On 26/10/2014 12:41 PM, JAMES THOMPSON wrote (in part):
> Went to an estate sale this morning, and found a Goodell-Pratt bearing scraper
in salvageable condition. Don’t need any more bering scrapers, but just couldn’t
leave it behind for a dollar.
>
> Decided to prep it correctly so y’all can see what such a beast looks like.
Few people have ever seen a correctly prepared bearing scraper.
G'day Jim,

I don't dispute that your GP scraper is one form of bearing scraper: 
there is one  of that form in my father's toolbox from his days at sea.

> I included 2 pictures of the Hirsch tool I found last week, which several
people insisted is a bearing scraper. A quick comparison should dispel any
notion that the Hirsch tool is a bearing scraper.

But see

http://store.apextoolgroup.com/nicholson-
21667n-3-1-4-machinist-s-scraper.html">http://store.apextoolgroup.com/nicholson-
21667n-3-1-4-machinist-s-scraper.html

for a Nicholson bearing scraper of the same form as  your Hirsch tool.  
The answer may come down to whether your find has a convex, flat or  
hollow grind on the faces.  I checked my  Dads' and they both have flat 
faces.  As far as I know he never used a cabinet-makers'  scraper, (I 
never saw him with one and and there is no cabinet-makers' scraper 
amongst his gear) so he didn't use them as scraper burnishers, but 
rather I believe, as he told me, as bearing scrapers.

But then I have never worked as a fitter nor a machinist, nor engineer, 
so I can only go on what Dad told me.  Or maybe it was a case of making 
do do with what was to hand during WWII when a bearing  failed at sea. I 
suspect that when the pressure is on there are more ways of skinning a 
cat than twirling it around your head by the tail...........

Regards,

Tony B
Hobart, Tasmania