tool looking for a purpose to exist

[Kurt Combs]

I found this odd tool in a tool cabinet that I sort of inherited. The PO obviously went to garage sales and purchased odd things, but this looks like something that was sold on TV as a does everything, or fits everything tool. Very strange.

funny tool.jpg

[KnockKnock]

Hey buddy, that's all you need right there! You can throw the rest of the tools in your box away now that you've got that bad boy!

[ultraranger]

If Billy Mays was still alive, he'd be trying to pitch this tool.

...I can see it now...here he is on a commercial trying to sell baking soda. As part of the deal, if you call in the next 10 minutes, they'll throw in the channel-lock nut cracker hammer at no extra charge.

http://www.grandforksherald.com/media/f ... mays-2.jpg

[ToughOldFord]

It's a wheel weight tool.

[ToughOldFord]

Here's a typical one:

http://www.ebay.com/itm/wheel-weight-pl ... dd&vxp=mtr

That one you have looks pretty heavy, I'd guess it's for semis.

[SDFarmKid]

I need one of them for fixing fence....

[1972hiboy]

Here's a typical one:

http://www.ebay.com/itm/wheel-weight-pl ... dd&vxp=mtr

That one you have looks pretty heavy, I'd guess it's for semis.

second that, spent alot of time with one of those in my hand.......

[Kurt Combs]

Wheel weight tool makes more sense than universal pliers. The quality of this tool is cheap Harbor Freight, so I doubt if it belonged to a person making a living in a tire shop.

[elgemcdlf]

I was going to jump in with the answer but you already have it. Did Brakes & Ft End for quite a few years. Have seen many a pair of pliers like that.

[68 Ford Stepside]

Reminds me of a barb wire fencing tool.

[Kurt Combs]

Guess I will put it in the yard sale pile, I don't balance my own tires.......

[Mctrick]

This tool was used in a tire shop . You use it to pull lead weights off the side of the rim and hammer on new one's. The utters are to trim some lead off a 4oz wieght.