Help ID these two "NASA" tools

[airborne_j]

I bought a matco tool chest this summer and it wasn't fully cleaned out. there were a bunch of thermometers, magnets, and spanners which were in rough shape.

These two tools are stamped "NASA 419" and "NASA 440T"

Anyone have any idea what i've got here? Thanks in advance!

 

[ZRX61]

pic?

 

[airborne_j]

pic?

Hopefully it works now - sorry about that!

 

[popparoach]

Nail pullers for the shuttle.

 

[laser3kw]

maybe Wolowitz will chime in. It might be for his "zero gravity waste disposal system"

 

[joel63]

I bought a matco tool chest this summer and it wasn't fully cleaned out. there were a bunch of thermometers, magnets, and spanners which were in rough shape.

These two tools are stamped "NASA 419" and "NASA 440T"

Anyone have any idea what i've got here? Thanks in advance!

the "T" shape tool is a point adjusting tool, used for aligning misajusted point contacts.

 

[Milton Shaw]

Joel63 is right on the first tool. I have one in my box that I use on point ignition systems when I run into them which is not very often. The second one looks like a nail puller but I cannot imagine what NASA would use it for.

 

[airborne_j]

Let me double check the stamps. I find it impossible to believe these are associated with the real NASA.

 

[r_olson_06]

Maybe it is Napa instead of NASA?

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[MattVette89]

Let me double check the stamps. I find it impossible to believe these are associated with the real NASA.

There appears to be a defunct company called "Nasa tool manufacturing corp" from Ohio. If you look on eBay you'll find a bunch of older tools from them.

 

[Farmall 1066]

I've got 2 old NASA prybars. Had them at least 20 years, and wailed on them some.
Good ones.

 

[fufu83]

How long are they? Look like adj tools for voltage regulators or gov on equipment and trucks

 

[Bruce Lancaster]

J 63 is right about the first. If you look at the second closely, you will see that its end is a flat slot, also for bending...likely for adjusting carburetor arms and such. There used to be whole arrays of benders like these, with shapes for adjusting different types of relay arms in voltage regulators, and a bunch of small but heavier ones for bending various types of carb and choke linkage.

 

[WRENCH-IT-OUT]

Nasa also made socket sets, this being a 3/4" drive with the original box.......please tell me this was contracted by NASA to be used to work on spaceships

 

[southalabama]

Well. This thread was cool when I thought it was Neil Armstrong's toolkit.

Had never heard of a NASA tool company.

As far as Wollowitz. Potato based diet for the Russians gonna need a bigger tool to work on the space toilet.

 

[NJ Marty]

Her is the tread to a NASA punch set I got awhile back. Quality made as I am sure all of their tools were.

http://www.garagejournal.com/forum/showthread.php?t=312576

 

[3baygarage]

Nasa also made socket sets, this being a 3/4" drive with the original box.......please tell me this was contracted by NASA to be used to work on spaceships

Hi and welcome. Does your set say USA anywhere on it?

 

[twertsy]

I've been remiss at loading the remainder of my catalogs and I do actually have a NASA Tool Company catalog in the queue. Here's some info.

 

[ttpete]

I'll also say they're for adjusting automotive electro-mechanical voltage regulators. Everything was adjusted by bending, point gap, spring tension, etc.

When I was in the business, we could do it, but preferred to just replace the regulator unless it was no longer available.