worth 80quid?

[PTvor]

Good point that.. Could they be ground back to made safe?

Yes. Reworking cold chisels is standard job for a blacksmith. Years ago I worked with a maintenance/odd job team in a carpet factory. It was a big place and they had a welding shop and a machine shop. The blacksmith had his forge in a corner of the machine shop. A couple of times I had to take about a dozen cold chisels to the blacksmith and it was a sight to see. He'd heat them up. Hammer them to make them longer, re-temper the shaft, redo the cutting edge with a grinder, re-temper the very tip. Get it warm again in the forge and dip it in some black stuff. The last part was finally grinding the cutting edge through the black stuff and grinding the hammering end neat.

It's been 40 years ago, so I may have mis-remembered some of the details.

 

[Wendelspanswick]

Good point that.. Could they be ground back to made safe?

If you stick the mushroomed head of the chisel on the edge of an anvil or other suitable lump of steel and give it a clout with a hammer the mushroomed bits will break off, you can then tidy the head up with a grinder.
Make sure you have suitable PPE when you do it.

 

[roofman]

If you stick the mushroomed head of the chisel on the edge of an anvil or other suitable lump of steel and give it a clout with a hammer the mushroomed bits will break off, you can then tidy the head up with a grinder.
Make sure you have suitable PPE when you do it.

It would be great to have a small forge and work them back into the steel and lose nothing

 

[Wallace]

Is that 3 pairs of Gilbows in there?

 

[Wendelspanswick]

Posted this before on hardening and tempering chisels etc.

When we did engineering at school we were taught to harden and temper items in 2 separate processes, then when I did my blacksmithing apprenticeship I was taught the single hardening and tempering process used for chisels etc.-
You start with your round or hex stock and heat to red hot (not white hot) and draw down the end to form your chisel point, when you are happy with the shape you heat the tool back up to red hot and then plunge just the shaped end into your water bath to cool, moving it in a slow figure of eight motion until the end is cool, you then remove the chisel from the water and quickly file the tip till its bright. While you are doing this the residual heat from the body of the chisel (which you haven't cooled) is flowing back into the point of the chisel and this is when you watch for the temper colours on your freshly filed end.
When it reaches the correct colour you quench the tool again, tip first and then slowly lowering the whole tool into the water bath.
The advantages with this method is its quick, as you only heat the tool once and it leaves the point hardened and tempered and more importantly the body and the striking end of the chisel are left unhardened so no risk of chips flying off when struck with a hammer.

The trick is to leave enough heat in the body of the chisel to flow out to the point, easy in big chisels, harder to do in scribers and fine punches.

Very satisfying to do, especially if you have a batch of them to make.

We were lucky enough that the agricultural college next door would dump all their broken tractor bits into our skip, some of my best chisels, taper punches and hot and cold sets were made from unidentified bits of agricultural machinery!

 

[Richard.]

Ripped off!!! I'm guessing there is a 150 items there. That's just over 50pence an item. It's car boot money. She hasn't done bad at all bless her.

 

[plantlife]

She hasn't done bad, and on top of that she's just told me she bartered him down from 100 quid to 80. I'm happy ;-) ;-)

 

[500e]

More than 3 Gilbo's+ Files if sharp 5\6 body files, Hacksaws, hammers, the old wood work tools seem to have a following as well.
In second pic 3 item down under the 2 larger files what is that ?.
As for the price I think you have blown it as soon as there was a discussion regarding price even if beloved started it
Bed spanners as well have not seen them for years

 

[rikrobson]

just noticed an oiler there too with the spanners.

 

[Wallace]

More than 3 Gilbo's+ Files if sharp 5\6 body files, Hacksaws, hammers, the old wood work tools seem to have a following as well.

Picked out the ones I would gamble on first glance at a car boot .

The clean files I would buy and take a gamble on the rusty dreadnoughts as they are cracking on soft metals and GRP. The old chisels can easily live again, they were working when someone laid them down and with a dull edge or radius are great for beating shapes in panels.

 

[sardine]

Sort the stuff you want to keep, and sell the rest, then you can knock a fair bit off the £80. If you keep a load of tools you paid for and never use, its going to be a bad deal.

How many chisels and tin snips do you need ?

 

[marlinspike]

What a lovely gift. Better than some jumper you will wear twice.

I'm like you though, everything has to be a bargain. And you know what... it's not healthy. Sometimes I don't get stuff, even if I really like it and can afford it, just because I think it's a lot of money. Then other times, I buy crap I don't need just because it's cheap.

Clean them up a bit and sell what you don't want and then it's win-win.

 

[awemawson]

Money, and what the tools worth is totally irrelevant. It that she did it for you that counts, and that is priceless - cherish it.

 

[Kayos]

I wouldn't spend £80 on that, but wouldn't complain if someone else did tho

 

[winchman]

Look at it this way, if you went to buy two pairs of Gilbows they would be £80 so clean them up and use them.
When you need a tool you haven't got its well worth £80

 

[winchman]

Those funny shaped pipe grips ( Stillsons) are a god send for tight awkward stuff

 

[Maker]

Is it possible to resharpen blunt chisels?

 

[awemawson]

Cold chisels? - why yes, careful work with a grinder or even an angle grinder will sharpen a cold chisel. Take care not to get the tip hot enough to draw the temper or it will soften and need re-hardening and tempering.

 

[Richard.]

^^^^ exactly like this. Buff them lightly on a bench grinder same principles to sharpening drill bits and tungstens etc if you go mad and get heat tint in the sharpened area you've just made your self a chocolate chisel .

 

[roofman]

I wouldn't spend £80 on that, but wouldn't complain if someone else did tho

yea but look at your location