What is this? Any Ideas?
What is this? Any Ideas?
(OP)
Hello everyone here is a fun item for you to ponder over. I found this item in a box of old medical instruments. I am not sure what it does and there is a bustle of ideas around my shop as to what its used for. I am not sure if it is in fact a medical device but any ideas would help me out. Thanks and enjoy. Here is a link to the Pics.
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RE: What is this? Any Ideas?
Looks almost like a variable size wrench mechanism. Except it has 4 non-flat sides which means it really can't be one
Possibly some way to clamp around a cylinder for it to be manipulated.
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It is better to have enough ideas for some of them to be wrong, than to be always right by having no ideas at all.
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Mike Halloran
Pembroke Pines, FL, USA
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RE: What is this? Any Ideas?
It looks a lot like a cheap Tap/Die holder. I've got an old cheap one that looks similar to this, being stamped out of sheet metal. Although starting threads without having 2x 180deg opposed handles would be difficult... Possibly for cleaning existing threads? Perhaps it used to remove/install some kind of specialty pushing, punch or die from a machine?