another "what might this be"

[ChipsAhoy]

Got this in a box of junk at a garage sale..anybody know what it is for?

 

[MarkStephen]

Google can be your friend - http://www.autotoolworld.com/Ajax-Tools-690-Cotter-Pin-Remover_p_123040.html

Now, just "how" one uses it...

Mark

 

[GarageGuy]

I must have been doing it wrong all these years. I always use a needle nose pliers for removing (and installing) cotter pins. I never really needed anything else. :biggrin:

GG

 

[darkzero]

Damn, how big are the cotter pins? :rofl:

Same here, I've always used needle nose pliers when I worked in automotive.

 

[Tony Wells]

Well, they do get a little bigger than what we find on passenger vehicles. Think mining equipment, power generation, other heavy industry. I believe they make the regular split cotter pin up to about 3/4 x 8" or so. I have seen them 1/2 x 4", and needle nosed pliers would be no help there.

 

[ChipsAhoy]

Google can be your friend - http://www.autotoolworld.com/Ajax-Tools-690-Cotter-Pin-Remover_p_123040.html

Now, just "how" one uses it...

Mark

WOW!!, that's gotta be for some monster cotter pins!! Must be for big machinery, Dozers, farm equipment, perhaps Locomotives. The point is about 3/16" dia. Anyways, it's just ballast for me.

Scotty

 

[CoopVA]

That be a great paper weight...


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[kd4gij]

here is a chart . I make parts for draglines. I have seen a 3/4" cotterpin. We are making a 38" sheaves for 1 1/2 cable the pin is 8" dia made a bronze bushing 8 1/2 od 8" id 3 1/2" long.

 

[Waldo1]

While I would never "lie" to someone about it, I would probably go out of my way to help that chunk of ballast become more interesting. Go find a decent piece of light colored wood or sand and stain a nice square of plywood suitable for shop-display. Oil up and mount the tool onto that board. Go to the nearest 'Things Remembered' shop at the mall or send out to have a small brass plate engraved, "c. 1830's Machinist-Apprentice Butt Hook". Mount the plate onto the board and mount the board onto a wall of your shop at about eye-level. See what questions it generates. Be creative with your answers. Have fun. Its the holiday season.

 

[GarageGuy]

Well, they do get a little bigger than what we find on passenger vehicles. Think mining equipment, power generation, other heavy industry. I believe they make the regular split cotter pin up to about 3/4 x 8" or so. I have seen them 1/2 x 4", and needle nosed pliers would be no help there.

I would think a proportionally larger needle nose pliers might work just as well :roflmao:
You know... about 4 ft long or so.

GG