can anyone indentfy this
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lbgradwell
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It's a "Grease Bar" (aka "Shackle Bar") for twisting the front leaf spring stacks to get grease in the end eyelets.
OutLore
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Grip maybe when using it by hand? Perhaps "catching" it on to something to keep it in the torqued position?I still have the tool and actually used it a few times in the last 8 years. Wondering what the notches are for in the other end. I know this post is old but so am I
The Tool Tyrant
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My dad was a frame and front end mechanic all his working life and he had one. I would to go to work with him during summer break when I was in high school and I'd watch him use it for different things...twisting bent metal frames, prying things. I have it now and have found it be a very useful tool for twisting and prying...just the ticket when nothing else will do. I believe the notches are to prevent slippage when prying but I could be wrong.
Ibgradwell is correct, although I never saw my dad use it for what it was intended!
Ibgradwell is correct, although I never saw my dad use it for what it was intended!
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It always nice to have something our dads worked with long time ago. My dad was born in 1915 and has been gone for 31 years now. I always thought he was old but I am now his age when he passed away
Love any tool that was made in the USA long time ago . They don't break like tools of today
JR 42
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It always nice to have something our dads worked with long time ago. My dad was born in 1915 and has been gone for 31 years now. I always thought he was old but I am now his age when he passed away
Love any tool that was made in the USA long time ago . They don't break like tools of today
Isn't that pretty much the definition of survivorship bias? All the cheap junk and defective tools broke years ago, so all that's left is the well- made stuff that's less likely to break.
I'm not trying to piss in your cornflakes - I love old US- made tools too and own a bunch of them. One of the great things about used tools is that odds are good someone else has already weeded out the defective ones.
JR 42
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Lol, me neither... I didn't want to load up that sentence with a whole bunch of qualifying statements and make it harder to read.
The only Oxwall stuff I see regularly (different kind of bias right there) are the little stamped sheet steel ignition wrenches . Maybe they're good enough for what they were used for, maybe they weren't used at all, no way for me to tell (I don't own any and barely use ignition wrenches for much of anything). Maybe the people who bought Oxwall ignition wrenches barely needed any kind of tool, let alone a good one. Maybe 98% of them were ****, and the only ones I come across were the anomalous accidentally- decent- quality ones.
The only Oxwall stuff I see regularly (different kind of bias right there) are the little stamped sheet steel ignition wrenches . Maybe they're good enough for what they were used for, maybe they weren't used at all, no way for me to tell (I don't own any and barely use ignition wrenches for much of anything). Maybe the people who bought Oxwall ignition wrenches barely needed any kind of tool, let alone a good one. Maybe 98% of them were ****, and the only ones I come across were the anomalous accidentally- decent- quality ones.