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[@bc65925]

1. Chain Make-n-Break 3. Draftsman pencil sharpener

[@dannyl2598]

Thanks Mr Pete. #3 is a led pointer for drafting. #4 is for lapping engine valves. #6 is clamped on to the cross arm of a utility pole to hang a pulley for pulling in new cable with a rope. There would be one on each pole so you would need a lot of them to pull long spans. The side of the pulley can be opened to get the cable out. The pulley could be mounted on top of the cross arm or hung below according to the application.

[@ifyoucantjointhem]

No. 5 would have to be for melting something, such a lead. The volume suggests only a small quantity is required on each pour. Re-casting battery terminals maybe? 🤔

[@Radiotexas]

Good morning Mr. Pete! Item #3 is a sharpener for mechanical drafting pencils-- not wood pencils. Made by K&E and others. I still have mine and a bunch of fine mechanical pencils! Item #5 is a ladle for pouring melted lead. Maybe for casting bullets? I have a similar one made by Lyman but it has a small hole at the top to pour a small stream of lead into the bullet cavity. Lots of goodies from Mitutoyo I see! That should be interesting!

[@jsteifel]

#1 is for crimping over the eyelets in sheeting (plastic, canvas, sails) the stop makes it accurately stop without crushing. #2 is for setting the angle on sheet metal, the measured lines help set the tool, Not super accurate but good enough for the type of work it's meant for. #3 is for pointing drafting pencils, I have one of them and a slew of drafting pencils and all sorts of lead of various hardnesses #4 is for valve grinding #5 is for pouring lead on stair railings. In the old days a hole would be drilled and the railing inserted and held in with lead #6appears to be for holding material on a beam for working it. the beam has a bunch of these attached on the edge and the square material can be clamped in (that's my story and I'm sticking with it). Thank you Lyle for all you do.

[@reverendtfg6802]

*#5 is definitely not meant for pouring.*

[@CalPil0t]

Item 6 is from DDIN who make tools for linesmen. Current version is a DNAB-1. DDIN Mounting Brackets are designed for mounting the CB-Series Universal Stringing Blocks. These mounting brackets offer strength, safety, and convenience, while also being lightweight.

[@fredohnemus7685]

Number four is a valve lapping tool. My dad was a mechanic and had one.

[@plane8462]

3 - pencil sharpener

[@jenniferwhitewolf3784]

I have lived with number 3 the whole of my 72 years. My dad had it and I was introduced to it as soon as I could use it, probably helping me with toddler age hand/eye coordination. As a teen and adult, the gadget has had a place in my work place.. and to this day still gets use when making drawings..

[@derekmills1080]

Number 3 is a pencil sharpener. Number 5 is a solder dash pot for tinning the end of copper pipe, or alloy pipe; the dash pot can be held in a Bunsen flame to keep the solder molten. 👍🇬🇧👍🇺🇸👍

[@richardockman5988]

# 5 is a solder pot for soldering pig-tail wire connections

[@kevinkoepke8311]

As I read the comments, I realized that the speed in which they answered quickly hastened my ability to answer without making it suspicious that I was cheating. Although, I have no idea what #6 is. Thanks again, Mr Pete!

[@keithschwartz7318]

Good morning Lyle. Of course we know #3 is a lead pointer. In college, I couldn’t afford one so I had a small piece of sandpaper I kept in an envelope. They also had a styrofoam ring available to clean off the tip of your lead once it is sharpened. As an industrial arts major, you could always tell whose parents had money.

[@mrpete222]

I went to college without any money at all. I wanted one of those pencil sharpeners, but I had a small piece of wood that has sandpaper glued to it, it was messy.

[@frg4925]

Hi Lyle, N° 4 is a hand cranked valve lapping tool. It is old, but not the older type. Back in technical school they used to theach us how to use one of those in a model T engine block, and the tip of the tool had two pins that hooked in the valve head point (which had the same pattern for the tool to match)

[@thomasgiglio7475]

Mechanical Drafting pencil sharpener

[@joemcgarry1106]

#1 is a grommet crimping tool, mine has thee socket head screw too. #3 is a hone for pencil lead typically used in drafting. #5 are lead pots for melting lead, used by plumbers joining cast iron pipes.

[@mwilliamshs]

1 is a chain breaker/riveter, 2 is a layout scale, 3 is a drafting lead pointer, 4 is an oscillating valve lapping spinner, 5 is a plumber's solder melting pot, 6 is a pole bracket for stringing power cables...

[@jozefa1234]

no 5 to solder ends of cables

[@davidphillips7321]

3. Is a Mechanical Pencil Lead Pointer...Thanks, Lyle, Have a Good Day...

[@graemewhite5029]

Vice grip device looks like it could be for breaking/riveting bicycle chains ? The swinging pots might be for centrifugal casting ? The other two items would be a pencil sharpener and a valve grinding device ? No idea what the ally clamp is for though !

[@dannyl2598]

I like your idea on the vice grips, the rotating part could be for fairing out the new rivet.

[@tomriggs3926]

#1 Chainsaw chain Breaker/ Riveter. Sold them and used them; as well as bulk saw chains. The adjustment bolt was knurled, in the 70's. #2 ?? #3 ?? #4 valve lapper (usually small engines) #5 lead pots for sealing cast iron drain pipes #6 ??

[@garandm1d]

#3 is a sharpener for drafting pencils. I did some work for a gentleman named Ed Dorscherwitz, who lived in Coloma Michigan. His company was called Tru point. He manufactured a pencil sharpener that looked to be the spitting image of that one. Most were the black, wrinkled finish, but there was a limited run of them made with a highly polished brass finish. Later on he got into the plastic injection business, making drawer rollers for Steelcase desks and workstations. Among other things. Small world. Great video.

[@mrpete222]

👍👍

[@haroldsprenkle4173]

#1 not a clue but it is a nice one, ditto #2, #3 removes the wood from your drafting pencils then you put wanted tip on it, hey I took drafting pre cad, the Dietzen gives it away, #4 either a strange egg beater or use it to lap in valves. #5 looks like something lead has been melted in, but why does it swing? #6 sure is a nice one, but quite a bit of aluminum for a buck.😊

[@gregburchfield75]

6 is the base for running blocks. It temporarily attaches to a crossarm on a power pole. It has a few positions to mount the block for pulling in wire straight or around a slight corner. Sherman-Riley.

[@wk7060]

That piston ring filer is cool. Technology before its time!

[@preachintime-odbc-pcola5376]

Yep #3 is a led sharpener for drafting pencil holder led. I used this in high school and at first place I worked in a drafting/art service company at 14.

[@derschwartzadder]

1. ?, 2. ?, 3. Lead pointer for hand drafting, 4. ?, 5. Ladle for melting pewter to make toys? Lead/babbet melting ladle? , 6. Some kind of rigging clamp?

[@dougvanallen2212]

Hey Mr Pete Iim going to say number one is to make up chainsaw blades number 3 drafting pencil sharpener number four is for valve lapping

[@MrUbiquitousTech]

I love the channel, it's the best one on you tube! Thanks for all that you do Mr. Pete!

[@mrpete222]

Wow, thanks!

[@JCWren]

I believe I still have my mechanical drafting pencil sharpener somewhere. I used to really enjoy doing drafting on paper. Not to mention the smell of ammonia when making blueprints...

[@preachintime-odbc-pcola5376]

My Dad had one of the pot on a handle. He used it for copper pipe to melt stuff to join the pipe together.

[@christurley391]

Thanks again

[@dannyhawkins7229]

#1 is a break and mend for chain saw chains. I still have mine around here somewhere.

[@sallybrokaw6124]

3 is a drafting pencil sharpener.My older brother was an architect. He graduated from University of Cincinnati in 1978. I had a drafting class in college myself and used his sharpener. That was in '82 or '83.

[@johnjohn-ed9qt]

1: chain breaker/setter 2: for measuring taper? maybe for things like cutting tile to fit at the edge of a floor? 3: lead pointer for drafting 4: valve lapping tool 5: leading pot? 6: It has a generally familiar look of the something I have seen at a transformer station, but I can't ID it.

[@ypaulbrown]

thank you Lyle......

[@janderson8401]

Finally a ‘What is It’ where I know more than one! I too remember the drafting pencil sharpener from college. I also recognized the tool for lapping valves. I have no doubt that at least one person will make a guess on item 6

[@CraigLYoung]

Thanks for sharing 👍

[@user-oe8gj7fz6v]

Good morning Mr.Pete 🖖

[@BobOBob]

Paused about nine seconds in to comment that I still have a lead pointer, and have even used it a few times in the past ten years when I felt like carefully drafting up a project Looks like yours is labeled "3".

[@PaulSteMarie]

#3 is an absolutely beautiful pencil pointer. 😻 #5 looks like a foundry tool. Either a *very* small crucible, or a container for heat treating small parts, such as watch springs and the like.

[@componenx]

3- Pencil sharpener for Berol type mechanical pencils. 4- Valve lapper? I do recall seeing before. 5- Lead crucible, but for something specific; maybe a place where clearance is an issue? 6- Looks like temporary clamp with mounting point for accessories or a step. Maybe for utility/other poles that aren't wooden?

[@williammurphy3846]

#3 lead sharpener, #4 valve lapper, #5 lead ladle

[@rickhand8228]

The other people have given good answers so I just have a comment. I used a pointer like #3 in high school and still have my Dietgen set, wooden board and tee square bought at that time. I have purchased an inferior pointer in recent years. It is very light weight and has to be held with the other hand to use. I am ten years younger than you.

[@mrpete222]

Thanks for sharing!!

[@johnfriend240]

#3 is draftsman pencil pointer. Used one first 10 years of engineering, before CAD. Don't miss it at all!

[@jondavidmcnabb]

I love these "what is it videos"

[@mrpete222]

Thanks

[@tonyn3123]

1. Looks like a punch and anvil to set snaps. 2. No clue. 3. Used one of these pencil sharpeners for many years in my drafting classes in HS and college. Even into my career a little while until Pentel developed the .5mm mechanical pencils. It was used to sharpen the graphite in the older mechanical pencils. 4. Oscillating turney thingy. 5. Looks like a bullet ladle, but probably not since it swings wrong. Well, a bullet ladle would not swing. 6. No clue. Thanks

[@jrkorman]

3. Drafting pencil pointer - I have one. 4. for lapping valves

[@cad68m_m]

I used #3 in my 8th grade mechanical drawing class to sharpen my drafting pencil.

[@user-on2cm3ug6i]

Number 4 is for lapping valves in engines. Yours has a missing portion that has a suction cup on it for gripping the head of the valve. Mine had two for different sizes of valves.

[@thewayidoit8895]

Mr Pete! I'm a young boy at 62! I care so thank you. I used that "pencil pointer" in high school but then went to the mechanical pencil in college. I find unidentified tools at auctions occasinally.. Also, I found that I was mysteriously unsubsidized from your channel. It's happened on a few others.

[@mrpete222]

I have the feeling that tons of thousands of people have been unsubscribed and or are never notified

[@nstooge]

Love your videos…

[@mrpete222]

Thanks

[@TheAyrCaveShop]

Enjoyed! #3 Drafting pencil sharpener, or child entertaining toy. #4 Valve lapping tool, or emergency drain cleaner. #5 Bullet casting ladle ?

[@alro2434]

IIRC #3 only put a point on the lead after the wall mounted pencil sharpener carved down the wood but left a good bit of the lead/graphite exposed & without much of a point. Took a while before figuring that a regular #2 pencil & other randoms could do most of the work instead of buying the expensive kind from the teacher. 7th grade 12 week drafting course followed by 12 weeks of art, then music, 1961-2.

[@mopedwarehouse]

#1 is for making chainsaw chain, 3 is a pencil sharpener, 4 is a valve lapping tool,

[@nomercadies]

Morning Lyle

[@mattc7820]

#1 looks like a chain rivet breaker/spinner tool but most I've seen were bench mounted. #2 pencil sharpener

[@foxyfoxy2916]

4. Lapping tool 5.For melting solder

[@renaissanceman7145]

#3-Pencil sharpener? #5-Glass fuse installer/puller?

[@thedevilinthecircuit1414]

#6 looks like it is used as a temporary *something* ...it's a 'dog' or a clamp. The jaws are about the dimension of a 4x4's cross section. It's lightweight for ease of transport and use. Perhaps it pins to a flying form (concrete work) to provide support for a safety rail.

[@danbreyfogle8486]

I didn't have that exact model of #3 either, mine was more "modern" and made of plastic material. It is for pointing pencils. Mine was for mechanical style but there are also models for wood pencils as well. The rest of the items//

[@OleGramps53]

#3 is a drafting pencil sharpener, you would set it on the drafting table so you could keep the pencils sharp. # 4 is a hand held/ operated valve lapping tool #5 are lead melting pots used to pour the lead in over the oakem seal used in cast iron pipe joints

[@ExtantFrodo2]

#1 is often misused for poking holes in fingers. #2 is for measuring how out of square your waffles are. #3 is also very dangerous for small fingers. #4 is for rapidly turning a water fountain on and off when someone is trying to drink. #5 is for safely extinguishing upside down candles. #6 should NOT be used as a makeshift trailer hitch.

[@daleburrell6273]

...item #3, is for putting a point on a drafting pencil...(!)

[@user-rk4zm3nb5f]

#3 is a drafting pencil point sharpener. I used one back in the seventies when I was a tool design trainee. #5 looks like a pouring ladle for casting molten metal.

[@keymasterken]

3. Drafting mechanical pencil pointer.

[@stevesimpson4935]

Finally here is one I know. #3 is a pencil lead pointer. It can be used with mechanical pencils or regular wood pencils. However, with the wood pencils there was a pencil trimmer that just removed the wood and did not sharpen the lead. I just used a pad of sandpaper to sharpen mine.

[@richardcranium5839]

#1 chain breaker maker #2 ??? #3 pencil sharpener #4 valve lapper #5 lead ladle for making bullets #6 vice of some sorts

[@lagunafishing]

#1 is a canvas eyelet rivet punch tool thingamebob!

[@georgesweap7]

1) An actual Vice Grip product for breaking and riveting chains 2) I’m stumped 3) Draftsman’s pencil point sharpener 4) Gas engine Cylinder Honing Devise 5) Lead/Solder melting pot 6) Electrical Linesman Clamp without pulley for pulling wire

[@johnquinn3899]

Still here Mr Pete !!!

[@grounded-b937]

#3 drafting pencil pointer

[@blairgrover9475]

Item 2 is a chain breaker and connector. I suspect a chainsaw application. Item 4 is a small engine valve seat grinder to lap valves to the bliock.

[@slypig24]

We're the swinging pots for joining pipes with Melted Lead? Just a Guess

[@daveboatman4024]

#1 is a chain breaker/maker. #2 ??? #3 is a pencil sharpener. #4 valve grider. #5 for lead casting.

[@727jetjumper]

I instantly recognized #3, a (mechanical) lead pointer (sharpener,) I've used a few times, but owned one much smaller made by Staedtler

[@johnmolnar2957]

#1 grommet tool #3 pencil sharpener #4 valve lapper #5 pouring ladle for lead & oakum joints when near something where you can;t get a larger ladle in #6 chain link fence stretcher

[@SkylerinAmarillo]

Number 6 is a tire boot for parking meter violators. That old coot you got them from was a scofflaw who frequently parked illegally.

[@jeffhunter788]

Number six is a bracket to fasten a block or dolly to a crossarm so that wire can be pulled in by rope. The slotted side is where the block pins. Look up Sherman and Riley in Chattanooga they make the blocks as well as brackets like this one.

[@JasonRabb-cu9cs]

Hopefully the ones I can identify valve lapping tool we called them eggbeaters when I used them a draftsman pencil sharpener and soldering ladle for electrical thanks for the video

[@brianroberts4349]

#1 is a breaker/repair tool for saw chains

[@JDeWittDIY]

#5 looks like a tiny crucible for melting / casting lead or other soft metals.

[@peteengard9966]

#1 chain breaker. #2 a wild guess. Depth gage for setting a sheet metal brake. #3 pencil sharpener. #4 valve lap #5 lead pot for making sinkers. #6????

[@scottjones7279]

#4 a valve lapper

[@warlockcommandcenter]

3 Drafting pencil sharpener , 4 valves seat grinder, 5 lead ball casting pot 6

[@eltay3]

Lead pointer

[@markbernier8434]

I think #1 is a swaging tool.

[@larryeddington9170]

Number 3 is a draftsman pencil pointer.

[@tom87pate]

With the advancements in the quality of carbide, in recent years, I've often wondered why someone hasn't developed a 'pencil sharpener' for metal tipped scribing tools or for sharpening divider points. In other words, if a man wanted a nice point on something metal he could simply stick it in the 'pencil sharpener' with carbide teeth and crank the handle. Just a thought.

[@mrpete222]

That is an amazing idea, I should try to make one

[@waynespyker5731]

​@@mrpete222 We had a Gorton cutter grinder that I would repoint my Starrett center punches once they dulled to a 20° - 25° included angle. Kept them in a second red snap pack to find a cross scribed intersection or move a bad punch mark. The diamond wheel could have dressed carbide tipped scribers. Whatever fit your colletts. The cutter grinder spent its life creating single or 3 sided pantograph cutters. We had a local sharpening shop that was more cost effective sharpening our end mills.

[@dennisemme2456]

Number 3 looks like a pencil/ drafting pencil sharpener. Number 4 is for manually lapping engine valves. Have a newer version.

[@charlesvanvalkenburg7592]

Item number three is a draftsman's pencil pointer.

[@RayLautenschlager]

#3 Pencil sharpener for sharpening drafting pencils that had a replaceable lead.

[@soanophil]

#3 drafting pencil sharpener

[@jaredlanny03]

#3 is a pencil sharpener. I suspect #4 is a deburring tool? 5 look like lead pots, maybe for pipe soldering? or bullet casting?

[@skipragsdale]

No. 2 a Layout Tool for laying out Engine Turning. (Guess!). No. 3 is a Draftsman's Lead Pointer. No. 4 Lapping Tool for Lapping Valves, it's missing the suction cup. No. 5 is a Casting Crucible for melting and casting lead (fishing?) weights or maybe soldering, sweating copper pipe.

[@junkmannoparts9696]

#4 valve lapping tool

[@kerrygleeson4409]

1 chin saw chain breaker 2 layout scale for circuit boards 3 drafting pencil sharpener 4 valve leaping tool 5 carst iron lead dipper 6 for stringing out high voltage power lines bracket attached to pole frame then rollers fitted for cable . For a photo google company . Linestar ca . serch part number. CB- 1

[@dankotos61]

Number one is for chainsaw chains is the chain brake slash riveter I have one

[@mapp0v0]

4 is for making milk shakes.

[@SHAD0WZOMBIE]

#5 is for casting bullets or fishing weights i believe?

[@scottjones7279]

#3 is a lead pointer