Looks like a handcuff for a guy with only one one arm.
But could also be some sort of clamp. Although not like any I have seen before. Some kind of medical instrument?
Lilliabeth
12:00 am on Mar 4, 2007 (gmt 0)
Hi... it is not medical. not a handcuff
Lilliabeth
12:02 am on Mar 4, 2007 (gmt 0)
Here is a funny pic [good-times.webshots.com] for you though
jecasc
12:05 am on Mar 4, 2007 (gmt 0)
Haha, I love toilet humour.
Ok not medical. But its definetly some sort of clamp, isn't it?
Lilliabeth
12:08 am on Mar 4, 2007 (gmt 0)
No, it is not a clamp. While it does have a clamping action, acting as a clamp is not its purpose.
It is a tool with a single very specific purpose.
Lilliabeth
12:09 am on Mar 4, 2007 (gmt 0)
Here's an interesting pic [entertainment.webshots.com] for fun.
jecasc
12:13 am on Mar 4, 2007 (gmt 0)
Is it a tool used in car manufacturing or car repairing?
Lilliabeth
12:15 am on Mar 4, 2007 (gmt 0)
YES!
It is used for auto repair
Speaking of autos... my car [good-times.webshots.com] in the rain
Lilliabeth
12:16 am on Mar 4, 2007 (gmt 0)
And here is my cat, Reboot [entertainment.webshots.com]
Lilliabeth
12:20 am on Mar 4, 2007 (gmt 0)
This tool is not used for casual car maintenance. But if you rebuilt an engine, it would be surely useful.
Lilliabeth
12:21 am on Mar 4, 2007 (gmt 0)
Did you see the movie Cars? It was groovy!
mack
12:26 am on Mar 4, 2007 (gmt 0)
Some sort of valve spring compressor?
Mack.
Lilliabeth
12:30 am on Mar 4, 2007 (gmt 0)
Mack is so hot.
you know what I mean - your guess is really close.
[edited by: Lilliabeth at 12:30 am (utc) on Mar. 4, 2007]
jecasc
12:30 am on Mar 4, 2007 (gmt 0)
I don't have the slightest idea what one could do with this tool in a car. I thought it looked a little bit like a tire lever.
Ok so it's used to build an engine. Special part of an engine. Plug extractor?
Lilliabeth
12:34 am on Mar 4, 2007 (gmt 0)
It is for internal engine repair.
This tool might be used if the car is oil smoking.
In the movie Cars, they were racing to win the Piston Cup. Ha ha
grandpa
12:35 am on Mar 4, 2007 (gmt 0)
It looks similar to a piston ring groove cleaner.
jecasc
12:35 am on Mar 4, 2007 (gmt 0)
I think I got it. It's an engine hook. You can hook a rope onto the round thing and the other end you attach to the engine and then you can use a rope pulley to lower the engine into the car!
[edited by: jecasc at 12:37 am (utc) on Mar. 4, 2007]
Oh damn. I was doomed from the start. Don't even knew that my piston has a ring.
My cars that is.
phranque
4:58 am on Mar 4, 2007 (gmt 0)
jecasc:
each of your pistons (you probably have 4, 6 or 8, although engines are currently also made with 1,2,5,10&12) would typically have 3 rings - 2 for compression and one to spread and wipe oil on the cylinder walls. the rings sit in grooves that encircle the pistons the cleaner removes the hardened combustion byproducts that collect in the grooves. $33 is a good price for a tool like this from snapon!
