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Posted: Wed Mar 12, 2014 2:37 pm
by idcook
JPG40504 wrote:Hey! After all they are so rare we(all but one) had to guess what they were. Not only that, but a complete set to boot.
Unfortunately the buyer audience is extremely small.
Cajones? Dreamer more like it!
For sure, but ya can't begrudge him the effort. It's the American way.
We're a curious lot and some budding industrialist may be waiting for the clock to run down before snatching them up for, what they consider, a song.
Posted: Wed Mar 12, 2014 4:36 pm
by rb61
They look like Dimple Punches used in sheet metal work, but this would be only the punch side, not the die side that matches it....
Posted: Wed Mar 12, 2014 4:54 pm
by moggymatt
I worked in a steel and fabrication warehouse for 5 years and punched a lot of holes in everything from thin guage to 3/4 and never saw a hole punch like those. I'm leaning on the grommet tool side.
Posted: Wed Mar 12, 2014 6:55 pm
by idcook
So, it's come down to a dead heat between grommet and sheet metal dimpler with grommet holding a firm lead.
Was some cheeky craftsman using their SHOPSMITH to make evening wear, perhaps some leather work?
Posted: Wed Mar 12, 2014 8:33 pm
by BigSky
idcook wrote:So, it's come down to a dead heat between grommet and sheet metal dimpler with grommet holding a firm lead.
Was some cheeky craftsman using their SHOPSMITH to make evening wear, perhaps some leather work?
I always thought a "dead heat" was a tie. If so, the grommet can not be holding a firm lead. Dead Heat or Firm Lead
Posted: Thu Mar 13, 2014 1:41 am
by idcook
BigSky wrote:I always thought a "dead heat" was a tie. If so, the grommet can not be holding a firm lead. Dead Heat or Firm Lead
Well whatayaknow]neck-and-neck[/I] (an unfinished race) but jumped the gun…
Firm Lead!
Posted: Thu Mar 13, 2014 10:52 am
by Ed in Tampa
I would guess it was a Shopsmither that had a business of making tarps, boat covers, RV covers and such and needed to install gormmets
Posted: Thu Mar 13, 2014 1:00 pm
by JPG
Did any of you seamstresses
actually look at the link in post 10????? Original link in post 5.
See de pix??????
Posted: Fri Mar 14, 2014 1:51 am
by idcook
JPG40504 wrote:Did any of you seamstresses actually look at the link in post 10????? Original link in post 5.
See de pix??????
No. I only sent her a link to the eBay listing in question.
Posted: Fri Mar 14, 2014 1:56 am
by idcook
These look quite similar and it says they’re used to countersink holes in metal.
http://www.garaget.org/forum/viewtopic.php?id=286199