe last fall that I finally got a chance to inventory and found this Swedish beauty. Got any oddballs to share that might be new to the rest of us?
There's a tool I didn't know existed
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Old tool guy
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What is it?
It is a hammerless drift remover for removing chucks or drills. Where we would normally use a struck wedge style this thing rotates eccentrically to push the center wedge out to pop the chuck out of the sleeve. Using this doesn't risk damaging the spindle bearings from you whacking on them sideways.
So you put it in with the handle up then rotate the handle down, the wedge comes forward and the chuck pops out.
nadogail
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Removes Taper Shank Tooling.
I love the constant "look at this thing that I found, and you've never seen before" threads here where the OP posts a picture but doesn't say WTF it is without being asked first. Why not just tell us right away? Suspense? Getting 10 posts with incorrect guesses makes you feel more knowledgeable than the rest of us idiots? Why not just tell us in the first post what it is?
oldmachinenut
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Oh great, another tool I will be looking for
How do you suppose I learned what it does?
Maybe I am the only one but I find more satisfaction in trying to understand how something works and what it is used for than I do in being spoonfed answers. A million apologies that you had to scroll down 2 posts to find out what it is.
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Old tool guy
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Don’t pay any attention, he got up on the wrong side of the garage. I think it’s interesting to see guesses, or the odd person who knows.
RoninB4
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-A somewhat uncommon item. I've only seen/used about a half dozen in 35+ years of working in machine shops. Sometimes they work, sometimes they don't. Still a nice item to have, you'll find a taper or sleeve it works on.
Stubby1743
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I posted this Tangmaster version of the same type of tool in September last year in the "Share unique tools others may not know about" thread.
neophyte
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There are similar tools still made by German manufacturers.
I posted this Tangmaster version of the same type of tool in September last year in the "Share unique tools others may not know about" thread.
I thin these are less common than basic drift keys due to the way higher cost.