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larry merlau
02-03-2007, 5:15 PM
what is this any ideas? got it at an auction and was in a box of gooddies.

Keith Cope
02-03-2007, 5:21 PM
It looks almost like a gear or pulley puller, maybe. No idea, really, but it looks like a good one!

Jim Young
02-03-2007, 7:15 PM
A pair of garden shears for a three handed person????

Bonnie Campbell
02-04-2007, 6:40 AM
Sort of looks like a tire spreader to me.

David G Baker
02-04-2007, 9:43 AM
Sort of looks like a tire spreader to me.
Bonnie,
The tool does look like it could work as a tire spreader. Good guess. Hope some one comes up with an exact answer. This reminds me of the "This Old House" guys at the start of their show where one of them has a tool and the other guys try to guess its use.
David B

Dan Barr
02-04-2007, 3:37 PM
Hi, im zaphod, im from jupiter. i left this tool here about 40 earth years ago. lolololol

i have no clue.

dan :D :D :D

David Wilson
02-04-2007, 4:45 PM
Not shure but it looks like a barbed wire fence stretcher?

Mike Sheppard
02-06-2007, 9:11 AM
Larry
The bottom part looks like it's made to put a dimple in sheet metal, like in a standing seam. but I have no idea how it would be used or what the rest of it does. Having worked as a sheetmetal worker from 1954 till 1996 I have never seen one like this.
Mike

Mitchell Andrus
02-06-2007, 1:45 PM
I think it's for mending/making chain. The hook (to the right) will latch onto the latest completed link, the middle "punch" closes the next link, the cutter.... well I don't know about that bit.

Per Swenson
02-06-2007, 4:55 PM
Metal roof seam crimper.


Heh. Know it all hunh?

Nope, I found the answer elswhere.



Per

Chris Padilla
02-06-2007, 6:05 PM
Mike was on the right track and Per swooped in and finished 'er up!

David G Baker
02-06-2007, 11:30 PM
The new version of the metal roof seam crimper costs $2400. Looks like a tool that may be worth something.
David B