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Title: Double Alligator w/balls????
Post by: crankshaftdan II on June 06, 2011, 01:03:43 PM

Don't have  any idea on this  one-kinda cutesy when you do a double take on the back side???..........Cranky---semi-promised to one member-pending confirmation.

Title: Re: Double Alligator w/balls????
Post by: lzenglish on June 06, 2011, 04:12:41 PM

Can you show us a picture of it?

Wayne

Title: Re: Double Alligator w/balls????
Post by: eddie hudson on June 06, 2011, 04:17:00 PM

I was just going to say the same thing.

Title: Re: Double Alligator w/balls????
Post by: Papaw on June 06, 2011, 04:24:17 PM

Just send it to me, I'll show them a picture!
Kidding a bit- please show it to us first.

Title: Re: Double Alligator w/balls????
Post by: crankshaftdan II on June 06, 2011, 08:55:17 PM

Quote from: Papaw on June 06, 2011, 04:24:17 PM

Just send it to me, I'll show them a picture!
Kidding a bit- please show it to us first.

Title: Re: Double Alligator w/balls????
Post by: crankshaftdan II on June 06, 2011, 09:46:24 PM

OK

Title: Re: Double Alligator w/balls????
Post by: Papaw on June 06, 2011, 10:02:01 PM

I've never seen that configuration. COOL!!
You know what to do with it, right?

PM headed your way.

Title: Re: Double Alligator w/balls????
Post by: crankshaftdan II on June 06, 2011, 10:45:04 PM

The more that I look at it-it might have been made as a promotional item/giveaway-but no name anywhere on it and the "Balls" might have been used as a knife/scissors sharpener???    Cranky

Title: Re: Double Alligator w/balls????
Post by: Dustin21 on June 06, 2011, 10:52:47 PM

..... am i the only one who did a double take  at the   thread title and  the pics... pllease tell me  im not the only one....



 thats a nice looking wrench btw

Title: Re: Double Alligator w/balls????
Post by: Papaw on June 06, 2011, 11:16:31 PM

No, Dustin, you are not alone.

Since those small alligators were used on small pipe and tubing, I'm guessing that is a tubing cutter.

Title: Re: Double Alligator w/balls????
Post by: lzenglish on June 07, 2011, 07:32:24 AM

Quote from: Papaw on June 06, 2011, 11:16:31 PM

No, Dustin, you are not alone.

Since those small alligators were used on small pipe and tubing, I'm guessing that is a tubing cutter.

I doubt very much if that is a tubing cutter. I would have to go with a knife sharpener from the looks of it.

Wayne

Title: Re: Double Alligator w/balls????
Post by: keykeeper on June 07, 2011, 04:09:19 PM

+1 on the knife sharpener. Don't see how those could cut tubing.

Title: Re: Double Alligator w/balls????
Post by: Papaw on June 09, 2011, 01:49:49 PM

My WAG was off the mark.
The tool is in my possession, and it is certainly a knife sharpener. I have tested it and it works well. Wonder what material the round discs are? Not carborundum or some such, they look and feel like steel.

Title: Re: Double Alligator w/balls????
Post by: crankshaftdan II on June 10, 2011, 04:41:57 PM

Note the material on the end's!

Title: Re: Double Alligator w/balls????
Post by: anglesmith on June 10, 2011, 10:50:53 PM

Is this A kitchen tool! Is the alligator end big enough  for taking off screw lids? Any idea of vintage?
Graeme

Title: Re: Double Alligator w/balls????
Post by: Papaw on June 10, 2011, 11:27:54 PM

The alligator end is only 7/8" wide at the widest, and the whole tool is only 4 1/2" long.
No markings at all, and no idea of vintage. The rivets don't look like anything old, and and are steel, as are the "rollers", that don't roll.

Title: Re: Double Alligator w/balls????
Post by: anglesmith on June 11, 2011, 01:12:07 AM

I think it's escaped being a kitchen tool, but it is still a strange combinatio! Good thing we like trying to solve mysterys.
Graeme

Title: Re: Double Alligator w/balls????
Post by: Branson on June 11, 2011, 07:17:37 AM

Quote from: anglesmith on June 10, 2011, 10:50:53 PM

Is this A kitchen tool! Is the alligator end big enough  for taking off screw lids? Any idea of vintage?
Graeme

I think it is a kitchen tool, or a bar-tender's tool.  I have a similar piece (without the knife sharpener)
marked Early Times Whisky that looks like the alligator end is for cutting the foil around the cork
to open the bottle.  The other end on mine is a bottle opener.