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It looks vaguely similar to this tool. Bolt's Antique Tool Museum - TLC0026-TLC0050
I wonder if it might be the one they are describing in the comments having to deal with horseshoeing?
omni
Nothing related. What's a fanuten? Is that a spelling issue?No idea. What other kinds of tools were in the box?
Nothing related. What's a fanuten? Is that a spelling issue?
And it looks like the "hooks" might grab onto something cylindrical (a piece of bar stock, etc). I suppose this thing could be used to grab onto an axle and press in a pin (or start it out--with other "followers" needed to press it out all the way). When the handles are as close together as possible, what was the position of the flat area relative to the hooks?My nephew is saying it's probably something that pushes a pin in/out. That flat disk area... sounds reasonable
That sounds about right...press a roll pin into a shaft or something.It looks like it would push a roll pin into a cylindrical object. Seems very specialized - maybe used in manufacturing?
Sex toy?
Mike D.
hehe!Looks like an arm clamp for a Boatswain's punch.
Usually a valve spring compressor has a Y shaped end so the keepers can be accessed in the center.Since I don't have experience with engine valves, I can't picture how that would work. I have encountered axles with roll-pins, so that's easier to picture.
But in the case of the engine valves, would those two "hooks" wrap around the cam shaft?
I just did some youtubing of "valve spring compressor" and it looks like this tool, if it is a valve spring compressor, "should" have a hole in the disk so that once the spring is compressed, the keepers may be accessed. I suppose the engine design could be that the keepers were somehow on the other side of the spring, but I'm not sure how that would work. In all of the videos that I saw, the cam shaft was already removed, so my theory of having those hooks loop over the cam shaft doesn't hold water.Usually a valve spring compressor has a Y shaped end so the keepers can be accessed in the center.