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Any idea what this Blue-Point tool is used for?
- Thread starter LNKMK8
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Farmer J.
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I have seen them posted here somewhere, so sure that someone will know! I can't immediately remember and am likely wrong but I think it's maybe something to do with tappet/valve adjustment.? One end goes on a nut to hold it and the other forked end goes around something to stop it turning.
Now I expect someone who actually knows for sure will identify it properly!
Now I expect someone who actually knows for sure will identify it properly!
Private Lugnutz
Well-known member
J. is correct. For side valves. It would go between tappets so you could adjust the valve with one wrench in one hand and tighten the check nut with a wrench in the other. That plunger is to lock it in place. Prior to helpers or third hands like this mechanics would make shop-made tools just like this, which is undoubtedly where Snap-on got the idea, or do the sleight of three wrenches in two hands trick. Examples and catalog pages were posted on the 'Tappet wrenches' thread, as well as a page from a very early 20's industrial trade mag in which instructions for making one in your shop were provided in an article.
d42jeep
Well-known member
Obviously stolen right out of my toolbox. I wondered where that went!
-Don
-Don
Thanks, I wouldn't have thought to check with the tappet wrenches.J. is correct. For side valves. It would go between tappets so you could adjust the valve with one wrench in one hand and tighten the check nut with a wrench in the other. That plunger is to lock it in place. Prior to helpers or third hands like this mechanics would make shop-made tools just like this, which is undoubtedly where Snap-on got the idea, or do the sleight of three wrenches in two hands trick. Examples and catalog pages were posted on the 'Tappet wrenches' thread, as well as a page from a very early 20's industrial trade mag in which instructions for making one in your shop were provided in an article.
Private Lugnutz
Well-known member
No worries. Nice find!Thanks, I wouldn't have thought to check with the tappet wrenches.