My Latest Tool Dilema...and I Blame Bruce!

[Mudruck]

After reading about using antique and vintage tools on Bruce's website and catching the bug, I have some questions for our old tool gurus. Where would one get a replacement tube for a single hole punch that is almost a century and a half old? Are those out there that could create a new tube or sharpen the existing tube? The tube currently has a small chip in it as well and I that was removed, it would work a lot easier.

[bruce johnson]

who made the punch? It may be that the replacement tubes from Osborne will fit it. The guys there will tell you that they have not changed the threading on the replacments since the originals. That is what they say and I'll leave it at that. For the cost of a tube though, I would sure try a new replacement first. The problem with sharpening much of a chip out of the existing tube is you are shortening it. That changes the angle it meets the anvil and brings on another set of problems.

[Mudruck]

The punch is a horn & Ellis. The tube almost looks like a press fit, but I haven't tried to remove it yet. Yea, I can see how changing the tube length could make for more issues too. Really though, thanks Bruce.