Help Identifying Slide Hammer Tool

[kansei]

I'm looking for any assistance in identifying the original intended application the tool shown below was for. It is (obviously) a slide hammer style tool, although it seems more set up for installing/pushing, rather than removing/pulling. The shaft measures 9 inches long overall by .5 inch diameter, with the knurled end being 1 inch long. The end opposite the knurled end, where the interchangeable tips thread into has RH threading a bit more than .5 inches deep. That threaded end is also beveled slightly at the very end of the shaft, though I see no need for it. The bits are no more than 1 inch in diameter, and roughly 1.25 inches long overall. The slide/hammer assembly is asymmetrical with respect to its tapered sides, as you can see in the photos. There are no branding marks nor symbols of any type anywhere on it.

I bought the tool from a neighbor at an estate sale she had recently, letting go of many of her father's old tools, the bulk of which seem to date from the 1930s through the 1960s. She couldn't remember what it may have originally been used for, and it's smaller size, light weight, and odd bits have me scratching my head a bit. All I can come up with is maybe a bearing race or seal driver for working on a particular type of machinery... ?

I know once someone posts up what it is/was for, I will roll my eyes in disgust I didn't think of it, but knowing what it was originally designed for is worth it.

Thanks for any help, thoughts, suggestions, rude comments, etc...




Neal.

 

[1930]

Figure it out yourself

 

[MShaw]

It looks like a clutch plate aligning tool to me.

 

[Buckgnarly]

It looks like a clutch plate aligning tool to me.

x2....are clutches getting that rare?!...or am I getting old?

 

[four.cycle]

clutch alignment tool set (aka: clutch pilot tool)
like this:

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Vintage-Clu...328481?hash=item2106d1b921:g:osIAAOSwEetV~wmi

or this:

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Vintage-Clu...:g:HxMAAOSwPgxVN4D3&item=121812840343&vxp=mtr

or this:

http://www.ebay.com/itm/VINTAGE-HEA...:g:v8UAAOSwv-NWWc49&item=252189581764&vxp=mtr

kind of gone by the wayside in favor of the little plastic ones that came out in the early 1980s' (because every import car uses a different size.) (old-time American cars you only had maybe a half-dozen different sizes to worry about.)

http://www.ebay.com/itm/28-Clutch-A...ash=item2106dc6edb:g:-SgAAOSwf-VWaJ-e&vxp=mtr

 

[kansei]

Thanks.

 

[kansei]

x2....are clutches getting that rare?!...or am I getting old?

No, I have always just used alignment tools specific to the disc I was installing... never used universal ones; hence, it never crossed my mind that was what it could be.

 

[four.cycle]

prior to the advent of the molded plastic ones, which were really cheap when they first came out, we sold wooden pilot tools in "Car Aid" for about $2 each.

this guy apparently has one that is really special

http://www.ebay.com/itm/New-Unknown...ash=item3d064b7ee8:g:f5wAAOSwo6lWIi7P&vxp=mtr

 

[zkling]

x2....are clutches getting that rare?!...or am I getting old?

Friend of mine, going on 10 years profesional tech in a dealership, can count the number of clutches he has done on one hand. I however need both hands and feet.

 

[r_olson_06]

prior to the advent of the molded plastic ones, which were really cheap when they first came out, we sold wooden pilot tools in "Car Aid" for about $2 each.

this guy apparently has one that is really special

http://www.ebay.com/itm/New-Unknown...ash=item3d064b7ee8:g:f5wAAOSwo6lWIi7P&vxp=mtr

Either must be one hell of a salesman or a stupid price for a stupid person

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[Big Bad Dad]

My Dad started teaching auto shop at a local high school in 1953, and did so for over 40 years. He has a very similar tool that I have probably borrowed and used 10 or so times in my life. (All on my old big block Mopars, except for a slant 6 pickup.....)

 

[Modern Garage]

My brother "loaned" my clutch set like that one to his friend. I never saw it again. Since then (the last thirty or so years) I've aligned the disc with my finger tips around the edge of the pressure plate. This method actually works better for me. I struggle less than I do when using an alignment tool that's included with the replacement clutch.