Screw heading tool, Church Family, Mount Lebanon, NY

Object ID:

1952.5730.1

Community:

New York, Mount Lebanon

Description

Iron and steel screw heading tool. A steel file has been quenched, the tang bent to provide off-set, and six holes drilled through the file blade. Five of the six holes are tapped, the sixth hole provides for riveting the file to a piece of strap iron with a trunk rivet and copper burr. The other five holes are graduated in diameter from 1/8" to 1/4".

New York Mount Lebanon Church Family

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