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Online goodfellow

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Tool fun! Guess the tool --
« on: August 30, 2018, 08:26:30 AM »
Starting the thread with an oddity. Some of these tools were in my old carburetor tool stash, and I added a few more from my grandfather's time. These are interesting little tools -- and quite useful. Marking read Burroughs, along with a patent -- but don't cheat and look up the patent  ;)

Can you guess what this is - better yet what it does?


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Re: Tool fun! Guess the tool --
« Reply #1 on: August 30, 2018, 08:38:15 AM »
wraps around a fitting as a flare wrench and turns with a ratchet or breaker?
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Re: Tool fun! Guess the tool --
« Reply #2 on: August 30, 2018, 09:03:34 AM »
wraps around a fitting as a flare wrench and turns with a ratchet or breaker?

Well that didn't take long -- well done!! yes, it was used to remove line fittings from carbs






Offline Uncle Buck

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Re: Tool fun! Guess the tool --
« Reply #3 on: August 30, 2018, 10:17:25 AM »
Never seen one! Had no clue.
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Re: Tool fun! Guess the tool --
« Reply #4 on: August 30, 2018, 11:03:57 AM »
I never would have guessed either. Thanks for sharing GF.

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Re: Tool fun! Guess the tool --
« Reply #5 on: August 30, 2018, 11:10:50 AM »
I am confused, (again)  if there was room to put that on the fitting, wouldn't there be room to use a regular flare nut wrench?  Have never seen one. 

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Re: Tool fun! Guess the tool --
« Reply #6 on: August 30, 2018, 11:20:02 AM »
I am confused, (again)  if there was room to put that on the fitting, wouldn't there be room to use a regular flare nut wrench?  Have never seen one. 

Yes, there is room for a regular flare nut wrench, but in many instances even the flare nut was not enough to safely remove the fitting without damage. Recall that in the day the carbs were made out of that cheap aluminum alloy and the brass/copper alloy fittings would literally weld themselves into the aluminum alloy. These tools would allow for maximum leverage to be applied to all sides of the fitting, and the harder you pulled the tighter the grip of the tool -- no chance of spreading

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Re: Tool fun! Guess the tool --
« Reply #7 on: August 30, 2018, 11:38:00 AM »
+1 on that GF. Rochester quadrajets were the worst offenders in my humble opinion.

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Re: Tool fun! Guess the tool --
« Reply #8 on: August 30, 2018, 11:39:24 AM »
+1 on that GF. Rochester quadrajets were the worst offenders in my humble opinion.

--- In fact those Burroughs tools were supplied almost exclusively for Rochester carb repair toolkits

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Re: Tool fun! Guess the tool --
« Reply #9 on: August 30, 2018, 12:41:49 PM »
+1 on that GF. Rochester quadrajets were the worst offenders in my humble opinion.

--- In fact those Burroughs tools were supplied almost exclusively for Rochester carb repair toolkits

Even funnier, Rochester carbs have been the only ones I have ever rebuilt! LOL
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Re: Tool fun! Guess the tool --
« Reply #10 on: August 30, 2018, 01:30:25 PM »
 Here's a somewhat unique example of a very common type of tool.
I'd say you may not realize what it is right away if you've never seen them.

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Re: Tool fun! Guess the tool --
« Reply #11 on: August 30, 2018, 03:58:38 PM »
No idea on that one H'nS -- but it certainly looks interesting

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Re: Tool fun! Guess the tool --
« Reply #12 on: August 30, 2018, 05:06:29 PM »
Its not an old or specialty tool and I bought it at the local hardware store, it's just more on the gadget side like say a multiplier.
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Re: Tool fun! Guess the tool --
« Reply #13 on: August 30, 2018, 08:22:24 PM »
Its not an old or specialty tool and I bought it at the local hardware store, it's just more on the gadget side like say a multiplier.

I've seem turning aids (multipliers in your words) for Allen (hex keys) wrenches that were designed to put more torque on the short end of the key/

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Re: Tool fun! Guess the tool --
« Reply #14 on: August 30, 2018, 08:56:06 PM »
Its not an old or specialty tool and I bought it at the local hardware store, it's just more on the gadget side like say a multiplier.

I've seem turning aids (multipliers in your words) for Allen (hex keys) wrenches that were designed to put more torque on the short end of the key/
Its not for hex keys.
I wasn't really dropping clues btw, I was just saying that like a Leatherman multiplier it's not meant to go in a toolbox.
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