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Mystery what's it, import looking clamping device.

scooternut

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Found this at my favorite dump, had me curious as to wth??? No markings other than PS 2 AND PS 3, and you can just guess what Google turned up there. I have it mounted to a piece of angle iron in the pic, but it's clearly designed like a clamp on vise. The anvil looking tool does index with a dish on the opposite side. Who knows what it is and wants it?
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1982fxr

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It’s somewhat like a motorcycle wheel balancing/lacing stand but for some other application...
 

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Anyone?

It’s obviously for working on some type of wheel...or something that spins
 

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I just figured part of it was missing. My stand has different size tapered inserts to switch around.

Op it would have been mounted with enough cutaway or however to spin something, not like it is on the angle iron, is my guess...
 
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Having again stumbled across this device, this time in my way, I was about to throw it way when I discovered "Made in Germany" stamped into the bare metal bar beneath the main screw. Although it still feels kind of China cheap to me, this stamp made me go for another round of searching.

As to earlier comments, that pointed anvil almost perfectly indexes with a dish shape machined in its counterpart. Thanks for your help.
 

L.Cheapo

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Maybe send some pics to MrPete222 on Youtube. He occasionally does "mystery tool" videos when he has 4 or 5 of them and pretty much every time SOMEONE knows what it is.
 

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Made in Germany is interesting. Since they used West Germany during Cold War and until 1989-90. So. It was either made before 1945-ish or after 1990.

If it is China cheap, then I would say 1920s and 30s.
 
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Captain Spaulding

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Got any pictures from other angles? Is the female side open through the back? The fact that the pieces aren't connected would make me think it's used on something long to press a fitting of some kind or flare something. Doesn't really look large enough or have the kind of precision to do a wheel.
 
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scooternut

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Definitely not any clearance for truing wheels. Sorry, should've included a better scale. I'll attach a few new pics with scale.
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