Whatizit? again...

[Jeff-C175 7,202]

I've had this for years'n'years.  No idea what it's original purpose was.  Obviously a bench clamp, but for what use?

 

 

The flip side has " 103 " cast into the base:

 

[Snoopy11 5,714]

 

Why does it feel... I dunno... 'inappropriate' to say this...

 

Nut cracker?

 

@SylvanLakeWH

 

Don

 

[ebinmaine 67,633]

3 minutes ago, Jeff-C175 said:

bench clamp

Strikes me as more of a hand press that happens to be screwed to a bench or something firm. 

[Jeff-C175 7,202]

3 minutes ago, ebinmaine said:

hand press

 

That's what I've always thought.  I believe, but not certain, that this came out of my FIL's service station that he had in the mid-late 30s.

 

Could be a bearing press maybe?

 

 

[Snoopy11 5,714]

3 minutes ago, Jeff-C175 said:

 

That's what I've always thought.  I believe, but not certain, that this came out of my FIL's service station that he had in the mid-late 30s.

 

Could be a bearing press maybe?

 

 

One of these sold on Etsy, they called it a "screw drive press" ...as if we didn't already know that...

 

 

Don

Edited October 11, 2022 by Snoopy11

[ebinmaine 67,633]

11 minutes ago, Snoopy11 said:

One of these sold on Etsy, they called it a "screw drive press" ...as if we didn't already know that.

No mention of any specific purpose?

[lynnmor 7,308]

There are many uses for a press, for example to squeeze things together till the glue sets up.  I had a very large press that was used to squeeze numerous cigars in their wooden molds. 

[formariz 11,987]

Champion made a vast number of different tools from drill presses to hand tools. Also made many different types of presses. Usually the end is an indication if it’s purpose. That one is just a general use press probably used to press small bearings or metal parts together. 

[Stormin 9,981]

4 minutes ago, lynnmor said:

  I had a very large press that was used to squeeze numerous cigars in their wooden molds. 

 

I make my own cigarettes but it's the first time I've heard of someone making their own cigars. 

[CCW 1,297]

41 minutes ago, formariz said:

Champion made a vast number of different tools from drill presses to hand tools. Also made many different types of presses. Usually the end is an indication if it’s purpose. That one is just a general use press probably used to press small bearings or metal parts together. 

 

Small Bearing press was what I had in mind.

 

[squonk 41,156]

Headache remover for Uncle Fester! 

 

Edited October 11, 2022 by squonk

[lynnmor 7,308]

2 hours ago, Stormin said:

 

I make my own cigarettes but it's the first time I've heard of someone making their own cigars. 

I'm from Red Lion, Pennsylvania, the cigar capital of the world. Numerous folks were engaged in cigar manufacturing, from part time at home to working in the large factories. A little history.

[ebinmaine 67,633]

1 hour ago, squonk said:

Headache remover for Uncle Fester! 

 

 

 

Aaannnndddd.... Solved !!!! 

[Mows4three 826]

Roll you own……..

 

Dave

[pacer 3,173]

Kinda lurking in the back of - whats left - my brain .... I worked in a "filling station" (remember that term??) on week ends around 1954-55 and there was something very similar to that that was used with patching an inner tube. seems there was a tin covered .... material/patch? that was pressed down on the tube and lit with a match and it would flash across the patch area -- vulcanizing? it to the tube. That ring any bells with one of you other old fa##s?

[Jeff-C175 7,202]

2 minutes ago, pacer said:

 lit with a match

 

I remember lighting off the cement, but don't remember a press of any sort.

 

 

[lynnmor 7,308]

25 minutes ago, pacer said:

Kinda lurking in the back of - whats left - my brain .... I worked in a "filling station" (remember that term??) on week ends around 1954-55 and there was something very similar to that that was used with patching an inner tube. seems there was a tin covered .... material/patch? that was pressed down on the tube and lit with a match and it would flash across the patch area -- vulcanizing? it to the tube. That ring any bells with one of you other old fa##s?

I still have the clamp, maybe it will come back someday.

[Handy Don 12,237]

19 minutes ago, pacer said:

Kinda lurking in the back of - whats left - my brain .... I worked in a "filling station" (remember that term??) on week ends around 1954-55 and there was something very similar to that that was used with patching an inner tube. seems there was a tin covered .... material/patch? that was pressed down on the tube and lit with a match and it would flash across the patch area -- vulcanizing? it to the tube. That ring any bells with one of you other old fa##s?

That brain still has more than a few working cells. You got me googling and now I've learned about hot patches! Thanks @pacer

 

The gist of what I found:

The patch has to vulcanize to the tire/tube rubber. Nowadays its a chemical process. But thermal was common for years. 

The patch was clamped down with an extremely hot iron until it bonded.

OR, the patch was clamped between the tire/tube and sealed metal cup filled with flammable stuff. The seal gets punched on the cup and the flammable stuff gets lit with a match.

 

[Stormin 9,981]

7 hours ago, pacer said:

Kinda lurking in the back of - whats left - my brain .... I worked in a "filling station" (remember that term??) on week ends around 1954-55 and there was something very similar to that that was used with patching an inner tube. seems there was a tin covered .... material/patch? that was pressed down on the tube and lit with a match and it would flash across the patch area -- vulcanizing? it to the tube. That ring any bells with one of you other old fa##s?

 

 My father showed me how to vulcanize inner tube patches. We would do it on bicycle and motorcycle tubes. Used a G clamp held in a vice, tin lid and meths.

[953 nut 55,323]

11 hours ago, pacer said:

Kinda lurking in the back of - whats left - my brain .... I worked in a "filling station" (remember that term??) on week ends around 1954-55 and there was something very similar to that that was used with patching an inner tube. seems there was a tin covered .... material/patch? that was pressed down on the tube and lit with a match and it would flash across the patch area -- vulcanizing? it to the tube. That ring any bells with one of you other old fa##s?          I resemble that remark!

The press you are talking about is open on one side and contoured to fit around the sidewall of a tire. They also made smaller ones for innertube repair.      

[pacer 3,173]

 

 

33 minutes ago, 953 nut said:

 

@953 nut  OK, now that I see this version, it IS the one that I am remembering, but I think the previous pic is just another variation to do the patching - maybe larger patches?

 

Geez, that really brought back some old memories. The "filling station" was a 'Conoco' and the owner had an "older" kid (maybe 18-19yrs) to manage the station on week ends, so he was my 'boss' He would designate what I was supposed to do -- so one Sunday he was supposed to have given the restrooms a good cleaning, and he was supposed to tell me to do this .... and he forgot!! Come Mon and boss sees the restrooms hadnt been done he jumps boss #2, and he stammered around and finally says "well, I told that new kid to do them and he didnt!" . I didnt say anything, wouldnt have made any difference, so, didnt have that job very long, but learned at an early age that things like that are quite common.

[ebinmaine 67,633]

32 minutes ago, pacer said:

learned at an early age that things like that are quite common.

Things like that I guess most of us have run into it one time or another over the years.

 

I let those kind of occurrences go from a lot of people for a lot of years but not anymore...

 

I firmly believe that one of the most important moral gauges society lacks nowadays is accountability.

I don't by a long shot go around ratting people out. 

What other folks do or not is their own decision.

When I screw something up I'll tell ya. 

Folks try to put their troubles on me or blame me for something I didn't do or cause they get corrected kindly and quickly.