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Got this very cheap, and I think it'll be very handy for some bike building operations, but the only references I can find are to a very different kind of operation - is this a device for bending bars used in surgery?
It's certainly very nicely made...
BANKS-DERVIN ROD
For scoliosis fixation; a multiple level rod that is fixed with oblique spinous process to contralateral lamina screws.
I think my niece has a bunch of these now she's had her untwisting op. She's several inches taller which is good, too.
Looks like a bar/pipe bender , bar or pipe goes across anvils and anvil former applys pressure via handle
finger bending torture device.
It was used for a Captain James Hook, in the prosthetic formation after an unfortunate accident with a crocodile.
I think.
DrP
I'd have said it was some sort of plate bender for use in trauma, but midlifecrashes has it on the head, I think.
If memory serves, Mrs FunkyDunc is a 'pod so she would be able to confirm (in between hitting things with a hammer, and struggling to name antibiotics that aren't teic and gent).
I like the dried blood still on it!
DrP
I like the dried blood still on it!
There was a lot more before I cleaned it up! Though it's red wax or paint or something, disappointingly.
Looks like a bar/pipe bender , bar or pipe goes across anvils and anvil former applys pressure via handle
Yup, it does that nicely - I'm also thinking with a change of formers it'll be good for indenting tubes.
Actually, it's for correcting [url= http://www.patient.co.uk/health/peyronies-disease-leaflet ]Peyronie's disease[/url] - small size..
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