Guess The Tool

[Blue Ox]

Let's see if we can do something challenging and educational that doesn't involve crayons.

Post a pic of an unusual or antique tool and see if the collective intelligence here can identify it's purpose. Maybe you can stump the crowd or finally figure out what that "thingamabob" in the bottom drawer is.

Here's one to get us started. Can anyone identify this?

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And just an FYI, I do know what this is.

 

[Frankenchevy]

Viscometer

 

[hatzie]

OK, how about these.

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[Blue Ox]

Viscometer

Right. Maybe this isn't challenging enough.

OK, how about these.

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Looks like adapters for a dial indicator.

 

[bucket]

Right. Maybe this isn't challenging enough.

A smart fella just happened to see it first. I didn't know what it was, but I could just be dumb, lol.

 

[Blue Ox]

I suspect that with such a large membership the odds of us coming up with something that nobody here has seen before is slim.

I've got a few more possibilities at the shop. Hopefully some other people have some challenges for us as well.

 

[78C10BigTen]

I suspect that with such a large membership the odds of us coming up with something that nobody here has seen before is slim.

I've got a few more possibilities at the shop. Hopefully some other people have some challenges for us as well.

Thats not true.... there are a MANY tools i have no idea wtf theyre for lol

 

[hatzie]

Right. Maybe this isn't challenging enough.



Looks like adapters for a dial indicator.

But for what purpose?

 

[Honky Kong jr]

There is so many on here it could be anyone. Can I get a hint?

 

[Blue Ox]

Yeah, that is kind of broad. I have some that are similar that are for timing injection pumps. It would be hard to tell the difference between those and these just by looking at them.

Without a size reference or other hint I'm going to take a wild guess those threads fit spark plugs holes and they're for measuring piston height for degreeing gasoline engines.

 

[Honky Kong jr]

Thats not true.... there are a MANY tools i have no idea wtf theyre for lol

Why doesn’t that surprise me lol

 

[bucket]

I suspect that with such a large membership the odds of us coming up with something that nobody here has seen before is slim.

I've got a few more possibilities at the shop. Hopefully some other people have some challenges for us as well.

I've got some little doohickey at home in my toolbox that I really really want to know what it is. But I'm away for work. I could ask my wife to look for it, but I can imagine how that conversation would go, lol.

 

[78C10BigTen]

Why doesn’t that surprise me lol

Im young and not well versed in tools... lol

 

[Blue Ox]

I've got some little doohickey at home in my toolbox that I really really want to know what it is. But I'm away for work. I could ask my wife to look for it, but I can imagine how that conversation would go, lol.

I'm hoping this thread will be around for a while. So post it when you get to it. I have a couple of doohickeys that I'm going to put up too. Chances are they're part of something long gone, so if somebody can ID it I can throw it out with a clear conscience. Otherwise my inner hoarder forbids it.

 

[Frankenchevy]

This one should be a breeze:

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