help id some dies?

Hey DOC,

Coincidence, but I was thumbing through some auction stuff this morning, and came across some bits and pieces that look strikingly similar to what you have. Only one of each, and not exactly like "your's", but very similar in shape and identical in finish and colour. I don't know where or when I came to possess them though. Maybe from Tilbury?

Take care. Let us know what you find out.

Brian Lawson, Bothwell, Ontario.

I think they look like die inserts for an injection molded part. These inserts seem to have specific model # or some such data on them.

Pete Stanaitis

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snipped-for-privacy@sympatico.ca wrote:

It looks a lot like part of a wheel dresser. We used to run some cinci grinders that had a template in the back that a stylus followed to run the diamond wheel dresser.

Wes

-- "Additionally as a security officer, I carry a gun to protect government officials but my life isn't worth protecting at home in their eyes." Dick Anthony Heller

I do a lot with press tools, drop stamping dies and die sets. These are the male part of a pair for making some metal part, as they have shearing edges as well as forming profiles. The female part you dont have, tho even if you did what would you use them for? if you had a press to put them in. Now if they were matching male and female tools of say rounds or other shapes you might have a market for them. Probably some military part for something. As for the metal, they will be tool steel hardened and tempered. Useful stuff if you can anneal it to use on something else. Hope this helps

Ted

It looks to me like the lettering is reversed, as though they were meant to mold or press a positive image into a part.

jsw