So i got a box of old tools for a dollar for the most part is was all just cold chiseled but there were some weird things in there, and i was hoping somebody could help identify them.

I don’t know what their original purpose was but they sure look like punches, drifts and chisels to me. 

Yes i realize that I should have said what are there original purposes, ive never seen any punches or drifs like these

Second one down is a split pin punch, for removing split pins (cotter pins in usa??)

4th one looks like a lathe dead centre that someone has been using as a punch or drift.

And the last one looks to me like a small caulking iron

You can make other useful tools out of them if you never find the original use.  That's what I do.

The "weird" ones we get out here were generally lead packing tools for oldstyle plumbing where you would have cast iron pipes and at the joins you would pack oakum into the joints and then cover it with poured lead.  They look a lot like oddly  bent chisels except they have a flat on the end instead of an edge.

The one with the 90 deg bend on the end looks a lot like a bowl or vase turning tools for a wood lathe.

Check for carbon content and separate into "stock" for blades, drifts/chisels, other.

Yes i know i can make them into different things without knowing the original use but that stuff is just interesting to me and yup thats my plan is to spark test and organize

I think we can all agree on that lol

On 8/17/2018 at 12:51 AM, ThomasPowers said:

The "weird" ones we get out here were generally lead packing tools for oldstyle plumbing where you would have cast iron pipes and at the joins you would pack oakum into the joints and then cover it with poured lead.  They look a lot like oddly  bent chisels except they have a flat on the end instead of an edge

Known as caulking irons in our neck of the globe  (caulking being hammering soft stuff between hard stuff so wet or blowy stuff cannot get in or out) 

Gotta love playing with oakum

11 hours ago, iron woodrow said:

Known as caulking irons

Same in my neck of the woods.

The bottom two look like engraving tools. 

On 8/16/2018 at 12:40 AM, iron woodrow said:

for removing split pins (cotter pins in usa??)

We call them "roll pins", well most of us do.

Packing is a more specialized type of calking and usually signifies lead. Lead packing is often compressed against turning shafts with a "packing gland", a cap or nut with a hole to allow for the shaft. 

I don't think anybody is using lead anymore, there are synthetic packing materials and seals that usually work better and aren't toxic.

Good score for your dollar Dillian, I'm thinking I don't have any better ideas than already stated. Good stock for future projects. I love garage, yard, etc. sales. 

Frosty The Lucky.

I have a lot of tools and jigs around that I made just for one specific job to catch an angle or reach a shape that I need.  When I die and they sort it out the person tasked with this will have no idea.

A few of those may be like that?

And who doesn't have some "modified tools" that we thought were a good idea at the time but turned out not to work that well and so were tossed to the back of the shelf...

No,Thomas, I don't have any of them- really, no. No, don't look there- nothing to see here- please move on.

Steve

I have some that have been "modified" at least a half dozen times.

I have tools that I've made and have no idea what their purpose is.

Well I'll say that I *thought* I knew what their purpose was when I made them; but it turns out I was mistaken...

Frosty, cotter pins have the eyelet at one end end, and you spread the legs that stick out the other side. Roll pins are rolled spring steel and straight. If that is for removing cotter pins, they are BIG cotter pins, but I can see how it would be used. We had a couple of tough ones to remove the other day. 

Look again, I went back to make sure I hadn't made that kind of typo. 

Iron Woodrow asked about cotter pins. My reply was Re. roll pins.

Frosty The Lucky.