Tool Talk
What's-It Forum => What's-It Forum => Topic started by: Mitch on July 28, 2013, 03:03:16 PM
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Came across these and have no idea what they are. No marking on it at all. They are a little over 5 inches long. They are cast, not stamped with a single rivet holding it together.
http://i1272.photobucket.com/albums/y392/amg42866/WHATISIT001_zps43dbb721.jpg
http://i1272.photobucket.com/albums/y392/amg42866/WHATISIT002_zpsc72a4962.jpg
Thanks!
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Interesting looking design...unfortunately I don't have a clue what they were for.
Mike
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any photos of it closed? does the jaw protrusions contact or side by side?
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I'll put more pics of it later today. They don't touch when closed, though. Weird....
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They look old, with the heavy casting, possibly pre WWII. But they strongly resemble the tool used in a band style piston ring compressor.
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Seen a similar pair. I believe that different types of jaws can be slipped on them for different types of applications.
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maybe a spring clamp tool?
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They look old, with the heavy casting, possibly pre WWII. But they strongly resemble the tool used in a band style piston ring compressor.
The different size bands were for the different sizes of canning jar lids then in use. I wish I had a stock catalog photo or advert in my files to illustrate these as they looked in a complete set. Somewhere some time I've seen a set of these handles with one of the bands that came with them -- the spring steel bands eventually got brittle around the holes & broke -- then the handles were worthless curiosities. Nevertheless, the handles turn up fairly often.
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This is what it looked like with the spring/band in place.
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Ah, that makes sense now.
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This is what it looked like with the spring/band in place.
I finally stumbled across where the set with three bands turned up -- 2010 Doug Busch collection auction Box lot #58-1 ( http://s222.photobucket.com/user/buswrench/media/busch-2010/busch-CB-058-59.jpg.html ). I'd taken a picture of part of Doug's collection my first year as MVWC Newsletter editor & the "three bands" show up on pg. 18 of the December 2000 MVWC newsletter as well.