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Offline PetahW

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Another Use For A Salad Fork Set
« on: September 14, 2020, 10:06:25 PM »
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I bought this vintage hollowware (hollow handle) salad fork/spoon set on fleabay for chump change & a couple of FFFg flintlock priming valves from TOTW







I then cut the wooden fork/spoon off from their hollow handles.






I made a small wooden plug to fit inside the open end of the handle(s), drilled it for the priming valve, then epoxied it in place.





And, VIOLA ! !  -  A handy/compact flintlock pan priming tool !

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Re: Another Use For A Salad Fork Set
« Reply #1 on: September 14, 2020, 10:34:05 PM »
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« Reply #2 on: September 14, 2020, 10:34:41 PM »
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Re: Another Use For A Salad Fork Set
« Reply #3 on: September 14, 2020, 11:34:44 PM »
Now THAT is a cool idea!  :hairy  :bow
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Re: Another Use For A Salad Fork Set
« Reply #4 on: September 15, 2020, 12:57:03 PM »
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Thanks for the kind sentiments, folks ! :toast


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Re: Another Use For A Salad Fork Set
« Reply #5 on: September 15, 2020, 05:00:21 PM »
Nicely executed!
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Re: Another Use For A Salad Fork Set
« Reply #6 on: September 15, 2020, 06:46:39 PM »
Or use them for salt and pepper....
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Re: Another Use For A Salad Fork Set
« Reply #7 on: September 15, 2020, 08:16:53 PM »
Nicely thought out and even more nicely executed! Well done, sir!
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Re: Another Use For A Salad Fork Set
« Reply #8 on: September 15, 2020, 08:44:55 PM »
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Thanks again !   8)

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Re: Another Use For A Salad Fork Set
« Reply #9 on: September 17, 2020, 09:23:10 PM »
 Now why didn't I think of that? :yessir:
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Re: Another Use For A Salad Fork Set
« Reply #10 on: September 18, 2020, 08:58:57 AM »
ingenious!   :bl th up :bl th up
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Re: Another Use For A Salad Fork Set
« Reply #11 on: September 18, 2020, 02:53:08 PM »
 :bl th up :bl th up :bl th up

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Re: Another Use For A Salad Fork Set
« Reply #12 on: September 19, 2020, 12:32:21 PM »
Cool! That is what our fore fathers did, re-purposed, modified or built what they needed out of what they had.
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Re: Another Use For A Salad Fork Set
« Reply #13 on: September 19, 2020, 05:23:01 PM »
I wonder in the distant past if anyone ever took a powder primer and made a fork out of it? :Doh!
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Re: Another Use For A Salad Fork Set
« Reply #14 on: September 19, 2020, 07:47:37 PM »
Quote from: Hank in WV on September 19, 2020, 05:23:01 PM
I wonder in the distant past if anyone ever took a powder primer and made a fork out of it? :Doh!

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