Another What's It

[Corley5]

I have no real idea what this is.  It belongs to the father of the journeyman  electrician, Travis, my son is working under as an apprentice.  Travis's dad claims to know what it is but won't tell anybody.  It sits on a shelf inside his shop at his excavating business HQ.  That's a glove it's laying on for size.  The ribbed sleeve on the end will move a bit on the shaft.  The horizontal piece doesn't move but it may be rust welded.



 

 

[Hilltop366]

My guess would be a tool for holding a wire staple to start it and the other end to remove the staples. ?

[Ljohnsaw]

 :P
Interesting...

[21incher]

My guess is a fence tightening tool. One side for pulling staples and the slot may be to put the wire in then slide down the other part capturing the wire so you could give it a twist to kink the wire and tighten the fence  :

[breederman]

I think 21 has it. A wire tightner tool.

[pabst79]

I'm guessing wire tightener as well, but too small for fence I think, I'm guessing a tool that was used in the install of knob and tube wiring. 

[51cub]

I have one. I don't remember what it is but I can tell you how I figured it out. There's a patent number stamped on it somewhere. I'll try to dig mine up if you don't find the number on that one first

[Corley5]

Zach sent Travis a note asking if there are any #s on it.  Haven't heard back yet.

[florida]

I'm betting it's a saw tooth setter.  Drive the prongs into a stump by hitting on the arm the sticks out. Stick the tooth into the vise on the end and bend.

[Resonator]

Auto mechanics pickle fork for separating really, really, small tie rod ends and ball joints.  ;D

[Tacotodd]

Is it a really old & obscure brake spring tool of some sort?

[47sawdust]

How long do we get teased before we're told?

[Corley5]

I don't know what it is either   The owner hasn't yet responded about numbers on it

[mike_belben]

What is this amateur hour?  Clearly its a flux capacitor tuning fork guys.. Cmon.  

Where is the wizard of crap, he will know.  

The tang on bottom reminds me of a sheetmetal nibbler but im not seeing it.  Maybe some sort of notch punch combo tool.  Wonky.

[Old Greenhorn]

Mike doesn't really know what it is, but if you gave him one he cold probably build a skidder out of it. :D ;D 8)

[JJ]

its so small, like size of finger.. @Magicman maybe a wire splice tool for telegraph or for old electronics..?
@mike_belben  Tool for western union wire splices I just learn about here..

     JJ

[mike_belben]

 :D

[Magicman]

I ain't that old. 

[Gary_C]

I don't know about that rusty thing but I'm certain those are my gloves you've got there. I just laid them down somewhere and sure can't figure out how you got them.   ;D

[Tacotodd]

 :D

[scsmith42]

Remember when power wire was bare and went around small glass and porcelain insulators? Sometimes there would be a short wire routed around the opposite side of the insulator and twisted around the main wire at each end of the insulator. 

That looks like a tool used to twist that short wire back around the main wire or for splicing two bare wires together.

[Don P]

"Knob and tube" wiring. That will stop everything during reno work as we go for the meter to make sure that stuff is dead. Thankfully I've never run into any that is still energized, spooky wiring.

[sharp edge]

I vote for that it is part of a wench. The bottom is open to put the wire in to control it. The top hooks to the slave band.  8)


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[mike_belben]

I don't know about that rusty thing but I'm certain those are my gloves you've got there. I just laid them down somewhere and sure can't figure out how you got them.   ;D

Have you named your garage gnome?    


Ya know that little guy who moves the thing you just put down on the corner of the welder.  You look high and low, far and wide, in every drawer, under every cabinet.  Then into the house, the shed, the truck, the mailbox, the washing machine, every pocket you own.  3 more laps around the garage usually satisfies him and he puts it back on the welder you looked at 9 times.


Little ba$t......

[doc henderson]

the end looks like a metal nibbling tool, for electric boxes, hammer powered. ???

[Gary_C]

Ya know that little guy who moves the thing you just put down on the corner of the welder.  

He is not always so little. Like the times I've search high and low for a tool I just had in my hand and found it in the other hand.  :

[Tacotodd]

Gary, that's like my teacher in JH. She couldn't find her reading glasses. Went on for hours. The rest of the class wouldn't tell her that they were on top of her head!  🤭

[SwampDonkey]

Wow, you have a real puzzler there Corley. I've looked over pages of antique tools for this and that and never seen anything close. I'm sure you have to. :D

[JJ]

Maybe not complete, if the 90 deg bar is welded, I think it would fit into a pipe mount.

or maybe the 90 deg bar was supposed to slide (instead of rust welded), then maybe it is a slide hammer, to hit the nibbler on the end, or the puller on other end.

I cannot think of anything vintage that small, other than model trains maybe.. for setting and pulling tiny spikes??

        JJ

[Corley5]

Google searches for possibilities have came up with no pictures of anything similar.

[moodnacreek]

It's not for killing vampires, they use oak for that.                                  That Belben is so disorganized.

[mike_belben]

Vampire season still a ways off in this area. 😌

[Corley5]

Anybody have a picture of something like this?  Travis is off this week.  Zach is going to tell him it may be a knob and tube wiring tool and to see what reaction he gets from his dad  when he tells him that. ;D

[SwampDonkey]

Sometimes a tag team approach loosens lips. And there is also the likelihood he don't know neither and you're doing his research. :D

[51cub]

I know it's a real old story, but I found mine. Patent number 22283789. Filed Feb 27 1939, granted May 19 1942. It's a distributor adjusting tool

[customsawyer]

That was going to be my next guess. :D :D :D