Old tool

[RedMF40]

Seeing if you tool-junkies know what this is. I know what the seller THINKS it is. Can’t make any sense of it. Hint: it’s not for recharging A/C or programming an ECM. Hope that helps.

 

[Jim.ME]

I've use clamps similar to those with the old Hot vulcanizing tube patches. the ones that were on a tin plate with a chemical you lit to heat the patch to make it bond to the tube.

Hot patch

 

[bob p mn]

We had the same setup years ago in the shop I worked at. It is a clamp setup for doing hot patches on inner tubes.

 

[muleboss]

For putting hot patches on tubes

 

[RedMF40]

Ok, so it wasn’t a big mystery. The seller did say it was for tire repair. Technically, for tubes not tires.

 

[trackrat]

hot patch set up, used one a bunch on the farm

 

[RedMF40]

Looks like it comes with a little rasp to rough up the tube. And a place to hang the tube while you’re getting your work together.

 

[da.bees]

Man those innertubes back then made great,,,,,,,,whatever you prefer calling those things kids use to shoot rocks at birds. Modern tubes are worthless for that so I wonder if hot patches will work on them.

 

[GChief]

I can still see my old tool, how many can say that

Edit: I should add, without a mirror

 

[Ray,IN]

For putting hot patches on tubes

It was a form of vulcanizing the patch onto the tube, performed correctly it outlasted the tube.

 

[Phill Tibbetts]

Man those innertubes back then made great,,,,,,,,whatever you prefer calling those things kids use to shoot rocks at birds. Modern tubes are worthless for that so I wonder if hot patches will work on them.

Sling shots, we always looked for the red rubber tubes because they were the most elastic. That was our weapon of choice for squirrels. Haven't seen a red tube since I was a kid and they were scarce then.

 

[Keith True]

I have a couple of those hanging in the shed.Just stuff being thrown away by old garages that have no use for them.I just can't stand to see it go in the iron pile.Hot patches work on very,very few tubes anymore.Around 40 years ago,in the mid 80's,tubes seemed to go heavily synthetic.They will char and crumble when the heat hits them.However,hot patches still seem to work on the cheap tubes from Brazil,Chile,and Vietnam.A tire guy told me he felt it was because those tubes came from countries that still used a higher percentage of real rubber.He said it was just his opinion,but it sounded like a reasonable explanation.

 

[miangus]

I have my grandfathers; you can still buy the patches on-line. It used to be mounted in the basement at their house, grandma was never too happy as the smell of gun powder floated through the house.

 

[Dusty MI]

Sling shots, we always looked for the red rubber tubes because they were the most elastic. That was our weapon of choice for squirrels. Haven't seen a red tube since I was a kid and they were scarce then.

I don't remember red rubber tubs.

Dusty

 

[drsportster]

I have a repainted one hanging outside my shop Wish I could find hot patches I may never use it

 

[Phill Tibbetts]

I don't remember red rubber tubs.

Dusty

I wrote tubes not tubs, put your glasses on!

 

[Dusty MI]

I wrote tubes not tubs, put your glasses on!

OK. I don't remember red rubber tubes.

 

[Watthour]

Seeing if you tool-junkies know what this is. I know what the seller THINKS it is. Can’t make any sense of it. Hint: it’s not for recharging A/C or programming an ECM. Hope that helps.View attachment 133529

Someone who was really resourceful could use it for "servicing" a troublesome ECM.

It's not too much different from the tool I've used to reprogram "smart" phones. It turns out that "cut-proof" gloves are actually pretty resistant to glass and thin metal:

http://www.wwdsltd.com/files/20240408SmartPhone.jpg

 

[GChief]

 

[da.bees]

Sling shots, we always looked for the red rubber tubes because they were the most elastic. That was our weapon of choice for squirrels. Haven't seen a red tube since I was a kid and they were scarce then.

Some began calling them sling shots when they got in trouble for racial disrespect but sling shot is actually what David used to slay (or knock unconscious) Goliath in 1 Samuel 17. However you are correct about red innertubes, they worked better than black or grey ones. Now that we've dived this deep, I recall frugal but skilled individuals repairing red tubes with pieces from another red tube.