any ideas what this is?

[gxray]

found by a friend in a box of junk...it's made of iron or steel...any ideas what it might be?

 

[Montana Jim]

Retaining or safety clip for something or other... I dunno.

I can see how it would work, but have no idea from where it came.

 

[doublet2a]

Looks kinda like some kind of puller tool.
One that grabs from the inside, But the handle doesn't workable

Tim

 

[Florida Sand Digger]

Tuning Fork?

Still haven't figured out what a tuning is, but I guess enough people eat them that they made special forks for em....

 

[72cheyenne]

It looks to be designed to pull through something and then clip in place on the forked end....I like MJ's idea...retaining clip.

 

[Diggerbarns]

I seen one of those before and if I remember correctly its part of a piano.I beleive its part of the loud and soft pedals .

 

[Ramitt]

That could be something like that. Allowing articulation on both ends of the shaft.

 

[Tricia]

A feather from a wedge and feather set. You drove the feather into something with a wedge to split whatever it was you wanted to split.

 

[Tricia]

Actually...taking a better look it seem too thin to be a feather. But I think if you pushed the two ends together, then pushed the whole thing into a hole of some kind the two ends would re expand. They are grooved to fit something.

 

[deepskyal]

Maybe for picking up the old cast iron cooking stove lids.??

Al

 

[White Feather]

It looks like a puller of some type. I've seen pullers for the old style engine lifters that are very similar to this. It's a bit long for that application. Size would determine what it was used to lift or pull. As a mechanic I could eventually come up with some uses for a tool like that. How about lifting a spring up out of a small cylinder or pipe? You could drop the spring down the pipe but would have to have some sort or retrieval tool to get it out.
Just a thought.

 

[Bigcypresshunter]

It looks like a puller of some type. I've seen pullers for the old style engine lifters that are very similar to this.

It could be a vintage hydraulic valve lifter puller with a part missing and maybe a handle missing too. A piece slides to squeeze together and/or expand. I have one similar. This is not the best picture but something like this. http://www.amazon.com/dp/B001CZCV2W/?tag=treasurenet01-20

 

[traderoftreasures]

piano tuner