we had the newbe look for a coolent leak on a 911, I made sure to drip some coolent on the top first so it leaked out, It was just hysterical because he actually spent at least 10 minuted with a drop light looking!
(the 911 was air cooled)

I just love the Lucas Smoke!

http://www3.telus.net/bc_triumph_registry/smoke.htm

http://www3.telus.net/bc_triumph_reg.../Smokekit2.jpg

As a kid I was sent to the tool trailer to fetch the sky hook and another time the board stretcher. Damnit, dad!

When I was a mechanic in the Air Force, new guys would get sent down to the supply shop for 200 feet of flight line. Wasn't that funny to me, but some people never tired of it...

Ha ha. Your Dad must be related to mine. My Dad was a builder, and as kids, we`d sometimes tag along to build sites. (Don`t think labour laws allow that any more, but this was back in the middle ages.) Anyway, I got burned by the sky hook and board stretcher quest too.

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(great website!)

Ok all you jokers, it looks like this is in fact a bike tool and the correct answer has already been given above.

After wesmamyke made comments above, I started investigating. As it happens, someone else has also wondered what this is for in the past. The responder gave roughly the same answer as wesmamyke.

So, there you have it. Wesmamyke wins the identification crown and I now know this tool is part of the BBT-8 Park tool which removes and fits the spider lockring on Shimano square taper and octalink cranks.

Now, all I need is the Octalink lockring and I've got a functional, but probably not very regularly used, tool.

I actually have one of these. It is for removing the spider on Deore XT and XTR.

http://i257.photobucket.com/albums/h...r/IMG_0869.jpg

^^hold on, is that a serious answer? Is that permitted on this thread?

Well, on the assumption that it is, and it is, and that's the correct answer, here's another for you:

http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y21...apide_0037.jpg

These are the tools that came with a 60 year old bike. JunkYardBike took the photo. I took the tools. Most of them are obvious; but what's the round thing, second from the right? I am pretty sure it is a bike tool, since I've seen the same thing in a couple other old tool kits on ebay.

It is not a spoke wrench; won't work for that purpose.

pacman

Round thing looks like a drilliumed (in the factory) spoke wrench. I think the slot tapers to accomodate diffrent size nipples.

Chombi

I'll take the average of the last two and go with drillium pacman.

Been there, done that, it was a failure, and the spoke nipple is not happy about it. It does not fit spoke nipples.

Homemade disc brake rotor truing tool?

OK, maybe it's a badly designed spoke wrench??.......whatever it is, it sure looks like it's meant to turn something kinda small with flats on it. Spoke nipples seem to be the first choice when I saw the pic.....or maybe a centerpull brake stirrup cable puller??......A tire valve remover??.....There are different sized spoke nipples out there too, maybe you tried it on one that's just too small or way too big?

Chombi

chainring straightener?

^^that or a wingnut wrench?

When I started my apprenticeship as a boiler maker, a water hammer was the tool of choice.

Well, as a boilermaker, you probably already know there is such a thing as water hammer, but it is a phenomenon, not a tool.

That's what I was just thinking. For the Shifters.

Or 'Go down to the stores and ask for a long stand' - New guy comes back about 90 minutes later having stood patiently in front of the counter most of that time while the stores guys are falling around giggling behind the racks!

Well, we got the correct answer, but I was thinking it looked like the pin pusher part of a chain breaker for REALLY large chains.
I love the wiring harness replacement smoke. I should get something like that for working on computers.

This thread is full of blown smoke.