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tool, what is it?
MIKE WISKEY
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got this with some other gunsmithing tools and should know what it is/for but...
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Extractor collar spreader?
USGI rear handguard clip removal tool for an M1 Garand. Understand that you removed the hand guard clip AFTER removing the hand guard from the rifle!
Here is the equivalent commercial tool:
Your tool is built like a tank, this is more along the lines of a HUMVEE. Of course civilians don't have a need to remove thousands of rear handguard clips. Even I don't own that many M1s!
"Even I don't own that many M1s!"...........ARE YOU SURE?😉...............anyway thanks, now off to the auction side
I knew I had one of these sometime in the past..............Aberdeen proving grounds, 1969
Mike, you probably had one of those tools in your tool box back when you were in the Army. Chances are your first sergeant told you what it was, and then said, "You might as well forget about it, Wiskey. We'll never have an M1 come through here for repair."
That tool is an example of something being good for only one thing, but there is nothing better for that one thing! There are several field expedients for removing the rear handguard clips, with most of them resulting in cracking the handguard (there goes $40). That tool works like magic!
If I understand you correctly, you are planning on listing it on the auction side?
If so, please provide a link. I like weird tools in my military collection.
here you go
https://www.gunbroker.com/Item/AddToDescription?ItemID=904884223
^ ^ ^ That link is no good - use this:
https://www.gunbroker.com/item/904884223
I was hoping that it was a new tool offered by GB, to pry open the wallets of the NPB's.....
Thanks for the info Mark, it's interesting to learn what some of the more unusual items are.
Got it started.