What is this tool used for?

[dparker]

To all you intelligent viewers out there:
I found these in my Father in Law's tools and wonder just what they were used for on the farm?

The jaw tips are more like a alligator clip than a vice-grip tip. My guess is something to do with repair welding of farm machinery.
I mounted it in the vice for the picture, but there is a hole in the base to bolt it to a bench.
After all the answers on the setscrew holder I figured I would get some good comments for a Saturday night chuckle here.
don

 

[ksouers]

I think you're right. Some kind of jig to hold parts together for welding/brazing.

Looks like a larger version of a tool used for soldering electronics, often called a third-hand jig.

 

[shred]

Teaching lobsters to semaphore? ;D ;D

 

[rake60]

It looks like an adjustable welding jig to me but shred's post has me thinking.

Can you teach a lobster semaphore?

I don't know, I have never tried to...


Rick

 

[Blogwitch]

A couple of suggestions.

The first, a dentists aid for unruly kids who won't keep their heads still, a vice grip on each ear. Or used the other way, one on the nose and the other on the bottom lip, to keep their mouths open.

or

The village idiot's dance partner.

But I think it could also be used for a welding jig.


Bogs

 

[itowbig]

mechanical lobster haha

 

[Brian Rupnow]

Its an adult one of these (Mine's missing one claw.)

 

[Omnimill]

You could ask the company that made it:

http://www.graysontool.com/ :

Vic.