[SEL] Another tool

[Peter Lowe]

The tool Dave was showing us is for gas lamps back in the late 1800's early 
1900's.
The tapered tap is for the thread that the lamp screws into. The lamp has a 
tapered thread that matches the hole, you screw the lamp into the taper 
until it is tight.. The tap is for cleaning out the threads.
The tapered square part of the tool is used for reaming out that threaded 
hole if thread stuffs up, in the early days they called them "rimers" 
pronounced the same way as reamer.
The screw driver part is for turning off the gas.
Great old tools, pity they can't talk.

Regards
Peter Lowe
R&V Engine Registrar
Australia
Ph: 61-266453455
http://www.oldengine.org/members/plowe/rv-engines/rvpage.htm
http://www.oldengine.org/members/plowe/rv-engines/rv-register.htm




>>>> See http://home-and-garden.webshots.com/photo/2892449470028520097EKSMRH
>>>> I got this in a box of tools given to me when a cycle shop finished.
>>>> It has 3 tools  1 Tapered thread tap
>>>>                     2 tapered square 3 broad screwdriver (or looks like
>>>> one)
>>>> I wondered if it was an early gas tool for fitting plugs.
>>>> Can anyone recognise a tool like this?
>>>> TIA
>>>> Dave Croft
>>>> Warrington, UK
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