What is the Function of This Old Tool?
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rmc115
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It is a finger pincher?
fury9
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It's an early style right angle drill, complete with the belt buckle mounting bracket.
Shadowdog500
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Like to see the working end before saying for sure, but my first guess is a corn husker!
Chris
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In The Doghouse
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How about this? This shows more how it would be orientated during usage. I'll go take some more photos.
Update: Photos added.
You can see that there is a series of gearing that turns a spindle with a square hole inside the wooden bore. This should be easy now.
Update: Photos added.
You can see that there is a series of gearing that turns a spindle with a square hole inside the wooden bore. This should be easy now.
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Erampu
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Would it have been used in the early days of the **** film industry?
fury9
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I just spit out some beer!!! It's gotta be a ******** or something!
Shadowdog500
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In The Doghouse
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Yikes! That's not what I thought. More photos were loaded in the above post.
BearCuda
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With that square hole, is that the earliest ratchet known?
Shadowdog500
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Ok, it is a drill!
You going to do like mr Pete and show us a video of it in use after we guess?
Chris
You going to do like mr Pete and show us a video of it in use after we guess?
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Bingo! I believe you are correct. The old fashioned drill bits with square tapered ends could fit into the bored end. The flat end might rest against your belly, hold the ***** lookin' device (I can't believe you said that) with your left hand, and crank with your right hand.
It won't turn now, but looks like it will clean up easily. I don't have time to clean it up right now, but will put it in queue for later. What colors should it be painted?
sasquatch12
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That is ONE INTERESTING TOOL !! (I'm looking forward to to an ID of this! )
Really a drill?
Really a drill?
OP
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Actually you were the first correct answer. Sorry I missed your response earlier. Do you know of any web sites with info? Interested too in the belt buckle mounting bracket.
Or maybe it is an egg beater......
sasquatch12
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Don't paint it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Yuk!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Looks like an old hand crank drill.
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So I should just clean it up and leave all the patina there? I want to clean and oil and see how fast it will spin.
doesn't sound quite right to me. I don't know but it's clear that the square recessed spindle spins much faster than the crank. the iron base looks to me like it's meant to be mounted. The crank throw is so long you'd bank into your hip with every revolution if you tried to brace that base against your belly. I'm guessing it's for something like twisting rope or string - something that would require high rpm but low torque. Think of the early hand drills. Brace and bit - very high torque, very low rpm. Even the eggbeaters had nothing like the gear-up ratio this thing looksto have.
Just trying to fit a function to the form. I'd love to hear from someone who actually remembers. (Do we have any Senior members who are that Senior?)
I don't think I'd paint it, but if you must, natural for the handle, Colonial Red for the wooden body, black with gold pinstriping for the cast iron.
Just trying to fit a function to the form. I'd love to hear from someone who actually remembers. (Do we have any Senior members who are that Senior?)
I don't think I'd paint it, but if you must, natural for the handle, Colonial Red for the wooden body, black with gold pinstriping for the cast iron.
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sasquatch12
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Paint it, and you will have lost at least two thirds of it's value.
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thundermug
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If you were to bolt it to a table top or post it would give a little more frame of reference. I'm guessing either a post drill or cheese grater. Or a turtle sheller. Maybe a cat skinner? Eyelash trimmer. Nope. Back hair braider.
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In The Doghouse
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It presents no logical place to bolt it anywhere. I believe it is to be handheld. The other device in question would clamp onto something, but not this one.
I own quite a few of those.... All mine look diffeent to the OP's though.
It has some similarities to an early shearing machine. It is defiantly not a drill but some kind of a high speed rotary devise like a shearing machine.
http://www.urbanremainschicago.com/...-shearing-machine-with-three-legged-base.html
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no neat sig line
http://www.urbanremainschicago.com/...-shearing-machine-with-three-legged-base.html
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no neat sig line
wrenchguy
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very interesting item.
if u want the correct answer u may have to go to tool talk the antique/vintage tool web site.
http://www.papawswrench.com/vboard/index.php
if u want the correct answer u may have to go to tool talk the antique/vintage tool web site.
http://www.papawswrench.com/vboard/index.php