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What's-It Forum => What's-It Forum => Topic started by: dowdstools on January 30, 2016, 02:41:30 PM

Title: WhatsIt?
Post by: dowdstools on January 30, 2016, 02:41:30 PM

I'm thinking piano tuning tools, but I don't know.

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Title: Re: WhatsIt?
Post by: turnnut on January 30, 2016, 08:33:38 PM

are they carbon scrapers for automobile blocks and heads ???

any name on them ???

Title: Re: WhatsIt?
Post by: bill300d on January 30, 2016, 08:50:33 PM

Goodell Pratt made 3 carbon scrapers nearly identical to those.

Title: Re: WhatsIt?
Post by: dowdstools on August 07, 2016, 01:17:33 PM

ID confirmed. They are carbon scrapers, also called cylinder scrapers, used to remove carbon from the top cavity of an engine cylinder.

Lynn

Title: Re: WhatsIt?
Post by: Bill Houghton on August 07, 2016, 03:45:01 PM

Quote from: dowdstools on August 07, 2016, 01:17:33 PM

ID confirmed. They are carbon scrapers, also called cylinder scrapers, used to remove carbon from the top cavity of an engine cylinder.

Lynn

Something that, back in the days of inefficient engines and lower-quality gasoline, was a regular maintenance item, sometimes as much as every 1,000 miles of use.