what is it ?

[charger 73]

Found this in my dads garage while cleaning, does anybody know what this is?

 

[OccupantRJ]

Looks similar to a tv mast standoff

 

[RTM]

Google lens thinks it's a brass foot rail stand off, Or an exquisite nautical divider.

Me, I'm in the pipe clamp camp, possibly for hanging under a beam.

 

[rlitman]

Looks similar to a tv mast standoff

Yeah, like the one that goes on the corner of a chimney. But how do you tension it?

 

[four.cycle]

It might be part of a saw set.

 

[Old Man Roger]

It might be part of a saw set.

Hey!

 

[Mike'smeatshop]

What the heck are these cones? They have magnets on all three lips.

 

[larry_g]

Identifier pylons to mark things. Auto shops use them to mark service numbers on cars waiting to get worked on, can be used to identify truck vans with BOL, what ever you wish to identify with a number that is non marring and non permeant.

lg
no neat sig line

 

[Mike'smeatshop]

Identifier pylons to mark things. Auto shops use them to mark service numbers on cars waiting to get worked on, can be used to identify truck vans with BOL, what ever you wish to identify with a number that is non marring and non permeant.

lg
no neat sig line

Thanks Larry. I may just take the magnets from them.

 

[john.k]

Auto shops used to put them on car roofs ..............The local Ford dealers service guys used to do huge burnouts and smoking u turns anytime they got a 2 door ...right outside my house ..........i told the service manage ,and he's "No Way ".........so I gave him the bucket full of the plastic numbers with Bryn Burt Ford printed on them.

 

[four.cycle]

^ car lot markers.

you were never a lot boy?

 

[Mike'smeatshop]

^ car lot markers.

you were never a lot boy?

No. Thats a new one for me. Never even seen such.

 

[john.k]

After I told the service manager,I never saw another Ford road tested outside my house ...........he must have roasted the guys ...........everyone who has worked in a dealership has good stories ...........like customer cars crashed on the weekend ............or customer cars returned with 500 miles extra on the clock.

 

[ConductorChris]

What are these pliers for / used for?
Gray 886

 

[PCustoms]

What are these pliers for / used for?
Gray 886

They're great for starting a new thread

 

[cvairwerks]

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Hose clamp pliers.

 

[Modern Garage]

Mine are labeled K-D. Are the Gray model Canadian?
Just for a little explanation: these are used for removing and installing the spring hose clamps made of one piece of bent wire (I can't find a photo right now) that were popular on cars in the sixties thru the eighties. The tails of the clamp grabbed by the pliers are straight tabs of the clamp wire hence the notched jaws on the pliers. The jaws rotate to use two different sizes for fule lines or radiator hoses and also to allow access in smaller areas. If you're careful they can be used on flat spring clamps too.
Joe

 

[Old Man Roger]

Mine are labeled K-D. Are the Gray model Canadian?
Just for a little explanation: these are used for removing and installing the spring hose clamps made of one piece of bent wire (I can't find a photo right now) that were popular on cars in the sixties thru the eighties. The tails of the clamp grabbed by the pliers are straight tabs of the clamp wire hence the notched jaws on the pliers. The jaws rotate to use two different sizes for fule lines or radiator hoses and also to allow access in smaller areas. If you're careful they can be used on flat spring clamps too.
Joe

 

[ConductorChris]

Mine are labeled K-D. Are the Gray model Canadian?
Just for a little explanation: these are used for removing and installing the spring hose clamps made of one piece of bent wire (I can't find a photo right now) that were popular on cars in the sixties thru the eighties. The tails of the clamp grabbed by the pliers are straight tabs of the clamp wire hence the notched jaws on the pliers. The jaws rotate to use two different sizes for fule lines or radiator hoses and also to allow access in smaller areas. If you're careful they can be used on flat spring clamps too.
Joe

Yes, mine are in Canada (Gray Tools is a Canadian manufacturer)
Thanks a lot. I have a vintage Mercedes that I believe has hose clamps like Old Man Roger posted. Maybe they will have some further service.

 

[Modern Garage]

Thanks Old Man Roger, the pliers will work on the flat ones like you pictured but they were made for the round wire clamps.
I can't load a picture from this computer Chris, but if you search "Corbin clamp" you'll see it.
I have a warm place in my heart for Gray tools after my water pump failed on a trip to Winnipeg. I still have the wrenches I bought there to replace the pump on the '68 Buick. Good stuff.
Joe

 

[Mintgrun]

 

[ConductorChris]

Thanks Old Man Roger, the pliers will work on the flat ones like you pictured but they were made for the round wire clamps.
I can't load a picture from this computer Chris, but if you search "Corbin clamp" you'll see it.
I have a warm place in my heart for Gray tools after my water pump failed on a trip to Winnipeg. I still have the wrenches I bought there to replace the pump on the '68 Buick. Good stuff.
Joe

I collect Snapon tools, but all the fillers are Gray (they are very good as well). They are typically sold to industry and not really retail anywhere I am aware of.

 

[Milton Shaw]

GE washers from the 50's used them on some of the hoses but the worst ones they used were on the flex drive coupling that connected the motor to the pump assembly. The flex coupling was a flat piece of rubberized fabric with slots that had to be held around the circular hub on the pump and motor and then that clamp slid over the fabric and hub with the fabric evenly on the hub. Later models did away with that coupling thank goodness, they were about a 30 minute install just on those two clamps. Those Corbin clamps were a self tightening hose clamp as the rubber hose aged the clamp kept the tension enough to keep from leaking. The Ideal screw type clamp had to be tightened occasionally to keep from leaking. The current flat type clamps keep the tension on things also.

 

[ConductorChris]

Have a new what is it. Came in a box of 1/2 sockets from an estate sale. Previous owner was supposedly a heavy duty mechanic.
It is two sided, fits a half inch socket on either side. Thinking it might be for removing a bung of some sort.

 

[Private Lugnutz]

Or drain plugs.

 

[Old Man Roger]

Or fill plugs