Question About the Use of Transfer Punches

[Randy_]

My Harbor Freight transfer punches showed up in the mail yesterday and I got a bit of a surprise. I expected them to have a sharp(90°) shoulder at the tip like a pin punch; but, instead, mine have a beveled shoulder. It seems to me that the bevel might tend to wedge into the pen hardware being removed and make it a more difficult task. Am I worrying about a non-issue or is the design of my punches different than what others are using?? Thanks.

 

[dubdrvrkev]

IIRC mine have a nice sharp shoulder on them. I'll look at them when I get home tonight.

 

[Bob A]

I have them and they do have the beveled edge. No problems as of yet, unless you count the couple of times the parts flew across the room.[]

 

[mick]

Randy you win a cigar....Speaking of cigars those are the only ones I'd had trouble using the punches with ...It seems I almost always get my punch stuck in the nib of the cigar pens.....lol. I don't think it's the punch.I really thinks its just the degree of the angle inside the nib that lends itself to the punch sticking.

 

[Ron Mc]

Randy,
The set of punches I purchased at the Harbor Freight store in Dallas had straight edges. But my set only came with somewhere around 12 punches.

 

[gerryr]

Mine have the beveled edge and the only problem I've had is when I missed the punch with the hammer![xx(]

 

[Thumbs]

Gerry and I evidently have the same problem throwing punches! LOL!

 

[Randy_]

Thanks for the comments. Guess I'm worrying about nothing??

 

[tipusnr]

Went to Harbor Freight last night for something else and finally remembered the punches. I forgot everyone was talking about transfer punches and bought a set of pin punches (which do have the 90 degree edges). I looked at the transfer punches but got distracted so don't remember if they had tapered ends.

I'm only mentioning this because I'm wondering if we are comparing apples to apples.

 

[angboy]

I didn't even know my punches had shoulders!!! [][]

 

[Ron Mc]

Bill,
After reading your post I took a look at what my set is officially called. Your right, it's called a pin punch set.
So we may be talking apples to oranges here.