This one has already got a home, Jeep JC, 380mm long.
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You've got some great detail on this one-foot pedals,jerry can, leaf spring ends. 
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erfect:Jaros said:You've got some great detail on this one-foot pedals,jerry can, leaf spring ends.
Can't see any foot pedals, but I can see the gear sticks.
Cheers
Doug
I'm referring to the clutch and brake pedals.
No clutch and brake pedals, only 3 gear sticks, what you might be picking up on in the shot from the rear is the grain in the under seat boxes.
Oh, I've got to have my left cataract fixed followed by my right eye a few weeks later. Maybe in June.
Rockhunter62 said:Jaros said:You've got some great detail on this one-foot pedals,jerry can, leaf spring ends.
Can't see any foot pedals, but I can see the gear sticks.
Cheers
Doug
Sorry about that but they look great don't they.
Detected this small meat cleaver years ago, together with a knife. Found them recently when getting all the gear together for this years trip. Needless to say the wooden handles were long gone so set about today to refurbish both.
Have used some sandalwood I had laying around.
Cleaver is finished, knife tomorrow.
Have used some sandalwood I had laying around.
Cleaver is finished, knife tomorrow.
Ah so, made in Japan. Look pretty old.
Phil,
Just a few minutes with a sander and the edge on the cleaver you could shave with.
Puzzled that the cleaver had signs of originally being coated with a very thin layer of copper and yet is stamped stainless steel?
Any ideas why?
The knife is certainly high grade steel, a file barely touches it. Probably won't be able to remove all the pitting.
Just a few minutes with a sander and the edge on the cleaver you could shave with.
Puzzled that the cleaver had signs of originally being coated with a very thin layer of copper and yet is stamped stainless steel?
Any ideas why?
The knife is certainly high grade steel, a file barely touches it. Probably won't be able to remove all the pitting.
Nightjar said:
My father was a carpenter/joiner and when he sharpened the chisels and wood planes you could shave with them. My mother used to take the kitchen knives out to the footpath and blunt them because they were too sharp.
In the paint industry (and others) if you want to cut the top out of a 205Ltr drum that held solvents, you use a copper chisel and a copper headed mallet as they don't create sparks.
Mackka
Mackka
Nightjar said:
Probably not copper but TiNite, coatings are often used in cutting tools, serves a few different purposes but on a cleaver I would think the predominant benefit would be the durability of holding an edge.This is often seen in high end drill bits to add durability and allow for use in harder materials.
Manpa,
The thin layer had gone green like corroding copper and cleaver was probably lost long before TiNite was introduced?
As mentioned was stamped "stainless steel" but it had begun to rust and is very magnetic not usual for SS.
The thin layer had gone green like corroding copper and cleaver was probably lost long before TiNite was introduced?
As mentioned was stamped "stainless steel" but it had begun to rust and is very magnetic not usual for SS.
Nightjar said:
TiNite (titanium nitride) was discovered in the late 1700s, but your mention of magnetism throws a spinner in the works, money box may well be on the mark.
Moneybox said:You might have been ripped off. I think the copper layer is used in the electroplating process. The cleaver was most likely chrome plated steel and not SS at all
Yep! Think the Japs pulled a swifty when they marketed this one as SS?
Anyway will be handy in the van for chopping up the nightly vegies, just have to keep fingers out of the way, it is razor sharp.
Japanese steel is very good Danielsan .
Mackka
Seriously,I have a Japanese sushi knife and I only have to look at it and there is blood.
Mackka
Seriously,I have a Japanese sushi knife and I only have to look at it and there is blood.
