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While I'm sure it had an innocent use, it looks wicked.

Serrena

Thu 01-19-2006

Might be some kind of an antique car jack.

hmm..interesting.

Actually, it looks a lot like a jack we use on one of the tractors out here... I'll have to see if I can find it again to compare... Although, it could be an overly complicated hand clamp for my bedstand too!

Dr Sketch

Thu 01-19-2006

Good heavens it looks like a cousin to my thumbscrew!!

Jude

Thu 01-19-2006

This photo and the one before it remind me of an old video game I used to have titled Zork Nemesis. I would play that game for hours because the colors and textures interested me.

StareGirl

Fri 01-20-2006

What a contraption, whatever it was used for, it looks like it was painful :-(

==:-o

Geez Tony buddy are you ok? Lynne, pass the smelling salts, girl!

Jude

Fri 01-20-2006

looks like some sort of a bending jig. Maybe a conduit bender or something along those lines

kev#815

Fri 01-20-2006

I have no idea what kind of hand it is or contraption. One thing for sure is IM not putting my hand in to find out.

Truckie

Sat 01-21-2006

I have been looking at this for a while, and the part i find curious are the hooks on top. it looks like part of a latching mechanism from a door that requires a tight - positive seal.

psychadellic one

Sun 01-22-2006

I don't know what that is, but I don't like the looks of it.... ==(8-o

silkster40z

Mon 01-23-2006

Ah yes, the somewhat larger cousin of the eyelash curler. Too bad I have no idea what it's used for

Frankie

Tue 01-24-2006

This shot is awesome! The detail is spectacular. Wish I knew what it was used for too...

TylerDurden

Wed 01-25-2006

It took me a while to wake up, Jude...I think, after looking at this, that it could be part of a conduit bending device. It just might be part of it, the rest of it could be anywhere. The unit IS on a board, so I don't think it was part of a doors' latch. Maybe theres more to it somewhere, for the conuit to be pushed into as it is bent with the handle...???

Tony C.

Wed 01-25-2006

kinda looks like some old torture device! creepy!

Amanda J

Fri 02-03-2006

ooohhhh

Sat 02-04-2006

Sure looks like a can crusher...or maybe and oil filter crusher...something long those lines

Tom

Wed 02-08-2006

WHAT IN THE WORLD IS THAT, IT LOOKS LIKE SOME SORT OF TOURTURE MECHANISIM?????
WICKED!!!!

rtotten

Wed 02-15-2006

I dont think its any sort of conduit or pipe bender.....this was a hospital...not a fabrication/metal factory. Why would they need a pipe bender in a hospital? It had to have been used for something else IMO. Its a great picture though! Kudos to whoever took it!

Killa!

Mon 03-06-2006

Potatoe slicer...... nothing too wicked potatoe in pull handel potatoe in pull handel thats all

Tom

Sat 04-01-2006

I'm pretty shure that this is a pipe bender.

Gezal

Fri 06-02-2006

My grandmother used to be a nurse and she remembers using a machine looking like that to re set broken bones. I would have lived with the broken body part LoL

I... agree... ouch.

um....owie....but....dang, gorgeous pattern in the metal

griffyn

Mon 06-26-2006

Jen is right ive seen these in many medical books the way its used is you put your arm in an L position and ur elbow bends right behind were the leer makes a Y and its use to re-set a dislocated elbow/broken elbow

Again... ouch.

i think jen and mark are right but it does still look like a pipe bender of sorts by any chance did you pull the handle motts?

todd

Fri 07-13-2007

Yeah I played with it a bit trying to figure out its purpose... it seems a bit too industrial to be a medical device, but I'm still not sure.

Motts

Mon 07-16-2007

tht is soooo crrepy me and my freinds might go ther sunday but is it worth it????

mark p

Mon 09-28-2009

....looks like something used during the inqusition

wesley palmer

Tue 01-12-2010

OMG?!! that looks like my dog sorta........

sunny and earl

Thu 07-28-2011

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