Of topic - My Father worked for P&W for a short period in, IIRC, 1937. I have his last paycheck. Seems there was a fire in a test cell, and the only way out was under a tank of Av gas. My Father didn't hesitate, the guy behind him did, and didn't make it. Dad never went back - I think the check is for $.37 cents. He carried the scars on his back for the rest of his life.

It's been a very long time since this thing was employed! Yes, the 'large' end is a freewheel vice. The other piece(s) are for sprocket removal, the one can be adjusted so as to grip the sprocket between teeth. Left unsaid is how one uses the vice portion, and unscrews the sprockets with the other portion... If you really want photo with it in use, could be done, but first I'd have to go thru all my junk boxes to find some Regina freewheels (I know they are there, somewhere...)

Whoa, this seller thinks he's got some beautiful (and muy expensive!) tools:

Vintage Bicycle Tools Campagnolo Park Tool Cyclepro and Shimano | eBay

Starting bid $200 or BIN $599:

http://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/H3EAAO...3Y/s-l1600.jpg

Yup, that's everything. :eek:

DD

I'm in the wrong business! That works out to $33 per unit ^ and I can sell Park FW tools and Cyclo rivet punchers all year long for those prices! To say nothing of a solo tire lever...But $33 each for the big Campy wrenches IS pretty reasonanble...:)

Yeah, agree about the Campy stuff - but the rest? That guy's smokin' the gooooood stuff ;)

DD

There are tons of examples of acceptable (e.g. non-racist, non-nazi) uses of the swastika. There is a Buddhist association here that has them on the front of their building. It goes back thousands of years, and was quite widely used in Europe before the Nazis. The wikipedia article is an interesting read (a nice photos):https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swastika

Awww, and I thought he was talking about one of those other non proper good luck symbols.

Hopefully this will qualify as at least interesting. I won this dial indicator in an auction a year or so ago so I know nothing of its history. It has what I think is a rather charming-yet-meticulous DIY face on top of the original, which says 'Made in England.'
http://i1182.photobucket.com/albums/...ps7rlphequ.jpg

I don't have a ton of old tools. I have a set of open-ended Hozan wrenches. They don't quality as rare or beautiful to anyone other than to me. These were my first tools and I bought them, ahem, 40 years ago at a local Raleigh shop. I badly wanted a reynolds 531 frame Raleigh that I could not afford but I could afford these tools, :). I also have an old Raleigh tool which at one time were pretty darn common. So was the little mafac tool kit that came on some Peugeots. I still have all the parts though including the patch kit, the tools, and the paper that wrapped the tools and the patch kit. I'm thinking this has to be worth a small fortune in eBay, :rolleyes:.

http://bikeforums.net/attachment.php...hmentid=513882

Didn't think these were Beautiful but since they were included..... These have been hanging around my part bin since 1969!
[IMG]https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7371/...4aa50e11_b.jpgMafac tool kit, on Flickr[/IMG]

Funny thing is I don't have any Mafac brake parts at all!

Campagnolo Complete tool kit # 3380 those would even look great under a Glass topped Table.

I have a MAFAC kit, too, but it didn't occur to me to use it to work on the brakes on the Peugeot tandem.

Are you saying you need two sets to work on the tandem?:)

That's a chasing hammer.