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Re: What on earth are these?


 

I think it may be unknowable whether these were purchased for jewelry making or machinist inspection purposes.

Again, ones that look identical are sold by machinery supply houses.? Refer to the MSC page below and scroll down past the shouldered ones.? And you will see unshouldered ones just like the original poster's photo.? Unless other jewelry making doo dads (and there are all sorts of cool stuff in that industry) associated with the lathe they may have been used for a usual machinist purpose.? On the other hand, the wide variety of sizes is a vote for jewelry making.? On the third hand, you could buy ones for jewelry making and use them for machinist inspection purposes, or on the fourth hand buy inspection tooling balls and use them for jewelry making.



Charles E. "Chuck" Kinzer
On Tuesday, September 19, 2023 at 02:51:01 PM PDT, Davis Johnson <davis@...> wrote:


A third option would be the "dent balls" used by brass instrument repair folks. They are forced thru a tube to push out dents. They generally don't have the stem that these have, and are frequently barrel shaped.

On 9/19/23 13:25, Charles Kinzer wrote:
I guess these could be either "tooling balls" or the devices for jewelry making.? Some of them look identical in photos.? I suppose one difference might be how accurately they are ground.? Being with a machine tool suggests to me they are more likely to be tooling balls which machinists use.

Charles E. "Chuck" Kinzer

On Tuesday, September 19, 2023 at 10:20:37 AM PDT, Charles Kinzer <ckinzer@...> wrote:


I believe these are what are called "Tooling Balls".? They are typically used in the accurate positioning of work pieces.? The shank goes into a hole and then the surface of the ball is used as a reference.? Of course, actual position must be offset based on the diameter of the ball used.? This is similar to techniques using gauge pins, but the ball shape allows more versatility, such as if dealing with angles.

Charles E. "Chuck" Kinzer

On Tuesday, September 19, 2023 at 10:11:23 AM PDT, Adrian Nicolson via groups.io <adrian_nicolson@...> wrote:


Commonly known as Dapping or Doming Punches...used predominately by the jewellery trades and crafts

Regards,
Adrian

On Tuesday, 19 September 2023, 18:06:20 BST, Andrei <calciu1@...> wrote:


That's exactly?what they are. There is a piece missing, which is the doming block (or blocks, in most cases).?

A full new set at Harbor Freight is less than 40 bucks. I would not pay much for this incomplete set.?

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Looks like they could be for beating metal to a dome shape¡­ but I have no idea. They were pictured with a lathe so probably metal-working related.

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