Cleco/Cooper air tools?

[Nickmm]

I cam across some interesting tools at my local pawn shops today. It seems a few of them picked up some Cleco air tools, a few what look to be air ratchets with 1/2dr heads and very long bodies, and a reversible 3/8ths drive air impact with a hook or hanger on it, as well as what are clearly air torque tools of some sort, they have a long metal "stopper" or something, it is just like our Hytorq, which uses an imovable piece of the work to **** itself up against while working.

Not sure what they are, what they are worth, or If I could even use them. From what I have found so far, the 1/2in air ratchet things are actually torque tools, maybe their 34 series? They seem to be reversible, and they say clecomatic on them, says some various NM torque measurements, and made in germany, as well as cooper tools SC on them.

The 3/8ths impact is a mystery. Its an aluminum body/steel head as far as I can tell. Kinda neat. I'll see if I can fish part numbers off them later.

Any ideas? Maybe for 50-80 bucks it would be a neat talking piece. I don't really build very many engines, cant see the need for it in actual use. THe impact is piquing my interest but they are only maybe 300 new?

P.s. I did score a 2145 IR for 200 even, and a set of metric flex head gearwrench ratcheting combo wrenches for 50, COO Tawain. WOo.

 

[t100]

Cleco is mainly an aircraft tool maker, they make good stuff, not cheap.

 

[Nickmm]

Well, I guess what I found is 3 angled nut runners in 1/2in drive and one of their pulse tools, rated to 88nm of torque. Sounds like some assembly line stuff of some sort. A pulse tool apparently is built to run fasteners down to a repeated tq amount for a very large number of cycles. Sounds cool, but I'm not really sure what I could use any of these for, really at all. If you ran a machine shop or built a **** ton of engines maybe, but other than that, they are assembly line tools.

the price tag for these guys is from $1100-2500 USD though, so thats kind of interesting.

 

[Mastermind]

odds are they came from "uncle Henry"...ford that is. i have a cleco 1/2 impact with a hang tab on the back that followed grandpa home from uncle henry's big garage in ypsi...

 

[Nickmm]

odds are they came from "uncle Henry"...ford that is. i have a cleco 1/2 impact with a hang tab on the back that followed grandpa home from uncle henry's big garage in ypsi...

That's a good possibility. Didn't think of that. Although we are in North Dakota, its possible they made it this far after retiring or what have you. It also would make sense as our pawn guys being so far away from any large plants would be clueless as to the origin of them.

I figured maybe it was an aircraft or small assembly plant here in town that went out of business. I know we had a bobcat assembly place close a year or two ago, and they just recently opened for a small skeleton crew.

 

[beerdog]

Cleco is used extensively in industry and high volume manufacturing. I used ot use and purchase their tools extensively. Has all the positives of high grade industrial tools...accurate, durable, repeatable. At the time, they were a top shelf tool and very expensive. You set them to a precise tourque and they will hold 3-5% with automatic shutoff. Typically, you need a setting machine to set the torque as industrial production tools like these will not normally have a torque setting gage like a mechanics tool.

I remember when pulse tools first came out. The main advantage was that you did not need a torque arm. Plus they ran at much higher RPMs. Plus, you could hook them up to a $25,000 control unit. These are definetly not a tool for the home mechanic. These arethe types of tools used in automotive factories where you need speed and accuracy suchas when assembling engines.