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Car Forum / Driving, Maintenance, Tuning / Maintenance and Repair / May 2007What's a Pinch Bar for?
Here's a pic of a 14 inch long, half an inch in diameter, pinch bar: http://www.stanleyproto.com/catalog_images/web_detail/CT-1606_web_detail.jpg One end comes to a point and the other is flattened out like the end of a un-split crow bar. The flattened-out end is bent maybe 30 degrees from straight. What is this tool used for? I realize you could use it as a general pry tool but then what's the point of the pointed end? You can't use it as a punch very well because the flattened end is off center and like the blade of a large standard screwdriver - it doesn't present a good surface to strike. So what's the application where the pinch bar is the best tool to use? Is it used in front end (of an auto) work somehow? And what's it supposed to "pinch"? -- (||) Nehmo (||) > Here's a pic of a 14 inch long, half an inch in diameter, pinch bar: > http://www.stanleyproto.com/catalog_images/web_detail/CT-1606_web_detail.jpg [quoted text clipped - 15 lines] > -- > (||) Nehmo (||) It's a specialized pry-bar. The pointed end is used to align two holes that a bolt or pin is going to be put through to hold. The flat end is for prying - generally to get two pieces of something with holes that need to line up into more-or-less close alignment. Once you've used the flat end to get things "just about there", you run the pointed end through the two (or more) holes, and wiggle it around to get the holes lined up tightly enough that you can shove a bolt or pin through them to secure the pieces. (and in the process, push the pinch bar out of the hole) You could say it "takes the pinch off" the bolt/pin so that it *CAN* go through the holes without binding up. It might be used in front-end work, OR just about anything else where the use described applies - Ferinstance, steel beams that need to be bolted together - Shove the pointed end through one hole in a beam. Line the second beam up so that you can get the bar into the second hole. Wiggle. Presto - holes are aligned and ready for a bolt.  SignatureDon Bruder - dakidd@sonic.net - If your "From:" address isn't on my whitelist, or the subject of the message doesn't contain the exact text "PopperAndShadow" somewhere, any message sent to this address will go in the garbage without my ever knowing it arrived. Sorry... <http://www.sonic.net/~dakidd> for more info > Here's a pic of a 14 inch long, half an inch in diameter, pinch bar: > http://www.stanleyproto.com/catalog_images/web_detail/CT-1606_web_detail.jpg [quoted text clipped - 6 lines] > -- > (||) Nehmo (||) I have a really nice one on my tool box. I work in a steel fabrication shop and everyone pinches it. I haven't touched it in over two weeks yet it has been in continuous use. :')) Maybe that is the real reason for the name? Randy > Here's a pic of a 14 inch long, half an inch in diameter, pinch bar: > http://www.stanleyproto.com/catalog_images/web_detail/CT-1606_web_detail.jpg [quoted text clipped - 15 lines] > -- > (||) Nehmo (||) Looks like the tool that ironworkers use to line up rivet holes in girders. The pointed end is much like a drift punch. Jim > > Here's a pic of a 14 inch long, half an inch in diameter, pinch bar: > > http://www.stanleyproto.com/catalog_images/web_detail/CT-1606_web_detail.jpg [quoted text clipped - 20 lines] > > Jim Probably because, give or take size variations, it *IS* the tool ironworkers use to line up rivet holes in girders :) SignatureDon Bruder - dakidd@sonic.net - If your "From:" address isn't on my whitelist, or the subject of the message doesn't contain the exact text "PopperAndShadow" somewhere, any message sent to this address will go in the garbage without my ever knowing it arrived. Sorry... <http://www.sonic.net/~dakidd> for more info > Here's a pic of a 14 inch long, half an inch in diameter, pinch bar: > http://www.stanleyproto.com/catalog_images/web_detail/CT-1606_web_detail.jpg [quoted text clipped - 15 lines] > -- > (||) Nehmo (||) I use mine for smashing finger tips and gashing knuckles. Occasionally, I use it to line up bolt holes or mount big tires. SignatureB.B. --I am not a goat! thegoat4 at airmail dot net It is the tool most thieves use to pinch your prized posessions > Here's a pic of a 14 inch long, half an inch in diameter, pinch bar: > http://www.stanleyproto.com/catalog_images/web_detail/CT-1606_web_detail.jpg [quoted text clipped - 15 lines] > -- > (||) Nehmo (||) Someone once pinched an old lawn mower and an old wicker table of mine right out of my carport. cuhulin Great tool for "bar up, crib down"... That's what I did the move of my BP with... and did the "bar up" and "bar down" with, along with just "baring and twisting" to get the exact final position... I've also worked track crew in a tourist railroad in the "12 inch to the foot scale" and yep we used em to align rails and joint bars. I've heard of a shorter version with just the taperd end called a "Bridge Bar", same deal, used to align holes just before ya stuck the rivet in... Oh, and it's NOT supposed to pinch yer hand ..LOL... --.- Dave > Here's a pic of a 14 inch long, half an inch in diameter, pinch bar: > http://www.stanleyproto.com/catalog_images/web_detail/CT-1606_web_detail.jpg [quoted text clipped - 15 lines] > -- > (||) Nehmo (||) |
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