At 04:39 PM 7/17/06 -0400, mercian531@bellsouth.net wrote:
>I was trying to identify the following handle or stock that holds steerer
tube dies for cutting threads. What exactly do you call those things
anyway? I have a Var and a Hozan model and this one is very different.
There's a dial on one side that moves three alignment pins back and forth
against the steerer tube. I can't find any markings at all, but there is
some remnants of red paint. Here's a couple of pics...
>
>http://i2.tinypic.com/208w7xi.jpg
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>http://i2.tinypic.com/208wa3l.jpg
I presume you're not asking what it is (a die stock) or what the cammed
pins do (they guide the die straight). It just looks like an ordinary die
stock, although most don't have the guides. While most bike builders buy
special tools from suppliers in their industry, there have to be hundreds
of tool manufacturers making similar tools for all kinds of machine shop
applications. I remember seeing a very similar-looking die stock, only a
smaller size, in the tool cabinet at work, except it was chrome. The brand
was Blue Point, a Snap-on brand. Something like this:
http://i10.ebayimg.com/
John Betmanis <johnb@oxford.net>
Woodstock, ON Canada