Yes, hog hide scrapers. When butchering a hog, these were used to scrape the hair off the hide. As a child I have eaten my fair share of cracklins, sometimes you get one with a stiff hair still attached.....lol
Guess what this is for, weird tool
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Treblig
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Down here we call cracklins, "Chicharones".
mopar head
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Up here I call em NOPE
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Correct, used for scraping the hair off hogs before butchering. That is if your keeping the skin for baking or frying.
If you’re in this business you will know what this is for. If not give it your best guess.
Leather tool or maybe a tire awl?
Ddaddy
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Anyone want to guess what these tools are for?
Treblig
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Alignment tool...and I'm not talking about front end alignment.
Ddaddy
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For one specific kind of part...
Glass tube cutter.....I wish to hell I knew what this thing does. Its adjustable like a compass by moving the whatsit up and down and has a glass cutter like wheel on the bottom. Then it has the up and down thingy too with inch increments.
That's what I thought. Now I have to ask why? And why adjustable length? Who would buy this? Maybe a chemist or pharmacist? It seems kind of old.
Maybe both...maybe someone with the skills to make his/her own laser...
They still make the tool.
They still make the tool.
Too easy!
More research has me believing the person most likely to own the tool would be a plumber who works on boilers. They have sight tubes for the water level that probably get broken a lot.
Post #131 is the item in question. It is easy for you since I know what you do for a living. That's unless you retired. I'll bet you have one on your work truck too. Craig
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Thats for removing a gum ball. Not sure about the other thing.
Glade you took the time to research this.
Ddaddy
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I actually have one of those tools. My grandfather used it to cut sight glasses when he was building ships and submarines for the Navy in WWII.
We also had them in the glass shop at DuPont when I first started working there to cut glass tubing to length for custom made glass reaction/distillation equipment for the research labs.
Post 131. Still stumped. Give up?
I know exactly what they are, I just used some on my car. I don't want to be a spoiler
I actually don't know what this is. Cleaned out my dad's shop and this came home with me.
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