Take a look at these chisels.
I'm going to list them on ebay cause I will never use them but I've never seen chisels like these before.
JB
They're not chisels, they're scrapers. Used by machinists for scraping in new bearings.
John Martin
They're files.
Bob S.
Files? They have no teeth. Are you kidding with me? JB
Thanks. Judging from the interest in this set on ebay it's not worth my time to list them.
JB
wrote: Files? They have no teeth. Are you kidding with me? ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ They WERE files. They are shaped like files, but have had the teeth ground off, so they can be used as scrapers, as John Martin says.
Hi other Leo
Yes that's exactly what I thought, not sure about the wavy ones, spring steel maybe ?
Have fun and take care Leo Van Der Loo
Leo Lichtman wrote:
As stated by John Martin these appear to be scrapers used by machinists for fitting in new bearings in their housings. The scrappers I have used are usually padded at the end of the handle so you do not hurt your hip when pushing. The handles are normally padded with rope or tape to ensure a good grip for day long usage. The scrapers shown may have never been used. The steel used in making scrapers is of high quality and harder than the material being scraped. Judging by the photos these scrapers may or may not be of premium steel quality for scraping steel all day long. Conversely these tools may have been designed for removing mechanical parts from their housing. For me to place a bid on these would require a visual check to verify the quality of the steel and possibly their origin. At one time makers of scrapers would stamped their logo and sometime the date and place. FWIW
For $30.81 shipping, you -might- have found out. Frackin' OUCH!
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I don't think they ever were files, but they came very close to it.
In Sheffield, lots of file makers also made scrapers. An identical file blank would be taken off the line before the teeth were cut, curved and then sharpened and polished. The steel requirements are the same and many of the shapes are similar.
In the workshop, it was traditional to make your wown scrapers from old files by annealing them, filing the old teeth off, bending to shape, then re-hardening and sharpening as a scraper.
As these appear to have no trace of file teeth at all, I think they were made as scrapers. Usually when re-cycling files into scrapers you just take the teeth off around the edges and flatten the tops a little. The remaining teeth make a good chequered grip.
The box is unusual - it's carefully made to store curved scrapers without damaging their edges, yet it doesn't seem to leave space for handles. This is the work of someone who looked after their tools more than their hands - a bare file/scraper tang stuck in the palm is a nasty injury.
Denis:
The bearing scrapers are most often used sideways, inside a bearing. Since you're not pushing endwise as you would be in scraping a flat surface, grabbing the tang is not a problem.
I recall seeing these sometimes with Navy markings on the box.
John Martin
The curved ones typically are called "riflers" and I'm not positive on that spelling. The others - save one - all have the shape of standard files. And no - you can't really see that they don't have any teeth and you never said that in your original post. So no - I wasn't kidding you and as someone else mentioned, they may have started out as files.
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