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NOT BOBSKI MYSTERY TOOL #1
Captplaid
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OK What is it?
It's big and it's heavy.
My wild guess I'm pulling out of my rearend is a tool used to drive pins in bulldozer tracks. I don't know this one. ANy ideas?
Before it goes on a consignment auction, what is it?
It's big and it's heavy.
My wild guess I'm pulling out of my rearend is a tool used to drive pins in bulldozer tracks. I don't know this one. ANy ideas?
Before it goes on a consignment auction, what is it?
Comments
No clue, some type of clamp if I had to guess.
It looks like it could be a lifting device for sheet metal.
I know what your saying but it ways as much or more than a 10X4 sheet, plus that little tit on the end of the bolt is about as small as a pencil eraser.
Hu-ha...I said tit.
the hole looks like its where a strap goes thru.[?]
see where the strap wore away the metal finish?
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It looks like it could be a lifting device for sheet metal.
I think shoff is right. As soon as I saw it, it reminded me of a smaller one that we used to lift 1/8 inch sheet steel
You clamp it to a sheet and tighten it with a wrench very tight.
Put a strap through the eyelet and lift it with a fork lift or hoist.
Makes moving sheet steel a lot easier.
Thanks---Peabo
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http://www.smithtoolinfo.com/products.htm
They're called plate clamps, & that are one.
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Them are plate clamps.
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Damm your close. I better watch what I say!
Would it be used drive these two halves together on some very big barge chain where the chains are about 6-8 inches long?
Or maybe the setnut and lock nut can be used to drive the center pin in one of these connecting links for barge chain?
http://www.thecrosbygroup.com/productcatalog/maininterface.htm
Would it be used drive these two halves together on some very big barge chain where the chains are about 6-8 inches long?
Or maybe the setnut and lock nut can be used to drive the center pin in one of these connecting links for barge chain?
http://www.thecrosbygroup.com/productcatalog/maininterface.htm
Think BIG rollerchain or double roller chain. Like the kind in the rear end of an old DC Case tractor.
The throat opening only appears to be four inches or so.
quote:Originally posted by Captplaid
Would it be used drive these two halves together on some very big barge chain where the chains are about 6-8 inches long?
Or maybe the setnut and lock nut can be used to drive the center pin in one of these connecting links for barge chain?
http://www.thecrosbygroup.com/productcatalog/maininterface.htm
Think BIG rollerchain or double roller chain. Like the kind in the rear end of an old DC Case tractor.
The throat opening only appears to be four inches or so.
I thought the same, but where would it push the pin to?....
Don
quote:Originally posted by freemind
quote:Originally posted by Captplaid
Would it be used drive these two halves together on some very big barge chain where the chains are about 6-8 inches long?
Or maybe the setnut and lock nut can be used to drive the center pin in one of these connecting links for barge chain?
http://www.thecrosbygroup.com/productcatalog/maininterface.htm
Think BIG rollerchain or double roller chain. Like the kind in the rear end of an old DC Case tractor.
The throat opening only appears to be four inches or so.
I thought the same, but where would it push the pin to?....
Don
It could just be my eyesight, Don, but I thought I saw an indent or a hole on the left side of the tool. Perhaps there isn't.
It could just be my eyesight, Don, but I thought I saw an indent or a hole on the left side of the tool. Perhaps there isn't.
It almost looks like it might have a double screw, the large one, looks like a acme or square thread, and a inside, where the square head is, notice how the square head looks seperate?
it could be for setting big roller chain links, os screw clamps, inside mushrooms?...
Don
quote:Originally posted by freemind
It could just be my eyesight, Don, but I thought I saw an indent or a hole on the left side of the tool. Perhaps there isn't.
It almost looks like it might have a double screw, the large one, looks like a acme or square thread, and a inside, where the square head is, notice how the square head looks seperate?
it could be for setting big roller chain links, os screw clamps, inside mushrooms?...
Don
You may well be correct.
Captplaid, does this have a two unit screw? As Don was saying, do the two pieces turn independantly?
The tool that I saw that looks much like the one shown but larger was used for large chain link repairs.
It had some caps with different style "heads" on them that shaped the rivet. Some were concave, some convex and some different flat or blunt that slipped over the pointed end of the bolt.
The nut with the knobs was used to adjust the limit of travel the "press" could go.
Then an air or electric tool much like a large impact wrench with a square socket was used to turn the bolt and press the heated rivet into the shape of the tip placed over the bolt point. The knobby nut would keep the tool from pressing the rivet passed the point where it would bind once cooled.
I pulled this out of a building about to scrapped 10 years ago. The building was on th Mississippi south of the quad cities. It housed a crawler at one time for unloading salt barges and had some barge rigging. You should have seen the size of the barge chain!
They frequently used both these styles of connecting links.
I guess if driving connecting links is the purpose, it can only be used to drive them together and not apart. The tit isn't big enough to act as a roller chain breaker. The base does not have a hole in it.
Even still, I would think you would tighten the piss out of it and not worry about a set & Lock bolt, but this is the most logical guess.