Another what is it thread..

[wkndwarrior29]

Hey guys - I had a successful day of acquiring at a sale but picked up all kinds of items that I am struggling to identify. Here's one to start - glass rods, tapered at the ends, about 24 inches long. They look like level indicator glass but who knows?



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[IndyGarage]

I bet they are stirring rods for some type of chemical or drug manufacturing.

 

[jakemac]

It looks like a bar for a towel rack.

 

[bczygan]

I bet they are stirring rods for some type of chemical or drug manufacturing.

 

[DadsTools]

I can only say what I think it isn't, but not what it is. If they are solid glass and are a little bulbous on either end, definitely a chemistry stirring rod. But the taper on each end calls this into question. A stirring rod would also be as even and smooth on the ends as down the shaft so they can be easily cleaned of any chemical residue. Those tapers look as if they fit into something. A level glass would be hollow, liquid filled, and have a calibration on it with some sort of bubble or other suspended indicator.

 

[wkndwarrior29]

I guess I'll keep researching the glass rods.

Does anyone have information in these wrenches? They have a drive end and a wrench end, come with some unique adapters, and one has a saw piece mounted that I'm trying to figure out how to use... They say Dakota on them

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[3baygarage]

Nce find. I've seen a few sets of those wrenches. Their purpose is pretty much to get at harder to access areas, by turning with a ratchet from farther off. Probably chain driven inside. Snap On offered similar drive tools a long time ago.

That looks like a sawing attachment on one. Pretty neat.

 

[wkndwarrior29]

Nce find. I've seen a few sets of those wrenches. Their purpose is pretty much to get at harder to access areas, by turning with a ratchet from farther off. Probably chain driven inside. Snap On offered similar drive tools a long time ago.

That looks like a sawing attachment on one. Pretty neat.

Thanks 3bay, it is difficult finding information on these. I bought them simply because I don't have any.

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[Dennis Leigh Henry]

Strange but interesting.....

 

[wkndwarrior29]

So the box lots came with a number of bonney tools. Does anyone know what these tapered long spanner wrenches are for? I searched by part number and came up empty handed.

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[Jbullfrog]

Nce find. I've seen a few sets of those wrenches. Their purpose is pretty much to get at harder to access areas, by turning with a ratchet from farther off. Probably chain driven inside. Snap On offered similar drive tools a long time ago.

That looks like a sawing attachment on one. Pretty neat.

Dakota was a little company that had the Patten, but no money to bring them to market. Snap-On offered these via Blue-Point Jwj1 and 2, in '99. They weren't in the catalog, but did appear in a flier. They are great when needed, but not even a once a week tool. I have 1/4 and 3/8 versions from the tool truck.

 

[Schurkey]

Dakota was a little company that had the Patten

Patten???

 

[wkndwarrior29]

Thanks for the the information jbullfrog - this set seems a little different. Here's some more information - there are 1/4, 3/8, and 1/2 drive pieces like yours. The 3/8 drive is hooked up to the saw attachment. The set also includes six metric and six standard wrenches that can be attached to the drives for reach. Two of the adapters have these strange lobed ends. I'm not sure how yours came apart - these have what looks like a hole for greasing on either end of each head but the case doesn't look like it was meant to be split.

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[wkndwarrior29]

Here are better pictures of the wrenches, they are labelled l402 and l403 in 1/2 and 9/16. I'm interested in what specific use these could have been for. Stay tuned for a bunch more bonney tool questions - there was a pile of them in the lot.

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[gdocktor3]

Those appear to be tappet wrenches based on length and thickness. Bonney usually marked their tools with two letter's to represent the year and month they were made. The years ran from M-Z while the months were covered A-L, with L representing December. The 402 represents 1/2" and 403 represents 9/16".

You can find a lot of info on the rest of your Bonney haul right here
http://alloy-artifacts.org/bonney-forge-tool.html

 

[notlob]

Does anyone have information in these wrenches? They have a drive end and a wrench end, come with some unique adapters, and one has a saw piece mounted that I'm trying to figure out how to use... They say Dakota on them

Those Dakota extension wrenches appear to to be made primarily to engage bolt heads directly, similar to a ratcheting box end wrench, unlike the blue point versions, which are made to use with sockets.

I suspect the adapters are used to attach power tools to drive the extension wrenches; the square is likely for an impact wrench, while the lobed adapters are for use with a power drill.

I think those are pretty cool - would you be interested in a trade for them?

 

[wkndwarrior29]

Those appear to be tappet wrenches based on length and thickness. Bonney usually marked their tools with two letter's to represent the year and month they were made. The years ran from M-Z while the months were covered A-L, with L representing December. The 402 represents 1/2" and 403 represents 9/16".

You can find a lot of info on the rest of your Bonney haul right here
http://alloy-artifacts.org/bonney-forge-tool.html

Thank's gdocktor - that website is very informative and helped me understand a handful of the other bonney tools.

 

[wkndwarrior29]

Those Dakota extension wrenches appear to to be made primarily to engage bolt heads directly, similar to a ratcheting box end wrench, unlike the blue point versions, which are made to use with sockets.

I suspect the adapters are used to attach power tools to drive the extension wrenches; the square is likely for an impact wrench, while the lobed adapters are for use with a power drill.

I think those are pretty cool - would you be interested in a trade for them?

Thanks notlob. I'm definitely not partial to the set but wouldn't know how to put a value on them yet. I see in your signature you are looking for plomb and blackhawk as well. I have drawers overflowing with spare tools from sale purchases that I have been meaning to post in the classifieds including both of those manufacturers. Send me a PM with what you think these are worth and maybe we an come up with a trade.

 

[wkndwarrior29]

Next item, no part number on this one but it does have some markings. Any ideas?

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[Dennis Leigh Henry]

Some really cool tools.. Cannot help with their purpose or other details beyond what has been said though..

 

[wkndwarrior29]

After a few straight weeks of working 14 hour days, I'm back to the tool pile. Does anyone know what these items are? They are labelled fx industries saf-kee. Google comes up with nothing.

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[Fretters]

https://books.google.co.uk/books?id...Y7FDOsQ6AEIywEwIA#v=onepage&q=saf-kee&f=false

 

[wkndwarrior29]

https://books.google.co.uk/books?id...Y7FDOsQ6AEIywEwIA#v=onepage&q=saf-kee&f=false

Thanks fretters for the quick find, it seems that I was searching fx when I should have been searching px.

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[3baygarage]

Now that's a cool tool.

 

[wkndwarrior29]

Thanks 3bay. I found that the odd aluminum tool is actually a cast aluminum garden fork. I hate gardening so it is of no use to me. I'm finally done sorting through the collection - here are the final three... The large tool says sp Sykes-pickavant no 043100 but I wasn't able to find much on it's use through searching...

Any ideas?



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[Hawk]

The cross with the black knobs is for working on car batteries, post cleaner and battery lug cleaner. The black handled tool looks like a brake retaining clip tool. The other tool is a flanging and crimping tool. http://www.tridon.com.au/products/S...ter/410122/flanging-and-crimping/63141/043100

 

[wkndwarrior29]

The cross with the black knobs is for working on car batteries, post cleaner and battery lug cleaner. The black handled tool looks like a brake retaining clip tool. The other tool is a flanging and crimping tool. http://www.tridon.com.au/products/S...ter/410122/flanging-and-crimping/63141/043100

Thanks Hawk. Not sure how you came up with that link though, I need to work on my Google searching skills. I've never seen a hard reamer for cleaning battery terminals but I'll throw it in the box to try it out.

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[four.cycle]

"I've never seen a hard reamer for cleaning battery terminals..."

They're not all that uncommon, but the brush-type is probably far more common.
When you've shaved down the battery post (or cable lug) to the point where you cannot get the cable lug to clamp down securely onto the battery post, they made "battery post shims" - a small sheet-lead cap split down each side - to take up the slack.