Help identifying my late Father's tools

[shinytules]

Hi Folks,

First time posting, although I've been hanging around for a while.

I've been meaning to ask for some help identifying some of my Father's tools, and just got round to sorting through some of them this weekend.

He was a marine engineer by trade, starting his career in the merchant navy (a lot of tools bear the crows foot), and moving on to specialise in turbo chargers...big turbo chargers. I remember him coming home from collecting a blower to be reconditioned and seeing this huge hulk of a snail, the size of a small car on the back of his wagon, and he told me it was the best part of £1m worth. I have pictures of him straddling ship engine con-rods and the like. I was always fascinated as a kid by the scale of these engines.

Anyway, he passed away a few years ago now, and I took all his tool boxes before my Mother could throw them out. I've left them as they are ever since as I liked the way they were, but I want to use these if possible (I toy around with motorcycles and cars) so have started sorting through them before they seize up with rust (in England anything you look at less than once a week goes rusty, even if it's not made of steel).

Some of these tools however, I just have no idea of their purpose. I thought I would post up a few at a time and hope that you would tell me.

So here's a couple:

Hmmm. The hook pulls out, kinda like those old fashioned ratcheting screwdrivers only in reverse:

What do we have here:

Has a 1/4" square drive on one end. Some sort of miniature torque wrench? If I clamp the drive end in the vice and turn, it resists at first then turns about 270* without resistance before locking up again.

Any ideas?

Thanks,

Al

 

[Al Borland]

Green handled tool is for tying/winding safety wire.

 

[LXCam]

First one is for tying rebar and safety wire. Second looks like a manual impact but lacks what you'd normally see on the striking end.

 

[shinytules]

Green handled tool is for tying/winding safety wire.

As in, for securing bolts in place? Looks too small for rebar.

 

[shinytules]

First one is for tying rebar and safety wire. Second looks like a manual impact but lacks what you'd normally see on the striking end.

The body is aluminium, I wouldn't dare strike it. And that hole in the end - there's a screw thread in there... something missing, maybe an adjuster screw?

I think it's a navy tool, and has 1972 engraved on it

 

[LXCam]

As in, for securing bolts in place? Looks too small for rebar.

It's not.

And I get that about the other but all things consider per your description that's what it reminds me of but obviously it ain't.

 

[3baygarage]

Most likely a preset torque driver as you said OP. I'm surprised no name, but maybe it had a sticker.

 

[shinytules]

It's not.

And I get that about the other but all things consider per your description that's what it reminds me of but obviously it ain't.

Ah, I see - I think this is one of those US/UK translation things - over here, rebar is this:

Those things you picture we call cavity wall ties. Make sense - thanks!

 

[shinytules]

Most likely a preset torque driver as you said OP. I'm surprised no name, but maybe it had a sticker.

Never seen one like it though. I'll see if I can find a screw to fit in the hole, to find out if it adjusts the torque.

But how to measure it?

 

[shinytules]

You guys also call cavity wall ties 'safety wire'?

I wondered if you meant something like this:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Safety_wire

 

[shinytules]

I'm gonna use that green handled one for doubling up tig filler rod to increase size - I'm chuffed to bits with that, thanks guys! [emoji4]

 

[Milton Shaw]

That first tool is made for rebar tie wires. They come as a strip of wires already looped on the ends on a fabric holding strip. You pull each wire off and twist them around two or three pieces of rebar and then catch the loops with the tool and pull it to twist the wires to hold them together. If the concrete rebar needs to be inspected that is one of the things that the inspector will check to see if the wires are tight and twisted to secure the rebar where it will strengthen the concrete. These also would be sitting on plastic "chairs" to hold the rebar in the middle or correct height as the engineer specified.

 

[shinytules]

This is probably one of my favourites - I know what it is as he told me about it. Can't think of a situation where I'd need it, but some of the tools he had were basically there because...well imagine being stranded on the North Sea in winter, with the captain looking at you - it's best if you have the tool needed in your box to get the ship running.

First prize goes to the person who knows what it is, and can give me a picture of the missing bit so I know what to look for. If I knew what it was called I'd have half a chance with Google, but...

 

[Gmonkee]

Its a drilling ratchet and bit. There was aframe it pushed against as the bit sunk into the steel. That pointed part should be threaded into the ratchet gear.

 

[shinytules]

Its a drilling ratchet and bit. There was aframe it pushed against as the bit sunk into the steel. That pointed part should be threaded into the ratchet gear.

Bingo! Need a pic of the frame.

 

[Gmonkee]

I have never seen the frames myself. I always assumed they were somehow fixtures built onto the ships.

Seems nobody ever took one home upon retiring. And those old navy vets got everything but the props off the ship without many noticing.

 

[shinytules]

I have never seen the frames myself. I always assumed they were somehow fixtures built onto the ships.



Seems nobody ever took one home upon retiring. And those old navy vets got everything but the props off the ship without many noticing.

Yeah [emoji15]. He tig welded his initials on most tools as he always said you couldn't put anything down for too long in a ships engine room.

I figure I'll make something if I ever need it.

These have me stumped. The opposite of pullers? Pushers? To drive bearings of shafts? I have a couple and lots of adaptors with the same size thread, so I'll keep them in case I can modify them for something awkward. Hard not to hoard...

Here's a slightly different one

 

[joseph.a.owens.9]

I have a flywheel puller for a atv that looks like the last one In your post. But other then that idk?

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[Lynden]

Its a drilling ratchet and bit. There was a frame it pushed against as the bit sunk into the steel. That pointed part should be threaded into the ratchet gear.

This link has quite a bit of information. It includes catalog drawings of various ratchet drills and frames (called drilling posts).

http://www.practicalmachinist.com/vb/antique-machinery-and-history/another-mystery-tool-268354/

 

[RobertsC]

I have seen those big ones used before, in the oil and gas industry, on big centrifugal compressors (big turbos). They are used to jack (pull) bearings off of the shafts. Of course, this task has moved onto hydraulic means. There is an entire different "body" used to press the bearing onto shaft. Hope this helps some.

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[shinytules]

Thanks guys.

How about this one?

Weird tap wrench? Can't figure out the other end.