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  1. 1st September 2009, 01:49 PM #1
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    Not space aliens but worse - brain-dead morons with no understanding of fine tools or equipment - who else would use a precision Moore and Wright Engineers flat scraper as a chisel.

    The pounding has mushroomed the end and driven the blade about an inch back into the tubular handle.I will have to knock the blade out and shorten the knurled tubing on both ends to clean it up.

    I doubt that the person who bought these fine tools committed this vandalism - probably an ignorant relative who inherited it. I hate to think what might happen to all my nice tools one day.
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    I'm not sure that handle is original ,my M&W flat scraper has a rosewood handle, and the scraper has a curved edge ,not square like a wood chisel.

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    M & W made a couple of different sets of scrapers - the silver handled ones are a smaller and finer set as pictured below. Some people just don't look after their tools - I still can't believe someone would pound on a thin tubular handle with a hammer though.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Quasimodo View Post
    M & W made a couple of different sets of scrapers - the silver handled ones are a smaller and finer set as pictured below. Some people just don't look after their tools - I still can't believe someone would pound on a thin tubular handle with a hammer though.
    Well, if that's all some 'imbecile' had access to, and he needed to chisel of a bolt head -----------

    Bloody shame though, aint it ?

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