Help identify this

[Peerob]

i am struggling to identify this tool
can anyone help

 

[CarlC]

:lol: ain`t see that tool before :lol:

 

[MrJay]

My guess is it's a hot water bottle opener...

 

[Newbie_Neil]

Hi Peerob

You got caught by our spamulator as you have so few posts.

Welcome to the forum.

Cheers
Neil

 

[RPM]

Hi Peerob.

Welcome to the forum. I can not help but think this maybe plumber related.
It is, of course some sort of spanner. :roll:


http://www.byromsupplies.co.uk/1161.html

I could be wrong?

Not connected to the above website etc....

RPM

 

[OLD]

Could you use it to turn a wing nut (two sizes).

 

[Fecn]

Is it for nibbling bits out of ceramic tiles?

 

[mambo]

i think its for folding over flanges when doing ductwork

 

[Peerob]

I am still stumped!
I have scoured cataloges and see nothing like it

 

[Paul Kierstead]

I think the system got confused.

System: It is a spaNNer, not a spaMMer.

Sheesh, computers.

 

[dennyk]

I have seen a tool similar to this , it must have been in the sixties, about 3 ft long, it was used to raise the edge of chequer plate, enough clearance to get a handhold in order to lift it

Edit If I remember correctly, it was on a job in Liverpool at the GKN warehouse in Netherton a firm was putting in a mezzanine floor to extend their storage facility, I was building racking on top of the mezzanine floor.

Hope this helps

 

[CarlC]

i am struggling to identify this tool
can anyone help

Where did u see it?

 

[greybeard]

No idea what it is, I'll subscribe to the 'wing-nut twiddler' theory for now - cos I could definitely use it for that! In fact I could easily find space for that or a very very close cousin in my 'if all else fails try one of these' toolbox!

Has a certain functional (pleasing to my mind) 'one of many thousand' look about it, so must be a tool that has/had a specific purpose?

 

[MIGNAL]

No idea. The spelling of 'Chrom-vanadium' is foreign. Possibly German?

 

[promhandicam]

I think it is for straightening or bending flat mild steel. I've seen similar tools for straightening rebar. Steve

 

[geoff-oz]

This is a bending iron for twisting orthopaedic DCP plates that are used in the treatment of fractured bones by internal fixation i.e. a metal plate is screwed to the broken bone and to get this plate to conform to the shape of the bone it is bent and twisted with a pair of these. They come in pairs and are Swiss in manufacture

 

[Fecn]

geoff-oz - Welcome to the forum - By jove, I think you've got it

I did some googling and found some more 'orthapedic bending irons'

http://www.gsource.us/catalog.php?family=771

 

[Anonymous]

I wonder if any oethopedic surgeons ever pocket a couple, so they can undo those stiff wing nuts at home :lol: :lol:

 

[promhandicam]

This is a bending iron for twisting orthopaedic DCP plates . . . .

Hi Geoff-oz and welcome. I knew that I'd seen something similar as the orthopaedic workshop at my previous project used a similarly shaped tool for bending the mild steel bar or aluminium bar for making leg braces / calipers. I think they only used one but they were able to hold the other end in a vice - not something that I guess you can do in an operating theatre - although having seen what orthopaedic surgeons have in their 'tool kits' I'm not so sure :roll:

Steve

 

[promhandicam]

I wonder if any oethopedic surgeons ever pocket a couple, so they can undo those stiff wing nuts at home :lol: :lol:

Senior, light fingered orthopaedic surgeons interested in DIY have a large choice of interesting tools to choose from and all in Stainless steel! Here is a small selection :shock:

Hopefully you can see something now :roll: