Can anyone identify this tool?

>>2916823 (OP)
Do you have a ceiling attic access close by?

>>2916826
Maybe….
Can you explain?

OP
I suspect it has something to do with quilting but I might be way off

>>2916826
>Maybe….
>Can you explain?
Typically an attic is an area between the room and the roof. An access means a way to get into something. The ceiling is the top boundary of the room(think a wall but above you) so a ceiling attic access is a way to get into the attic through the ceiling.

>>2916837
>Oh. The attic.
No still not sure

>>2916837
Fucking bots

>>2916823 (OP)
>Can anyone identify this tool?
Possibly a power tool.

Ask in this thread. >>2915325

A paint roller

>>2916823 (OP)
Its used to open things like skylight that have a manual open. The hook end goes into an eye hole typically on the frame or the stiles/rails around where the sash seals. You then spin it which is done with the handle being turnable

>>2916823 (OP)
That's a buttplug

>>2916840
>>2916841
Morons

Looks like the thing snake handlers use...

>>2916856
I’m not so sure… on the hook end there is a piece of spring steel slipped into the hollow held in place with a plug.
I was thinking it might be something for quilting but that’s just a guess.
Here’s a picture of the skylight hook pole; they seem pretty standard.

>>2916837
Surely, you can't be serious

>>2916930
If Anon doesn't know where to get into his attic I can only assume he doesn't know what an attic is. That or it's not his house and he's trying to figure out if that tool is worth stealing.

>>2916930
don't call me surley

the bend reminds me of something to be spun it gives you leverage without taking extra space. comfort grip handle is at the bottom and small so it is to be used with near fully extended arm often something above you. the tip extending past the extension might be for sight lines
id say it is a tool to spin something above you.

>>2916945
Literally a skylight crank you retards. >>2916915
NOTHING is "standard" in this industry, only standard per manfacturer. Those look nothing like the one i have. What would even suggest its for quilting to you? Please i would love to see a drawing.

>>2916823 (OP)
You're looking at a genuine Skyhook

>>2916823 (OP)
It's used to install nets on basketball rims

>>2916947
Uhh not likely, idiot
How are you meant to "crank" it if the handle-end isn't offset like a crank?
What are you gonna do, turn it like a screwdriver? No, this tool is something else.

>>2916835
Mr. President*

>>2916947
I don’t know. My mom did a lot of quilting. Like a lot.
I kinda remember this thing being stored with her quilting stuff, however I can’t think of a way it would be used, practically.
There are no sky lites in the house nor the house before.
Attic access is a step ladder an a hand. Or just a hand if you’re tall. I am not.

>>2917205
This is my thoughts too.
Here’s a pic of the hook closer up. Again, it’s spring steel, very different from the tubing.

The top of the major hook being flat, rather than a smooth curve is a clue, I think.
I'd bet it's used to drop some kind of hanging decoration into a hook either on the ceiling or high up on the wall.
Do you guys ever see those hooks installed into ceilings where your chain-smoking grandmother used to hang her macrame plant hangers? A tool like this probably would be useful for hanging those up.

OP, is the shaft pretty stout? Plants in pots can be heavy.

>>2916823 (OP)
It's a roller painter.

>>2917383
It’s sufficiently stout. I’ve thought maybe it was for something similar, like semi precise placement of specific items… or some type of tool for a closet.
I asked my dad he said something about sewing or quilting came to mind but couldn’t remember specifically. I did not prompt him about this.

>>2917483
It isn’t.

>>2917483
clearly not

paint roller you stupiod retard

>>2917631
Holy shit.
It’s not a paint roller.

>>2917528
>>2917529
>>2918797
It's clearly some kind of roller. A tube would over that curved bit at the end. To remove the tube, you'd have to push down on the curved bit (it's a kind of spring) to slide the tube off.

I think it's like a new York hook, it's for pulling downa ceiling ladder hatch.
The curve is so that you can push the ladder back up and close it.

You sometimes see a similar looking tool for heavy curtains, the hooks of which are often hard to access.

>>2919086
Cool. Go on and show me this paint roller.
Show me a pic of an identical paint roller.
I’ve painted professionally for most of my adult life. 20+ years.
If you think it’s a paint roller, should be easy enough to find.
Show me an identical paint roller.

>>2919086
Holy shit.
If it was a paint roller I wouldn’t have made a thread.
What “roller covers” does this use???
What length?
What diameter?
What tray?
It’s not a paint roller.
What’s the purpose of the spring steel???

>>2919247
I’m open. I don’t think so, but I’m open.
Show me a matching tool.

>>2916823 (OP)
It has 3 purposes.
1: You use it for cleaning drapes and long curtains so you can make them stiff while you beat them off.
2: It's for an IV bag, you hook the bag to the stick and carry it around for someone who needs an IV.
3: It's for hanging hanger basket plants on hooks.

>>2919947
>>2919949
Stop overthinking it

>>2920331
Notice the sharp corner in pic related.
Notice how there's no small hook on the end of the tool you posted.
Yes, you have posted a paint roller. A roller brush will slide on the end and be retained between the corner of the bar and the slightly crimped very end of the bar.

OP's pic does not have a sharp corner that will keep the brush in place, but a rather gradual curve, which a brush would ride up on and bind.
Second, the small hook on the end of OP's tool would interfere with any brush you happen to put on there and the thing would simply not roll very well at all.

>>2920077
iv bag, hmm

its a paint roller

>>2920359
>Notice the sharp corner
NTA, it's a paint roller. The bends are wide because it was easier to make. Probably an ancient DIY job.

>>2920394
Notice the collar on your pictured roller that prevents the brush from riding up on the u-bend. No such collar on OP's image.

>Chrome tubing with clean and precise bends, a telescoping button retention joint, a plastic cap on the end, and a bakelite (or similar) handle
>a DIY job
Not very good detective work, anonymous.

>>2920418
>He doesn't make everything in his house telescoping
I absolutely hadn't noticed that and >>2920392 convinced me pretty thoroughly

>>2916823 (OP)
I'm a Tibetan yak herder and we call that a Skyjigger. You use it to slide along a rope bridge. Can make it to 30-40 miles an hour on a quality Skyjigger

>>2920392
Thanks man. I think it’s settled.

>>2920394
>>2920359
>>2920331
It’s. Not. A. Paint. Roller.
I know what a whiz roller is. I understand the concept of a telescopic roller.
None of those pic are identical.
It isn’t a roller frame. It may look like one in shape, but it is not a a paint roller.

>>2920486
However, I have yet to find an identical…
Thank you guys for your interest and input, even the “it’s a paint roller guys” lol.

If it's a paint roller why does it have absolutely no paint residue on it?

>>2920618
That steel spring would also probably catch into the roller and prevent proper rotation even if it had an internal groove

OP, this has been a really fun thread and I find myself quite amused by this puzzle.
Have you found any incidental uses for it in your own life?

I could imagine using a tool like that to reach under a bed to pull or push things to where I could reach them.
Or like others have mentioned, hanging a potted plant in a high hook. Or perhaps stringing lights near the ceiling.
Or merely for pulling curtains open or closed -- don't you hate it when the curtain binds up on the rod? Or catches on the part of certain curtain rods where the telescoping parts meet? This tool can help there.

I have some questions:
Where did you find it?
Is it easy enough to remove that plastic cap holding the small hook on? How is the small hook attached?
Does it actually telescope or does it just split right half in two?

>>2920648
Is there any wear on either the rod near the hook or on the hook itself that might indicate something was retained on the hook? Or on the flat part near the hook?

>>2920648
I painted a wall with it.

>>2920648
Seriously, great questions. Thanks.

I have some questions:
>Where did you find it?
In my dead moms room
>Is it easy enough to remove that plastic cap holding the small hook on?
Pair of pliers or should do it.
>How is the small hook attached?
With plastic cap….
>Does it actually telescope or does it just split right half in two?
Just two pieces attached with button thing. Like a cane. But no other adjustments…single hole.

>Have you found any incidental uses for it in your own life?
I mean I have so many other tool type items for all my needs really. But yeah, you could use it for anything really. All the things mentioned—-except for rolling paint.

>>2920359
Yeah, no shit. It's an antique. Designs evolve over time, retard.
>>2920618
Nobody has EVER washed paint of something in the history of mankind

>>2920875
How old do you think paint rollers are? Do you think the first person to make a paint roller would make one as terrible as one built like OP pic would be?
No. You are the retard.

>>2920875
Have you ever seen a paint roller. It's impossible to get all the residue off of it without the right kind of cleaner or solvent and without disassembling it. There would be at least a little chalky residue in the gap between that plastic cap and the tube.

>>2920680
>>Where did you find it?
>In my dead moms room

vintage bottom wiper implement for old/injured people

>>2916823 (OP)
paint roller

You put a hose in the clip so you can water things up high.

>>2920676
That’d be a neat trick.

>>2920650
There is no wear anywhere on this item.

>>2920875
Buddy, lemme tell you a thing.
It. Isn’t. A. Paint. Roller.

>>2921385
Unlikely, but comical.
>>2922978
Oh! Yes!!! A paint roller!!
>>2923019
That’s a really interesting thought.

>>2922978
Muriatic acid

"Does anyone KNOW what this is?"
>Hi, I'm wicked smart that's the same thing as knowledge, I'll tell you what it looks like
>Hi, I'll send this picture to an AI because I don't know either but I need the dopamine hit from thinking I'm helpful
>Hi, even after being told my answer was wrong I'll argue I'm actually right
If you don't recognize it from seeing it in real life take a deep breath, close the tab and go to another thread little Billy, the world will not end
People come here to have questions answered by people who know the answers to those questions and thinking is not the same thing as knowing
google "a priori / a posteriori"

>>2920489
>It’s. Not. A. Paint. Roller.
Oh yeah? Get a roll and put it on... see how well it works. That little hook thing is a spring to catch it from falling off, you can press it in and get the roll off.

t. painter

>>2925753
OP's challenge still stands:
Post a picture of an identical paint roller, either from your own collection or for sale online or something.

>Do the brushes fit snugly on the tubing?
>If they do, how do they fit over the spring?
>If they don't, how would they roll smoothly? You'd have a hotdog down a hallway situation.
>What prevents them from riding up the bend opposite the spring?
>What prevents them from binding up on the spring?

>>2925736
it is a paint roller

>>2925736
i do not like you.

>>2925877
>how do they fit over the spring?
Because it's a spring, you retard. It compresses.

>>2927047
lol you can't read and have no imagination

Thingamajig

>>2916823 (OP)
You stick a midgets wrist under the clip so he can't escape and dangle him over the side of the boat, when a shark jumps up to grab him you bonk the shark and catch it in a net.

>>2927077
I can imagine how a spring does its basic function, though, which you clearly can't

>>2928710
No, try really thinking about the scenario I set up.
*If* the roller is meant to fit snugly on the tube, that means there's not enough clearance for *even a fully compressed spring* to fit between the tube and the roller. The roller could not pass over the compressed spring to then roll nicely on the tube beyond the spring.
It doesn't get better if you say it's meant to ride on top of the spring, because now you have a situation where one side of the roller is on the spring, and one side is not. So it would wobble if it rolls at all.

>>2925736
it's clearly a paint roller

>>2928712
Yeah, there would be a gap between the tube and the roller and this would be mitigated by the fact that you apply pressure while painting. Have you ever used a paint roller, anon?

>>2928945
lol

>>2928712
>*If* the roller is meant to fit snugly on the tube
It's not, it needs to be loose enough to roll

>>2916823 (OP)
>commercial grade sardine can key
but really, its a clothes retrieval rod for getting hangars off of high hooks like in a department store.

>>2916823 (OP)
You can hook a dog by his leash and use the stick to control him at a distance.