October 15, 20223 yr "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.
October 16, 20223 yr 11 hours ago, Gerald said: I concur but why the long handle? For control while tightening the nuts.
October 16, 20223 yr 5 hours ago, John Morris said: I feel like we've done this one before? I KNEW I'd seen that picture somewhere!
October 17, 20223 yr 11 hours ago, John Morris said: I feel like we've done this one before? ....had the same feeling but didn't want to spend the time to look.
October 17, 20223 yr 11 hours ago, John Morris said: I can't find it in past What's It. Can't believe it was five years ago.
October 21, 20223 yr On 10/16/2022 at 9:09 AM, John Morris said: Why would the wedge half need to pivot, or swing open? Hmmm So you could fit the tool over a drive chain in place on the sprockets … ?
October 22, 20223 yr 6 hours ago, frenchwwr said: OK, But after you split the nut how would you put a new nut on it? If a chisel is driven halfway through a nut the nut is spread open enough to easily remove without damaging the threads. The nut splitter should never need to be tightened enough to hit the threads of the bolt.
October 22, 20223 yr I know how nut splitters work. My question is, to Ed comment if you have to have to fit it over something to split a nut how do you get a new nut back on?
October 25, 20223 yr This is a weird one. It was made by a guy named John Harm Voss of Downs Kansas. He owned both the grain silos and the John Deere sales and repair shop and apparently dabbled in really odd tool manufacture. Things like a “universal scythe servicer”, “special de-riveting tool”, a “V-1”, and whatever the heck a “CS-2 Universal” is. He never filed any patents for any of these tools that I can find so the specific use of this thing may be lost to history. My personal guess for this one is that it is a crimping tool for a sleeve that goes around a hose connected to a flanged tube. Most likely in some really difficult place to get to an a particular model of John Deere equipment.
November 27, 20223 yr Author Late again, I know guys, late late late! I'll be better for 2023 at making sure we have these monthly on a steady basis, for now though, can we vote for our favorite answer so we can assign October's winner? Thanks!
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