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Cheap source of W-1 steel. Or give them to somebody that is too poor for anything else. Some guys try to resharpen them by soaking in acid (it can work sometimes, I've done it with vinegar) or send to Boggs file sharpening service (it works out to $2 or $3 per to sharpen them)
20 lbs worth and counting
Sell along with 20 lbs of bread dough ? .....
Another use not yet mentioned is to make them into machine scrapers of various sizes. An old machinist that was teaching shop night school around 1978 (where I could use machines that I had not yet been able to buy for myself) taught me a little scraping lesson. He took a worn 12" mill file, heated the end red and hammered it out thinner and wider, then quenched it. Of course, the file had a proper wood handle. He showed me the traditional end grind and then we set to work scraping a cast iron surface plate that generations of kids had used for an anvil. He had a granite plate to check the progress and did not really need to fix the iron plate as far as I could see. Probably it was a cure for boredom, since the class was mostly for people who knew how to use machines, but did not have their own.
I have a special size and shape scraper I made from a file that can duplicate the butterfly-shape decorative scraping that Hardinge used to do on their machines.
Larry
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In Ancient Rome People bribed officials to to get the contract to collect urine at the public toilets. It was used to tan hides. I dont't think metal files had been invented yet.
Bill D
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