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Title: Any Idea...
Post by: dowdstools on December 11, 2015, 12:00:07 PM
... what I have here? It measures 5 3/8 inches long. The prongs are 2 3/8 inches long. It is marked DUWELL MFD. BY CLARK-HUNTER CO. BOSTON, MASS. PAT. APPLD FOR.

(http://i220.photobucket.com/albums/dd226/lynndowd/thingy1_2.jpg)
(http://i220.photobucket.com/albums/dd226/lynndowd/thingy2.jpg)

Lynn
Title: Re: Any Idea...
Post by: Papaw on December 11, 2015, 12:11:46 PM
Don't know if this will help you but-
Producers of motor driven bench grinders according to The Electric Railway Journal- Volume 57-
https://books.google.com/books?id=ESxLAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA1150&dq=CLARK-HUNTER+CO.&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjOxuOvs9TJAhVE7SYKHaUnCQoQ6AEIRjAE#v=onepage&q=CLARK-HUNTER%20CO.&f=false (https://books.google.com/books?id=ESxLAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA1150&dq=CLARK-HUNTER+CO.&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjOxuOvs9TJAhVE7SYKHaUnCQoQ6AEIRjAE#v=onepage&q=CLARK-HUNTER%20CO.&f=false)

And here- https://books.google.com/books?id=Mm5EAQAAIAAJ&pg=PA1458&dq=CLARK-HUNTER+CO.&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjOxuOvs9TJAhVE7SYKHaUnCQoQ6AEIVTAH#v=onepage&q=CLARK-HUNTER%20CO.&f=false (https://books.google.com/books?id=Mm5EAQAAIAAJ&pg=PA1458&dq=CLARK-HUNTER+CO.&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjOxuOvs9TJAhVE7SYKHaUnCQoQ6AEIVTAH#v=onepage&q=CLARK-HUNTER%20CO.&f=false)
Title: Re: Any Idea...
Post by: dowdstools on December 11, 2015, 12:20:07 PM
Thanks for the links, Papaw. I'm wondering if this is some kind of tool to help maintain the grinders they made. I haven't a clue.

Lynn
Title: Re: Any Idea...
Post by: jefftrin on December 11, 2015, 04:42:04 PM
A dental instrument for people with fork tongues...........all jokes aside I haven't a clue
Title: Re: Any Idea...
Post by: Bill Houghton on December 11, 2015, 06:35:17 PM
What's the opposite of tweezer?
Title: Re: Any Idea...
Post by: bill300d on December 11, 2015, 07:19:47 PM
rezeewt
Title: Re: Any Idea...
Post by: Papaw on December 11, 2015, 10:04:17 PM
Quote
rezeewt
:shocked:
Title: Re: Any Idea...
Post by: Aunt Phil on December 12, 2015, 01:26:17 PM
Quote from: Papaw on December 11, 2015, 10:04:17 PM
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rezeewt
:shocked:

Coulda been worse,
He could have posted the mirror of Tweezer or the inverted.
Title: Re: Any Idea...
Post by: EVILDR235 on December 12, 2015, 01:37:55 PM
Stainless steel earwig robot ? Lobotomy tool ? Pickle fork ? Cocktail weenie fork ?

XXXXXX
Title: Re: Any Idea...
Post by: Northwoods on December 12, 2015, 08:51:02 PM
Two olives, please....
Title: Re: Any Idea...
Post by: Aunt Phil on December 12, 2015, 09:26:25 PM
Special tool for applying leather to gold jewelry pounded out on a tiny anvil with an itty bitty hamer
Title: Re: Any Idea...
Post by: Billman49 on December 13, 2015, 02:43:39 PM
Some sort of reamer or de-burring tool??
Title: Re: Any Idea...
Post by: Chillylulu on December 13, 2015, 03:59:01 PM
Quote from: Aunt Phil on December 12, 2015, 09:26:25 PM
Special tool for applying leather to gold jewelry pounded out on a tiny anvil with an itty bitty hamer
Careful old man, don't start trying to create some kind of anvil envy...

Chilly
Title: Re: Any Idea...
Post by: Aunt Phil on December 13, 2015, 07:50:10 PM
Quote from: Chillylulu on December 13, 2015, 03:59:01 PM
Quote from: Aunt Phil on December 12, 2015, 09:26:25 PM
Special tool for applying leather to gold jewelry pounded out on a tiny anvil with an itty bitty hamer
Careful old man, don't start trying to create some kind of anvil envy...

Chilly

What's to envy?
I got rail in inventory and at least 3 torches.
I even have access to grinders that you sit at and remove everything that don't look like an anvil.
Within minutes I can be sitting in a comfortable chair watching some spark maker turn handles on the grinder cause I might mess it up so he'll grind it for me.  I enjoy being an old fart who don't understand the new machines.
Title: Re: Any Idea...
Post by: Chillylulu on December 14, 2015, 01:15:49 AM
 :grin:
Title: Re: Any Idea...
Post by: oldtools on December 15, 2015, 01:08:52 AM
Maybe a tube holder? spring loaded inside a tube while you heat it, solder, acid wash, etc...
Title: Re: Any Idea...
Post by: amecks on December 15, 2015, 10:24:45 AM
I sent a photo and link to Rob Hartmann of the "What Is It?" blog.  He doesn't know what it is but thanked me for the info.  Maybe he'll post it on the blog.
http://55tools.blogspot.com/ (http://55tools.blogspot.com/)
Al