Hand Opersted Tachometer ??
 

There is an ad in the Late V8 for sale for a Hand Operated Tachometer. In all my years that is a new one for me. What would this be used for

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Hand operated tachometer was used in equipment repair and testing. You held a friction end against a shaft to see how fast it was running.

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38coupe nailed it. I atone still in its cardboard packaging my dad bought new when I was a kid many moons ago. Still works great

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I have one of those I inherited from my grandfather. He messed with motorcycles in the 30s and 40s maybe that what he used it for??? He didn't have anything else I can think of he would have used it for.

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As a plant mechanic, it was a standard tool. Newc

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I have one. I showed it in use in this video: https://youtu.be/jYvyZh0zZDw?si=EJiq1u-N3kAAmyC_

Mart.

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We had a hand held tachometer in a beautiful wooden case with several attachments such as a cone shaped tip to go over the shaft of a motor, a ball shaped tip and a couple of other attachments. Wonder what happened to it?

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we used these as HVAC techs. until the digital ones came out. had to rpm all the fans on the job and many times in less than ideal conditions.

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I have the same one. We use it at our big gas engine/tractor show in August to prove who REALLY has the slowest running engine on the showgrounds.

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Even though they are old tech, and we were given digital and later photo tachs, I always carried an old one as I trusted them over the “ modern “ type. Saved my ass more than once when doing a job in East Bumfuck and batteries in the digital one crapped out and it was a long drive to nearest store.

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I had one in a pile that was sold on the auction, scrap man got the bid. Next day I saw it smashed in the driveway, musta fell out when the were loading the pallet...no one cared.

Still have one in the shop though!

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Smashed in the driveway.... A sad commentary on the kind of stuff we have used, collected and enjoyed over the years. Glad you still have one!

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My boss had one way back when and would set the rpm of the shafts in the 2 row corn combine.

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I also have one, the plastic lens is shrinking.