Brad93
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Looks like a fairly decent copy of the sandvik scraper but with a wooden handle.I've wanted some of these ever since I discovered their existence maybe 10-15 years ago, but either they were way too expensive - especially in the beginning - or way too bad - since they started copying * them.
( * By the way: The next person who seriously wants to sell me for the umteens time the old nonsense of "in Chinese culture, imitation is the highest form of admiration" I will bite!).
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What could be faster and easier for a quick first estimation on 1/64" or 1/10mm, than to hold such a taper gauge into a bore etc. and to read at the edge?!?
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Taper gauge - the word with us -, perhaps better measuring cone is not used at all to measure cones, but to measure holes - quick and dirty, so to speak.
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This time inexpensive, with easily readable laser engravings in strong material thickness from a German dealer with phone number and people behind it, completely without the bay of thieves.
The same supplier:
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Call from the boss: "We ran out of the 300mm rulers with inches you ordered" - "But I want mm and inches" - "No problem, may we put in a 500mm ruler that is also wider for the same price? Yes? Thank you!" - the day after next the package was here.
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And because of course I can't bear to have only heard about scraping and the miraculous powers inherent in it, I want to learn it too:
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The label "Rennsteig" appears more often lately and made me suspicious at first: It sounds just TOO German and one knows the method ....
Rennsteig is traditionally (Wiki):
"The Rennsteig is an approximately 170 km long ridge trail as well as a historical border trail in the Thuringian Forest, Thuringian Slate Mountains and Franconian Forest. It is also the oldest and, with about 100,000 hikers a year, the most walked long-distance hiking trail in Germany."
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A typical candidate to sell some snot under it's name for a few years and then close the operation leaving behind unpaid salaries and rents ...
But it doesn't look like it, on the contrary (Wiki):
"Rennsteig Werkzeuge in its current form essentially emerged from VEB Handwerkzeuge Steinbach-Hallenberg in the Werkzeugkombinat Schmalkalden. In 1990, it was founded as a GmbH (limited liability company), was under the administration of the Treuhandanstalt, and became a company of the Knipex Group in 1991."
So I'm on the lookout and will give them a fair chance.
Carsten
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