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Mystery items


KH1

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This post is a slight aside to my normal activities - activities that, incidentally, are continueing but at a rather boring pace and am saving up progress for an entry that might actually be interesting!

 

Anyway, yesterday, I was fortunate to come across a couple of boxes of bits and pieces most of which I could identify and either put to good use or find homes for but these two items have stumped me and I wonder if anyone can identify them. The first is aluminium and has a small stamp which looks like GW so am thinking it might be one of GW models jigs. As there is no website I can't verify this. Hopefully someone will recognise it from the pics - have added some dimensions to help;

 

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The second smaller item is steel and again looks like a jig of some sort. There were quite a lot of Exactoscale P4 track parts and the groove does look rail like so wonder if this might be the right direction;

 

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Any help would be greatly appreciated.

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The GW item is a wheel press for quartering wheels such as Maygibs.

The other item looks like a press for securing Brooke Smith rivets into sleepers or crossing timbers. There is/was a similar tool that you use to punch the rivet holes in the crossing timbers

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Thank you, that was quick! Now next question is does anyone have any instructions?

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Thank you very much, very helpful - not sure I would have worked that out myself!

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The GW Models wheel quartering jig seems to fetch higher prices on eBay than buying new from George Watts himself. Just thought I'd lob that in for amusement....

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the second item is the tool for making the hole in the sleeper strip to put the rivet into. Early Protofour/Studiolith. Take it to an Antiques Roadshow!

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Thanks everyone and I like the comment about the Antiques Roadshow. Am wondering if it will ever be of any use to me so may end up testing the Ebay theory as well!

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The second item is a jig for pressing / fixing rivots into P4 plywood sleepers, the head of a P4 rivot locates in the 2.0mm slot, another similar jig is used for punching holes into the P4 sleepers, this jig has a 3.4mm wide slot.

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