C & H Rim Tool ?

[Leviton]

Bought this at a swap meet this weekend. It seems to be a substantial 5/16" 6-point hex driver with a retaining function. Overall length is 13-3/8 inches.

The spring-loaded outer shaft sleeve pushes forward to allow the bolt/screw to be inserted.

To me, based on materials and construction, it looks like something made in the 70's, plus or minus a decade.

I've done a patent search for RIM TOOL and for C&H but had no luck. I can't find a similar manufacturer name in the GJ list.

Any idea of its use, or who C & H is/was?

 

[RTM]

Couple of choices here. On my phone, so too lazy to dig for you

Google Search

www.google.com

 

[Harry Oh]

It looks like a tool made to install a kitchen or bathroom sink that uses a hudee stainless ring or the newer style self ******* stainless steel sink. There is very little room to get around the sink to install the j-hooks which have a 5/16 head screw in them to hold the sink in place. Some of the newer clips use a screw with a slotted head but the old standby clip was 5/16 head.

 

[Leviton]

It looks like a tool made to install a kitchen or bathroom sink that uses a hudee stainless ring or the newer style self ******* stainless steel sink. There is very little room to get around the sink to install the j-hooks which have a 5/16 head screw in them to hold the sink in place. Some of the newer clips use a screw with a slotted head but the old standby clip was 5/16 head.

Harry, thank you for that information! I never would have considered a plumbing application for this. Would a tool used for this purpose be called a "Rim Tool"?

All this time, I have been thinking of a tool for the rim of a wheel, and that did not seem appropriate given the lighter weight construction of this thing.

I'll take your info and start re-researching looking towards plumbing rather than automobiles - and I'll re-run the search that RTM suggested with that in mind also.

Thanks gentlemen.

 

[RTM]

Harry’s comment had me google Sink Rim Tool, and this was the second result.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B000HBH3MA/?tag=atomicindus08-20

 

[Farmer J.]

Harry’s comment had me google Sink Rim Tool, and this was the second result.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B000HBH3MA/?tag=atomicindus08-20

Well, that didn't do me any favours.. but quite amusing. I clicked on the link, and it came up with the Amazon UK site which doesn't have any results for that actual tool... but on my computer it's advertising and trying to sell me every other weird and wonderful plumbing device ever imagined!!
Later, update.. Because we share the same modem the same adverts come up on Mrs Farmer J's computer.. she wonders why we would want all those plumbing tools.. I will have to be careful what I search for!

 

[Mintgrun]

RTM's link works for me. Here is the photo.

 

[RTM]

Well, that didn't do me any favours.. but quite amusing. I clicked on the link, and it came up with the Amazon UK site which doesn't have any results for that actual tool... but on my computer it's advertising and trying to sell me every other weird and wonderful plumbing device ever imagined!!

Forgot about the UK google generated spam may not be the same as US generated Spam, sorry.

 

[Farmer J.]

Forgot about the UK google generated spam may not be the same as US generated Spam, sorry.

No apology necessary, that stuff was just a laugh.

 

[Old Man Roger]

It looks like it just holds the screw. Maybe so you can get up in the space between the sink and a wall,or the cabinet. I could see it coming in handy in any space where it would be difficult to hold the screw with one hand and the tool with the other.

 

[four.cycle]

It looks like it just holds the screw. Maybe so you can get up in the space between the sink and a wall,or the cabinet. I could see it coming in handy in any space where it would be difficult to hold the screw with one hand and the tool with the other.

Just a wild guess, but I think you're right on the money. Unless you have rubber arms and four elbows, there's no way you're getting both arms and hands up in behind my kitchen sink:



... oh... and many thanks to RTM for yet another entry into the list ... have defintely dug up some interesting gizmos the last couple days.... weird plumbing screwdrivers, Czechoslovakian bicycle wrenches, yet another "Riverside" nobody here's yet mentioned... the list is endless!

Elkay / Elkay Mfg. Co., 1333 Butterfield Rd., Ste. 200, Downers Grove, IL 60515 / https://www.elkay.com/ / est. 1920 / specialty tools for plumbing trade /

unfortunately nothin' yet on these guys, but something will turn up sooner or later.... always does...

C & H / C & H Rim Tool / pat. pend. / https://www.garagejournal.com/forum/threads/c-m-rim-tool.496193/ /

 

[Old Man Roger]

Perfect picture for what I was thinking.

 

[Harry Oh]

I would say the Elkay driver that is pictured has a straight bladed driver with the centering sleeve instead of a 5/16 nutdriver. It was made to be used on the later self-******* stainless steel sinks. They were made with a small u track attached to the sink instead of the hudee ring. Made things a bit easier too install. Those hudee rings and a cast iron double kitchen sink that always seamed like it weighed a hundred pounds were not fun to install. The self ******* sinks that glued in were a lot easier.

 

[four.cycle]

the item in question is stamped C & H but the thread title is C & M

 

[Leviton]

the item in question is stamped C & H but the thread title is C & M

Thanks for pointing that out! I just changed it. (I was trying to post at the same time the Honey-Do generator person was asking me to work on something and I got in too much of a rush).

 

[Old Man Roger]

''Honey-Do generator'' I like it..lol

 

[four.cycle]