Looks Like A Handy Little Prying Tool

[6-Holer]

My weakness is for pliers and prying tools. While visiting a friend's "Foreign Car" shop yesterday (tells you how old he must be...ha ha) I noticed a small, well-made, very stiff, little pry-bar that he'd bought from his Snap-On guy last Monday. It isn't marked Snap-On, only "4140" on both sides of the handle. His dealer is selling them as useful tools for removing sealant-bound plastic components from modern engines, and my friend has a great eye for handy stuff. It took me a couple of search terms to even find a picture of it, and I still don't know exactly who made it, but I do want one!

You A & P Types probably have an entire small drawer devoted to them, but I had never seen one before.

Here's a link to one of my favorite places. They are also selling them.

http://www.aircraftspruce.com/catalog/topages/skinWedge2.php?clickkey=70798

 

[Roberts210]

Neat. Thanks for posting that.

 

[rlitman]

Nifty. I was picking through a bin at the flea market several years ago, when I happened upon something that looked like a screwdriver, but wasn't. Same kind of idea, though a little more like a letter opener, and with a screwdriver handle marked "Fuller".

I've got all sorts of scrap screwdrivers in a junk drawer, and keep them around for grinding into things like this as I find the need.

 

[TheSasquatch]

Those are called skin spoons, used to lift aircraft skin panels when doing sheet metal repairs you can get them super cheap online at places like the yard and such. Snapon owns another company called ati that produces aircraft tools. Must be from them.

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[MFolks]

Yep,Aerospace work has many specialty tools,from rivet locators,drill blocks(for straight,90 degree holes). www.browntool.com carries many of these.

 

[2oolhound]

They look a lot like tire irons with one end cut off. Here's pics of mine (I dress the spooned end up so it slips into the bead and under the tube better. The long ones are Gedores. Normal motorcycle ones are about 12" and the opposite end is often just a flat arc.

 

[Ditch]

That is a GREAT site. Been getting stuff from them for years

 

[mrborohachi]

Here's a great copy of Toyota SST. What they don't show is the handle has a ball detent in it like an socket extension so it's second piece from the main head. I personally own one

 

[Sticks McGee]

Those are exactly like what came with my tire machine at work.