What is this tool from gunsmith shop?

[22BRGUY]

Oh, about 3 pounds...

Not including any eggs

 

[Steve morgan]

Tapping

A friends FIL had a gun smithing businessand machine shop service. Asked me what this is. Anyone k

A friends FIL had a gun smithing businessand machine shop service. Asked me what this is. Anyone know? View attachment 1379398

Tapping head

 

[V509]

My guess was a tapping head.. Looks kind of like an armature..

I agree. Tapping head
Use a drill press and you will break fewer taps than if you use a handheld drill

 

[akajun]

It’s a push pull tapping head for use with light duty drill presses and hand drills
I have one
Nothing like a tapmatic but better than by hand
Look for the collets that go with it
They are proprietary

 

[cmysix]

Simpson Sears Craftsman speed reducer
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I think depending on which half you grab it changes direction too. chuck it up and try it.

 

[WSnyder]

I think depending on which half you grab it changes direction too. chuck it up and try it.

No doubt. I don’t have one but I do have a stack of similar items

 

[Albany Mountain]

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Its a reversible drill planatary unit. It was used for reversing a drills rotation and included a gear reduction and used bits. I have one. It must be 50/60 years old.

 

[Machinist John]

Tapping head for use in a drill press. Hold one ring and it goes in a direction, hold the other ring and it reverses to back the tap out.

I have one. Great for tapping multiple holes in something like a piece of plate.

 

[Ray123]

It's a drill torque multiplying device, with 7 times the torque while reducing the speed so that you can drive those larger screws "home", with out having them stop before being seated and stripping out the ( exsmple. philips) screw head and damaging the (example philips) driver.

 

[Skedaddle Shooter]

What’s a henway?!

A fat one weighs about eight pounds

 

[jpx2rk]

Looks like a gonkulator. OR some sort of tailpipe/exhaust pipe expander.

What is a gonkulator?????

 

[Trophied]

Craftsman Speed Reducer is correct. I had one that had belonged to my dad and it even had the original paperwork in the box. His wasn't the kit with all the extras, just the speed reducer alone in the small metal box. Without looking in our storage unit I couldn't tell you if I still have it or not.

 

[PopCharlie]

Looks like a gonkulator. OR some sort of tailpipe/exhaust pipe expander.

Gonkulator? No way.....it's obviously a framistroft device. It is missing the other end however.
PopCharlie

 

[CaptainMal]

No Henway or Gonkulator. It's a Piecost.

 

[hogpatrol]

What is a gonkulator?????

 

[Rustystud]

A friends FIL had a gun smithing businessand machine shop service. Asked me what this is. Anyone know? View attachment 1379398

Versa Drill. Adapter that allow reversing a one direction drill. Also allows for more torque.

 

[Bullwinklelol]

Think it is one of these

 

[jds holler]

The original was made by the famous old machine works company, "Burgness". That item was the Burgness, Stratness. They weren't a very good marketing company, and eventually sold the patent to ACME, who marketed it as the ACME Stratness. Sometime later on Craftsman changed it up a little and sold their own version leaving the Stratness name off of it. jd

 

[KASJAKA]

Kinda resembles a rotor.

 

[TC260]

What is a gonkulator?????

One of those things you pay extra for in Vegas