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1:01 pm
May 15, 2010
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Anybody know what this was used for? I have several sizes that came from a R.R. shop, other tooling includes ball forming and also a pintle die? (looks like a donut.) I did use it once to forged some 1" chromoly pipe for my Harley front end.
Michael Dillon
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1:32 pm
March 22, 2010
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Ive got several clappers built like that with maybe a little more taper, I have used them for putting tapers on my Ti crowbars and making some taper bar for some forward controls... No insight as to what they might of made in a railroad shop though...
Whatever you are, be a good one.
Abraham Lincoln
6:06 am
May 18, 2010
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I would say they were used for the likes of rail bolt podgers, or podger ends of things like spike pulling bars. Rail bolt podgers are used to line up the bolt holes in the rail to the holes in fishplates. Most of the bars we make for the railways have a podger end on them so as the fettlers can use them to align rails with sleepers etc. We will use taper swages (thats the Australian name for them anyway) to do round tapers especially if we have lots to do rather than just a taper block as it is a stack quicker. Just rough taper forge the end of the bar under plain dies and then stick it into the taper swages and swage it down to size, a quick grind on the small end to put a chafer and its done.
10:29 pm
May 15, 2010
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Thanks! I didn't know what a podger was, funny how a rock can be a hammer in the right situation.
Michael Dillon
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3:11 pm
March 22, 2010
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Danger, I think you might be a podger....
taken from Wiki
"A podger is a tool in the form of a short, usually tapered bar"
"Each podger fits two sizes and, as there is a clear hole right through the head"
Whatever you are, be a good one.
Abraham Lincoln
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