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Offline rusty

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Peculiar Fun Whatsit
« 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?

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Re: Peculiar Fun Whatsit
« Reply #1 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)
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Re: Peculiar Fun Whatsit
« Reply #2 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. 
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Re: Peculiar Fun Whatsit
« Reply #3 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....
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Re: Peculiar Fun Whatsit
« Reply #4 on: July 29, 2012, 04:04:23 AM »
Barrel bung wrench?
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Re: Peculiar Fun Whatsit
« Reply #5 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.
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Re: Peculiar Fun Whatsit
« Reply #6 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.

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Re: Peculiar Fun Whatsit
« Reply #7 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...
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Re: Peculiar Fun Whatsit
« Reply #8 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.


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Offline superzstuff

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Re: Peculiar Fun Whatsit
« Reply #9 on: July 29, 2012, 04:17:24 PM »
For bending neon sign hot glass tubes???
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Re: Peculiar Fun Whatsit
« Reply #10 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)

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Re: Peculiar Fun Whatsit
« Reply #11 on: July 29, 2012, 07:42:28 PM »
Dang, I bet its going to be obvious once he tells us, but....?
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Re: Peculiar Fun Whatsit
« Reply #12 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....

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Offline Branson

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Re: Peculiar Fun Whatsit
« Reply #13 on: July 30, 2012, 09:27:04 AM »
In my shop it would be a scrolling fork.
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Re: Peculiar Fun Whatsit
« Reply #14 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...
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