What is this tool?
Apr 23, 2016 02:53:28 #
Not a trick question as I have no idea what this is. It was presented at our car club meeting as a mystery item and so far no one has identified it. I'm in Oz so could be from UK or Oz. No marking that I can find.
Apr 23, 2016 02:58:21 #
Apr 23, 2016 02:59:57 #
Lug (wheel) nut wrench, large flat blade screw driver or pry bar and some kind of a hook. Could be an old combo tool for fixing flats.
Apr 23, 2016 03:21:54 #
garceh
Loc: florida
robertjerl wrote:
Lug (wheel) nut wrench, large flat blade screw driver or pry bar and some kind of a hook. Could be an old combo tool for fixing flats.
I think that you are correct Bob. I have never seen one, but it makes sense. The hook is probably to separate the inside of the tire from the rim.
Apr 23, 2016 03:25:27 #
10 mm across the flats on the square pretty small lug nuts!But as I have said I have no idea. Thought it might have something to do with shearing (sheep), but i couldn't find anything that resembled it on Google images.
Apr 23, 2016 03:59:11 #
Testie wrote:
Not a trick question as I have no idea what this is. It was presented at our car club meeting as a mystery item and so far no one has identified it. I'm in Oz so could be from UK or Oz. No marking that I can find.
You say the wrench is for a 10mm square nut? Rather small for a car or truck. Antique Bicycle or Motorcycle Tire Tool perhaps. Just guessing.
Apr 23, 2016 05:27:11 #
Testie wrote:
Not a trick question as I have no idea what this is. It was presented at our car club meeting as a mystery item and so far no one has identified it. I'm in Oz so could be from UK or Oz. No marking that I can find.
I have never seen a square lug nut and at 10mm , nope not a lug wrench!!!!
I don't think it has anything to do with automobiles. Too big to be a Skate Key
Apr 23, 2016 05:51:13 #
Manglesphoto wrote:
I have never seen a square lug nut and at 10mm , nope not a lug wrench!!!!
I don't think it has anything to do with automobiles. Too big to be a Skate Key
I don't think it has anything to do with automobiles. Too big to be a Skate Key
It seems pretty clear that it is a tool for removal of wheels. What those wheels are on is just guesswork. Could be flywheels for example.
Apr 23, 2016 06:59:53 #
aellman wrote:
It seems pretty clear that it is a tool for removal of wheels. What those wheels are on is just guesswork. Could be flywheels for example.
Surely you Jest!!
10mm square nuts !
I'M thinking more along the lines of a plumbers tool the square socket for a valve key and the hook for pulling packings on leaded joint cast iron soil pipe, but probably not. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NOgmJMBC7B4 used to twist the baling wires and make small adjustments on the baler.
Apr 23, 2016 07:18:04 #
Manglesphoto wrote:
Surely you Jest!!
10mm square nuts !
I'M thinking more along the lines of a plumbers tool the square socket for a valve key and the hook for pulling packings on leaded joint cast iron soil pipe, but probably not. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NOgmJMBC7B4 used to twist the baling wires and make small adjustments on the baler.
10mm square nuts !
I'M thinking more along the lines of a plumbers tool the square socket for a valve key and the hook for pulling packings on leaded joint cast iron soil pipe, but probably not. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NOgmJMBC7B4 used to twist the baling wires and make small adjustments on the baler.
A very good guess. You are an old-timer like me, but I doubt that you know every use of a 10mm nut in the last 100 years or more. I'm sure there have been MANY of them, not even including the nuts here. I tried three image identification sites, and the best they could come up with was "pickaxe." I guess that technology has not yet matured.
Apr 23, 2016 08:17:12 #
robertjerl wrote:
Lug (wheel) nut wrench, large flat blade screw driver or pry bar and some kind of a hook. Could be an old combo tool for fixing flats.
Agree
Apr 23, 2016 08:37:25 #
warrior wrote:
Agree
I agree too. My father would have said it was a Framistat or a Skyhook.
Apr 23, 2016 09:00:53 #
aellman wrote:
A very good guess. You are an old-timer like me, but I doubt that you know every use of a 10mm nut in the last 100 years or more. I'm sure there have been MANY of them, not even including the nuts here. I tried three image identification sites, and the best they could come up with was "pickaxe." I guess that technology has not yet matured.
10mm square = approx a 6mm - 6.5 mm thread Not gonna happen on a wheel lug nut! and I am 76 yrs old and worked as a mechanic and worked on farms during the summer since I was 17 I also take interest in OLD machinery and tools and have worked on Shoe machinery that was over 100 yrs old for approx 5 yrs.
I too have tried a Google search : so far unsuccessful .
Apr 23, 2016 09:15:30 #
aellman wrote:
I agree too. My father would have said it was a Framistat or a Skyhook.
When I was first entering the mechanic field the older guys took great pleasure in send newbees on a search for a Knooten valve or left handed monkey wrenche ( some were made in the early yrs using a left hand thread on the adjusting nut), for what reason I don't have a clue. your skyhook image looks like a Rube Goldberg using parts of a barb wire fence stretcher, walking pull type plow and other stuff, however it is interesting.
Skyhooks were a big question shaped hook used for hanging a stage - walk board ( modern term) off the side of a building, used by window cleaners, tuck pointers etc.
Apr 23, 2016 09:22:02 #
Manglesphoto wrote:
10mm square = approx a 6mm - 6.5 mm thread Not gonna happen on a wheel lug nut! and I am 76 yrs old and worked as a mechanic and worked on farms during the summer since I was 17 I also take interest in OLD machinery and tools and have worked on Shoe machinery that was over 100 yrs old for approx 5 yrs.
I too have tried a Google search : so far unsuccessful .
I too have tried a Google search : so far unsuccessful .
I bow to your experience. I too have looked all over, and not found anything. Must be very rare.
>Alan
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