Help ID Unknown Tool

I don't know what it is. My question to you is: why did you buy it? - GWE

I think this is a sheet metal edge beading tool. Probably used for making small hot air ducts. If you are referring to H & K or Heckler & Koch, it is a German firearm firm, but I am pretty sure they had nothing to do with this. Steve

It was inexpensive and I thought it was neat. It would not be the first unknown thing I bought that turned out to be really useful when I figured out what it was.

Sal

I think I saw this in a tinsmith reproduction book - I think it is to make crimps in the end of a piece of flue so that it can be fitted inside the next piece...

I don't think it's a beading tool, I think it's a crimper. The rolls roll in line with the arms and the depth is about right. Push and pull and tighten the nut to make crimps. I like to pick a spot, go 180 degrees from there, then 90 from there, etc, rather than try to make an incremement like 3/8 come out around the circumference.

You'd loosen the nut, do all 32 or 64 crimps or whatever, then tighten it a bit and do them all again until your duct telescopes into its mate.

--Doug

Oh Ho!! He lives and breathes!! Where ya been? What are you up to Doug?

Take care.

Brian Lawson, Bothwell, Ontario. XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX

"Grant Erwin" wrote: I don't know what it is. My question to you is: why did you buy it? - GWE ^^^^^^^^^^^^^ I would have bought it myself it not too expensive. Half the fun is trying to figure it out. And once the use is known, lots of times it becomes LESS interesting.

After it telescopes into its mate, does the replication process begin?

"ATP*" wrote: After it telescopes into its mate, does the replication process begin? ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Is "telescope" a four-letter word?

We've moved. First my stuff, then our computers, and just yesterday, The Bed. Today we move dressers.

I'm not doing anything creative right now, but once we deal with this clutter and get used to living here, it'll be easier. Hell, right now, I am just struggling to get an hour of sleep at night, with several hours in bed.

Yours,

Doug Goncz Replikon Research Seven Corners, VA 22044-0394

The process pretty much crimps its style, and it shrivels in diameter, so often has to be hand forced.

Kinda like Fred Durst.

Could be used to inlay metal rings on round stuff. Stick the part in a lathe, groove it, position the tool, push a bit, and feed in a soft wire.

See rec.crafts.textiles.sewing for an example of what I can do on a half night's sleep with the assistance of a few hundred milligrams of Seroquel, and my reply to your post in rcm.

And thanks for asking!

Yours,

Doug Goncz Replikon Research Falls Church, VA 22044-0394

Gimme a clue where/how to do that. Google brings up about 3,000 hits on "rec.crafts.textiles.sewing"

On Mon, 07 Mar 2005 17:51:59 -0500, the inscrutable Brian Lawson spake:

Searching RCTS for " snipped-for-privacy@aol.com" in 2005 shortens the list.

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