Number 11 but what does it do?

[skipskip]

no clues here  just says  No11

cuts? crimps? folds?  goes fishin?


AJAN 209 by Skip Albright, on Flickr

AJAN 213 by Skip Albright, on Flickr

[Lostmind]

wag , seam maker for tin

[lptools]

Hello, Skipskip. Maybe a tobacco cutter? I see you are in New York State, I live upstate, Syracuse, to be exact.Regards, Lou

[skipskip]

wag , seam maker for tin

someone suggested for crimping the end of a toothpaste tube, the metal ones we remember

[skipskip]

Albany Lou, not too far. for the folks in Texas, it's just across town

[Bill Houghton]

someone suggested for crimping the end of a toothpaste tube, the metal ones we remember, if we're more than 60 years old.

Fixed it for ya.  I could be off a year or so on the age, but not by much.

I used to cut those metal toothpaste tubes up and roll them up for fishing weights.

[turnnut]

Skipskip,  looking at your 3 or 4 pictures, a few things that I noticed was (1) on the round grooved disc wheel, it's stamped "OIL",

that would make me look away from tobacco or food products.

(2) below the grooved disc/wheel ? looks like an anvil that is adjustable up & down by way of loosening the 2 square headed screws
below the anvil.

(3) when you pull the lever, does the cogs make the disc/wheel slide back & forth ??

mounted on a board, it could be a once in a while needed tool ??? 1 hole in the board could be to hang it on the wall near a bench.

used like for perhaps straightening something like copper tubing ?

not being able to touch this tool, this is just my off the wall observations.

[wvtools]

What is the size of the groove?  Could it be a burnisher for round leather drive belts for sewing machines and lathes?

[Lewill2]

If you click on the picture it takes you to Skip's Flickr page. You can see additional pictures there. I can't tell from the pictures if you can place a sheet under the wheel and it will fit under the rack gear that the handle engages. I'm thinking a sheet metal shear for slitting a sheet or strip for fabrication. I don't understand what the hex head fasteners are for out board of the square head set screws that lock the anvil in position.

[turnnut]

 my thought on the hex head bolts was to raise or lower the ? avil/plate ???   for different size ?? whatever is being drven thru ???

[oldgoaly]

not a cutting tool (worth a damn) would only would cut the width of the casting cause of the gear.
some type on straight 4" long thing-a-bob tool I've looked thru Pexto & Niagara s/m tools, not there.