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weird snap on tool
- Thread starter jabberwoki
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ovilla
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Looks like something used to install horse shoes.
Wanna Ride
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Maybe a filter wrench?
Indy_500
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looks like some old style pipe wrench
Cummins_Powered
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Looks like something used to install horse shoes.
Never seen a farrier use a tool like that...unless it is used to bend the shoes inward (after heating them in a forge), in order to fit better....
eborcim
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snapmom, how would one use this tool?
First: remove the valve core so that all the air will escape.
Second: With the wheel on the car it is best to force the outside off first. Place the tool in position on the tire with the notched arm over the wheel rim and small arm against the side of the tire. handle shoulld be to the outer side of wheel. Force down the handle to break loose outerside of tire and force it over the wheel ridge and down into the well. Push this side of the tire over the ridge around the entire circumference.. Reverse position of the tool and force off the other side of the tire. To use on a dismounted wheel hold the wheel between your legs and proceed as above.
Second: With the wheel on the car it is best to force the outside off first. Place the tool in position on the tire with the notched arm over the wheel rim and small arm against the side of the tire. handle shoulld be to the outer side of wheel. Force down the handle to break loose outerside of tire and force it over the wheel ridge and down into the well. Push this side of the tire over the ridge around the entire circumference.. Reverse position of the tool and force off the other side of the tire. To use on a dismounted wheel hold the wheel between your legs and proceed as above.
Bruce Lancaster
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"Bead breaker" would be common term for this. Chrysler connection is that they had "safety rims" with an extra channel/bump to help keep bead area seated.
GeorgiaHybrid
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Another thing to keep in mind. Most people of that era would patch their own tubes and kept a kit in the car for that. Using this tool meant the tire/wheel could stay on the car and you just removed the tube, patched it, put it back in the tire and then started pumping... The old tire pumps looked just like an oversized bicycle pump does today.
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jabberwoki
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well i thought you were pulling my leg! but your right on target this is the reply from alloy artifactsIts a wheel remover for Chrysler cars, mostly from the 40s
Hello,
I just heard back from a Snap-on specialist who says that the T254A was a tire removal tool for Chrysler safety rims, possibly from the 1940s.
Hope this helps,
Alloy-Artifacts
chad s
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well i thought you were pulling my leg! but your right on target this is the reply from alloy artifacts
Hello,
I just heard back from a Snap-on specialist who says that the T254A was a tire removal tool for Chrysler safety rims, possibly from the 1940s.
Hope this helps,
Alloy-Artifacts
So Snapmoms ID wasn't reliable enough that you had to go to a guy who doesn't even specialize in Snap on? Who do you think he went to to get his info?.......
chad s
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The odd thing: Alloy Artifacts emailed me for the id:
Thanks for the info on the T254A -- I don't have one, just got an
inquiry from a reader
As I had figured......