Cylinder boring tool

[Mitch//pa]

i grabbed this universal brand boring tool off the local scrap man's truck today. it has the original box and a couple boxes of bits. would anyone still bore cylinders this way by hand and have any use for it??

[Mitch//pa]

I also grabbed this old torque wrench

[Purdy Swoft]

Would it bore model A cylinders ?

[Mitch//pa]

Box lid is half missing

[Tom Wesenberg]

I have one very similar that was NOS at a swap meet about 25 years ago. I only used it once and that was to bore the hole for the large bearing in the center of a front end loader. The bearing was loose in the center, where the machine pivots and the constant bouncing around the junk yard really hardened the steel in the hole. I finally did get it bored for a larger bearing though. If all the parts are there, then it should have no problem boring a Model A block.

[columbiA]

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I think the boring bar would be better suited for a vintage tool display,but one could try it on a junk block to see how well it works.About 25 years ago, I picked up a late 30,s electric Rottler boring bar at auction & bored many T,A & FH V8,s with it and it worked well.The old torque wrench may be OK,just compare it with a good one.

[SSsssteamer]

Mitch//pa, you have my sympathy. I have a boring bar and tool box just like the one in the photo. I purchased it aobut 25 years ago for cheap. The set is incomplete as I only have one boring head. I have tried to sell it at the swap meets but no one will even look at it. I guess that it will just continue to be shown with the rest of the antique tools in our museum.

[ctlikon0712]

If that is a manual Cyl. bore tool, What does a Cyl. ridge removal tool look like?
Thanks in advance

P.S. here is a powered Cyl bore.

[BILL WILLIAMSON]

Originally Posted by Purdy Swoft

Would it bore model A cylinders ?

Purdy,
You gotta' have that thang! You probably the only one of us that's STRONG enough to use it!!
Make up a song, "I been workin' with the borer, all the live long day!!"
Someday tell your grandkids, "I walked to school in the snow & re-bored Model A's by HAND!!" Bill W.

[Purdy Swoft]

Originally Posted by BILL WILLIAMSON

Purdy,
You gotta' have that thang! You probably the only one of us that's STRONG enough to use it!!
Make up a song, "I been workin' with the borer, all the live long day!!"
Someday tell your grandkids, "I walked to school in the snow & re-bored Model A's by HAND!!" Bill W.

Yo Bill! Mitch may want to keep it. Something like that could come in handy. I would need some sort of instructions to use any boring equipment. If I had some sort of boring equipment I wouldn't want anybody to know that I had it. Sombody would probably want to borrow it if they knew.

[BILL WILLIAMSON]

Originally Posted by Purdy Swoft

Yo Bill! Mitch may want to keep it. Something like that could come in handy. I would need some sort of instructions to use any boring equipment. If I had some sort of boring equipment I wouldn't want anybody to know that I had it. Sombody would probably want to borrow it if they knew.

I can just see your sign, "PURDY'S SLICK MACHINE WORKS"----No need to travel 100 miles, just getter' done here!!
Saved a '32 Plymouth 4 cyl. in high school. Had 2 horrible slots cut by a piston pin. Dusted off an oooold Van Norman boring bar & poked in a thick sleeve. Ran like a swiss watch. It even had the Floating Power front engine mounting like all the later Plymouths! Bill W.

[Mitch//pa]

Out of business sign::::

A barner jumped on it and is picking it up at my shop.
Can't beat free
Sorry

[J and M Machine]

I hope it goes to a vocational school so the kids will see how it was done before modern machines.

[KR500]

The torque wrench is a Sunnen and they work well. No dial just turn the hex bolt at bottom to set the torque and use it. When the lever flips you have reached the torque. As far as the Universal boring bar, the cutting head uses 6 cutters any of which might not give a nice finish. A look at the gentleman using it though with a nice shirt and suit coat must mean you don't get dirty using it. Universal also made babbitt melting setups to melt out all the old babbitt.

[George Miller]

Originally Posted by ctlikon0712

If that is a manual Cyl. bore tool, What does a Cyl. ridge removal tool look like?
Thanks in advance

P.S. here is a powered Cyl bore.

That boring bar looks just like mine. Been using it since 1957, still works good.

[JRHASZARD]

Well , Dog my Cats

I also have a complete set similar to that one.It has been sitting on a shelf in my hangar for over thirty years.Everything is there including a link for power boring. ( That had been twisted in two ).Every thing else looks to be in fine shape. The instructions inside the oak box lid says it is fir Ford Cars and Fordson tractors.

[Bruce of MN]

Originally Posted by JRHASZARD

Well , Dog my Cats

Haven't heard that in a while!