What's your Tool IQ?

My late Grandad was a mechanic, and when he passed my dad gave me a couple boxes of his old tools. Most I use, enjoying the fact that I'm building a hot rod with wrenches that have been passed down through two or three generations.

This last weekend I pulled out a number of tools that I'm not familiar with.

So, test your knowledge and show your skills fellow Hambers, what the hell are these?

 

anybody who has ever looked at an old car shop manual knows there was all sorts of crazy tools for stuff in the old days.

 

Some of them look like wood working tools. Did your grandfather do any wood working?

 

A is A drum brake tool
B looks like its off a circular saw, edge guide
L is for circular retaining rings
H looks like its for pulling spark plug boots

I've got a 3/4 drive Williams socket set from my wife's grandpa
Love them old tools

 

that's tape on the far left.

 

D is a thread chaser....

 

I is a piston ring groove cleaneri think.

 

E looks like hog ring pliers

 

I don't know but I would keep "F" a fair distance from my pud.

 

The pictures are too small to figure out what some of them are. Neat stuff....I got about half of them.

 

M looks like an old style wire stripper

 

M looks more like snap ring pliers, I have a set like that with the adjustable stop

 

He did a little of everything, so its entirely possible. I found some large pipe threading tools, and some massive open end wrenches.

Sorry, no cash prize , and I'm not selling any of them. If I cant use them I'll hang them on the wall. I Hate fleabay.

I'll post up a compilation of the answers if we settle on the id, maybe that can help someone else too.

 

A drum brake plies
b skilsaw guide
d thread chaser
e tire chain repair pliers
f piston ring installer
i piston ring groove cleaner
j bushing drivers
l and m snap ring pliers

 

Would have never guessed tire chain repair pliers.

to me K looks like it would hold something like a throwout bearing

 

H is pliers for removing "cee" clips under door and window handle escutcheons to the remove the handles.

 

K reminds me of a tool that i had for removing C/clips from nash & rambler closed drive shafts.

 

A. brake pliers for drum brakes
B. guide for circular saw
H. spark plug wire remover
I.piston ring groove cleaner
J. bushing drivers
L. piston ring spreader

 

A. Brake spring pliers

B. goes on a skill saw to set width of cut.

c. ?

D. May be a pipe cutter

E. Not sure

F. Could be a ring groove cleaner

g. Cutter for cutting circles in plywood or other material.

H. May be valve keeper pliers or hose clamp pliers It's hard to tell by the photo

I. Piston ring groove cleaner

J. Two punches to drive valve guides and a kingpin in the middle used as a punch.

k. You got me on this one.

L. Internal snap ring pliers. I have an identical set and almost anyone who works on automatic transmissions has a set.

m. internal snap ring pliers with a stop screw.

 

A. Brake Spring Pliers!
B. Skil Saw Guide (From others)
C. Circle Scribe
D. Spline or Thread Chaser
E. Snow Chain Pliers (From others)
F. Piston Ring Installer!
G. Circle Scribe
H. Interior Door Clip Pliers!
I. Pistion Ring Groove Cleaner!
J. Seal or Guide Removers/Installers
K. Truck Snow Chain tool (?)
L. Snap Ring Pliers! They will open when squeezed.
M. Snap Ring Pliers! They will open when squeezed.

EDIT UPDATE

 

K is for larger truck type tire chains-a much bigger tool than for passenger ones.

 

You mean F isn't a pud stretcher?? ;>

 

Several of those are metric doorstops.

 

E is for opening and closing repair links for snow chains. Used to use 'em all the time.

 

that's freakin hillarious!

 

What??!!!?? Nobody has I.D.'d the bucket and the dead-blow hammer yet???

And for L. I'd have to go with external snap-ring pliers.

 

So it's a Hamber, too.

Get it? Hammer/Hamber/Thread Chaser...Hahahahahahahahahhaha!!!!!!!

What a "tool" I are.

 

F kinda looks like a speculum that might be used by the KGB.

 

Cheer up! There's worse things you could be..................

 

A. Drum brake service tool.
B. Saw edge guide.
C. ?
D. Spindle thread restorer.
E. Snow chain link pliers.
F. Piston ring groove cleaner.
G. Circle scribe.
H. I think that is a grease cap removal plier.
I. Piston ring groove cleaner.
J. Sioux valve seat pilot bushing
K. Looks like a trim clip removal tool
L. Snap ring pliers. External
M. Snap ring pliers. External