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Date:    Thu, 10 Jul 2014 09:13:40 -0400
From:    Michael <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Re: cold chisel   at 100th and Broadway

C-


Without seeing the image, if the "point" (working end) of the chisel is splayed, 
it is more likely a caulking iron -  if he's driving oakum into the joint.


M



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Subject: [BP] cold chisel   at 100th and Broadway



 
I got a beefy workman in a 1911 photograph sitting astride a 6' wide sewer line 
which is being worked on or rerouted.   He looks just like Slim Pickens on the 
bomb at the end of Strangelove.
 
I would describe what he is holding as a cold chisel and mallet, without really 
knowing what a cold chisel is.  He is seating right at a joint in the pipe.    
Perhaps he was pushing lead (or oakum?) into the joint?    If so, would the tool 
he used really be a "cold chisel"?
 
 
Christopher 

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Date:    Thu, 10 Jul 2014 12:45:23 -0400
From:    John Leeke <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: cold chisel   at 100th and Broadway

Christopher:

A cold chisel would be used for working metal that is cold or unheated 
to make it softer and easier to work.

If he is caulking a pipe joint he might be using a caulking iron.

John
by hammer and hand

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