Another OT Identification Question - Whatizzit ?
 

We found this in my deceased (at 95 years) father-in-law's tool chest. We have no idea what it is.... He worked at the General Electric Turbine plant for most of his employed life, starting work there when he returned from service in the South Pacific and ending as General All-Round Machinist when he retired. But it certainly doesn't appear to be anything to do with being a precision machinist...

Any ideas would be helpful. The handle isn't damaged and is bent at that (roughly) 45 degree angle - and it is a two-piece tool, one piece sliding front to rear by almost 1.5"


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Some sort of manual stitcher? Without the handle it almost looks like an old sewing machine foot. Thread ran through the cur-lie cue?

Except that the sheet steel pointed part that slides forward and back is semi-circular, almost like an apple corer.





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It's a highly sophisticated mouse trap, designed to trap mice that have a degree in mechanical engineering.

Tool for making,repairing rugs I think.

PML

Bingo!! Absolutely correct Patrick! It could be nothing else!

Thank you very much. I will let the family know. My mother-in-law, also recently deceased, made braided rugs until she lost the strength in her hands, but started out many, many years earlier hooking rugs.





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It's amazing what can be learned here!

glad the mystery was solved i had no clue to what that thing was....charlie

"A child can use it"..... Guess that puts it out of the skill set of any of us, eh?