What the Heck Is It ?

I see what looks to be a warming pan on the bottom?
This might be a give-away.
Here is a closeup pic of the bottom part.

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Reveal:

It is a vintage ('70's ?) Robinair Dial-A-Charge Cylinder, used in automotive (by my car mechanic neighbor) and other HVAC applications to transfer bulk refrigerant to smaller cylinders. I've only seen one other a few years ago in a Syracuse used building materials store.

Some of them actually did have a heater at the bottom, but not this model.

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ROBINAIR Dial-A-Charge® Charging Cylinders
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Calibrated shrouds make accurate charging simple, and the charge is measured by weight for greatest accuracy.

Using the calibrations in conjunction with the pressure gauge, you can easily compensate for volume fluctuations that occur as the ambient temperature changes, just by “re-dialing” the shroud.

Heated cylinders help speed the transfer of refrigerant by overcoming the equalization of pressure between the system and the charging cylinder. This reduces the time required for a complete charge.

  • Allows systems to be charged quickly, with the precise amount of refrigerant required by the manufacturer
  • Simply “dialing” the shroud to correspond with the pressure gauge, allows you to compensate for any ambient temperature changes
  • Sight glass allows you see the level of refrigerant in the cylinder
  • Accurate charging eliminates call-backs caused by under or over-charging
  • Cylinders may be economically filled from a bulk tank
  • Includes Heater, to increase cylinder pressure and speed refrigerant transfer
  • For safety, all cylinders are equipped with pressure relief valves, which automatically reset once a safe working pressure is restored
  • Includes a durable Polyethylene Case
  • Made in USA
 
Stopped at a couple of the 100 or so garage sales I passed on the way to the mountains on saturday.. Picked up a couple items for 50 cents each. Here is one of them. "Made In England" by "Superior", heavily built.
6" long
Some sort of tubing cutter?
Leather working tool?
The punch is hollow, but doesn't seem to be tooled to be a leather punch.

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Stopped at a couple of the 100 or so garage sales I passed on the way to the mountains on saturday.. Picked up a couple items for 50 cents each. Here is one of them. "Made In England" by "Superior", heavily built.
6" long
Some sort of tubing cutter?
Leather working tool?
The punch is hollow, but doesn't seem to be tooled to be a leather punch.

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Those are for fastening round leather sewing machine belts, have a pair just like em somewhere.
 
Nice going, Rustie !
I'm searching for a video using them to splice or join a belt, but I've seen leather belts on vintage machinery that is joined with wire.

At $41 on Amazon, I guess I did well paying 50 cents. :)
Yeah you got a good deal on a vintage one, the blade cuts the belt, the punch is used to punch the ends for a ring and the flat nose is used to crimp the ring. Also used on some older small lathes like watch maker and jewelers lathes.
 
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