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Purchased shortly ago / sthg new in your workshop -> present it here

Who am I to question it, The bike I'm standing astride of is my 2018 Honda 1800 Trike with the California Trike package!! My last trip on it was 4,500 miles from home (New Castle, IN) to Watson Lake Canada in the Yukon).

If I hadn't fallen and fractured my arm I was still going about 900 miles further North to Tuktoyaktuk
in the Inuvik Region of the Northwest Territories. I had to wrap my arm and load up on Tylenol to make the ride home.

I live for a good long ride all by myself. Good quiet time for thinking or not thinking.

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I love modern technology sometimes. I read several hours a day and I get almost all my reading material in digital format. I got the book on Kindle in 5 seconds downloaded to my IPad!!! Going on vacation this week. Going to be a lot of reading time while wife is spending all of my money shopping!!
 
Picked up a couple of items that may prove useful in the rigging phase.
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The item at the top is a bobbin holder, a staple for the flyfishing community. I was strolling thru Bass Pro Shops and meandered into the fly fishing area. Yowsa! This is a tool used for winding thread and capturing feathers etc on to the body of the hook. A bobbin friction-fits between the two brass mounts at the left of the unit. Line payout resistance varies by the spring tension on the two arms. Good for seizing rope ends? But what originally caught my attention was the threader that is used with it.
This bottom piece is just like any of the threaders one uses on blocks and other items that need thread or small rope pulled thru them, but a bit more robust and with longer reach. It's designed to be inserted into the barrel of the bobbin holder where a length of thread is inserted thru the steel loop, and then neatly pulled out of said barrel thus loading the winder. Easy peasy. I'm hoping this particular piece will have a place of prominence on the bench.
I walked out with these two pieces for about $6 bucks.
 
Help please from the tool junkies!

I have been sorting through a collection shipped to me by the nice lady who offered her late husband’s tools and his handsome tool chest here on SOS.

I am unfamiliar with the hammer and vise in the photo below. The hammer has detachable heads. These heads also fit on the vise. The vise is marked Ryobi. I assume that this is a set for forming metal, but I would appreciate any information that anyone has.

Roger

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Roger, this seems to be two independent tools:

This C-shaped clamp with twin knurled knobs at the base is definitely a bench vise or clamp, designed to be mounted to the edge of a table or workbench.
  • The vertically threaded shaft at the top looks like it swivels (ball mounted), it could hold like camera or light and be tightened at the required angle.
  • The hammer might be used for forming various materials
 
Roger Pellett said:
Help please from the tool junkies!

I have been sorting through a collection shipped to me by the nice lady who offered her late husband’s tools and his handsome tool chest here on SOS.

I am unfamiliar with the hammer and vise in the photo below. The hammer has detachable heads. These heads also fit on the vise. The vise is marked Ryobi. I assume that this is a set for forming metal, but I would appreciate any information that anyone has.

Roger

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I have a large and a small hammer just like this they are used for soft metals or items you don't want to mark up. very handy tools
 
Roger Pellett said:
Help please from the tool junkies!

I have been sorting through a collection shipped to me by the nice lady who offered her late husband’s tools and his handsome tool chest here on SOS.

I am unfamiliar with the hammer and vise in the photo below. The hammer has detachable heads. These heads also fit on the vise. The vise is marked Ryobi. I assume that this is a set for forming metal, but I would appreciate any information that anyone has.

Roger

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Hi Roger. I am using the same hammer for many years. The round heads are indeed for forming metal. The ‘plastic one’ for very soft material f.i. Evergreen. I recently used the ,screwdriver’ head to hammer a thin Evergreen rod to look like welding seams on the exhaust of my recent Pocher Ducati build.
I don’t have the vise but I suppose that you can screw one of the heads on the vise. Then you can slide the to be forming plate over that head and hamer it from above. But in that case you better can use a flat piece of wood to hammer.
So you can ‘forcing’ the material from above in bowl shape or a ‘from under’ as a ball shape.
Ps: Camera thread has a slightly coarser pitch. I know a similar kind of vice for a Leica camera, but that was many years ago.
Regards, Peter
 
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