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[30-30remchester]

I found this in a pawn shop decades ago and have yet to find out what it is, what it does or who made it. Without discovering its purpose I feel I have wasted m$1 I paid for it, so here is hoping for some help. Absolutely no markings of any kind. Quite heavy and well built. Similar to the standard garage tool used to pick up out of reach items. This however does not have fingers. At rest it has 2 small obtrubions. When engaged those obtrubions retreat into the shaft. Anyone familiar with this tool?

 

[Miss the Pontiacs]

Security tool???

 

[Bad Eye Bill]

I don't know..... but it's a nice one.

 

[IndyGarage]

Looks like an extractor or driver of some sort - is the brass tip connected to the butterly wing somehow? Almost looks like that tip can move in and out slightly - or maybe that is just the view from one side to the other.

We used a lot of stuff like that looked like that in the assembly department of an Aero engine company I worked for - however the handle doesn't look like a custom tool. If it were a one-off it would just be flat knurled rather than the complex machined handle.

 

[lbhsbz]

Deburring tool? Sort of like a Cogsdill deburring tool....just a hand operated version.

https://cogsdill.com/products/deburring-tools/burraway/?gclid=Cj0KCQjwla-hBhD7ARIsAM9tQKveWKdhuI1CbJU1PWVL4KoYjawDgUHKjymKVYZQXnLDXSVpugGoNiYaAviaEALw_wcB

 

[oldmachinenut]

Eons ago I used tools with fingers or an expanding end to remove and insert components down inside automatic transmission cases.

 

[rlitman]

TLS.eagle 7 Inch CATV Cable Locking and Unlocking Terminator TV Tool https://www.amazon.com/dp/B087BDCHN7/?tag=atomicindus08-20