Re: [CR]Tool ID Help

(Example: Bike Shops)

Date: Mon, 17 Jul 2006 20:24:59 -0400
To: <classicrendezvous@bikelist.org>
From: "John Betmanis" <johnb@oxford.net>
Subject: Re: [CR]Tool ID Help
In-Reply-To: <20060717203928.YPCX16552.ibm67aec.bellsouth.net@mail.bellsouth.net>


At 04:39 PM 7/17/06 -0400, mercian531@bellsouth.net wrote:
>I was trying to identify the following handle or stock that holds steerer tube dies for cutting threads. What exactly do you call those things anyway? I have a Var and a Hozan model and this one is very different. There's a dial on one side that moves three alignment pins back and forth against the steerer tube. I can't find any markings at all, but there is some remnants of red paint. Here's a couple of pics...
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>http://i2.tinypic.com/208w7xi.jpg
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>http://i2.tinypic.com/208wa3l.jpg

I presume you're not asking what it is (a die stock) or what the cammed pins do (they guide the die straight). It just looks like an ordinary die stock, although most don't have the guides. While most bike builders buy special tools from suppliers in their industry, there have to be hundreds of tool manufacturers making similar tools for all kinds of machine shop applications. I remember seeing a very similar-looking die stock, only a smaller size, in the tool cabinet at work, except it was chrome. The brand was Blue Point, a Snap-on brand. Something like this: http://i10.ebayimg.com/04/i/07/bc/96/7b_1.JPG but the one I remember was in a wooden case from the sixties.

John Betmanis <johnb@oxford.net>
Woodstock, ON Canada