No One Knows What This Tool Is !??? (Formerly WTFT?)

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After reading all the info/comments so far, I think it is probably a clamp used to grip one or more pieces of wire for twisting. The power bit shank rather insists that it's intended to be spun. I'm thinking that an inexpensive cordless screwdriver would be low enough RPM that the imbalance wouldn't be a problem. Maybe the intended application is jewelry making, to create decorative components. The workpieces could be round, square or ???
 
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extropic said:
After reading all the info/comments so far, I think it is probably a clamp used to grip one or more pieces of wire for twisting. The power bit shank rather insists that it's intended to be spun. I'm thinking that an inexpensive cordless screwdriver would be low enough RPM that the imbalance wouldn't be a problem. Maybe the intended application is jewelry making, to create decorative components. The workpieces could be round, square or ???
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Jewelry making is a very good guess.
 
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All good points. I was into making jewelry for a while and I never saw a tool like this. There are pliers and clamps for drawing wire but they don't look like this. Not to say that answer is wrong.
This tool may be shop made for a specific task so there may be no other tools in existence.
This is very unsatisfying.
So what am I going to do with this?
 
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This may be a step too far, but it occurred to me that once the wires were twisted the rope could be guided back onto the tool nose resulting in a conical form. Just a wild guess.
 
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If that is a thread inside the jaws, rather than grooves, and it's threaded to a blind end (or even through to the clamp pin) the tool could be a chuck to spin threaded studs for assembly.

What are you going to do with it? List it on eBay for $200 (w free shipping) JEWELRY MAKING TOOL, WIRE TWISTING, CONE MAKING
 
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Just for fun, I spun it in the drill press. It unlocks due to centrifugal force at about 500 rpm. So it would tolerate relatively slow speed to twist wire or such. But why would you want to twist one wire?
I like the idea that it is a vise for some object to be made or worked on. This was used commercially since the item it came with had an inventory number and a calibration sticker. What objects would be in production that this could clamp?
 
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I'm not thinking of twisting one piece. Two, three, four . . . like a rope.

If it was actually clamping something, the toggle would survive even more RPM, but I doubt that it is intended to be spun beyond 500 RPM.

Maybe it's a hand vise (not intended to be spun) used to hold something for hand work. The hex shank could be for attaching a generic hex bit driver handle. If the tool maker had a bunch of various types of hand vises, using a single handle could save a bunch of storage space over having a handle on each tool.

I know what to do with it! Send it to @vtcnc and he can add it to the Pass Around Box.
 
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It came with these:
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Obviously indicator holders. I don't know what kind of base the long segmented one attaches to? I may have to make something?
 
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If you get a chance, please post a photo showing the toggle clamp side in profile. I would like to see the pivot arrangement.
 
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