BreakPoint
What is this and what is it used for
Thank you Henrik !
It is the "learn something new" aspect of this thread that keeps me coming back.
I was thinking about my previous post and "what it is vs what it is used for" and then recalled I had a rule enforced in my shop;
If you do not know the difference between a screwdriver and and a chissel, you are not allowed to work unsupervised."
That then reminded about a gizmo I have been looking for to get Y'all to help with and said to myself (it looks like a broken cork-screw" when it hit... Maybe taht is what it is!
Here is another set of tools that I have used but never for its original purpose.
The "what is it" sub-question should be straight forward but the "what was it intened use?" is the more obscure part.
I used this last winter and was very pleased when it confirmed what I was looking to verify.
Ben
@altenbach wrote:
@Ben wrote:
The "what is it" sub-question should be straight forward but the "what was it intened use?" is the more obscure part.
Probably just a collection of gauges to measure holes and spacings. Do a Google image search for"valve adjustment gauge" as an example)
That is the first part.
I used it last winter while I was working on a steam engine (no not an Action Engine) that MAY look like this when completed.
It came as a set of casting and I eventually had to figure out what the clearence for eth main split-berarings should be. An associate pulled out Machinery's Handbook and declared 0.003".
And as I was told nice tight fit and spins nicely.
What that set was originally intended for?
Ben
@crossrulz wrote:
My very first thought was a type writer. I used to tear apart my grandma's all the time.
No mention of putting it back together though 
