Paco Dennis
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Going through old tools...what are these for?
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Paco Dennis
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The yellow device is to for painting. You screw it on a pole to paint hard angles that are hard to reach... still don't know what the bars are for.
Grampa Don
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- Orange county, Calif.
I don't know what those are but I wonder how many would recognize this tool.
Kika
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A pry bar?
Gaer
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Isn't it a pry bar?I don't know what those are but I wonder how many would recognize this tool.
Paco Dennis
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They certainly look like pry bars but I will do a google image comparison search 
Vintage Craftsman Brake Tool
Kika
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Interesting, but I just noticed that the original photo has the ends facing the same direction, though at different angles. So probably not a pry bar.
Kika
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LOL....I just looked very closely at the photo. the tool has "brake tool" written on it.
I can't tell you the names of them, but the prybar looking thing is for taking up floor tile. You slip it under or at the edge and the tap with a hammer. The stick looking thing is also for tile work. I don' remember how. I have both things here. My husband did tile work when we first married. I have a lot of things here for tile.
Grampa Don
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- Orange county, Calif.
No, it's not a pry bar. The squares are one inch each, so the tool is just 8 1/2 inches long.
There was a time when the brakes on a car needed to be adjusted every couple thousand miles. I learned to do this when I worked at a service station in the '50s. There was a slot with a rubber cover on the inside of the wheel housing. You would insert this tool and turn a nut with bumps on it while spinning the wheel to feel a little drag. It was easiest to do with the car on a lift.
Eventually, they figured out how to make brakes self adjusting and the tool became obsolete. But, it is useful sometimes for prying things.
There was a time when the brakes on a car needed to be adjusted every couple thousand miles. I learned to do this when I worked at a service station in the '50s. There was a slot with a rubber cover on the inside of the wheel housing. You would insert this tool and turn a nut with bumps on it while spinning the wheel to feel a little drag. It was easiest to do with the car on a lift.
Eventually, they figured out how to make brakes self adjusting and the tool became obsolete. But, it is useful sometimes for prying things.
Kika
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Was it ever called a "brake spoon?" My first husband (he died young) used to do most of the maintenance on our cars. I recall him using the term brake spoon, but I don't remember what it looked like.
Knight
Well-known Member
Still in use today for adjusting drum brakes. Wonder how much longer though since disc brakes are more popular.I don't know what those are but I wonder how many would recognize this tool.
Flarbalard
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Re: the two bars - Those look like the adjustable rails for hanging file inserts for filing cabinets.
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Grampa Don
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- Orange county, Calif.
I never heard it called that, but it makes sense.
Grampa Don
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- Orange county, Calif.
I guess when you do a brake job it would be used for an initial adjustment. I haven't looked under my cars for years to see if the slot is still there.
Anyone else have an old tool?
jujube
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The yellow one looks like a masochist's back-scratcher to me.
Paco Dennis
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- Mid-Missouri
Yep. I remember now, you got right. Thanks!
Alligatorob
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Not sure, but I know I need some!
My collection of tools I'll probably never use again is quite large, but still missing these valuable items.
Mine has a radius on one end for pealing the keeper spring off the pins.They certainly look like pry bars but I will do a google image comparison search
Vintage Craftsman Brake Tool
As for the other tools.....I think the yellow one is a paint scraper that takes a replaceable blade, which is missing.
The metal ribs look like the edges from a plaster/joint compound trough. They're used to clean the back side of your blade as you pull compound out. They're removable from the trough for easy cleaning.
Update...someone mentioned the flat bars are for file hangers and I think that's the correct answer. Enlarging the picture shows the different lengths you could snap the bars off to to fit your drawer.
squatting dog
Remember when... thirty seemed so old.
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- Arkansas, and also Florida
The brake spoons are only one part of the set needed to change shoes. Still have mine.
Grampa Don
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- Orange county, Calif.
I don't have the driver, but I do have the spring tool. I had forgotten about that.The brake spoons are only one part of the set needed to change shoes. Still have mine.
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I can't seem to throw away tools, even if I'm never going to use them again.
squatting dog
Remember when... thirty seemed so old.
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- Arkansas, and also Florida
I thought about chucking them, but, my Suzuki still has rear drums so I guess I'll keep them a while longer.I don't have the driver, but I do have the spring tool. I had forgotten about that.
I can't seem to throw away tools, even if I'm never going to use them again.