What is this strange old tool?

[Ernie]

What is this strange old tool?

[POSTON WIDEHEAD]

Don't know but I'd like to have one. 

[Ernie]

Don't know but I'd like to have one. 

I wouldn't be too sure of that ;D

[BBTom]

First glance looked like an old valve lapping tool I used to have, but I don't see a crank on it, and no rubber suction cups,  so I do not have a clue what it might be.

[ely]

im going to guess a cleaning kit for an old victrola record player

[r.man]

Is the big thing a small bellows ( manual air pump ) or a crank drill? Bit hard to judge with everything in its place.

[Ianab]

A DIY "soap in the ear" removal kit?  ;)

[ellmoe]

Don't know but I'd like to have one. 

I wouldn't be too sure of that ;D

Enema machine? :D

[beenthere]

Ianab was thinking along the same lines as I,(;)) but seems this has been shown before (or one like it) and a fire starter kit is what lies in the back of my head.   

[Ernie]

Right on Ellmoe 8) 8) 8)

Tobacco Smoke Enema (1750s - 1810s)

The tobacco enema was used to infuse tobacco smoke into a patient's rectum
for various medical purposes, primarily the resuscitation of drowning victims.
A rectal tube inserted into the anus was connected to a fumigator and bellows
that forced the smoke towards the rectum.

The warmth of the smoke was thought to promote respiration.
Doubts about the credibility of tobacco enemas led to the popular phrase

"blowing smoke up your ar**."



Amazingly, it is still in constant use in parliament.

[Paul_H]

So,Ernie,,what'you doing with it?  :P

[sawguy21]

Not entirely sure I want to know.

[POSTON WIDEHEAD]

I changed my mind, I don't want nothing that makes me trot. 

I'd hate to be the one that had to smoke the cigarette at the other end.  :D

[Warbird]

[Magicman]

    

[r.man]

Technically Poston I guess the tool kit wasn't absolutely necessary if there was a smoker available. There's some incentive to quit.

[Magicman]

I have never been a smoker, but I would just have to tell him that he was gonna die.   ;D

[doctorb]

Don't know but I'd like to have one. 

I thought the title of this thread was referring to me. :D

[POSTON WIDEHEAD]

Tell ya the truth Doc....you WERE the first person I thought about when I found out where this contraption went.  :D

[Cedarman]

Poston,  my first thought too. :D :D

[doctorb]

Sorry.  Not my department. :D ;D

[Sprucegum]

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Sorry.  Not my department. :D ;

It could be - if you going to use it on me you would have to break my legs first