Help us ID this tool

[papawswrench]

I don't think it can be a thread chaser because the toothed cutter blade doesn't line up perpendicular to whatever you clamp in it, nor is it anywhere near the angle it would need to be to chase pipe threads, and how would you turn the tool if the pipe were clamped in it?
I appreciate the guesses, even the wild ones!

[87 STEPPER]

I haven't a clue what that contraption is but when you find out and tell us everyone is gonna say................Man i can't belive i didn't think of that!

Good luck in your tool quest!

Sorry i wasn't much help.

[cdowns]

Originally Posted by papawswrench

I don't think it can be a thread chaser because the toothed cutter blade doesn't line up perpendicular to whatever you clamp in it, nor is it anywhere near the angle it would need to be to chase pipe threads, and how would you turn the tool if the pipe were clamped in it?
I appreciate the guesses, even the wild ones!

well the part that you're thinking off as a clamp has no serrations indicating to me that it is just being used as a centering devise and it in fact should be loose to allow centering alignment and rotation/ and the bolt originally holding the cutting die would hane been a shouldered bolt to allow the die to self align with the pipe threads then having the adjusting screw backed off it would self tension the cutter against the pipewith the handle stightly tilted upward rotate around pipe clean and deburr the threads// if youve got pipe laying around see if the cutter matches the pipe thread i'll bet it does

[papawswrench]

Here are some pics with a bolt in it, one with the cutter aligned parallel, one with the cutter pushed up to the bolt, another with an air fitting to show that it doesn't line up with pipe threads, and one with a standard bolt clamped in. In no case do the cutter blade and the threads line up.
Edit- the cutter blade IS adjustable

[Caveman49]

Whoa! That's quite a mechanism, kool!

Check this video out if I can get it to work... http://s234.photobucket.com/albums/e...rent=retro.flv

[papawswrench]

That's quite a mechanism

Yes, it is, but what does it do?

And the video didn't work for me.

[papawswrench]

OK, I removed the cutter blade and found a size stamped on it- STD .025. That makes sense, since the blade is exactly 1/4", and suggests that other sizes were available. I also recounted the teeth, there are 7 teeth. The extra blade is the same. Here is a pic, though I am not sure you can see it very well.