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Offline UncleBill

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Post your best guess on what this strange simple looking old Plomb Tool is?
« on: December 05, 2016, 03:06:55 PM »
Ok... No looking it up in the old catalogues, just use your best guess.  I will tell you the answer this weekend, December 10th.

8 1/2" long (straight measure, end to front tip) - 1/2" thick in the back down to a 1/16" to the tip.

I picked it with a lot of other tools off an old farm.  For a week I and a few other tool buddies couldn't figure out what it was.  I scoured the internet and Ebay but couldn't find a picture of it, absolutely nothing. I finally found it listed in one of online Plomb catalogues.  My hats off to the people who scan and post those items..
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Re: Post your best guess on what this strange simple looking old Plomb Tool is?
« Reply #1 on: December 05, 2016, 03:19:33 PM »
I will guess it is a seal pick.
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Re: Post your best guess on what this strange simple looking old Plomb Tool is?
« Reply #2 on: December 05, 2016, 03:30:57 PM »
The ends don't look flat enough for a brake adjustment tool so I'll agree with Pawpa any a seal or O ring pick.
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Re: Post your best guess on what this strange simple looking old Plomb Tool is?
« Reply #3 on: December 05, 2016, 03:35:49 PM »
Cotter pin puller
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Offline UncleBill

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Re: Post your best guess on what this strange simple looking old Plomb Tool is?
« Reply #4 on: December 05, 2016, 03:55:02 PM »
I updated measurements...  Great guesses so far.

8 1/2" long (straight measure front tip to back) - 1/2" thick in the back down to a 1/16" to the tip.
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Re: Post your best guess on what this strange simple looking old Plomb Tool is?
« Reply #5 on: December 05, 2016, 04:27:46 PM »
Used like a drift punch>? For aligning holes?
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Re: Post your best guess on what this strange simple looking old Plomb Tool is?
« Reply #6 on: December 05, 2016, 04:34:23 PM »
Well they made a bunch of plumbers tools for caulking  dwv pipe, so my guess is caulking iron, so I googled it and found this pic. close?

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Re: Post your best guess on what this strange simple looking old Plomb Tool is?
« Reply #7 on: December 05, 2016, 07:29:25 PM »
to scratch an itch if your hands are dirty !
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Offline Ken W.

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Re: Post your best guess on what this strange simple looking old Plomb Tool is?
« Reply #8 on: December 05, 2016, 07:38:46 PM »
Hoof cleaning tool ? Horse ??
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Re: Post your best guess on what this strange simple looking old Plomb Tool is?
« Reply #9 on: December 05, 2016, 07:47:26 PM »
Cotter pin pick?
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Offline Bill Houghton

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Re: Post your best guess on what this strange simple looking old Plomb Tool is?
« Reply #10 on: December 05, 2016, 08:33:35 PM »
I'd lean toward the plumbing caulking tool, too.  Seems too blunt for a cotter pin or seal puller.

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Offline bill300d

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Re: Post your best guess on what this strange simple looking old Plomb Tool is?
« Reply #11 on: December 05, 2016, 09:59:13 PM »
I'd like to say but I'll let you guys stew on it for a while and see what happens.
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Re: Post your best guess on what this strange simple looking old Plomb Tool is?
« Reply #12 on: December 05, 2016, 10:04:53 PM »
Wow great guesses! My first guess when I glanced it was a punch, easy guess, because it was in a box full of chisels, punches, and other items... Then the reality of physics took over and I got a Zonk on that guess.  I never thought of the cotter pin puller, I like that one... It does make a good back scratcher.

If you don't want to wait until this weekend you can always look it up on a Plomb catalogue 1939 and most of the 1940's. Just don't say what it is.. 

Thanks..
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Re: Post your best guess on what this strange simple looking old Plomb Tool is?
« Reply #13 on: December 05, 2016, 11:13:05 PM »
#1) cotter pin remover
#2) hole alignment tool
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Re: Post your best guess on what this strange simple looking old Plomb Tool is?
« Reply #14 on: December 06, 2016, 12:00:31 AM »
I have some of those. The guy I bought them from told me they were brick jointers.
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