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Offline oldgoaly

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Meat tenderizer or ???
« on: February 09, 2018, 09:36:11 AM »
This came with some autobody tools, looks like a meat tenderizer. Most if not all meat tenderizers I have seen are like a hammer.  This is more like a potato masher. Size is about 2" cube.

So how would a handle attach? a slit in the handle end and a wedge?
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Re: Meat tenderizer or ???
« Reply #1 on: February 09, 2018, 09:44:55 AM »
Aluminum?

With the taper a matching metal handle would work.

I'd guess meat tenderizer also.

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Re: Meat tenderizer or ???
« Reply #2 on: February 09, 2018, 10:12:05 AM »
Sorry it's cast iron, the hole looks straight no taper.
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Re: Meat tenderizer or ???
« Reply #3 on: February 09, 2018, 12:08:37 PM »
Possibly one of several tools for the end of a hydraulic ram for straightening auto frame/body parts.  The teeth would keep it in place as pressure is applied.
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Re: Meat tenderizer or ???
« Reply #4 on: February 09, 2018, 12:31:22 PM »
Possibly one of several tools for the end of a hydraulic ram for straightening auto frame/body parts.  The teeth would keep it in place as pressure is applied.
You're taking all the fun out of it, coming up with a reasonable explanation...

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Re: Meat tenderizer or ???
« Reply #5 on: February 09, 2018, 12:47:37 PM »
Possibly one of several tools for the end of a hydraulic ram for straightening auto frame/body parts.  The teeth would keep it in place as pressure is applied.
might be a little small for one of them? I know the 10 ton one are bigger but the smaller 4 ton? got to look got some  old Porter Ferguson stuff around somewhere. I've used the 10 ton port-a-power for holding more building stuff than car/trucks stuff.
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Re: Meat tenderizer or ???
« Reply #6 on: February 09, 2018, 03:11:34 PM »
Well we might jut have a winner!
the hole is the right size! there is a nasty burr inside the hole, so a wooden handle is not going to make that burr but a improperly installed extension could. So will need to clean the hole up and see!
Looks better after being in the phosphoric acid for 20 minutes.
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Re: Meat tenderizer or ???
« Reply #7 on: February 09, 2018, 03:30:22 PM »
You're taking all the fun out of it, coming up with a reasonable explanation...
Ha Ha ...sorry!
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Re: Meat tenderizer or ???
« Reply #8 on: February 15, 2018, 01:55:03 PM »
So I have determined the hole is tapered
large end .800
small end .625
length is 1.360
burr is at .750 deep and not pretty either!
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Re: Meat tenderizer or ???
« Reply #9 on: February 15, 2018, 03:07:35 PM »
Does that handle fit the taper.
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Re: Meat tenderizer or ???
« Reply #10 on: February 15, 2018, 04:06:11 PM »
no it does not fit, I tried it after removing the burr. that is when I figured out it's a taper.

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Re: Meat tenderizer or ???
« Reply #11 on: March 02, 2018, 01:26:35 PM »
Looks like a bushing tool used to scarify concrete before you apply a coating.

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Re: Meat tenderizer or ???
« Reply #12 on: March 02, 2018, 01:36:23 PM »
What kind of a handle would it have had?
the burr in it make it seem like someone tried it as part of a porto-power
wonder if it was cast steel? taper sand core, and it wasn't drilled out?
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Re: Meat tenderizer or ???
« Reply #13 on: March 02, 2018, 01:53:48 PM »
Since it's cast iron, it can't handle impacts very well. So it probably isn't used for concrete work or as a chisel.

Looking at vintage and modern porta-power sets that kind of foot is there. 

Maybe it had an adapter in that set at some time?

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