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• Copper tongs pick up jewelry pieces in pickling (acid) jars.

• Crescent wrenches also come in brass and beryllium copper form. Expensive and softer than steel, but you live to tell the tale when fixing a gas leak.

• Crescent wrenches also come in brass and beryllium copper form. Expensive and softer than steel, but you live to tell the tale when fixing a gas leak.

• This lovely—expensive—brass pipe wrench is, like many brass tools, designed to be used in situations where there may be explosive gasses present. Unlike steel, brass does not create any sparks even when hit on another hard surface. For example, if you were to drop an iron pipe wrench on a concrete floor while working to fix a gas leak, it could ignite the gas. That won’t happen with a brass one.

• I lucked into an auction selling a bunch of different brass and beryllium copper (even fancier) hammers.

• I lucked into an auction selling a bunch of different brass and beryllium copper (even fancier) hammers.

• I found a place selling these lovely brass hammers cheap and got several of them. The pieces are easy to loose.

• This center-finder lets you draw a line down the middle of the end of a round bar. Draw several such lines and the intersection point will be the exact center of the bar. It’s made of brass so it won’t rust.

• This lovely set of solid brass miniature block planes is brand new and not very expensive. A lot of people apparently use these things, or at least buy them.

• Sounding rods are heavy metal (brass in this case) folding rulers meant to be lowered into a pool of liquid to measure the depth to the bottom.

• Triangles with ruler edges and 30, 45, 60, and 90 degree angles are common drafting tools (and paper weights if you have a computer).

• Brass versions exist of many common tools (hammers, wrenches, pliers, etc) for use when there may be explosive gasses present. They can’t create sparks the way iron tools can when hit hard.

• This looked like an ordinary Allen wrench until I polished it, revealing that it’s a much more expensive brass version, used to avoid sparking in explosive environments.

• Brass crescent wrench.

• This brass pipe wrench is probably my heaviest brass tool.

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