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What is this part (or tool)?
28 October 2007, 09:07
Matt NormanWhat is this part (or tool)?
This part/tool was found on a gunshop counter and been quite the topic of conversation as nobody knows what it is. There had been several guns brought in a day or two earlier from an estate with a wide variety of firearms ranging from the 1860's to WWII. It is thought that maybe it fell out of a guncase while the guns were being appraised.
Anybody recoginize it? The hole is not treaded and the forked end is beveled.
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28 October 2007, 09:40
WestpacIt looks like a spring tool for separating the firing pin spring from it's retainer on something along the lines of a Mod 70 type firing pin. Just slip the tapered forked end between the spring and retainer, force the spring away from the retainer and then remove it. I use a similar looking home made tool during those times when I don't feel like struggling with a heavy spring.
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It looks alot like the decapper for a 209 primered blackpowder cva inline.Ill dig mine out and take a picture.
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not exact but similar
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28 October 2007, 10:50
MacifejWhat are the dimensions?
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28 October 2007, 14:51
Marc_StokeldLooks to me like it belongs inside a drum brake. Was it the North or the South who had drum brakes on their wagons?
28 October 2007, 20:20
GSP7Its a chevy starter motor shim
28 October 2007, 21:06
Westpacquote:
Originally posted by jb:
not exact but similar
Would make a fine spring tool!
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28 October 2007, 21:19
tin canthe south had drum brakes- the north, indoor plumbing.
28 October 2007, 21:30
tiggertateBecause most of the Northern folks had to rent.
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28 October 2007, 22:13
Matt NormanMystery solved. It's a carpet tack puller that was left behind when the new carpeting was installed in the place.
Okay it is for decapping 209 primers from in-line muzzleloaders. None of us old-schoolers that hang out at the place have one of them. This is rather anti-climatic as we were hopeing it was something really exotic and would have some ooohhh-aaaahh factor.
29 October 2007, 04:44
Rub LineHere's a couple more for ya. The first one looks like something I saw in the mining museum in Lead, SD.
The second link has been killing me trying to figure out what the #1 item could be.
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29 October 2007, 20:58
RicochetThe first one is a Roman spear shaft tension adjuster, from the era of Caesar Augustus.
They tuned those things by an early version of the "ladder method," known as the "scale ratio."
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