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A Tool Mystery, fifty years later! (Upd. Model T Radiator thimble!)

A Tool Mystery, fifty years later! (Upd. Model T Radiator thimble!)

  • A Tool Mystery, fifty years later! (Upd. Model T Radiator thimble!)

One of our readers has made it his daily job to browse old car magazines looking for interesting stuff. An occupation we like very much, but in the 1962 Christmas issue of a magazine about antique motorcars he found this puzzle. The clue was that it's a kind of tool that was frequently used in the early days of motoring and that the solution would be given in the next issue. However, the next issue revealed nothing and neither did the others following that one. So, fifty years on, we are stuck with a mystery! Unfortunately we have only this image as no dimensions were given. Please enlighten us by telling what kind of tool this could be?

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domenica agosto 5th, 2012

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Sconosciuto
09 Agosto 2012, 13:33
It's the top half of a 'pop' or 'press' fastener, around a quarter inch across.
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Sconosciuto
07 Agosto 2012, 13:30
It's a part for the Model T radiator mounting, see http://www.snydersantiqueauto.com/4936
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Sconosciuto
07 Agosto 2012, 12:34
May be this was just a joke by the editor?

Not an old tool in the car workshop, but half of a metal button used on the pocket flaps and flies of your jeans...

If so, no wonder that the solution of the puzzle was never published!
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Sconosciuto
06 Agosto 2012, 07:06
Could this be a Wheel puller, similar to this one i found
http://www.oldclassiccar.co.uk/masonwheelpuller.htm
looks like a similar task !
Stuart
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Sconosciuto
06 Agosto 2012, 06:07
It's possible it might be for undoing a hot radiator cap.
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