Scraper

[patty boy]

As applied to metal work, what is a scraper? The metal-working forums use the term when they talk about improving old lathes. The inference is that it's a hand tool. None of my machining catalogs list it, making me wonder if it's fictional!

[dp]

Here's a scraping class taught by Forrest Addy:
http://thevirtualbarandgrill.com/machinery/scraping/

The hand scraper is a carbide chip brazed onto a file blank or other convenient holder.

[thistle]

have you used the search function ?

there have been some imformative posts here and on PM

a search with Forrest Addy and scraping in it should yield some results.try google as well.

scrapers can be simple, like an old file ground to shape ,or a piece of carbide brazed onto a steel shank, o fancy like a biax dapra power scraper

scrapers are comercialy available if you dont want to make yer own

http://www.andersonscraper.com/

[Teenage_Machinist]

Look for Engineers Scrapers.


Hand Scraping is when you make things precisely flat, paralell, ect by checking with a reference (usually a surface plate) and then scraping the metal that needs removal.

[beckley23]

Here's what scraping is all about. Sorry, I don't show a scraper, but I've been using a Biax power scraper on this machine, and I will get back to it eventually.
http://www.practicalmachinist.com/vb...d.php?t=146913
Harry

[dp]

That's a hell of a job, Harry - nice work on the tooling.