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Odd coloured chisels

Postby Dave65 » 21 Mar 2021, 08:48

This set of Mathieson chisels are being offered for sale locally but they look an odd colour. Is there any reason that they would have been made this colour or coated like this ?
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Re: Odd coloured chisels

Postby novocaine » 21 Mar 2021, 08:52

Lools like tbey been sprayed with something for rust prevention.
Carbon fibre is just corduroy for cars.
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Re: Odd coloured chisels

Postby Mike G » 21 Mar 2021, 09:57

Yeah, that's paint, I reckon.
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Re: Odd coloured chisels

Postby sunnybob » 21 Mar 2021, 10:11

Copper paint, to stop rusting.
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Re: Odd coloured chisels

Postby Dave65 » 21 Mar 2021, 16:48

Thanks everyone, should be easy to remove then if it’s pain
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Re: Odd coloured chisels

Postby novocaine » 21 Mar 2021, 17:22

You'd have to be a bit special copper plate a set of chisels. But i guess if youve got the gear......
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Re: Odd coloured chisels

Postby sunnybob » 21 Mar 2021, 17:49

Paint, not plate. :shock: :lol:

Most likely a ships carpenters set, salt water would a really harsh on hardened steel.
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Re: Odd coloured chisels

Postby novocaine » 21 Mar 2021, 17:56

Ive said above its paint Bob.

Second comment was about the possibility of it being plated (which it isnt). Ive plated some odd stuff though, so never rule it out.

I once copper plated a 12" steel coffin, just because i could (which is why i had a 12" steel coffin to)
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Re: Odd coloured chisels

Postby Dave65 » 21 Mar 2021, 20:21

novocaine wrote:You'd have to be a bit special copper plate a set of chisels. But i guess if youve got the gear......


How special do you have to be to copper plate a coffin !!! :lol: :lol: :lol:
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Re: Odd coloured chisels

Postby novocaine » 21 Mar 2021, 20:34

Dave65 wrote:
novocaine wrote:You'd have to be a bit special copper plate a set of chisels. But i guess if youve got the gear......


How special do you have to be to copper plate a coffin !!! :lol: :lol: :lol:

Hi I'm Dave and I'm a bit special. :obscene-drinkingbuddies:
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Re: Odd coloured chisels

Postby sunnybob » 21 Mar 2021, 20:40

Dave, to hippy chick in trendy disco;

"Hi, I'm Dave. I make scale model steel coffins, and then copper plate them.
My mum says its better than me hanging around on street corners."
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Re: Odd coloured chisels

Postby sunnybob » 21 Mar 2021, 20:43

Advert in local newspaper;

"Have steel coffin. Need seriously ill Barbie doll."
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Re: Odd coloured chisels

Postby novocaine » 21 Mar 2021, 21:31

So i guess it needs a bit more of explaination then.

I studied mechanical engineering at university. I was one of the few people on the course who'd ever actually worked on a fabshop floor or to be frank done more than gcse in design technology. So when we finally got a set of practicals at the local grease monkey trade skills college i was somewhat in my element and the shop steward quickly realised this. I was effectively left to my own devices having been given the passing grade on day 1 when i finished a scribe stand in 2 hour to a better quality than his show piece and to within tolerence on every part including brazing a perfect 3mm fillet that in his words "deserves to be kept in a show cabinet" (which is was, he took it and used it as the example for the next 10 years so im told). It was meant to take a week (as evidenced by some of the other attempts).

So whilst the future bank managers and accountants got to play dress up and make pretty little tin boxes with ropey soldered joints that might pass a field trough, wire a plug that i wouldnt dare plug in or rip chunks out of cutters on the shaper i (and anothwr lad called Andy)made stuff to keep ourselfs amused. Both me and andy were the outcasts, long black trench coat, drink ale in the railway instead of wkd in the nightclub, metaller sorts so one of those speicals involved a 20 gauge brake folded coffin and hinged lid. (Which sounds easy but is impossible without a decent finger brake and the knowledge to set it.) Andy had never used a brake,by the time we were done he could do it with his eyes closed (which is lucky as he later worked nights in a metal cutting plant with me to pay for digs).

As i had access to some fun stuff others wouldn't get to touch i got the storesman to let me into the plating room. He wouldn't let me near chrome "your lungs are wurf more than me job son" but the copper baths were fair game.

He didnt keep that one, but it did get swiped from digs during a suitably deborged evening (it was filled with condoms and sat in the hallway because 1. The girl in room four worked for SU and 2. Hi I'm Dave and I'm a bit special.
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Re: Odd coloured chisels

Postby Dave65 » 21 Mar 2021, 23:01

Copper plated coffin filled with condoms ......it doesn’t get any better than that!!! :lol:
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Re: Odd coloured chisels

Postby sunnybob » 22 Mar 2021, 06:37

Worth an avatar picture. :lol:
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Re: Odd coloured chisels

Postby Cabinetman » 25 Mar 2021, 15:26

Hi Dave, you’re a bit special, I’m a little bit dim so I’ll ask for all the other dimwits around here S U ? I looked it up, Sunderland University. Student union. Soviet union but I don’t think that’s what you were talking about!
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Re: Odd coloured chisels

Postby novocaine » 25 Mar 2021, 15:35

Cabinetman wrote:Hi Dave, you’re a bit special, I’m a little bit dim so I’ll ask for all the other dimwits around here S U ? I looked it up, Sunderland University. Student union. Soviet union but I don’t think that’s what you were talking about!


sorry, student union, who at the time were pushing safe sex, I suggested I was rubbish as combination locks but ho hum, she got free condoms by the kilo (literally, they were delivered by weight, do you know how many condoms are in a kilo? nope me neither).
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Re: Odd coloured chisels

Postby Cabinetman » 25 Mar 2021, 16:12

Oh, that’s alright then I thought you were referring to something else lol, no I don’t know either but I was talking to a lorry driver once who said that the most value he had ever had in the back of his truck was condoms which if you think about it is probably true. Ian
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