Yet another local upholsterer gave it up, and sold me a bunch of their stuff.
Among the tools, was an Osborne caster socket removal tool.
When the sleeves get worn out, they will no longer grab the stem of the caster. This is why many casters fall out when you lift the chair.
You have to remove and replace the sleeve, or at least remove, and re-crimp it. This tool makes it easy to remove the sleeve without digging into the wood around it.
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Sofadoc you have got to be the king of unique tools. That has my vote for cool tool of the year. :D
Thanks for the video.
Kool! That actually looks like one of those PVC pipe extraction tools you can get at the hardware store to extract the stem of broken-off sprinkler heads.
June
Very cool. It reminds me of a dent puller you use when doing body work on cars.
Chris
Can you get corks out of wine bottles? Or how about pits out of olives?
When you pull the sleeve out, you are pulling up a weight and that weight hits the top lip of the shaft and that causes enough force to remove the sleeve.
I had thought about this idea, in reverse, for pulling staples. The tip of the shaft would go under the staple. You would slide a weight forward, down the front of the shaft, and it would cause the tip of the shaft to go under the staple. I wonder if a tool like this would be easier and faster than a mallet and staple puller?
Thanks for the video.
gene
Quote from: gene on October 20, 2011, 05:10:20 am
I had thought about this idea, in reverse, for pulling staples. The tip of the shaft would go under the staple. You would slide a weight forward, down the front of the shaft, and it would cause the tip of the shaft to go under the staple. I wonder if a tool like this would be easier and faster than a mallet and staple puller?
gene
Neat idea Gene. Thinking outside the box. How about after you get the tool under the staple you force the weight back up to remove it. I'll bet with a little practice you could get pretty fast with it. Save ware and tare on the hands. How about a pneumatic version? Push the trigger it forces the tool under the staple, release the trigger it pulls it out. All by forcing a weight down and up a shaft. Sort of what a plunger does in a staple gun.
Gene,
My dad used to have a tool like this. I can remember using it to pull nails out of studs and such around the farm. A few years ago, a friend of mine was looking for something to pull up deck boards and I told him about it. Long story short, I borrowed it from my dad, lent it to my friend, who ended up buying it from my dad. Still available: http://www.doitbest.com/Nail+pullers-Cooper+Tools-model-56-doitbest-sku-302265.dib
It's not obvious maybe, the but the center section telescopes. You bang it down under the head of the nail, then if you need extra leverage, slide it back out to lever out the nail.
All in all, it reminds me of a joke about a camel and two bricks.
Keith:
I own a nail puller exactly like that, I inherited it from my father in law. The nail puller has a nasty habit of biting the skin between your thumb and first finger while you use it!
Hence the camel joke.
Quote from: BigJohn on October 20, 2011, 07:21:12 am
Keith:
I own a nail puller exactly like that, I inherited it from my father in law. The nail puller has a nasty habit of biting the skin between your thumb and first finger while you use it!
Quote from: kodydog on October 19, 2011, 04:04:29 pm
Sofadoc you have got to be the king of unique tools.
I must admit. Being a Yabb God has left me unfufilled. And I realize now, that my lifelong goal of being "Global Moderator" is probably beyond my reach.
BUT with a regal moniker like "King of unique tools", I can die a happy man.
Just to further cement my legacy, here's another one (the C.S. Osborne Co. really should be giving me a kickback):
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Sofadoc I live in awe of you. You give to upholstery what BB King gives to the blues. You ARE the master.
Once again thanks for the video. And my old tired hands thank you for that last one.
Quote from: gene on October 20, 2011, 05:10:20 am
I had thought about this idea, in reverse, for pulling staples.
Gene: At last you're using your head for something besides a hatrack!
Using some epoxy, I made a working prototype with the caster socket puller, and an Osborne staple lifter. Of course, the epoxy won't withstand repeated hammering, but you get the idea. I'm thinking about cutting the yellow handle off of the staple lifter, and having the 2 tools welded together. If Osborne comes out with one of these, remember you saw it here first: (https://forum.upholster.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fi775.photobucket.com%2Falbums%2Fyy33%2Fsofadoc%2Fth_MOV00220.jpg&hash=151f05ea125434fed0eecccb964ac278) (http://s775.photobucket.com/albums/yy33/sofadoc/?action=view¤t=MOV00220.mp4)
Absolutely awesome. That's exactly what I was wondering about. Once you get a working model put together, I'd love to hear how it compares with a mallet.
Of course I would need to make a left handed one.
By the way, did you ever get your strip bit?
gene
Quote from: gene on October 20, 2011, 03:47:32 pm
By the way, did you ever get your strip bit?
Yeah, I got it. I use it occasionally. It has it's practical uses. But it's not always a time saver. There's a lot of "Prep time" involved in using it. And some fabrics tear too easily, and some frames are so hard that the staples just break.
But all things considered, I give it a "thumbs up".
Dude! Patent that stuff!
I wouldn't doubt that that tool was made from or could be made from stock off the shelf parts a small slide hammer and an extractor mated together.
And I was feeling pretty pumped up about splittin' the leather for a pneumatic stapler (long nose!)... . I am in awe of the variety of tools some of you have. (But you'd prolly be in awe of my sewing macihine armada, too, so it all works out in the end).
The pneumatic stapler has proven its worth on the upholstery recover I did for a designer, BTW. It's so much lighter and more easily handled than the electric one I was using before. A very wise purchase indeed!
Quote from: bobbin on October 22, 2011, 07:36:39 am
I am in awe of the variety of tools some of you have. (But you'd prolly be in awe of my sewing macihine armada, too, so it all works out in the end).
Something tells me that all those little gadgets that I have pale in comparison to some of your full function sewing machines with all the whistles and bells.
Simple tools for simple minds. ;D
Im working with a guy called peter at the moment who has more kit than i have ever seen in a a three man shop, It would be right up your street Doc. He showed me his converted pfaff the other day which is a small domestic machine that he had a metal fly wheel fitted to so it could punch through tougher fabrics but is light weight for use on site.
I'm pretty sure that the socket puller was invented in the uk about twenty years ago, the story i heard was that the guy sold the rights to osbournes after getting them made personally got too time consuming apparently he donated the money to a benevolent fund for retired upholsterers and their widows.
Another upholsterer i know has an amazing tool in his arsenal, he is around 65 now and was an apprentice in the docks at 15, there was an upholsterer called Earnie who had this tool which is a bit like a bullet braised onto a two foot length of steel rod with chisel handle on the other end. he used it to manipulate stuffing if he had to, in the same way keyhole surgery is done. really handy say where the inside back bottom rail meets the arm and needs a bit poking in or anything like that. It was called Earnie's jiggler, 30 years or so later my mate was at a closing down sale at a huge workshop in london and he saw this handle sticking out of a bin and he recognised it straight away as Earnies jiggler (confirmed with the owner that indeed an old upholsterer had once worked there before retiring and he was indeed called earnie) he still uses the jiggler today, I too have jiggled with it and i have to say its awesome.
Personally my coolest tool is a simple piece of rose wood shaped like a letter opener. I use it to manipulate pleats into shape on leather and fabrics, its a god send for deep buttoning (tufting).
OK , here it is:
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I had the caster socket puller and an Osborne staple lifter welded together.
I added a hand grip off an old lawn mower (filled with silicone).
It's pretty good on delicate antiques, where you might need more control.
It works well on sturdier stuff too.
In time, after I get used to it, I might prefer it to the mallet.
Excellent! I have been inspired to try making one of these. Thank you for the pic. I'll post my pic when I get it done.
This looks like something dentists might be interested in??? You'd want to sterilize it first, of course. "Spit!"
gene