There has been an interesting focus lately on tools and work benches. I think it would be intriguing to have members show pictures of the weirdest or most unusual or most useless tools in their kit.
Do you have a convoluted screw driver or a set of misshapen pliers or a Smith chart slide rule or an abacus with a digital readout or a combination magnet/flashlight/scalpel? If so please share....
I found my first soldering iron - it still works 
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Rod
Ladies and Gentleman. We have a winner! 
Luis
Not quite as nice as yours (with replaceable tips?), but still available today:
I remember seeing the builders using these to solder the rain gutters during home construction in the 60's.
Gene
- some funny comments there, thanks jw0752 luislabmo and anupash.1002
Like most others posting on here, it is a hand me down from my dad, so I cannot really say how old it is. Joking aside, I didn't use this iron for microelectronics such as 0.1" veroboard connections, but I have used it when more heat capacity was needed - such as large earth tags and joining thick cables. As you can see it hasn't been used for a while as I bought a 200W mains voltage soldering iron for such tasks.
Rod
This is a machine to cut thin tissue slices called "microtome". I suspect its from around the 50s. I'm currently trying to restore it...
This is a peristaltic pump, it pumps liquid through a wave-like pressing of a tube action. The tube is plastic, flexible, and in this cased coiled in the round thingy. These pumps are used in science and medicine, when you need to keep the liquid away from mixing up with previous liquids (that could have been left in the internals of a traditional pump). This model supports different speeds and forward and backward direction.
