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Offline oldgoaly

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wth is it?
« on: December 02, 2014, 10:59:31 PM »
not mine, only pic I have  some type of bender / alignment tool???
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Re: wth is it?
« Reply #1 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?
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Re: wth is it?
« Reply #2 on: December 03, 2014, 11:32:27 AM »
that roller must make it's way along what ever it is bending or straightening

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Offline leg17

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Re: wth is it?
« Reply #3 on: December 03, 2014, 01:04:37 PM »
Might be making some adjustment on something that is moving.
Like metal spinning.

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Re: wth is it?
« Reply #4 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.
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Re: wth is it?
« Reply #5 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,
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Re: wth is it?
« Reply #6 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.

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Re: wth is it?
« Reply #7 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.

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