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    Posted 9 years ago

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    clay3216
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    Every year a friends gives me a weird tool for christmas in hopes that I will not know what it it is. This year he finally stumped me. It is about 8 inches long and closes with the handle. It has all of these slides and is well designed. There are no cutting edges. Any idea what it is?

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    1. fhrjr2 fhrjr2, 9 years ago
      That is a gotcha because he gotcha this year.
    2. EJW-54 EJW-54, 9 years ago
      Ring expander to install engine piston rings.
    3. clay3216, 9 years ago
      I don't think it is a ring expander because when you push the handles together ( first picture) it gets smaller rather than larger which I think is how rang expanders should work. It is similar however and maybe there a way it would work for that. I am not sure we have a solution yet. Any other ideas? Surely someone out there has used one!
    4. Rustfarm Rustfarm, 9 years ago
      EJW-54 is correct , google search piston ring expander image and you will see he is correct, I still use this same tool on occasion.
    5. AzTom AzTom, 9 years ago
      Clay, If you had a ring in it you would see that it does work in the correct direction.

    6. clay3216, 9 years ago
      I stand corrected. Thanks for saving my sanity,

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