Another WTF is thread

[Cheepbeer]

The township guys found this on junk days a few years ago.



WTF is it?

 

[MTNSleder]

egg beater

 

[6PTsocket]

It bears a strong resemblance to a style of 3 finger pullers. The clamp suggests that it is designed to hold something with a hole in it that the 3 fingers can grab from the inside.

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[Milton Shaw]

Looks like it could be used to expand the neck of a balloon to insert something inside it. Not that that would be what it was made for, but it does look like it was made to expand something.

 

[gnpenning]

Wire, cable etc winder. Clamp to bench, hook drill to spud shaft, wind a way. When done collapse inner arms, remove roll.

That's what it looks like from here

 

[Cheepbeer]

Well, I thought maybe a hand winder. It doesn't turn, it just slides back and forth opening and closing the fingers.

 

[Brian_WK]

Clamp on TP holder.

Brian

 

[Cheepbeer]

I just stopped to get more pics, but he wasn't there. I'll get more in the morning.

 

[mbshop]

**** examining tool ?

 

[t4runner]

Im not saying its a CV boot expander but thats what popped into my head. It still might be some kind of expanding tool.

 

[Cheepbeer]

**** examining tool ?

OUCH!!!

FWIW it's base has got a finish on it like an old camera, kind of course, scaly black.

Mike

 

[driftpin]

So the U-clamp/shaft slides back & forth, allowing the 4 oblique-angled levers to move from a smaller diameter to a larger diameter, or 'vise'-versa? And the delta-diameter of the four fingers is relatively-limited, due to the narrow slots in-which they move?

Seems like some-sort of an assembly tool for inserting some type of seal into a flange, like for a very-large diameter pipe, where you are placing grommets into large machined holes or onto shafts.

 

[Cheepbeer]

A few more pics. The whole base is brass, or maybe bronze.

 

[anndel]

**** spreader for colonoscopy

 

[Cheepbeer]

I gotta bump this. Somebody's gotta know what it is.

 

[Al Borland]

"Gynecological instrument for mutant women"
Jeremy Irons in a crappy mid-80s movie called "Ringers" or "Dead Ringers"

 

[Bad Habit]

**** spreader for colonoscopy

Just had one done today, the one they used looked more like your avatar, only bigger