Juneero

Just found a Juneero tool in the Men's Shed scrap box. They can be too ready so consign things to the bin and not recognise classic items.
Unfortunately the sheer section of the casting is broken but still an interesting exhibit.

Anyway does anyone have any of the strips to measure the thickness, and width? The adverts and other info online doesn't mention this. i assume it was just soft iron but brass and aluminium would be fairer on the old tool.

Have a look here Baz

Juneero (circuitousroot.com) - and quoting from there:

"The supplied die was 6BA and the standard thread was also 6BA.  The 1941 reviewer in Model Engineer { ME 2070} gives the rod diameter as 1/8 inch. But Kevin Steele gives the rod diameter as 0.104 inch (from his research, I believe, not from examination of materials). A quick search online indicates that a 6BA thread has a diameter over the thread of 0.11 inches, which splits this difference. The strip width was 3/8 inch, and the angle width was 3/8 by 3/8 inch. Strip thickness was 0.028 inch, in soft mild steel (or one could use aluminum)"

I have a Junero tool myself by the way - but none of the original material - which was sold in 1/- packets (for folk who still remember how much that was!)   

Some more information here: Juneero - The Brighton Toy and Model Index (brightontoymuseum.co.uk)

Apart from the ME stuff, there were also two short articles in Practical Mechanics (1940) - that I have if you are interested.

Regards,

IanT

Edited By IanT on 01/02/2023 23:07:00

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The big problem with the Juneero was it was so weedy that it needed it's own special soft metal construction kits, you couldn't simply use ordinary mild plate steel

Thanks for the info. I hadn't found that particular source of details. Now I can make up something as a sort of exhibit. It is interesting in a way that although there will be a dwindling number of people that actually got one as a child tehre will be far more who have heard about it via the internet.
Over a 20 year production life, including through WW2, that is a far longer period than so many modern 'inventions'.

I had a Juneero, may still be somewhere in the house. Must have been my dad's as a boy.

Neil

Clicking on IanT's link to the Brighton Toy ..... Interesting to see the model of an Anderson Air raid shelter there - I bet a lot of the younger members here would have little idea as to what they were !

Bob

I inherited some Juneero as well as a Trix Express train set from my cousin who is 16 years older than me. Many years later in the 60's when I was in electroplating, one of the special tools which bend, cut, punch holes, etc was in the laboratory amongst some tools.

One firm I worked for had a complete Anderson  shelter and I got one of the apprentices up on top of it while I unscrewed the bolts holding it together. He was not happy up there. I was impressed by the thickness of the corrugated iron, it was about 1/8" thick.

Edited By old mart on 02/02/2023 19:23:21

Thread drift.

Post WW2, our Andersom shelter was bought for £2, I think, Then it was unearthed from being half buried in my Grandparent's back garden) . We had to sperns a few nights down there, sitting on up turned flower posts, by candle light

It made a very substantial gardem shed once end walls and a door had been added.

Howard

About 50 years ago a cutting at the St Albans club site was turned into a 30 ft tunnel by putting in shelter sections and covering over with about a foot of soil. Over the years some substantial trees had grown up within feet though not actually on top. In 2020 we finally decided that the bottom had rotted enough to make it unsafe so it had to go. Back to a cutting but we left the brick portals and a hint of the original iron. Though ideal as a tunnel they must have been really cramped for a long wet night with bombs going off.