Went to an auction and got all kinds of good cheap stuff.

Mature mechanics should know what this it but I'll bet the under 30 crowd might scratch their heads a bit.

What is it and what is it for:





My $20.00 ultracool and working fan:



$10.00 for all (time and parts Chilton's not shown) total of 15.



What are these? Easy one.



Tomorrow I'll show you my $250.00 79 wrecker with Holmes bed and Braden winch. I just love auctions that stuff goes dirt cheap.

 

I'm under 50 and scratching my head... something for an alignment given it has mirrors?

The pair of things are ... HD jackstands?

 

The pair of things are tire balancers, luv the BIG fan as for the 1st thing scratching my balding head on that one !!! lol Popa John.

 

Sheesh...I'm going to have take pics that just show parts of the tools. Your both right.....thought for sure I'd stump folks for more than 10 minutes.

We got mucho experience on FTE for sure.

 

If I could look at it closer maybe could figure it out, but that first thing looks like something from the Jetsons.

 

X2 on that. It looks to be the influence for the next Pixar animated alien film.

 

First one for headlights

 

HD jackstands that's a good one.

 

That wouldn't have been my guess had a notice the little levers on the bases. I figured they weren't for big rigs since their hub bores are so much larger. For bubble balancers, they sure are low to the ground.

At first glance, I thought the first item was some sort of welding helmet.. that is until I saw the second pic.

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Here's my "what's it?"...... It's custom made to address a common issue. In fact, I cited it on a thread this morning....

 

Hmm I wasn't on this morning. Does it pop a distributor up out of the hole?

 

Good guess... The tool does follow the same principle to pop something else off.

C'mon now.. you can do it!!!

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I wanna guess without looking.....hubcaps

 

A pair of tire bubble balancers and....WTH on the 1st one.

 

It's a bead breaker for tires.

 

I like the fan the best. I bet that works well, though check for safety in terms of grounding. Also wonder how well it will work on a GFCI outlet. Many people learn the hard way that concrete is a pretty good conductor of electricity.

I always heard those bubble balancers weren't any good (probably said by the people who wanted my money for spin balance?) Although, better than nothing.