This was found in the bottom of a box of car parts some local kid bought from a suspension company. Speculation is that it is a cutting tool, possibly with the machining not finished on the shank. Anyone use this type of cutter at work sell them, any info or other insight? ever seen a rotary tool or any type with a shank like this?

 

usually you will see square shanks on taps or hand reamers... i've never seen anything like this though. very odd. i can't imagine what it might have been used for... maybe a paper weight.

 

maybe a drill bit of some sort.

 

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it was a shock company i think, so i was imagining it maybe chamfering the inner or outer edge of some tube or maybe cutting out one of the round welds on the bottom of some shocks...i dont really know. paper weight

 

I've used a very similar tool for boring crude holes in concrete. That thing doesn't look like its made for cutting metal at all.

 

The lost key to the hidden temple ? Old Mac has been looking for it, and so have the blue barracudas

 

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Would also be my guess.

 

Is it not a brake piston tool? To put screw in pistons back in place before installing new pads?

 

First thought that came to my mind was "cement".

 

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Concrete drill bit, old.

 

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I watch that show like 3-4 times a day. The temple guards scare the **** out of my kids.

 

The only thing I don't understand about that bit is how its supposed to center itself.

 

its used for mixing ice cream

 

looks like a tool used on a lathe. The cutting edges look like they may be high speed steel which is used in tools for machine shops. Don't know exactly what the use could be.