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Hand tools

Installed

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Proposals

• Small-scale metalwork: Basic tools (Total: around £780.11 incl vat., plus shipping and some storage)

• • workholding (total: 19.98)
    • 2*Bench Peg And Anvil (these clamp on to a bench edge, to support work) (£19.98) [1]

• • files and saws (total 116.45)
    • 6"/150mm Flat File, Cut 2 Vallorbe (£12.12)
    • 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) (£19.98)
    • Grobet/vallorbe Saw Frame Adjustable (£22.80) [2]
    • 6" Deep Adjustable Saw Frame (£14.58) [3];
    • Vallorbe Saw Blades Grade 2/0, Bundle Of 12*12 (£30.82); Vallorbe Saw Blades Grade 6/0, Bundle Of 12 (£3.70) (those saw blades are consumables - they break easily)
    • Straight 7"/17.5cm Shears (£12.54) (for brutal cutting of sheet metal). Aviation snips would be useful on a larger scale

• • hammering (total 73.01)
    • Flat Stake - 10cm X 10cm (£22.44) (this is a small anvil with a machined-smooth surface on all sides) [4]
    • Planishing Hammer Cookson Value Range (£23.99) (a polished-surface hammer for surface finishing and work-hardening) [5];
    • Rawhide mallet (£16.58) [6] (for hitting things without marking the surface);
    • Generic ball-pean hammer (10?) (a non-polished hammer for hitting punches etc.);

• • pliers and tweezers (total 110.99)
    • Cookson 5 Piece,115mm Pliers Set (£37.38) (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 (£6.54)
    • 5.5"/ 140mm Maun Flat Pliers Parallel Action (£22.79) [7]
    • round triblet (for forming rings and suchlike) (£21.72) [8]
    • Tweezer set (£22.56) [9] (brass and plastic tweezers for pickle, reverse and third-hand for soldering, fine for manipulating tiny things)

• • soldering: (total 106.63)
    • Hand Torch (£18.00) [10] (this is ok for very small things. Much better for bigger work, and giving more control, would be a bottled-gas torch. The glass torch will do for now)
    • Magnesia Soldering Block (£7.62) [11]
    • Soldering Sheet 300mm X 300mm X 9mm (£7.91) [12]
    • Picklean Safe Pickling Powder 150g (£6.49) [13]
    • crock pot of some kind for keeping pickle warm (33?)
    • hard silver solder paste (£33.61) [14] (consumable) (this is great for small-scale work; for bigger things one wants strip solder and flux)

• • marking out (total 86.35)
    • 150mm Ruler * 3 (£4.83); [15]
    • Standard Steel Scriber (£1.07); [16]
    • centre punch (£1.69); [17]
    • digital calipers (£22.66) [18] (that's a fairly cheap one, which is perhaps a false economy. Basic Mitoyoyo calipers are around £60-70)
    • 3" square (£10.50) [19]
    • magnification: Optivisor 2.0x No5 (£45.60)

• • flexible shaft drill and tools (total 266.70)
    • cheap-but-decent Axminster model (190W) with 4mm keyed chuck and collet handpieces and hanger (£104.95+32.40+29.45+25.15) [20]. Others have suggested a (more expensive) Dremel model. Whichever we get has to have a foot control, reasonable power, and both chuck and collet handpieces.
    • Polishing Kit No 2 (£53.99) [21]
    • Set Of 20 Drills 0.3-1.6mm (£15.96) (consumable!) [22]
    • diamond burrs (set of 30) (4.80) (consumable) [23]

• • Toolmaking - presume we have elsewhere
    • bench grinder
    • mapp gas torch for annealing and hardening
    • 4" engineers vice

• • Stock

• • Tool Storage

Either in the wall-mounted bins or in a cheap thin-drawer metal filing cabinet (72 from Rymans) [24].

• Small-scale metalwork: possible extensions, budget permitting
  • Hammer With 25mm Nylon Head (£9.50)
  • small swivel vice of some kind
  • 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) [25]
  • Bottled gas torch (£145 + gas) [26]
  • Rolling mill (£807) [27] (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) [28]
  • air-powered hand engraving kit (£ several thousand) [29]
  • 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