MWTCA April 2021 'What's It' Project (374)

[John Morris]

"What's It" Basic Rules Reminder

For a full run down on this project and rules please go to: "The Patriot Woodworker and MWTCA "What's It" project"

• Only Patriot Woodworker Members are eligible to participate and receive the award.
• The MWTCA only accepts a verified source to support your answer, so one should be submitted with your answer, such as a patent, catalog entry, tool book reference, or a respectable website on the subject. Do not let these requirements prevent you from having fun and submitting educated answers on the subject without verification, we can worry about references later. All answers are welcome, as well as healthy debates regarding "What's It".
• If a verified and referenced answer is not arrived at by the end of each month's "What's It" project, a random draw will be performed for a "One Year MWTCA Club Membership".
• Only Patriot Woodworker's who participate in this "What's It" topic will be included in the random draw.

 

Additional What's It Rules

• Unless you are completely sure what this item is, please avoid "definitive statements" that appear that you are without a doubt claiming that you know what the item is. For example stating, "this item is called a "widget xx" used for "insert purpose here". If you are making a definitive statement you must accompany your statement with evidence or proof from a secondary source.
• An example of acceptable statements within the realm of having fun and educated guesses would be something like this, "I believe it could be", or "It appears it's made for this or that", etc etc etc...

 

Ok ladies and gentlemen, we now have our "What's it" live and ready!

The image(s) below is a MWTCA "What's It" image for you to research, and tell us all here in this topic post, just what the heck is it!

 

Project Details

The information provided hereon is all the information that is provided, no further information on this item will be added.

 

 

 

 

[AndrewB]

Some sort of clamp.... Looks confused.

[Gerald]

Looks like a device to lock cable ends into a loop. This I think crimps the metal device that holds the cable loop in place.

 

like the device in this video but hand held.

 

Edited April 3, 2021 by Gerald

[steven newman]

That long handle?   Looks more like a spike one can drive into the ground, or into a hole in a Telephone pole....to hold the tool steady, while you use both hands to do the crimping..

 

Like when they had to custom cut guy wires for the poles....either to  the eye bolt in the pole, or the ground anchor....

[HandyDan]

It is a quick release version of a lineman's/person's hot wire grounding clamp.

 

[HandyDan]

OOOOOOR

 

It was used to crimp copper gutters for doll houses.

[John Morris]

 

Winner

@AndrewB has been selected as this months MWTCA Membership recipient.

Since a verifiable answer was never arrived at for this item, we went to "close eyes and point at the computer selection" .

 

Award

Andrew, for your participation you have won a 2021 Calendar Year membership into the MWTCA.

Please Private Message me your contact info, shipping address, spouse or significant others name (if applicable).

Thank you all for your participation!

 

Links

• https://mwtca.org/member-benefits/
• https://mwtca.org/the-gristmill/
• https://mwtca.org/special-publications/

 

Gristmill Magazine Sample

 

[Gerald]

Congrats Andrew enjoy

[AndrewB]

Thanks but I'm a bit confused LOL.

[Gerald]

1 minute ago, AndrewB said:

Thanks but I'm a bit confused LOL.

Maybe your first rodeo in this contest. If no one makes a verifiable guess then a name is drawn for the 1 year membership. You will get a packet with member list and a magazine I think quarterly about old tools . It is some pretty good stuff. By the way you do not have to be even close to win like this , Just Participate. Hope that helps.