Identifying a tool

My guess is a tool for a 2cycle engine but not sure. Any ideas?

Google reverse image search sometimes will yield results with these things. I tried to look it up there and didn’t have any luck.

On another site I posted it, they believe it’s a Chain stretcher/shrinker. Depends if you need to tighten or loosen the chain. :man_shrugging:

Looks like a chain tool of some sort?

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1 point to Gryffindor for Vash
-100 to Jake from Slytherin for coming in second :face_with_monocle:

Darn it! Same day too!

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I have an alternate theory…..clamp used to hold brake pedal to front bumper rail while bleeding brakes…

(It wouldn’t fit the pins or gaps of a #219 chain.)

It is used to hold something at a precise spacing or compress/stretch something…

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That’s interesting. Why not use a zip tie or just hold with your hand? I am only familiar with OTK SA2 style brake systems for reference so feel free to school me. A tool like that looks like over kill to me.

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Was just a theory….can only stretch a chain, not tighten.

The rounded left slider implies either a sliding motion of the clamped part or an intentional ID of something around it. And the intentional flats tell me that it might hold a tuning-fork shaped object. The two ‘clamp’ bolts on outside can either hold washers (for retaining the part) or the part itselft.

It’s really quite a puzzle.

Very insightful, Ted!