Tool Talk

What's-It Forum => What's-It Forum => Topic started by: OilyRascal on June 14, 2012, 06:44:15 PM

Title: Tools?
Post by: OilyRascal on June 14, 2012, 06:44:15 PM
I have two candidates where I'm unclear on whether they are a tool.   Any help would be appreciated.

1)  Marked "W&B" on one shank, and "No2" on the other.

(http://i1154.photobucket.com/albums/p534/alphinde/Tools%20Talk/CIMG3441.jpg)
(http://i1154.photobucket.com/albums/p534/alphinde/Tools%20Talk/CIMG3440.jpg)

2) Marked only with 87139 - it has a rod with a hooked end that sleeves inside what appears to be the attaching end.  It is spring loaded inside the sleeve (and knotched to provide a travel limiter)

(http://i1154.photobucket.com/albums/p534/alphinde/Tools%20Talk/CIMG3436.jpg)
(http://i1154.photobucket.com/albums/p534/alphinde/Tools%20Talk/CIMG3437.jpg)
Title: Re: Tools?
Post by: rusty on June 14, 2012, 06:53:16 PM

First one is for removing drill bits from morse chucks.

Not a clue on the second one...
Title: Re: Tools?
Post by: OilyRascal on June 14, 2012, 07:25:08 PM
Thanks, Rusty!  I know exactly where I need to use it now - Champion Blower & Forge drill press

I have two others I neglected in the original thread.

3) About all I have is - It may have had some chrome looking plating at one point.

(http://i1154.photobucket.com/albums/p534/alphinde/Tools%20Talk/CIMG3458.jpg)
(http://i1154.photobucket.com/albums/p534/alphinde/Tools%20Talk/CIMG3449.jpg)
(http://i1154.photobucket.com/albums/p534/alphinde/Tools%20Talk/CIMG3446.jpg)
(http://i1154.photobucket.com/albums/p534/alphinde/Tools%20Talk/CIMG3448.jpg)
(http://i1154.photobucket.com/albums/p534/alphinde/Tools%20Talk/CIMG3447.jpg)


The 4th is clearly a tool - but for what, by who, and at what time I can't make any headway on.  It is wood handled.  The working end (while appearing to be a nutdriver) has a ~1/4" (FAT) socket that appears to accept a very very very small spline ~30 count.

(http://i1154.photobucket.com/albums/p534/alphinde/Tools%20Talk/CIMG3456.jpg)

Title: Re: Tools?
Post by: lbgradwell on June 14, 2012, 07:58:03 PM
The first one is Whitman & Barnes (in case you don't know)...
Title: Re: Tools?
Post by: OilyRascal on June 14, 2012, 08:04:43 PM
The first one is Whitman & Barnes (in case you don't know)...

I didn't!  Thank you.
Title: Re: Tools?
Post by: rusty on June 14, 2012, 08:44:44 PM

I *think* #3 is a lid lifter and grate shaker for a coal cook stove......
Title: Re: Tools?
Post by: OilyRascal on June 14, 2012, 09:24:31 PM

A speedometer tool of some sort maybe?  I'm no mechanic just thinking about all those little plastic adapters I've seen in catalogs for speedometers.

the working end of the wooden tool #4

(http://i1154.photobucket.com/albums/p534/alphinde/Tools%20Talk/CIMG3459.jpg)
Title: Re: Tools?
Post by: wvtools on June 14, 2012, 10:18:29 PM
The spline wrench socket looks a lot like the spline hole on a Maytag wrench.  I do not know the function of that wrench.  Maybe one of our hit and miss engine guys can give their two cents worth.
Title: Re: Tools?
Post by: john k on June 14, 2012, 11:15:41 PM
On No.3, I agree with it being a stove tool, the 3 sided socket for turning the clinker breaker, shaker, and the other end for lifting the round lids on the stove top.  no.2, I should know,  have seen one somewhere,,,
Title: Re: Tools?
Post by: rusty on June 15, 2012, 05:15:00 PM
>spline hole on a Maytag wrench.  I do not know the function of that wrench

Splines typicly occur on appliances on shafts where you are using a nut to hold a bearing, and need to hold the shaft itself while tightening the nut, easier to make a spline on the end that goes through the nut than to make 6 flats on a hardened shaft..(stronger too)

 I can't see a nut driver type tool being helpfull for that tho, usually need a lot of torque to get those kinds of things apart...

Many other things use splines tho, magnetos for example....
Some fasteners that accept screws are initially installed with a spline tool also...
Knurled electrical connectors are sometimes spline nuts in disguise...

Very hard to guess, and it *could* be a general purpose tool, tho I can't say I've ever seen a set of those...