Any Help Identifying This Gadget
Dec 31, 2016 10:21:39 #
This gadget is sort of spring loaded. Pinching on the ends separates the curved "arms." Anyone have any ideas as what it is used for? Thanks and Happy New Year to all.
Dec 31, 2016 10:28:08 #
Dec 31, 2016 10:32:50 #
looks like a type of clevis pin, used to hold something in a locked condition.small ones were used to lock buttons in a buttonhole. Common with military dress uniforms.
Dec 31, 2016 10:51:21 #
I forgot to mention it is about 2 inches by 3 inches. And I agree it must be for locking something in position such as a clevis pin would do.
Dec 31, 2016 14:32:22 #
de Villenueve wrote:
This gadget is sort of spring loaded. Pinching on the ends separates the curved "arms." Anyone have any ideas as what it is used for? Thanks and Happy New Year to all.
It's a hydrocoptiic marzel valve. I have heard about them, but this is the first one I've ever seen.
Dec 31, 2016 15:45:10 #
boberic wrote:
It's a hydrocoptiic marzel valve. I have heard about them, but this is the first one I've ever seen.
Related to a de-compression antibator?
Dec 31, 2016 20:38:54 #
Longshadow wrote:
Related to a de-compression antibator?
They separate the differential turning spring so that the gram-meter reads the lotus o delta type correctly.
Dec 31, 2016 20:47:54 #
boberic wrote:
They separate the differential turning spring so that the gram-meter reads the lotus o delta type correctly.
Gotcha.
Dec 31, 2016 22:03:25 #
Dec 31, 2016 22:35:46 #
Jan 1, 2017 04:22:13 #
Before the invention of the cotter key ... these could even hold a buggy wheel on an axle ..
Jan 1, 2017 07:23:59 #
de Villenueve wrote:
This gadget is sort of spring loaded. Pinching on the ends separates the curved "arms." Anyone have any ideas as what it is used for? Thanks and Happy New Year to all.
It's a rat trap.
Jan 1, 2017 08:13:24 #
bgate wrote:
looks like a type of clevis pin, used to hold something in a locked condition.small ones were used to lock buttons in a buttonhole. Common with military dress uniforms.
Yes, that's what it is - actually a lynch pin. I have them on my snow blower axles, so I can let the wheels turn freely to make maneuvering easier when not blowing snow. Yours is much fancier, though.
https://smile.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss?url=search-alias%3Daps&field-keywords=spring+loaded+lynch+pin&rh=i%3Aaps%2Ck%3Aspring+loaded+lynch+pin
Jan 1, 2017 08:37:46 #
I wonder how old and where the questioned pin in the OP image was used.
Jan 1, 2017 09:05:20 #
It looks like some kind of old arm or leg restraint, can't tell its size from the photo.
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