Re: [CR]tool identification, please

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Date: Sat, 08 Nov 2008 11:51:22 -0600
Organization: The Crimson Permanent Assurance
To: Tom Hayes <hayesbikes@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [CR]tool identification, please
References: <779093150811080914t63dac7e0j8f381d09f9f13bd6@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <779093150811080914t63dac7e0j8f381d09f9f13bd6@mail.gmail.com>
From: "John Thompson" <johndthompson@gmail.com>
cc: CLASSIC RENDEZVOUS <classicrendezvous@bikelist.org>

Tom Hayes wrote:
> I recently purchased a number of tools from a list member. One of the
> tools, shown at this site:
>
> http://www.wooljersey.com/gallery/hayesbikes/unidentified/
>
> I cannot figure out what it is used for, if indeed it is bicycle tool. I
> appears to be the kind of tool used for pulling cranks after you have
> stripped the threads on the inside of the crankbolt hole. The t-handled
> bolt appears to thread into a "normal" crankbolt hole, but the two jaw like
> pieces have nothing to grab onto. The jaw devices do not move close enough
> to each other to latch onto the back of the left arm, nor do they separate
> far enough from each other to slide behind a chainwheel. Perhaps the tool
> is not designed for bicycles; after all, I one time asked for tool
> identification when Jamie Swan informed me that it was used for skate
> sharpening, and me coming from Minnesota. But if anyone recognizes the
> tool, I would appreciate him or her telling me what it is. It does appear
> to be a tool for removing something by forcing the bolt against whatever the
> jaws have secured and the long handle allowing leverage to yank it off. It
> also does not have a manufacturer's identification on it.

Perhaps a tool for disassembling threaded cogs on freewheels, as in the old design Regina freewheels?

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-John Thompson (john@os2.dhs.org)
Appleton WI USA