Hooray! It's time for our collaboration with the ever-awesome What is it? Blog. This week brings us this strange lookin' object. Can you guess what it is for?
Place your guess in the comment section - no prize this week, so you're playing for bragging rights only.
For more clues, check out the What is it? Blog! Good luck!
Update 1/24/09 - the answer is:A tool used to remove carbon deposits from the gooves of a piston, patent number 1,768,692. Text on it reads: "Owatonna Tool Co. #840, Made in Owatonna, Minn. USA".
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Oddly enough he was run over by a tank during military exercises, the corparal-chef who was in comand of the tank was named:....Chespont.
Would've said for cutting branches if the edges weren't dull...... uhm.. so I'll guess....
Tool for handling hot metal pipes? :P
Lew
Lew may also be correct, they could be used to hold the crucible as well.
Can't wait to find out if I'm right!
You, me and just about every male who looked at the picture thought that.
It just looks like tongs you can use for anything you need tongs for: hold something hot, remove a big bullet, deliver a baby, cut of a ball or two, stripping some leaves, pour some acid, pick your nose or a pocket. Great invention, tongs.
i say this is or was the tool... for ... ähem eunuch?