What is this tool??

[California]

What is this tool?

I went thrift store shopping, picked up a 30 inch wall-mount screwdriver rack and a never-used HF face shield with the 'screen protector' layer still on it. New toys!

But I'm baffled by this thing I saw. It has diamond-shaped cutters at the center and at the outer edge of that plate. :scratchchin: No I didn't bring it home with me!

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[MossRoad]

I thought it was a jerky gun until I put my glasses on....

Some kind of glass cutting tool?
Bottle cutter, perhaps?

 

[PILOON]

Clamping or pushing device of some sort.
Probably something most folks would jury rig otherwise.
Obviously meant to be attached to side of a work table judging by the flange and holes.
Gotta follow this one!

 

[Shaneard]

It's a claw hammer, you just can't see it good for that doohicky laying in front of it.

 

[Big Barn]

It's a claw hammer, you just can't see it good for that doohicky laying in front of it.

LOL . I wish I'D said that !

 

[fitter1]

Ask this old house.

 

[RNeumann]

It's hard to tell the scale without reference but could it push a caliper a piston?

 

[California]

It's hard to tell the scale without reference but could it push a caliper a piston?

Scale: the chromed lever is the size of a bicycle brake lever.

 

[RNeumann]

And does the lever move the rod with every squeeze?

 

[California]

I didn't try it.

 

[flyerdan]

I wonder if it's an adjustable circle cutter for tiles, so a shower control can be mounted without a multi piece bodge-up. For $3.98, you probably should have bought it, just because.

 

[Mendonsy]

If that $3.98 price is correct you should have bought one just to figure out what it does! If nothing else it would have been good entertainment figuring it out.

 

[dadster4]

Quite the contraption...just to hold an allen wrench

 

[PILOON]

I looked it over again and believe it is some sort of insertion tool.
It is affixed to a work table and when you squeeze the grip it pushes or inserts something into 'something'.\
But what I don;t know.

 

[Inspector507]

California, you should have bought it and dissected it for us to see what it does.

 

[MossRoad]

I'm not so sure I agree 100% with your policework there Lou..


If its got cutters, its probably for cutting something....

 

[MossRoad]

What is this tool?

I went thrift store shopping, picked up a 30 inch wall-mount screwdriver rack and a never-used HF face shield with the 'screen protector' layer still on it. New toys!

But I'm baffled by this thing I saw. It has diamond-shaped cutters at the center and at the outer edge of that plate. :scratchchin: No I didn't bring it home with me!

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You gotta go back! :laughing:

 

[Luke'sScreenName]

This is clearly for biopsy of the brain.

 

[California]

You gotta go back! :laughing:

Wish I could! At the moment we're in a motel near San Francisco. We met Younger Daughter* who flew out from NYC for a job interview, she wants to transfer to the West Coast. We're playing tourist today/tomorrow while she is here with us.

But I did the right thing not buying that tool. I'm still clearing c**p like that out of the barns after 15 years, Dad would and did buy anything if it was cheap enough. I inherited a lot of mystery items and have gotten rid of most of them. At first I was going to build more storage, then came to my senses and started selling or giving away things instead.

Just last year I got the storage barn/prior chicken coop cleared out to park my watering trailer (IBC tote) under cover. It was outside several years and the plastic is ageing. This is a better use for that enclosed space than storing three big long workbenches for .... storing them for what???? Just because they cost $5 doesn't justify storing them unused for 30 years.

I've learned to pass up bargains like that mystery item, even if it was $3.98 less 25% markdown.

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* Inspector507 - Remember Younger Daughter? yep that's her, the kid who bicycled across the country alone. Since then she finished grad school at Princeton and is working in a very responsible job in downtown Manhattan. Obviously got her brains from my wife.

 

[MossRoad]

I meant to take more pictures.... :laughing:

But I hear you on the junk collecting... I'm going through the process of gearing up to let it go, too. :thumbsup: