Homemade hacksaw?

[bargainhuntingking]

Or do you have one like it?



My guess is some resourceful person made it, perhaps low on cash or just for fun or perhaps for a shop class?

 

[j.t.d.]

Try posting it in the " hacksaws? " thread here in vintage tool discussion.

 

[driftpin]

Prison Break!

 

[JRC3]

So I wonder how it's meant to be adjusted, is one of those is a left-hand thread? Or with the blade removed do you give it a turn or turns to adjust and then spring/flex it to get the blade on it tension?

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And I'll toss this in the mix.

 

[bargainhuntingking]

Sorry JTD, didn’t know there was a hacksaw thread.

JRC3, Love the simplicity of the rebar saw!

As for my saw, I’m guessing one of the threads threads must be lefty to allow the length to expand/contract, otherwise the center pipe would just be moving and not affect the overall length. It’s pretty rusty and I haven’t disassembled it yet; the threads could be fused to the pipe. I’ll eventually get it apart...

 

[Private Lugnutz]

So I wonder how it's meant to be adjusted, is one of those is a left-hand thread?

That's what it looks like to me. Pretty neat. But I can see how other methods became more popular.

And I'll toss this in the mix.

HAHA! That thing is awesome. Talk about simplicity in "design". You should repost that in the hacksaw thread.

 

[Private Lugnutz]

JRC3, Love the simplicity of the rebar saw!

I x-posted with you.

Tom Coffey's hacksaws thread is on the list for Sticky Index version 2. Linked here.

 

[lilredex]

Both ends are threaded...

 

[rlitman]

Looks to me, there is only one end threaded. The other end spins in a dead ended socket.

No. That thing was a turnbuckle that someone forged curves onto. It'll have left hand threads on one side.

The only trouble with that design is that there's no way to lock it down. It won't loosen on its own, but it can twist.

 

[lilredex]

No. That thing was a turnbuckle that someone forged curves onto. It'll have left hand threads on one side.

The only trouble with that design is that there's no way to lock it down. It won't loosen on its own, but it can twist.

Yes, you got me while editing my response. A lighter picture clarifies that construction.

 

[Mallen]

No. That thing was a turnbuckle that someone forged curves onto. It'll have left hand threads on one side.

The only trouble with that design is that there's no way to lock it down. It won't loosen on its own, but it can twist.

Put a pair of jam nuts on it.

 

[3baygarage]

Looks cool, although it does seem like the perfect recipe for the neighbor to return it with pipe wrench teeth marks all over it.

 

[Miss the Pontiacs]

Clean it up and hang it up for garage art. Great conversation piece.

 

[tombell572]

Possibly from an era when if you couldn't afford a tool or lived too remotely to purchase one, you made it out of whatever you had at hand. Yes, worthy of display.

 

[Bucko]

Reminds me of that Pakistani YouTube channel where they fix things with rudimentary tools and imagination.

 

[neophyte]

It could be commercially made.
the right hand left hand thread systems are and were used on some auto body files for flexing the files.
The rivets look cleanly peened.
Bent rod like that was a standard method for manufacturing mini hacksaws( and still is) as well as for manufacturing coping saws.

Also, there’s another one listed on Etsy.

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The listing doesn't list a manufacturer either.

Also another listed on eBay.

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We hope this doesn't cause you any inconvenience. Great PIECE of a BY-GONE ERA.

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[bonneyman]

I had one eerily similar.

B4 and after restoration.

 

[steaks&anvils]

My guess is medical or veterinarian.

By the looks of it, there are probably not many "witnesses" left alive to confirm that use. I suppose it could have been for already dead patients...