Whatzit do?

[Outlawmws]

I picked this up over the weekend with other tools in a box buy. I don't think its a calking iron, but can't think of anything else it might be fore. The PO was definitely into larger tool and work FWIW, as the 3/4" sockets and breaker attested to (three sockets all above 2"; Oddly the wrenches were in the 1-1-1/2 range...)

1" wide "blade" 3-1/2" long, 9" overall length. looks to be hand forged out of hex stock, and the tip is concave...

Clearly it has been wailed on a few times...

 

[jimindm]

It looks like a bearing race driver. Think about the outer races on packable wheel bearings. Tool used to remove and install them.

 

[Provincial]

I think it is a sort of a caulking iron. Back when they used cast iron pipe for sewer lines, the straight end of a pipe was slipped into the bell at the end of the next pipe. Then a packing was used to fill the gap between the two and a tool like you have was used to tamp the packing solid. The tool is angled to keep the hammer blows away from the pipe.

 

[Rust]

^^^
caulking iron... Plauseable.
No way is that for bearings...at least, I'd never use it for bearings

 

[Flatintoone]

Don't have a photo handy, but I picked up a set of Proto and Plomb tools that look similar to those. If someone has a late Plomb/early Proto catalog, I can look the numbers up when I get home this evening...

 

[Mr.Nutcase]

My brother is plumber i will ask him when he gets back from work

 

[Outlawmws]

Yeah, I'm not thinking caulking iron or driver for bearing races either...

I have a caulking iron somewhere around here, and other than the offest shape, nothing like that. Also FWTW nothing in the tools being sold when I bought it said "plumber" at all not even for home use...

 

[Even 11]

I have a friend that does body work, and he has a few old tools that look something like that. They are lead smoothing tools for smoothing old lead body repairs. I'll send him a link to this and have him check it out.

-Dane

 

[Outlawmws]

I have a friend that does body work, and he has a few old tools that look something like that. They are lead smoothing tools for smoothing old lead body repairs. I'll send him a link to this and have him check it out.

-Dane

Now that one makes some sense for how this thing is shaped! I'll be interested in your friend's opinion.

The calking and bearing race tool didn't, if for no other reason than the "blade" is not curved, and it would want to be curved opposite between either of those...