June 27, 200620 yr Got or find a tool that you have no clue as to what it is?. I think we've done this b4 but might have lost it in the "crash". So, lets give it another whirl! I'll light this candle Landlord found this on a new property of his and gave it to me. We have no clue as to what it is or used for. Looks like a bolt cutter at first but evidently does some sort of dimpling or puching by the looks of the jaws.
June 27, 200620 yr I have no idea what it is, but it sure looks like it has had some hard use judging by the 3 different welds on the handles.
June 27, 200620 yr I was thinking hole punch for a moment, but with the way that nub is rounded it wouldn't punch a hole, it would just make a large dimple I think.
June 28, 200620 yr Might be a harness riveter. They used to sell a two piece ring, may still at the "good" hardware stores, similar to the ones you see on tarps to run lines through. You put the pieces through the hole in the leather and crimped them together.
June 28, 200620 yr that is obviously a brazil nut cracker! Those things have terrible hard shells... ...no really, that's got to develop a lot of force with those long handles and gearing... a specialty tool for farm machinery or equipment? What sorts of "industry" are in your neck of the woods?
June 28, 200620 yr Most grommet setters have curves built into the anvil side to get it to form right when used. Thomas
June 28, 200620 yr Author There is a little farming in my area (Nebraska), he he. The rounded "bit" would punch a nasty hole. I was guessing some sort of dimpleing. Bit appears to be replaceable. Yup, been brazed or welded in three places. Has had a hard life LOL. I plan to put it in my "Gallery of Wonderments!" :)
June 28, 200620 yr I'll post a photo soon... Have a hollow ?steel--it is magnetic? ball about 5 inches in diameter (guess) that isn't perfectly round--has a slight bulge around midsection--apparently mold joint line or something. Guessing centrifically formed...
June 29, 200620 yr Author Not sure of its intened use but my tool makes a very nice dimple in 14ga sheet that has the apperance of a fake rivit head:)
June 29, 200620 yr Ahh so a predecessor to the fake rivet/bolt heads on the plastic trim of some of the recent "macho" pickups... Thomas
July 27, 200620 yr It does look to be a rivet set tool of some sort. I will guess that by the size and long reins I am going to say a rivet set for boilers(steam) or large rivets on machinery...I have no idea. I am bad at this game. Peyton
August 2, 200619 yr Spoke with someone at the ABANA conference about this tool and he thought from my description that it was a tool used for joining to pieces of roof deck of a commercial building under construction... who knows for sure?
August 9, 200619 yr hey blokes and shiela's hows yous all doin out there??? got another strange object... again. no idea what it is... its a THINGOMABOB well.. yeah. here... thanks blokes and shiela's... from Brett aka pcII75
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