Subject: Re: Strange tool I gotta have - Flue Tubes???

From: [email-masked]
Date: Fri, 17 May 1996 04:32:35 -0400

Jim..

Are there any of the dies that go with this thing?  Is it possible that it
attached to the anvil and became a striker?

Kent   :o)
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From: Jim McCarty <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 17 May 1996 11:27:30 -0500

> attached to the anvil and became a striker?

The dies are gone but it no doubt had others. It attaches to a pipe 
using a split wedge mechanism but could prbably go in the hardy hole 
if modified. No doubt it was a striker of some sort but I am guessing 
it had a special purpose. I have seen pictures of something similar 
that was used by tinners to make the creases in stove pipe. These were 
simply hinged hammers with the cross pein end pointing down though. 
This one looks just like a blacksmith's 2-1/2 pound cross pein but it 
has the advantage of the spring to make it hit hard.

Haven't bought it yet -- just going by a sketch someone sent me. One 
of  akind?

Jim McCarty
Father Helias Forge
Taos, MO
"To conform is to die, mere imitation is suicide"