This one looks more like a dental tool than that fiercely torturous tooth extractor, but my guess here is this one is a spark plug gap measuring tool.

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The mind is a weird and mysterious place

Not right on either account.

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Dave

Wire wrap tool?

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David
Sitting on my butt while others boldly go,
Waiting for a message from a small furry creature from Alpha Centauri.

Nope

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Dave

Flux scraper?

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Bob Smith
Member of Seti PIPPS (Pluto is a Planet Protest Society)
Somewhere in the (un)known Universe?

Nope

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Dave

Okay so one end looks a bit like a crochet hook (or a disgorger :/ my other half has one of those to unmaim the fish he used to catch grr :)) and the other end looks a bit like one of those thingies used in rug making (I think - been awhile - but only if it's pronged/forked) but none of those seem likely tools to be used in the US Navy Basic Electricity & Electronics School - so no idea! :)

Um... something to do with soldering?

All great guesses. Maybe the tool is a bit too obscure or not mainstream enough. If I give hints, above what I have done, I would be telling you what it is.

My first time posting a picture, maybe I made it a bit toooooo obscure.

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Dave

Well, I'm trying to narrow it down. Does it have any use in car mechanics? Not a fuse puller/tester of some sort?

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No not automotive, fuse puller or tester.

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Dave

Bump.....

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Dave

You said Donald was on the right track. So it's something to do with electricity?

It looks vaguely familiar to me too, like maybe my father had one.

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David
Sitting on my butt while others boldly go,
Waiting for a message from a small furry creature from Alpha Centauri.

It's been bugging me too. Anything to do with I.T.?

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Most IT departments use the people who use this tool.

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Dave

I have used something similar for undoing wire connections. Depending on the connection, it can be used to pull or poke. (I used discarded dental picks for the purpose).

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BOINC WIKI

Looks like John has it.

It is called a Probe Pick Spudger:

"The PROBE-PIC is an excellent multi-purpose tool for positioning, tracing, separating, and removing cut pieces of insulation and wire. It can also be used to remove bridging clips and wire from S66â„¢ quick clips."

It is used by the phone person that works with what are called 66 blocks.

If anyone wants to see how it is usually used:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KfZ4Nmft1rA

PM sent

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Dave

I feel like it has something to do with a telephone line interface box(pushing/pulling the connections), but I don't know what it's called.

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The mind is a weird and mysterious place

Looks like John has it.

It is called a Probe Pick Spudger:

"The PROBE-PIC is an excellent multi-purpose tool for positioning, tracing, separating, and removing cut pieces of insulation and wire. It can also be used to remove bridging clips and wire from S66â„¢ quick clips."

It is used by the phone person that works with what are called 66 blocks.

If anyone wants to see how it is usually used:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KfZ4Nmft1rA

PM sent

I know what a 66 block is. And I still have a punch down tool for them.
Ya gotta spin it around the right way, because one side cuts the wire off...LOL.
Or you spin the blade around and it just punches down for feed throughs.

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"Time is simply the mechanism that keeps everything from happening all at once."

You got it down Mark.

Watch out, Ma Bell will be lookin for ya.

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Dave

You got it down Mark.

Watch out, Ma Bell will be lookin for ya.

A Pocket Probe Pick, eh? Now I know how they do that. There's a big block of telephone wiring like that in the basement of where I work, plus a big cabinet on the end of my street, they're always poking around in.

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