Ruffgeezer's Auction Tool Tat Haul! (pic heavy)

They are generally known as " obstruction spanners ". You can actually buy them with all sorts of weird & wonderful angles. Most people , me included, just used to make our own. You just need to have a spanner that is long enough to allow you to heat it up & form it in to the shape/angle you want , whilst still leaving enough to enable leverage.
That's just been made for Vauxhall to the spec they required .

does anyone want to suggest what the 3 pins are on the left next to the packet of sockets?

Hi, they have a number of names (locking pins, Detent pin, ball lock pin, quick release pin) They can't fall out because of the 2 little balls at the end, but when you pull the pin by the ring at the top it releases the balls to retract and the pin slide out.

Colin

Hi, it will be used for a secure fixing, not high load, but quick release.

I work at the airport and when an aircraft is pushed back off of stand the ground crew put one of these pins, which has a ribbon of fabric attached, into the nose gear which disconnects the steering from the pilot. when the aircraft is out on the taxiway the ground crew disconnect the tug, pull the pin, retreat from the area whilst showing the pilot the pin and ribbon to show he has control again. Not perhaps a good example but on a car a comparison would be an 'R' clip, like as used on a bonnet pin or a brake pad pin.

Colin

Next box's contents:


Some sort of injector seat cutter perhaps?


There are 3 sets of these tiny spanners, not sure what their intended use was though...


Err... no clue...


The other end on this takes a 1/4 drive adapter, this end is slightly bigger than 1/4 drive, again, I'm not sure of the intended use:


Nearly new copper/hide hammer, bringing the hammer total to just shy of 40 by my estimations:


I had no idea what the hell this was, but I'm told it is an oil stone for knife sharpening!


Cheese knife?


As always, there is more to come, including the result of putting the ear marking pliers on ebay!

Agree with all the above + that is a fish knife, minus its handle.

Interesting thankyou! Perhaps I'll bung those on ebay as I doubt I'll ever have a use for them!

Onto the bucket 'o' spanners then, I had anticipated this as being the least interesting of the haul, fully expecting a range of imperial stuff that was of little use, so how'd I do?

Some odd pliers:


A...er....uhm... it looks like a wrench jaw, but again I'm probably wrong.


Another bunch of tiny spanners:


My best friend's dad was an engineer through the 70s and 80s, he always mentions this brand of spanners:


So here they all are laid out, all imperial and a variety of shapes and sizes:


There were a few manufacturer's tools in the collection though, weird to think this was probably normal back in the day:




History in tool form:


Now this kit is a neat little thing, and most surprisingly, it is complete, although not much use on anything that is done up tight I'll bet:


And that is all...



Nope! Under the layer of imperial stuff, there was a treasure trove of metric gear, a lot of which is Britool (you know, when they weren't sub-letting to china for stuff made out of old sweetie wrappers and Tesco's tin foil):


The set of offset spanners was probably worth the outlay on it's own, they have been put straight into my 'A' tools at work.

If anyone does see anything here they might want or need, feel free to pm me, I'd love to find uses for as much as possible!

Seems to have a set of hallmarks, so might be worth a polish to see if it's silver.

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the optimus packaged 'not a clue' item will be a part for an optimus paraffin stove.

That explains the slightly bronzish tarnished finish then!

In the optimus packet, I have what looks like a pair of cheap spoon handles, no idea what use they'd be!