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Tool I.D.
Mike G.
>Found a tool I forgot about having when I cleaned up my shop the other day. It's made by Bridgeport Manufacturing co. It's a wooden handle about 6 inches long with a chuck on the end. When I bought it, it had a chisel in it. I thought it was kind of like a pin vise, but it will only close up so far as to take a piece of tooling with a 1/4" shank. Is this a carving tool handle, perhaps? I don't have a picture of it.
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Joe Rogers, Northern Virginia
>It may be a tool handle. (not very discriptive name)
See this web site and compare the features...it sounds like they might be the same or similar.
http://www.sydnassloot.com/th1.htm
Usually the tools are stored in the handle.JR
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Mike G.
>I've got one of those tool handles, plus another one that was for a cobbler with a different type of chuck. The tool I'm describing has a solid wood handle with a drill type chuck.
Thanks, Mike G.
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Jonathan Peck - N.Y.
>It sounds like a push drill.
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Mike G.
>Thanks Jon, but that's not it.
I need to see if I can get a pic on here. I've got two...well...several pushdrills. This is different. It's got a chuck like a hand drill, but mounted on a wooden handle. The chuck will only tighten up enough to take tooling with a 1/4" diameter shaft. In fact, a chisel was in it when I bought it.
mike G.