What are these dies-tool bits/heads? Now just a tool thread.

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Any of this stuff still useable? A few of the head things are unused with the sticker tag.





What are Cratex heads used for? I can see deburring, smoothing and polishing
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But on what?

On anything that needs deburring smoothing or polishing, generally aluminum because cratex is just an abrasive eraser and doesn’t wear well.
 

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I know right where mine is. It is in the 10mm slot in my tool case.

But then, I don't seem to ever work on anything that is metric, so that's probably why I know where it is.
You obviously don’t own a Ford... they should come with a complete set of 10 and 12mm sockets of every flavor.
 

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You obviously don’t own a Ford... they should come with a complete set of 10 and 12mm sockets of every flavor.

You are new here. Wife and I own a Ford Expedition Max and a Ford F450. The F450 is to tow our 38 1/2-foot fifth wheel permanent home.

I just don't work on either of them very much, if at all.
 

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When I was a youngster, most everyone knew that a "Ford tune-up kit" was a roll of baling wire.
Back when F-O-R-D meant "found on road dead". :D

I got my first Ford in 1962 when I turned 16. It was a plain-Jane, 1954 two door sedan with six cylinder engine and three on the column shifter.

60 years later in car ownership, I can legitimately say that I have had less problems with my Fords than I have with all the other brands, both foreign and domestic. Numerous GM products were bad with failed engines, and the Chrysler products that I had just outright sucked.
 

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