What is this tool?

[callumlovatt]

Can anybody tell me what this tool is and what it is used for, I found it in my grandads shed.
On the handle it says surform, and something else on the otherside, but i'm not sure what it says.
Thanks
Callum.

 

[adidat]

i think its a very basic circular saw that you attach to a hand drill.

adidat

 

[barkwindjammer]

I'm going to hazard a guess at a slot cutter/biscuit cutter of some kind, the depth of cut is quite shallow

 

[AndyT]

It looks to me as if it was to cut a slot, assuming the circular part is sharp. There is a clear adjustment for depth of cut.

But most electric drill attachments have some way of clamping onto the drill. B&D or Wolfcraft had slots in the end of the drill with lugs that pivoted into them, before adopting the standard 43mm collar. This thing appears to have nothing like that, so if you gripped the little spindle in a drill chuck, you would have the weight of the drill flopping about.

Maybe it belonged to some sort of scaled down multiple workcentre saw/drill/lathe/slotter combination!

 

[barkwindjammer]

It looks to me as if it was to cut a slot, assuming the circular part is sharp

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otherwise it could result in an unfortunate entanglement of ones tank top

There is a clear adjustment for depth of cut.

unless one has their tank top pulled up over ones face resulting in poor vision

yes quite !

 

[AndyT]

I meant to say, it's a pretty odd marketing idea to brand your product in a typeface that's quite so unreadable! It's not in Russian by any chance?

 

[CHJ]

Much the same as an Arcoy Rabbetter, (Looks better built) used with saw or wobble blades to cut slots or rebates, just clamp the drive shaft in your electric drill chuck.

Not used it for many years but boy did it earn its keep way back in the 1960's. including trimming doors before the advent of tailed routers.

 

[chunkolini]

Its a scrammoblaster. Do None of you boys remember these?

Chunko'.

 

[Rob Platt]

Its called a coricut and I still use one. It attaches to an electric drill you can cut grooves trenches and rebates etc with it.
All the best
Rob

 

[callumlovatt]

thanks for all that info, i had no idea what it was for. I think rob is right though, as it looks like 'corricut' on the side.

 

[bugbear]

thanks for all that info, i had no idea what it was for. I think rob is right though, as it looks like 'corricut' on the side.

The photo's a little lo res, but I read it as "corruout" (I'm guessing an contraction for "corrugated router"). I certainly can't make the letters fit "corricut".

Googling for "corruout" draws a blank though.

Still, there's no doubt WHAT it is.

BugBear

 

[Scouse]

Still, there's no doubt WHAT it is.

A pizza cutter... :mrgreen:

 

[AndyT]

There's another one on ebay with its box, showing it as a Woden Z300 Corrucut. Seems to have had very little use!

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/WODEN-Z300-CORRUCUT-DRILL-REBATE-ATTACHMENT-OLD-TOOL-/270745914784?

 

[bosshogg]

Still, there's no doubt WHAT it is.

A pizza cutter... :mrgreen:

this would be for crinkle cuts? :mrgreen: :mrgreen:

you can't help a man who doesn't tell you what he wants