Brass Drifts

[idi!berry@apple.com (Berry Kercheval)]

        >>   From: apple!ecn.purdue.edu!doddp (Paul E Dodd)
        >> a "large brass drift" (that's probably a knock-off 
        >> hammer to you and me)

No, a "drift" is basically a punch with a flat end.  some tool
catalogs call them "pin-punches".  A large piece of brass rod will
work well (say, 1/2" diameter by 10" long).  Be sure to use a
Whitworth drift.... :-)

  --berry

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