Help me identify a strange socket

[ggoss]

Last week at the flea market, I came across a strange socket. I don't remember the size or brand, but I do remember that it was somewhere between 1/2 and 1" 6-point with a 3/8" drive. It was cracked, so I didn't bother buying it, but I still am stumped as to it's exact function. Pardon the fat-fingered phone sketch, but it looked something like this:

It had two raised ("snake eye?") "pins" on the outside edge of the socket, but otherwise looked pretty normal.

Any ideas?

 

[Zedexseven]

Antenna nut socket?

 

[ggoss]

Thanks, I think it was a two prong antenna socket. It didn't have a hex bottom like the ones I'm seeing online, but otherwise looks to be it. Thanks!

 

[Harrison2]

I know of a few motorcycles that need sockets like this for swing arms and clutch nuts

 

[454ragtop]

I wonder if it was shop made. Thinking someone may have needed a spanner wrench, and modified a cracked socket. I've done things like this before myself.
Jim

 

[G_P]

likely home made. I have made one before by grinding down a cheap Chinese socket and leaving 2 little **** on it and flats on the outside to remove an old antenna mount.

 

[4xdog]

There are some old-skool bicycle freewheel removal tools that have those two projections. Usually not as part of a hex socket, but who knows -- there were lots of varieties of these removal tools back say pre-1990 when freewheels were used rather than freehubs, and probably a lot of homemade ones, too.

 

[ggoss]

I don't think it was shop made, as it still had a smooth chamfer and uniform finish. The chamfer was small, but rounded and perfectly uniform. The finish was also uniform- rough and dull chrome, but it wasn't chipping.

 

[CJM8515]

Its made for removing a flywheel/hub on a motorcycle. My buddy made a few b/c he was too cheap to buy the tool.

 

[dazcapri]

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Honda-Clu...pt=UK_Motorcycle_Parts_13&hash=item3a8a2df3a3
looks like one of these

 

[67 camaro]

http://www.ebay.com/itm/like/230953155748?lpid=82

 

[AndrewV]

Just do a google img search on northstar water pump socket aswell.
Lot of sockets, for specialty stuff are like this.

 

[K-Dog]

There are some old-skool bicycle freewheel removal tools that have those two projections. Usually not as part of a hex socket, but who knows -- there were lots of varieties of these removal tools back say pre-1990 when freewheels were used rather than freehubs, and probably a lot of homemade ones, too.

Let me guess.
You are in your 40's and you rode BMX bikes in the 80's

 

[hippie2cams]

Has it been 40 years since the 80's Damn what if you were born in the 40's how long is that.

 

[4xdog]

Let me guess.
You are in your 40's and you rode BMX bikes in the 80's

Sorry -- I'm in my 50s and I've ridden road bikes since the 70s. Never been on a BMX bike...

 

[K-Dog]

Sorry -- I'm in my 50s and I've ridden road bikes since the 70s. Never been on a BMX bike...

Well, swing and a miss for me.

 

[4xdog]

Just do a google img search on northstar water pump socket as well....

Like this?