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Packing Extractor Photo Gallery

Bob Roger described his tools as

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Forged and copper: Top puller is copper or a copper

alloy, so sparks will not be created. It is 12 inches long and right-handed. The bottom

two are hand forged and very early, perhaps 18th Century. Both have left-handed

worms, the bottom one a flat worm and the middle one a roundish cross-section. The

middle one has a left and right-handed twist to the shank, and the lower one has a six-

sided shank. They are 12 and 16 inches long and may have been for gun

cleaning/clearing instead of packing.

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Unmarked. Lengths are 6 - 14 ½ inches. All right-handed.

Courtesy of Bob Roger.

Wire Twists. Here are three different types of wire twists, all right-handed and not

flexible. Lengths 8-13 inches, no markings.

Courtesy of Bob Roger.