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What's-It Forum => What's-It Forum => Topic started by: oldgoaly on December 02, 2014, 10:59:31 PM

Title: wth is it?
Post by: oldgoaly on December 02, 2014, 10:59:31 PM
not mine, only pic I have  some type of bender / alignment tool???
Title: Re: wth is it?
Post by: Lostmind on December 03, 2014, 08:34:11 AM
WAG -- to adjust a sleeve on steering linkage or a turn buckle on bracing piece
Not sure about that roller on the end?
Title: Re: wth is it?
Post by: oldgoaly on December 03, 2014, 11:32:27 AM
that roller must make it's way along what ever it is bending or straightening

Title: Re: wth is it?
Post by: leg17 on December 03, 2014, 01:04:37 PM
Might be making some adjustment on something that is moving.
Like metal spinning.
Title: Re: wth is it?
Post by: kxxr on December 03, 2014, 01:18:15 PM
It looks like a cousin of a "rail fork", a tool that allows one person to turn a long piece of train rail right side up. Those don't have any kind of wheel on them though, so I don't think that is what you have. It does looks very similar.
Rail fork:
(http://i301.photobucket.com/albums/nn48/kxxr/tools/railfork_zpsb4030d49.jpeg) (http://s301.photobucket.com/user/kxxr/media/tools/railfork_zpsb4030d49.jpeg.html)
Title: Re: wth is it?
Post by: oldgoaly on December 03, 2014, 02:39:35 PM
does not look like any spin tool I've seen  mine are all smallish ones, you really don't pry in spinning, more like a lever to push the metal around stretching  & shrinking

just guessing on the size, but the magazine is 12-14"??? so the tool length is about? 26-32" from end to end.
 those rail tools I've seen are 4' or more,
Title: Re: wth is it?
Post by: leg17 on December 03, 2014, 10:03:22 PM
does not look like any spin tool I've seen  mine are all smallish ones, you really don't pry in spinning, more like a lever to push the metal around stretching  & shrinking

just guessing on the size, but the magazine is 12-14"??? so the tool length is about? 26-32" from end to end.
 those rail tools I've seen are 4' or more,

Sorry, I  did not mean to imply this was actually for metal spinning, but that picturing that process might invoke some sort of use.  Sorry.
Title: Re: wth is it?
Post by: Chillylulu on December 04, 2014, 09:42:25 AM
My swag - It brings to mind the top of a library ladder, the kind of ladder that rolls along a pipe at the top with wheels at the bottom.

I don't think that is what it is, just looks like a similar object.

Chilly