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greenbeam · Joined: 10 Jun 2015 Posts: 85 Location: Adelaide, Australia

Hi everyone,
This was in among some old tools I was given. Does anyone know what it is and how it is meant to be used?

I'm now wary of throwing away old tools, after I thew out an old odd looking set of 'pliers', and then found out what a brake spring removal tool looks like and had to buy one a couple of months later Embarassed

Cheers,
Paul.

peter scott · Joined: 18 Dec 2007 Posts: 7211 Location: Edinburgh

Total guess: A tool for cleaning valve guides??

Peter
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JohnDale · Posted: Sun Dec 04, 2016 10:54 am Post subject:

Morning Peter, spot on. Back in the day we had sets of different sizes, used to clean the valve guides when doing decokes. Different sizes/shapes of wire brushes for cleaning the chambers/ports.Both used in electric drill. When did you last hear of a decoke being done? I guess it's down to modern oils/fuels that todays cars are decoked using the Italian method.....down(or up) the motorway,cheers,JD
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Bitumen Boy · Posted: Sun Dec 04, 2016 11:53 am Post subject:

christine lowery · Posted: Sun Dec 04, 2016 3:41 pm Post subject:

i don't think so with the 1000,s of diesel cars chugging around our towns clogging up there filters. they need a good blast in 3rd gear on a motorway to unclogg em Shocked

christine lowery · Posted: Sun Dec 04, 2016 3:44 pm Post subject:

i don't think so with the 1000,s of diesel cars chugging around our towns clogging up there filters. they need a good blast in 3rd gear on a motorway to unclogg em Shocked

alanb · Joined: 10 Sep 2012 Posts: 517 Location: Berkshire.

A few more years and diesels will be bannned anyway
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Riley Blue · Joined: 18 Jun 2008 Posts: 1751 Location: Derbyshire

exbmc · Posted: Sun Dec 04, 2016 10:15 pm Post subject: Valve guide cleaner

I bet that old valve guide cleaner, has been around for 50 years.
Not used one like that for many years, I use a range of small flex hones now.
They make a lovely finish to a guide.

greenbeam · Joined: 10 Jun 2015 Posts: 85 Location: Adelaide, Australia

50 years would be about right. My father-in-law gave me his mechanic's toolchest a week ago or so and this was one of the items I couldn't identify. He is in his 80's and worked for AA Clarke around the Windsor area before he came to Australia in 1968.

Thanks for the comments. When I said to him it was a de-coking tool it all came back to him, he said 'yes of course!' Nice to be able to remind him of these things now.

Cheers,
Paul.