How does this tool work?
Forum rules
If you need help logging in, or have question about how something works, use the Support forum located here Support Forum
Complete set of Forum Rules Forum Rules
If you need help logging in, or have question about how something works, use the Support forum located here Support Forum
Complete set of Forum Rules Forum Rules
-
Topic author - Posts: 1101
- Joined: Sat Jan 12, 2019 9:24 pm
- First Name: Robert
- Last Name: Govoni
- * REQUIRED* Type and Year of Model Ts owned: 1926 Touring
- Location: Fredericksburg, VA
- MTFCA Number: 32331
- Board Member Since: 2016
How does this tool work?
I picked this tool up a few years back and I'm not sure how to use it. I think it's for spreading open a tire. Does anyone have pictures of how it was used? Says Firestone on it.
-
- Posts: 1710
- Joined: Sun Jan 06, 2019 12:23 pm
- First Name: Jeff
- Last Name: Humble
- * REQUIRED* Type and Year of Model Ts owned: 1926 Canadian built coupe, 1924 TT C-cab, survivor 1924 roadster
- Location: Charlevoix, Mi
- MTFCA Number: 28034
- Board Member Since: 2006
Re: How does this tool work?
Looks like it is for installing tire chains.
-
- Posts: 3923
- Joined: Sun Jan 06, 2019 8:00 pm
- First Name: John
- Last Name: Kuehn
- * REQUIRED* Type and Year of Model Ts owned: 19 Roadster, 21 Touring, 24 Coupe
- Location: Texas
- MTFCA Number: 28924
Re: How does this tool work?
Whatever it is it’s for clamping or pulling something together. Might be for putting on tire chains. Could be for spreading a tire open to put on a vulcanized patch? Or?
-
- Posts: 1443
- Joined: Sun Nov 24, 2019 2:29 pm
- First Name: Ed
- Last Name: Martin
- * REQUIRED* Type and Year of Model Ts owned: 1914 Touring, 1909 Touring
- Location: Idaho
Re: How does this tool work?
Isn’t it for pulling together a jaxon type split rim for a non t?
-
Topic author - Posts: 1101
- Joined: Sat Jan 12, 2019 9:24 pm
- First Name: Robert
- Last Name: Govoni
- * REQUIRED* Type and Year of Model Ts owned: 1926 Touring
- Location: Fredericksburg, VA
- MTFCA Number: 32331
- Board Member Since: 2016
Re: How does this tool work?
OK we have several guesses. Anyone have one?
-
- Posts: 3923
- Joined: Sun Jan 06, 2019 8:00 pm
- First Name: John
- Last Name: Kuehn
- * REQUIRED* Type and Year of Model Ts owned: 19 Roadster, 21 Touring, 24 Coupe
- Location: Texas
- MTFCA Number: 28924
Re: How does this tool work?
Well if it says Firestone that’s a clue it might have used for tires.
-
- Posts: 1015
- Joined: Sun Jan 06, 2019 3:36 pm
- First Name: Adrian
- Last Name: Whiteman
- * REQUIRED* Type and Year of Model Ts owned: 1926 TT, 1924 Colonial Roadster, 1924 'Bullnose' Morris, 1925 'Bullnose' Morris, 1936 JD AR
- Location: South Island, New Zealand
Re: How does this tool work?
Looks a lot like a tool for drawing chains tight on the tires. See this 'Marvel' tool: https://mtfca.com/phpBB3/app.php/gallery/image/2340
-
- Posts: 3327
- Joined: Sun Jan 06, 2019 10:56 am
- First Name: Dan
- Last Name: Treace
- * REQUIRED* Type and Year of Model Ts owned: '23 cutoff, '25 touring, '27 touring
- Location: North Central FL
- MTFCA Number: 4838
- MTFCI Number: 115
- Board Member Since: 2000
- Contact:
Re: How does this tool work?
May be a fork lever for removing tire lugs. Early larger rim clincher tires used these lugs to help hold the tire on, the lug passes through the felloe.
Since Firestone made all sorts of tire apparatus, could be a special design like the forked tool on this 1913 catalog page.
Since Firestone made all sorts of tire apparatus, could be a special design like the forked tool on this 1913 catalog page.
The best way is always the simplest. The attics of the world are cluttered up with complicated failures. Henry Ford
Don’t find fault, find a remedy; anybody can complain. Henry Ford
Don’t find fault, find a remedy; anybody can complain. Henry Ford
-
- Posts: 5460
- Joined: Tue Jan 08, 2019 4:56 pm
- First Name: Frank
- Last Name: Brandi
- * REQUIRED* Type and Year of Model Ts owned: Speedster (1919 w 1926)
- Location: Moline IL
- Board Member Since: 2018
Re: How does this tool work?
I believe the FIRESTONE stamping is misleading since it is not the correct script for the tire manufacturers brand. It may just be a strap puller, maybe to remove an oil filter
The past is a great place and I don't want to erase it or to regret it, but I don't want to be its prisoner either.
Mick Jagger
Mick Jagger
-
- Posts: 3923
- Joined: Sun Jan 06, 2019 8:00 pm
- First Name: John
- Last Name: Kuehn
- * REQUIRED* Type and Year of Model Ts owned: 19 Roadster, 21 Touring, 24 Coupe
- Location: Texas
- MTFCA Number: 28924
Re: How does this tool work?
Did a internet search and found that Firestone made several different kinds of tools and most have a Firestone scripted name on them but not all. They made tool sets and they had a catalog for their tools. The catalog was mentioned by a guy on a site called garage journal that has followers and tool collectors. I didn’t know they had a division that was tool dedicated but I guess they did for a good while.
But nothing about the tool that’s in question on this post. And the script wasn’t always the same but close it seems. Not many in block letters so ????
But nothing about the tool that’s in question on this post. And the script wasn’t always the same but close it seems. Not many in block letters so ????
-
Topic author - Posts: 1101
- Joined: Sat Jan 12, 2019 9:24 pm
- First Name: Robert
- Last Name: Govoni
- * REQUIRED* Type and Year of Model Ts owned: 1926 Touring
- Location: Fredericksburg, VA
- MTFCA Number: 32331
- Board Member Since: 2016
Re: How does this tool work?
Wow! I can't believe I found a tool that no-one has seen before. Firestone knock off? It does look like it's for pulling something.
-
- Posts: 1302
- Joined: Mon Jan 07, 2019 2:42 pm
- First Name: Frank
- Last Name: van Ekeren
- * REQUIRED* Type and Year of Model Ts owned: 1916 touring, 1916 pick-up, 1924 coupe, 1926 touring, 1927 touring
- Location: Rosedale Vic Australia
Re: How does this tool work?
Some 50+ years ago when I started work in the motor trade, the shop had a tool looking the same, to tighten a strap/chain around the circumference of tubeless tires to seal the bead while inflating.
-
- Posts: 6815
- Joined: Fri Jan 04, 2019 10:51 am
- First Name: Richard
- Last Name: Eagle
- * REQUIRED* Type and Year of Model Ts owned: 1909 TR 1914 TR 1915 Rd 1920 Spdstr 1922 Coupe 1925 Tudor
- Location: Idaho Falls, ID
- MTFCA Number: 1219
- Contact:
Re: How does this tool work?
Congratulations Robert. It's a dubious honor indeed.
This may be a similar tool.
This may be a similar tool.
When did I do that?