ironstein Posted December 7, 2010 Share Posted December 7, 2010 What is the purpose of the large hole perpendicular to the tenon hole in a monkey tool? Is it to clear any junk that gets inside the tenon sleeve? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dkunkler Posted December 7, 2010 Share Posted December 7, 2010 What is the purpose of the large hole perpendicular to the tenon hole in a monkey tool? Is it to clear any junk that gets inside the tenon sleeve? Yes. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ed Steinkirchner Posted December 7, 2010 Share Posted December 7, 2010 not only that, it is kind of nice so you can see if you bottomed out or not Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MLMartin Posted December 7, 2010 Share Posted December 7, 2010 also if you do bottom out the tenon it leaves lots of room for the tenon to upset into the hole and get stuck in the tool! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fciron Posted December 7, 2010 Share Posted December 7, 2010 also if you do bottom out the tenon it leaves lots of room for the tenon to upset into the hole and get stuck in the tool! More importantly it leaves room to cut that mess off and rescue your tool. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Francis Trez Cole Posted December 7, 2010 Share Posted December 7, 2010 if you make you tool with close tolerances it will let the air in the main hole escape. So when you remove the tool there will not be any negative pressure. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ironstein Posted December 8, 2010 Author Share Posted December 8, 2010 All very interesting points. Thank you. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mainely,Bob Posted December 8, 2010 Share Posted December 8, 2010 You`re all wrong! That hole serves as the portal to the time/space continuum in the realm of elemental fire. Ever get to working at the forge and the time just runs away from you and before you know it it`s well past midnight?Now you know where all that time went! No use trying to plug it or cover it with a gloved thumb either,there still won`t be enough time in the day to get it all done no matter what you do. ;) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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