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Offline Papaw

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Modified to useless
« on: January 14, 2013, 05:46:10 AM »
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Re: Modified to useless
« Reply #1 on: January 14, 2013, 06:14:24 AM »
mAYBE HE WAS A TIN KNOCKER   BOB W.
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Re: Modified to useless
« Reply #2 on: January 14, 2013, 08:45:57 AM »
 See no sign of modification in photo. Would guess tooth straightener for farm implement but don't see need for teeth. Maybe a factory modification of standard alligator for tooth straightening ? No scientific basis for this guess.
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Re: Modified to useless
« Reply #3 on: January 14, 2013, 09:38:43 AM »
I don't see any sign of modification either.  But what you would do with this alligator eludes me.

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Re: Modified to useless
« Reply #4 on: January 14, 2013, 10:07:01 AM »
With PRR stamped on it, I think Bob came close, but not a tin knocker, but a car knocker. I bought a my farmhouse from  Chicago Northwestern carknocker. His most useful tool was a 20 lb hammer. I didn't matter what was wrong with a boxcar, Henry could fix it with his hammer. This tool looks like what he would have used if he needed a little finesse.
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Re: Modified to useless
« Reply #5 on: January 14, 2013, 06:45:18 PM »
We use those in automotive for straightening steel, frame rails, quarter panel lips, you get the idea
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Re: Modified to useless
« Reply #6 on: January 14, 2013, 11:43:09 PM »
Papaw, It has been very well done, but it wouldn't be hard for a "blacksmith" to open that back out, refile the teeth and re-harden and temper (if you wanted it as a user!) It would then be as good as new and only we would know! (I'd volunteer if I wasn't so far away!)
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Re: Modified to useless
« Reply #7 on: January 14, 2013, 11:48:35 PM »
Graeme, I have a couple of them already.
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