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Offline skylab

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Strange tool ID
« on: September 24, 2011, 06:52:40 PM »
Was also bought from someone cleaning out a shop that repaired old tractors.  Any ideas?
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Re: Strange tool ID
« Reply #1 on: September 24, 2011, 07:28:42 PM »
It is for crimping  fittings onto electrical metallic tubing (conduit). Made by the Briegel Method Tool Co, it was a propritary conduit system. The system was in use briefly in the early 40's- late 50's

Oddly, there is a 'museum' website for this company: http://home.comcast.net/~briegelmethodtool/briegelpatents.html
Just a weathered light rust/WD40 mix patina.