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What's-It Forum => What's-It Forum => Topic started by: rusty on July 27, 2012, 08:31:21 PM

Title: Peculiar Fun Whatsit
Post by: rusty on July 27, 2012, 08:31:21 PM: Don't usually post whats-it's from book photo's, but this one has such an oddball use I thought it would be fun...

Triple action because it turns clockwise, counterclockwise, or locks in place...

What is it for?
Title: Re: Peculiar Fun Whatsit
Post by: superzstuff on July 27, 2012, 09:51:31 PM: I have a small one of those to take the spikes out of my golf shoes.(HaHa)
Title: Re: Peculiar Fun Whatsit
Post by: john k on July 28, 2012, 09:29:31 PM: Looks like it could wind up wire, cable, or banding straps. Never seen anything like that used for fencing, but could quickly take up slack on barbed wire.
Title: Re: Peculiar Fun Whatsit
Post by: rusty on July 28, 2012, 09:36:33 PM: >golf shoes
Hmm...it is probably at least a foot long however, unless you have VERY large golf shoes...

> wind up wire, cable, or banding straps
Getting warm....
Title: Re: Peculiar Fun Whatsit
Post by: Provincial on July 29, 2012, 04:04:23 AM: Barrel bung wrench?
Title: Re: Peculiar Fun Whatsit
Post by: OilyRascal on July 29, 2012, 05:14:06 AM: Quote from: rusty on July 27, 2012, 08:31:21 PM

Don't usually post whats-it's from book photo's, but this one has such an oddball use I thought it would be fun...

Triple action because it turns clockwise, counterclockwise, or locks in place...

What is it for?

Looks like a handle to a hand winch you'd use to bind a load down.
Title: Re: Peculiar Fun Whatsit
Post by: ray on July 29, 2012, 06:15:17 AM: bending large electrical cables, to get into tight spaces. you need two tools to make real tight bends.

ray
Title: Re: Peculiar Fun Whatsit
Post by: rusty on July 29, 2012, 09:21:32 AM: >bending large electrical cables...
Warmer still...

It is for bending, but not electrical..

From a profession that uses tools that we often forget to consider...
Title: Re: Peculiar Fun Whatsit
Post by: skipskip on July 29, 2012, 02:10:57 PM: From a profession that uses tools that we often forget to consider..

Javelin catchers?

in the Olympic spirit today.

Skip
Title: Re: Peculiar Fun Whatsit
Post by: superzstuff on July 29, 2012, 04:17:24 PM: For bending neon sign hot glass tubes???
Title: Re: Peculiar Fun Whatsit
Post by: rusty on July 29, 2012, 05:38:14 PM: >Javelin catchers?

ROFL...why doesn't that sound like a good idea?

>For bending neon sign hot glass tubes
Hot Glass working tools are a whole catagory we never see here :(
(they are typically graphite, cold steel and red hot glass don't play nice)
Title: Re: Peculiar Fun Whatsit
Post by: Plyerman on July 29, 2012, 07:42:28 PM: Dang, I bet its going to be obvious once he tells us, but....?
Title: Re: Peculiar Fun Whatsit
Post by: rusty on July 29, 2012, 08:33:15 PM: > I bet its going to be obvious

No, it's oddball and obscure ;P

OK

It is a 'brace wrench', a medical tool, for a (then) Surgeon, to bend leg and back braces (strap iron) into shape to fit the patient. There is also an associated simple hooked bar wrench to use as a backing wrench....
Title: Re: Peculiar Fun Whatsit
Post by: Branson on July 30, 2012, 09:27:04 AM: In my shop it would be a scrolling fork.
Title: Re: Peculiar Fun Whatsit
Post by: rusty on July 30, 2012, 09:07:26 PM: Yes

http://www.anvilfire.com/iForge/tutor/colonel_1/index.htm

Have you ever seen a ratcheting one ?

I am guessing the medical tool was inspired by existing tools, they often were...
Title: Re: Peculiar Fun Whatsit
Post by: Branson on July 31, 2012, 09:52:53 AM: Quote from: rusty on July 30, 2012, 09:07:26 PM

Yes

http://www.anvilfire.com/iForge/tutor/colonel_1/index.htm

Have you ever seen a ratcheting one ?

I am guessing the medical tool was inspired by existing tools, they often were...

Never seen a ratcheting scroll fork, no.