Posted 10 years ago
clay3216
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Every year a friends gives me a weird tool for christmas in hopes that I will not know what it it is. This year he finally stumped me. It is about 8 inches long and closes with the handle. It has all of these slides and is well designed. There are no cutting edges. Any idea what it is?
That is a gotcha because he gotcha this year.
Ring expander to install engine piston rings.
I don't think it is a ring expander because when you push the handles together ( first picture) it gets smaller rather than larger which I think is how rang expanders should work. It is similar however and maybe there a way it would work for that. I am not sure we have a solution yet. Any other ideas? Surely someone out there has used one!
EJW-54 is correct , google search piston ring expander image and you will see he is correct, I still use this same tool on occasion.
Clay, If you had a ring in it you would see that it does work in the correct direction.
I stand corrected. Thanks for saving my sanity,