Pieces of steel in cylinder??

The one righty tighty is using is for on the car use. Yellow Rose, your's looks handy for home made. I have a Lisle 16750 for on the car use. (set it once and it works for all) and a 44300 for on the bench. I always wanted one for rocker shafts but with those you have to remove the shafts anyway and use a dummy shaft or unload the original shaft.

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I have two of the big c clamp style like your second picture, but they are OLD and HEAVY and work very well. I won't buy anything like that new because it's all junk.