What are these tools used for? The head appears to be copper and there are various sizes.
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Those are irons used to heat stuff, e.g. for soldering.
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Yes, old fashioned soldering irons. Heat them with a torch, or in the fire, or forge, or whatever, then get to work.
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(this should send you down the path of watching these videos, where they show some of these in use)
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Old soldering irons as others state. Its pretty neat seeing old timers using those on copper gutters.
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Soldering irons for sheet metal work.
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Wow! Thanks everybody. I guess that’s a blinding flash of the obvious when you think about how they did it before electric soldering irons.
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I’ve used something vintage like these ages ago, for soldering organ pipes from pipe organs. Those were not copper. The older pipes were a more brittle zinc and the newer ones from the 1950s were a tin/lead alloy. much easier to work with other than their physical size.
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