Thread: New tools

Here is the three-cornered file that has the teeth ground off and shaped to a point. It is wrapped with masking tape as the edges are sharp. I may only sharpen about 1inch from the tip and dull the rest and replace the tape with a piece of rubber fuel line.

I cleaned it up, it was rusted and it scraps fine as it is, but will take an edge with a diamond plate, I sharpen one corner.

The scraper was in a toolbox with a bunch of hand tools and saws. The box was probably made by the owner and he took some pride in it. It is made of fur plywood, screwed together with brass screws. Note his initials by the handle and decorated with brass pins around the hasp, also note that he took the time to clock each of the brass screws around the entire box and the screws on the clasps.

I cleaned the box with mineral spirits and brushed on a couple coats of linseed oil and padded on a lite coat of shellac. The bottom was left untreated, that was what the whole box looked like.

In the box with the tools was this 12-inch piece of aluminum cable, with a tag that reads, Boulder Transmission Line 2,312 MCM. The cable is about 17/8 thick, aluminum cables were/are used for high voltage transmission.

Likely this guy worked on the Boulder/ Hoover dam and carried this piece of cable in this box all these years. Clearly he was proud of his work on the dam project, it is a small piece of history.