My last "ID this" challenge for a while. This tool is stamped with the Rawl brand. I think it is a centre punch for masonry. Right/wrong?
That one is a rawlplugging tool. It goes into a handle and you use it to chip out holes for rawlplugs. Predates electric hammer drills. They came in various thicknesses for the different coloured plugs. Rotate 1/4 turn betweeen hammer blows. Had many a bruise using one as an apprentice.
When I started as as apprentice we use to get a gas shut of tap on handle to use when using hammer to hit and turn for rawl plugs
Thank you all; much appreciated! I will keep it with my larger star-drill (also passed down) and be grateful for my power tools! Out of interest, would you use a 4-pound hammer as for masonry chisels, or a lighter carpenters hammer?
Only used them Rawlplug punches once as an apprentice at the start of the 80s and that was probably as a punishment, used a 2lb club hammer hit and 1/4 turn repeat.
When installing flight simulators in the late 70s, I had to install brackets for hydraulic pipes in a concrete trench. It took me a week using a rawlplug "jumper" and lump hammer. With a modern SDS drill, probably less than 1/2 day. How things have moved on.
Back in the 70's there was no power on site and we were wiring 4 blocks of flats. That was bad enough, spending all day chipping out with one of those and a bolster chisel for the boxes, but when you came to a really old stone house it was a nightmare to use.