Identify Another Tool

Brian G. NY

Well-known Member
I have seen these occasionally over the years and always wondered what they were. I was able to buy this one at a garage sale today for 2 bucks.
I have way (way) too many tools now but when I find one I don't already have (and it's cheap) I just can't resist.
This is a "PLOMB", one of the really good names from the past.
It is 26" long.
Although I don't know it's real purpose, I am sure I will use it for a multitude of purposes for which it was not designed as I do with my favorite tool, the cotter pin remover.
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That wouldn't be a tile chipper, to break out bits of concrete or clay drainage tile when you make connections? Little fancier than the ones I've
seen.

Paul
 
It's real close to a pickle fork for tie rod
ends , but they don't have the ridges inside.
Does it have a P/N on the handle ? You can look
in "Alloy Artifacts " They have tons of tool
info ...
 
Years ago, when I worked in a gas station, we had a tool that was similar to that. It was used to open up leaf springs so they could be greased. Only one customer insisted that I use it on his old International pickup when I serviced it. I'd pry the leafs apart, using whichever end that worked best, and swab gun grease between the leafs. I think I got more grease on me than the truck. . .
 
I don't know if it was meant for the purpose but we used to have one almost exactly like that in a tire shop where I worked.
Used it for straightning out bent wheel rims.
 
(quoted from post at 04:27:08 06/20/15) Years ago, when I worked in a gas station, we had a tool that was similar to that. It was used to open up leaf springs so they could be greased. Only one customer insisted that I use it on his old International pickup when I serviced it. I'd pry the leafs apart, using whichever end that worked best, and swab gun grease between the leafs. I think I got more grease on me than the truck. . .

PJ,
I took Dalex's advice and looked up Plomb #2110.........Bingo......
you were right on! I have seen them a few times over the years
and today I know what it is.
Thank you guys!

http://www.worthpoint.com/worthopedia/plomb-tool-2110-grease-bar-serrated-442287573
 
It was used to open up leaf springs so they could be greased. The old trucks had grease fittings on all of the spring pivot points, and it must have been common to also force the leafs apart and swab grease between them. In the modern world, it seems like a nasty waste of time, but the station where I worked was opened about 1934, and that tool was still in the tool bin in the sixties. As I said below, I only used it on one old red International flatbed pickup. The station owner would save a nearly empty grease bucket when the pumper started sucking air. I'd use a paint stirrer stick and smear the grease from the bucket to the springs. A nasty mess, in my view, but Mr. Faulkenbury would grin from ear to ear. That old truck must have had 50 grease fittings on it, and that old Dutchman made sure I didn't miss a single one. He was a good old man, but he made sure he got his money's worth on a $1 grease job. In addition to making sure I found the fittings, he told me when to stop pumping on each fitting. There were no dust boots on that old truck. I shot the clutch linkage one cold morning, and it blew the guts out of both ends of the pivot assembly. If a little is good, a lot is better (if you don't mind the mess). Good memories of a good old man and his truck.
 

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