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roverdriver



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PostPosted: Fri Jan 15, 2010 11:04 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

The manually operated drill is one of my most useful tools. The self feed helps get through the toughest steel, and it is quite quick. Keeps the muscles in the right arm in trim too!

I have not heard the term in the last twenty or so years, but here a hammer was known as a 'Yanky Screwdriver'. I believe it was mainly because of wartime experiences when an American could not be bothered using a more correct and subtle implement.
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PostPosted: Fri Jan 15, 2010 8:18 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Hi
I have heard a large hammer referred to asa Swindon Micrometer supposewdly meaning, for the GWR, if it doesn't fit, hit it.
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47Jag



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PostPosted: Sat Jan 16, 2010 12:56 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

An Irish guy I worked with in Canada called it a Number Nine knocking Stick. He used to work on the Belfast trams and that was his 'instrument of choice' Smile

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Ashley



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PostPosted: Sat Jan 16, 2010 1:47 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Birmingham Spanner?
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Dirty Habit



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Location: West Midlands, UK

PostPosted: Sat Jan 16, 2010 8:28 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Ashley wrote:
Birmingham Spanner?


I have heard of a "Brumagem Screwdriver". Laughing
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Ashley



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PostPosted: Sun Jan 17, 2010 12:58 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Same thing and I can't spell!
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StoneRoad



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PostPosted: Sun Jan 17, 2010 4:03 pm    Post subject: name choice Reply with quote

I usually refer to such implements as
"Wooden handled torque wrench"

if you were in R.E.M.E. I think their motto was "hit with 'ammer, if that does not work, you need a bigger 'ammer"!! Laughing
Trouble is, they're not that wrong!
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GerritKan



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PostPosted: Wed Feb 10, 2010 3:38 pm    Post subject: old tools Reply with quote



This is my workshop with old tools.

The most of them are bicycle tools.



[edited to fix photos, use the IMG Code link. Rick]
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ianm



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PostPosted: Thu Feb 11, 2010 3:36 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Gas axes are always handy Very Happy
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Riley Blue



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PostPosted: Thu Feb 11, 2010 10:20 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Is anyone else a sad person like me with a collection of Brown Brothers catalogues? I have them from 1939, 1950, 1954 and 1968.
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PostPosted: Thu Feb 11, 2010 10:46 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

riley541 wrote:
Is anyone else a sad person like me with a collection of Brown Brothers catalogues? I have them from 1939, 1950, 1954 and 1968.


maybe Wink

I've got one of the thick books that they used to produce, must be 1940s, and I think some thinner publications somewhere inc a few copies of the magazine they used to produce....excellent reading Smile

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PostPosted: Thu Nov 25, 2010 12:50 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

We used to call hammers 'Persuaders'.
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Roger-hatchy



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PostPosted: Thu Nov 25, 2010 2:19 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Attitude adjusters as well
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peter scott



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PostPosted: Thu Nov 25, 2010 2:21 pm    Post subject: Re: old tools Reply with quote

GerritKan wrote:


This is my workshop with old tools.



What a lovely old workshop. That is what I aspire to.

I'm slowly getting there. I have the metal shaded lamps, the old lathe (LHS),
the hand pillar drill (RH of window) and the British Seagull (Out of sight but below the ladder on the right)

I covet your Philips radio/speaker and your phone although I do have a Bakelite wall clock to make up for those. (In last shot)

Peter Wink




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D4B



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PostPosted: Sat Jan 01, 2011 9:33 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Thought you might be interested in this. Silver Manufacturing Co Number 22 Pillar Drill.......

It belonged to my grandad, and was stored in my fathers lockup for many years. 3 Years ago I dragged it out, got it working and gave it a lick of paint. I have however recently given it to my uncle for safekeeping as I needed the space for my latest project!

Hope you like!

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