What is it? Set 510

Rob H. fired this volley in news: snipped-for-privacy@drn.newsguy.com:

2975 - I've seen these before... I think several are used at once for adjusting and holding the gap around something (large glazing?) while fastening the item in place. I cannot remember why they have steel handles, though.

I need some help with 2971 and 2976 in this set:

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Rob

Posting from my desk top PC, as always.

Well, you got me. Didn't recognize any of them.

. Christ> I need some help with 2971 and 2976 in this set:

Used by piano tuners to damp a portion of the strings in a set of strings for a note, so they hear only one at a time

Yes. They're called wedge mutes.

Joe Makowiec fired this volley in news:XnsA2396E5CEE89BmakowiecatnycapdotrE@78.46.70.116:

YES! I knew I'd seen those in use! I had a piano tuner guy right up the street from me when I got my first house.

That's IT!

Lloyd

Nope, that's not it

This one is not food related

I agree that the blade is upside down, I thought it might be for underbucking but your suggestion sounds good too.

Thanks! I didn't have an answer for this one.

Excellent! Thanks for providing the name, I found some good references for them on the web.

Nope, it's not for use on meat

Erik

The piano tuner my parents hired had these, but the tips were fibrous.

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I believe they used felt similar to that used on piano hammers.

I was thinking it was for adjusting the weight of the head. Add shot and you can make it heavier.. not sure why you would.

Erik wrote in news: snipped-for-privacy@news.dslextreme.com:

I agree. That was my guess also.

Larry

Aha! I was looking for it as a note on the blog site before I got to the usenet posting. Thanks.

Posting from rec.crafts.metalworking as always. Which of the three newsgroups are the rest of you posting from?

a) To pull two objects together with features shaped to fit the trapezoidal wedge shapes. (Not very strong, though, based on the apparent thickness of the metal in the shapes.)

b) They sort of look like the profile of some styles of house gutter -- so perhaps a tool to help in shaping and attaching the ends to some of the continuous formed gutters (made from a roll by a pickup truck-mounted machine.

Those that I have seen, however, tended to include the shank which fits into the air chisel.

Once cast, the head is screwed into the hammer head for use, until it gets too worn from use, at which point the steel core screw is recovered and a new head is cast around it -- or a new head is purchased and screwed in. The casting form of repair is more likely in the lead format. And for that, there is a missing piece -- a mold which closes around the threaded part, and shapes the lead as it is poured in.

a) It is pressed repeatly into still fresh concrete or stucco to make the pattern (keying the last shape at one end into the first shape at the other end).

b) It is used as a stencil for spraying a contrasting paint around the pattern -- probably with the wire side away from the surface being painted, and the angle is adjusted so there are no shadows of the wires left in the painted surface.

The teeth look to be for bi-directional wood sawing for green limbs.

If there were a spring forcing the two jaws apart, I could see it being placed between the piece to be cut and another limb, and the spring provides the force to hold the teeth in contact with the workpiece.

Or -- if the toothed edge were rotated to face *towards* the other jaw, the rope could be pulled tight to keep the teeth forced into a piece of wood held between the jaws.

Now to post and then see what others have suggested.

Enjoy, DoN.

I also remember seeing felt on the hammers. I wonder if rubber lasts longer for the mutes? I asked a piano tuner, but could not hear his answer. I guess it's a mute point.

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