Mound Tool Co. Hollow Ground Scraping Tools

Re: Mound Tool Co. Hollow Ground Scraping Tools

Todd Hughes

>Kind of hard with out a photo or at least a description...but I'm using my ESP and I see a wooden handle with a metal shaft about 8 in. long and on the end is a sharpened curved leaf like section , I'm guessing...Bearing Scrapers!....Todd

Re: Mound Tool Co. Hollow Ground Scraping Tools

David Hammond, in Powder Springs GA

>Todd, I think you win the prize - a description or pic would have been helpful! Sorry, I left that out, but what you describe is exactly it - long curved peices of steel w/handles. But, what are bearing scrapers? :o) Is this woodworking, or metal?

Thanks,

David

Re: Mound Tool Co. Hollow Ground Scraping Tools

Joe Rogers, Northern Virginia

>Old time mechanical tools. Used for scraping babbitt bearings to fit the shaft they turn on. Not many poured bearings in use any more. After the bearing material was poured into the journal the material was scraped to fit. Then shims were added or removed at the split line to clearance the fit.JR

Re: Mound Tool Co. Hollow Ground Scraping Tools

David Hammond, in Powder Springs GA

>Thanks Joe.

Re: Mound Tool Co. Hollow Ground Scraping Tools

Bob Hackett

>Try them on a scrap of hardwood,you may be surprised.

Think japanese spear/leaf plane.

Mainely,Bob