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Hand tools

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Proposals

• Small-scale metalwork: Basic tools

• • 2*Bench Peg And Anvil (these clamp on to a bench edge, to support work) (£19.98)

[1]

• • files
    • 6"/150mm Flat File, Cut 2 Vallorbe (£10.10)
    • Set Of 12 Needle Files, 16cm - All Cut2 (one has to avoid contaminating silver with iron, so we'll want separate files for ferrous metals in addition to this) (£18.50)

• • saws
    • Grobet/vallorbe Saw Frame Adjustable (£19.00) [2]
    • 6" Deep Adjustable Saw Frame (£13.50) [3];
    • Vallorbe Saw Blades Grade 2/0, Bundle Of 12 (£2.85); Vallorbe Saw Blades Grade 2/0, Bundle Of 12 (£2.85); Vallorbe Saw Blades Grade 6/0, Bundle Of 12 (£3.70) (those saw blades are consumables - they break easily)

• • hammering
    • Flat Stake - 10cm X 10cm (£18.70) (this is a small anvil with a machined-smooth surface on all sides) [4]
    • Planishing Hammer Cookson Value Range (£18.25) (a polished-surface hammer for surface finishing and work-hardening) [5];
    • Hammer With 25mm Nylon Head (£9.50)
    • Rawhide mallet (£18.32) [6] (for hitting things without marking the surface);
    • Generic ball-pean hammer (10?) (a non-polished hammer for hitting punches etc.);
    • 4" vice bolted onto a movable base (£90) (url picked at random - may not be the best)
    • small swivel vice of some kind

• • pliers
    • Cookson 5 Piece,115mm Pliers Set (£31.15) (most cheap or kit pliers will have serrated jaws - these are the minimum quality I'd get: box-jointed with smooth jaws)
    • Ring Bending Pliers, Cookson Value Range (£4.91)
    • 5.5"/ 140mm Maun Flat Pliers Parallel Action (£18.65)
    • round triblet (for forming rings and suchlike) (£21.72) [7]

• • Tweezer set (£18.80) [8] (brass and plastic tweezers for pickle, reverse and third-hand for soldering, fine for manipulating tiny things)

• • Straight 7"/17.5cm Shears (£10.45) (for brutal cutting of sheet metal). Aviation snips would be useful on a larger scale

• • soldering:
    • Hand Torch (£20.00) [9] (this is ok for very small things. Much better for bigger work, and giving more control, would be a bottled-gas torch)
    • Magnesia Soldering Block (£6.35)
    • Soldering Sheet 300mm X 300mm X 9mm (£6.50)
    • Picklean Safe Pickling Powder 150g (£5.41)
    • crock pot of some kind for keeping pickle warm (30?)

• • hard silver solder paste (£33) [10] (consumable) (this is great for small-scale work; for bigger things one wants strip solder and flux)

• • marking out
    • 6" Ruler (£3.40);
    • Standard Steel Scriber (£4.10);
    • centre punch (£5.00);
    • digital calipers (£30.24) (that's a fairly cheap one, which is perhaps a false economy. Basic Mitoyoyo calipers are around £60-70)
    • 3" square (£8.75)

• • magnification: Optivisor 2.0x No4 (£38.00); Optivisor 2.75x No7 (£38.00) [11] (these are invaluable for working with anything small. Even better for some things would be a stereo microscope - second-hand or donated, as otherwise very expensive)

• • flexible shaft drill and tools
    • cheap-but-decent Axminster model (£141) [12]
    • Set Of 20 Drills 0.3-1.6mm (£13.30) (consumable!)
    • Polishing Kit No 2 (£43.45)

• • Toolmaking
    • bench grinder (?)
    • mapp gas torch for annealing and hardening

Total: around £1000 incl vat.

• Small-scale metalwork: possible extensions, budget permitting
  • Lighting - some good desk task lighting (probably this should be included in the above)
  • Bench polisher (not much)
  • Doming block and punches, for forming sections of spheres (£200 from Sutton tools) [13]
  • Bottled gas torch (£145 + gas) [14]
  • Rolling mill (£807) [15]

(for reducing the thickness of sheet, embossing texture and pattern (laser-cut?) on sheet surface, and making wire. Rolling mills come in between £200 and £2000; this is in the middle of the range, with just one pair of rollers but with gearing)

• • Stereo microscope (£1500 new; hopefully less second-hand or donated)
  • Raising hammers and stakes (for making forms out of metal sheet) (£ a few hundred)
  • a wider range of flexible shaft tools: diamond burrs, stone-setting burrs, ... (each one is not very expensive, and these are semi-consumable - perhaps best got on demand)

• Small-scale metalwork: implausible extensions (just to give an upper-bound context)
  • laser cutter that can cut metal sheet (e.g. up to 1mm)
  • PUK4 microwelder (£3195) [16]
  • air-powered hand engraving kit (£ several thousand) [17]
  • high-resolution 3D wax printer, for lost wax casting (£ lots)

Wishlist

Do we already have a general purpose socket and wrench set with extras like this 242 piece kit with cabinet for £100? www.machinemart.co.uk/shop/product/details/cht497-242pce-tool-set-chest. We could use another when we have more users.

• Small tools for jewelry or fabrication are usually cheaper in kits (although Macay had good quality) Amazon for simplicity of finding links:
• 16-piece tool set: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Draper-48958-16-Piece-Precision-Screwdriver/dp/B002BZE9OA/ref=sr_1_27?ie=UTF8&qid=1362310078&sr=8-27
• Polishers: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Grinder-Polisher-Pro-Max-Jewellery-Polishing/dp/B009ZWSCAO/ref=sr_1_40?ie=UTF8&qid=1362310187&sr=8-40
• Micro torch: http://www.amazon.co.uk/GoSystem-Micro-Tech-Pen-Torch/dp/B007M65C0I/ref=sr_1_41?ie=UTF8&qid=1362310338&sr=8-41
• Craft tools: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Beginners-Jewellery-Craft-Tool-Kit/dp/B009GE2TQE/ref=sr_1_46?ie=UTF8&qid=1362310373&sr=8-46
• Eight-plier set for £6: http://www.pandahall.com/wholesale/Jewelry-Tools/9687.html
• Metal punch and chisel set: http://www.machinemart.co.uk/shop/product/details/et138-16-piece-punch-chisel-set
• Riveter, from £15 to 150: http://www.machinemart.co.uk/shop/product/details/040219902
• Aviation shears straight: http://www.machinemart.co.uk/shop/product/details/facom-985-st-aviation-shears-straight-cut
• Ten inch snips: http://www.machinemart.co.uk/shop/product/details/spear-and-jackson-10-inch-general-purpose-snip or * Three piece set for £7 http://www.machinemart.co.uk/shop/product/details/cht127-3-pce-aviation-snip-set
• Three lock grip pliers: http://www.machinemart.co.uk/shop/product/details/cht116-3-pce-lock-grip-pliers-set
• Forceps such as: http://www.machinemart.co.uk/shop/product/details/forceps-2
• Panel beating kit (for jewelry fabrication?): http://www.machinemart.co.uk/shop/product/details/cpb7c-7pce-panel-beating-set