Indentify these engineering(?) tools...

[irw]

Hey folks,
I've been helping my mum sort through some bits at my recently departed Grandad's house, and we've come across these bits in the garage...I'm normally pretty good at working out what something is/was for, but I'm a bit stumped with these, and I know there are some clever bods on here who might know! The first two things seem to be some sort of press, and the third almost seems like some sort of drive, but I could be completely off the mark...

Item 1:

Underneath:

Item 2:

Item 3:

 

[Mark Grant]

No3 is a steam engine. Looks like a Stuart in style but I'm not sure it is.
Steam engines sell well on Ebay.

 

[Drago]

I dunno what they arem but they look fascinating.

 

[irw]

I dunno what they arem but they look fascinating.

Whatever they are, they were built to last...!

 

[graham56]

The first one could possibly be a bearing press.

 

[BoldonLad]

A guess at No 1.... I recall using something like that to pull the read hub, off a splined shaft on a Ford 100E Anglia (long time ago, 1964, or thereabouts) ......

 

[irw]

A guess at No 1.... I recall using something like that to pull the read hub, off a splined shaft on a Ford 100E Anglia (long time ago, 1964, or thereabouts) ......

Hmm. Interesting. I know my Grandad used to do a lot of work on his cars himself, so they could well be something car related.

 

[classic33]

No3 is a steam engine. Looks like a Stuart in style but I'm not sure it is.
Steam engines sell well on Ebay.

I'm going with this.

 

[newts]

No3 is a steam engine. Looks like a Stuart in style but I'm not sure it is.
Steam engines sell well on Ebay.

This looks to be scratch built, the main support frame is welded from small metal pieces. Stuart & other kits tend to have cast iron parts for these frames.

 

[irw]

This looks to be scratch built, the main support frame is welded from small metal pieces. Stuart & other kits tend to have cast iron parts for these frames.

It could well be, and it might well be something that's actually come from my Great Uncle's house, who was a design engineer who built working model steam trains in his spare time. Would I be right in thinking that you'd need another 'something' to generate the steam, and pipe it into the threaded brass fitting?

 

[newts]

It could well be, and it might well be something that's actually come from my Great Uncle's house, who was a design engineer who built working model steam trains in his spare time. Would I be right in thinking that you'd need another 'something' to generate the steam, and pipe it into the threaded brass fitting?

You would need a heater, boiler & connecting pipe.
How tall is this engine?

 

[irw]

You would need a heater, boiler & connecting pipe.
How tall is this engine?

I didn't think to measure it when I was there the other day, but I'd say probably about 12" tall or so.

 

[newts]

I didn't think to measure it when I was there the other day, but I'd say probably about 12" tall or so.

On my that's a big one😲

 

[Brains]

Item 2 looks like a rod bender or straightener

All three items look like they were apprentice pieces.

 

[Mark Grant]

You can run it on compressed air.
Here's my Stuart No1on air. This one is about 13" tall. Now sold.

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NUMZ6LK1MOk