Posted 8 years ago
alleyoop44
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Approximately 6+" long overall. Jaws are fixed, about 1/4" thick w/ an 1/8" groove in each. The piece coming down through the center is a thread controlled piston, also approximately 1/4" thick on the end and w/ an 1/8" groove in it. The piston is moved up & down by the "T" handle on the top (to the right in the picture). The handle or tang in the middle spins freely. There is a set screw in the handle area just below the tang which does NOT engage the threaded rod going down the middle of the handle to the piston - this suggests to me that it was for oiling the threaded rod. That in turn suggests the tool's use involved fairly heavy stress. Found in a drawer in my Dad's workshop. Curious as to what it might be used for.
This 1 has me totally stumped. What kind of things did your father work on ? Apparently made to lock whatever in position while whatever was done to it.
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-DYvQqa27Gd0/TvNCztF5X-I/AAAAAAAABcg/6RbId4I-nX8/s1600/00+Nich+Beaz+catK+pg19.jpg This tool is a cable splicing clamp.
And I work on planes ! We learned to splice cable in school & I don't remember these . Of course that was 50+ yrs ago & never used again other than on boat lines .
Blunderbuss2 & Slackjack - thanks! My Dad did many things over the course of his life - including work on planes. In the mid to late late 30's! This is from that I'm quite sure.
Nicopress & other methods have eliminated hand splicing though we had to do them in av-school in the 60's. To compute the number of holes you would poke in your fingers, you multiplied the number of wire strands by 4. LOL ! Not exactly pleasant memories .