Whatzit?

Re: Whatzit?

Bill Ward

>Hurst Dual-Gate shifter for a Conestoga wagon.

A Hurst shifter would have been chromed

Bill Houghton, Sebastopol, CA

>More likely the throttle (right) and mixture (left) controls from an 0-12-4 Henway steamer.

Re: Whatzit?

Mike-in-Michigan

>First I thought was a dual gate B&M shifter not Hurst but I was wrong. The guy has the name wrong in his sale, it's a Hanchett Tool Works dual handle swage. This firm is still in business in Big Rapids, Mi -- I used to deliver subs from TJ's to them back in 77-81 while went to school at then Ferris State College (now Ferris State Univ).

As to what a swage does:

In sawmills a swage is a tool for forming the kerf on large bandsaw teeth. A clamp attachs a mandrel and die to the tooth and the eccentric die is rotated, swaging the tip.

As that is what they do at Hanchett -- make equipment for sawyers, papermills, etc.. I bet that is what it is..

OT - Hurst Dual Gate

Bill Ward

>Good answer on the swagging device! And Ernie can buy a brand new one if he wants.

I had a 68 GTO with the Hurst Dual Gate shifter coupled to the Turbo Hydromatic 400. It really only had one lever just like any console mounted shifter. It had a second "gate" on the right side that you pushed sideways (from the regular D position) and then pulled back to hold in first gear. When you shifted to second, you'd put a littel side pressure and push forward to the second gear stop. Repeat again for third. No wimply four or five speed automatics back then!

I think B&M might have made (on a Buick Grand National??) a automatic transmission shifter that had twin levers.

We digress.

Re: OT - Hurst Dual Gate

Mike-in-Michigan

>I think you are right on the Buick but really it wasn't 2 sticks but a shifter with a grip toggle for something, not sure what maybe lineloc.

But if it was for a conastoga it would probably need those 2 levers to lock in the 4wd xfer case right? Just like on my old mans, 66 dodge power wagon :)

Actually my 80 something dodge colt had 2 sticks, one for auto tranny and one for economy or sport shifting!!

Anyway someone bought that swage for 9.99 -- hope they like it.

Re: OT - Olds

Rob Brophy Niagara Falls

>Pretty sure it was the Hurst Olds from the mid eighties...a souped up Cutlass to compete against the Buick Grand National. Didn't they call them Lightning Rod shifters or something similar? Seemed pretty confusing to me.

Rob...1977 Triumph TR7 with a Buick 3.8L & Monte SS 200R4 trans with a Hurst shifter and a TR6 in the last gasps of restoration!

Re: A Hurst shifter would have been chromed

Jim Toews - Walla Walla, WA

>Bill,

I don't know about your Henway Steamer, but that tool looks way too large to fit on my Henway. That's what they make beer in cans for.

Cheers!

Jim

Re: OT - Olds

Norman (Ottawa, Ont.)

>I thought there was also a Hurst Olds also in 1968-69 with the Dual-gate shifter as standard eqpmnt..

This was a variation of the famous "4-4-2".

Norman