This grabbed me at the pawn this morning. I kept looking at it and scraping it to see a maker. The pawnie said something like "Hey Noel!, you might scrape the price off!" He knows me well, so I know he was kidding, and it had no price on it anyway. I told him not to worry because I was going to buy it no matter what.
His question as to why, was answered by "Because I don't know what it is!"
There was another regular customer of his there and he didn't have a clue either. We were introduced, and later we went to his house, where he gave me a Thorsen #1114 14-15MM DOE, and a Bonney #MEB18, an 18MM Combo. Future trade in the making.

This is an interesting tool-
Black plastic handle, 7 3/8" OAL, a hexagonal(Thanks LG!) shaft with a 1/2" tip added on, a 1/2" diameter wheel fixed on the end. No maker's marks at all.

Quote from: Papaw on January 26, 2012, 01:17:53 PM
pentagonal shaft...

It looks six-sided to me!

Either way, I have no clue...

Dang it! I forgot how to count!

I think it's a tool for removing glaziers putty around windows, just a WAG.

Keykeeper is very very close....

The hexagonal shaft is not important...

It is a glaziers tool....

It is for something very particular....

Something you have driven by every day.....

Perhaps something you rode in as a kid....

Dammit! You're a TEASE!!

>Dammit! You're a TEASE!!

Yup... ; P

Sometimes, when papaws tool isn't the right tool, this one is:

Quote from: keykeeper on January 26, 2012, 02:11:03 PM
I think it's a tool for removing glaziers putty around windows, just a WAG.

For removing putty around windows, you'd use a glazier's chisel or a hack-out knife.  And if you're really careful, a heat gun.  (There were special  tips to use with blow torches for heating old putty, too.)  Utica made the best hack-out knives ever.

With the wheel, it looks to me like this tool was for pressing something into a groove, or lifting something out of a groove.  Screen?  The rubber around car windows?  I've never seen its like.

Even with rusty's clues, I have no idea!

Maybe to spread or smooth out the putty on a window

Quote from: gibsontool on January 27, 2012, 09:25:47 AM
Maybe to spread or smooth out the putty on a window

Nope.  That's what a putty knife is for, especially the angled putty knives, though some professionals use a short bladed putty knife.

thats the tool you carry in your pocket to throw agianst the wall when one of your snap-on wrenches slip and cause skin to transfer
bob w.

Could it be for pressing the little vinyl strip over vinyl screen in aluminum combination screens?

>The rubber around car windows?

That's probably as close as anyone is going to get. They are for the rubber gasket used in bus and truck windows, before the type with a seperate bead that you put in the middle. (The tool in my picture is for the bead type, it slides the rubber bead into the space in the window gasket to lock it into place.

Papaws' tool is for the older stuff, which was made sort of like a zipper, one piece locks into the other , the roller and pin fold the outer piece into the inner piece locking them together.

They were quite common on old school bus windows (winshield, not the slide windows) which is why you may have ridden in the thing that it was used on...
The gasket was also common on bread trucks, construction equipment, cranes etc. We still occasionally fix them, as long as the glass is flat, we can custom cut auto safety glass for replacements.
(Getting the 60 ft crane into the glass shop was a challenge tho)

PS: papaw, if it needs a home, pm me ; P

Rusty, I'll send it to you, but you'll have to show us pictures of how it works!