Thread: identify these tools

Originally Posted by mordrax

I've got a picture here from someone selling these tools on gumtree:
Various Hand Tools | Hand Tools | Gumtree Australia The Hills District - Castle Hill

I can identify 3 of them, I'm curious what the rest are and what they're used for (or even if they apply to woodworking).
Far left, black handle - cutters of some sort
Left, blue handle - looks like a rivet gun
Yellow handle - socket thing for reaching hard to reach nuts

I'm curious what the rest are and how they are used.

A lot are mechanic tools
1 top left (next to tin snips [cutters]) valve spring compressor (mec)
2 bevel gage (wood)
3 ?
4 ?
5 nave plate (hub cap) remover (mec)
6 looks like another type of valve spring compressor
7 ? can't see enough
8 you are correct pop riveter
9 saw set (wood saws)
10 you were right again
11 for taking springs off break shoes (mec)
12 blue thing ?
13 another valve spring compressor (mec)
14 (below 13) for clamping a self vulcanising patch onto a tyre tube before lighting the patch (mec)
15 (above) looks like a spanner for removing the nipple from a blow lamp ( plumb elect )
16 (above that) a fly cutter for cutting circles in light gauge mettle
17 a type of knife
18 ? can't see enough

Well those are my guesses for what they are worth , lets see what others have to say.
Regards

Lets see - bottom row, next to the blue thingy, its a Roper Whitney No.XX hole punch, 1.1 ton capacity, very handy, I've had one for nearly 20 years, better for stainless steel than the No.5 Jr which is widely copied.

Just to the right of that is a tyre innertube vulcaniser, meant to be used with one of the 'patent' patching kits - never seen one work properly.

On the far left of the bottom row, the gold thing is a saw set, for bending the teeth of a saw after they have been filed. The rusty pliers just above it is another saw set, just a different patent.

The gold thing above the RW punch looks to be a dowelling jig, for drilling holes in the edges of boards.

The rust & black thing slightly up and to the right from the hole puch is a circle cutter for a drill press, used to either make holes or small (toy) wooden wheels. Very exciting if you get it out of ballance, at least this one has two cutters, a lot have only one.

Top row, from the left - plier type gadget for compressing springs, I think for brakes or shock absorbers. The silver pliers with the rivertted handles are related I think. Next, a carpenter's sliding bevel.

I can't tell from the photo what most of the other bits are.

Do I get a prize?

Originally Posted by bsrlee

Lets see - bottom row, next to the blue thingy, its a Roper Whitney No.XX hole punch, 1.1 ton capacity, very handy, I've had one for nearly 20 years, better for stainless steel than the No.5 Jr which is widely copied.

Just to the right of that is a tyre innertube vulcaniser, meant to be used with one of the 'patent' patching kits - never seen one work properly.

On the far left of the bottom row, the gold thing is a saw set, for bending the teeth of a saw after they have been filed. The rusty pliers just above it is another saw set, just a different patent.

The gold thing above the RW punch looks to be a dowelling jig, for drilling holes in the edges of boards.

The rust & black thing slightly up and to the right from the hole puch is a circle cutter for a drill press, used to either make holes or small (toy) wooden wheels. Very exciting if you get it out of ballance, at least this one has two cutters, a lot have only one.

Top row, from the left - plier type gadget for compressing springs, I think for brakes or shock absorbers. The silver pliers with the rivertted handles are related I think. Next, a carpenter's sliding bevel.

I can't tell from the photo what most of the other bits are.

Do I get a prize?

Damn I forgot to list the second saw set. On second looks I think you are right about the hole press and dowel jig. The name for that type of circle cutter is a fly cutter. No 1 is definitely for compressing valve springs to remove the valves from the cylinder head 11 is for unhooking the springs that go from 1 break shoe to the other to pull them away from the drum. 2 sliding bevel, bevel gage same thing.
Regards

The photo shows a pot-pourri of old tools some of which are well and truly superseded.

Using A Duke's item numbers, items 3 and 4 are cobblers tools - I have a number of each which belonged to my late Dad. During In the 1950s I recall my Dad re-soling family shoes and boots with leather and after heating (blackening) them with a candle or a kero lamp, these two tools were rubbed on the edges of the new leather soles to blacken them.

Item 17 looks like a “knife” for scoring or cutting laminex or similar so as to cut it to size and I think the partly hidden item 18 is probably another vulcaniser clamp.

I agree with bsrlee that item 6 is a dowel jig but it is missing the bushes and depth “clamp”.

To be slightly more specific, the yellow handled socket is a spark plug spanner. Has a rubber ring in the top of the socket to hole the sparkplug in place.

The blue item (lower middle) looks like a work holding gadget I have.

It should have an inner sliding wedge also.

The idea is shown here

Cheers,
Andrew

Truly, you guys' knowledge are awesome hehe (did that sentence even make sense)

I didn't know what most of these things were...

Do I get a prize?

Sorry but no prize, but you can give yourself a pat on the back!

Originally Posted by Colin62

To be slightly more specific, the yellow handled socket is a spark plug spanner. Has a rubber ring in the top of the socket to hole the sparkplug in place.

Yes I remembered that a day later. It's for spark plug buried deep in the cam / tappet cover or under exhaust manifoulds on V engines.
Regards