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What's-It Forum => What's-It Forum => Topic started by: blackoak on November 04, 2018, 11:03:43 AM

Title: Lufkin tool
Post by: blackoak on November 04, 2018, 11:03:43 AM

Got this in a box of goodies from a local auction. It is marked Lufkin so I assume it has something to do with use with a tape measure, but how and why. Only one of the arms is moveable
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Title: Re: Lufkin tool
Post by: lptools on November 04, 2018, 11:18:32 AM

Hello, Blackoak. That is most likely a Lufkin N0. 584 Clamp Handle. Regards, Lou

Title: Re: Lufkin tool
Post by: blackoak on November 04, 2018, 12:43:40 PM

That is it. I guess it is for gripping the steel tape for pulling it out for your measurement

Title: Re: Lufkin tool
Post by: oldgoaly on November 04, 2018, 01:38:42 PM

maybe a helping hand for those long 50-100 foot tapes?

Title: Re: Lufkin tool
Post by: gibsontool on November 04, 2018, 02:03:32 PM

I have a couple of those around here some place. Now I finally know what they are for.

Title: Re: Lufkin tool
Post by: Yadda on November 04, 2018, 02:07:42 PM

Neat gizmo!

Title: Re: Lufkin tool
Post by: J.A.F.E. on November 05, 2018, 03:53:52 AM

They are still available but you might want to sit down before pricing one.

https://www.industrialhardware.com/584-037103453143-up.html

Title: Re: Lufkin tool
Post by: Northwoods on November 05, 2018, 08:28:09 AM

Holy cow! 
It would only make sense to have one if you were working production and used it all day long.

Title: Re: Lufkin tool
Post by: Bill Houghton on November 05, 2018, 08:53:38 AM

For a good deal less, you could get any number of soft-jaw quick-release clamps that would do the work.

Title: Re: Lufkin tool
Post by: Redneck Albertan on November 05, 2018, 09:05:34 AM

In a past life I was a surveyor. We used those clamps to hold on to the chain (steel tape). The chainman at the front used the tension handle to put the proper tension on the chain so the measurement was accurate. Now everything is done electronically.