Thanks Richard, and for the link.
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The page on ¡®Involute Broaches¡¯ shows some tooling of triangular section, looks like that is likely.
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Back and forth I guess, with a constant downward pressure. Which led me to look at ¡®broaching machines¡¯.
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You learn something everyday. ¡®Life long learning¡¯, as they say.