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Dizerens5

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Re: $5000 "O" Ring
« Reply #15 on: January 26, 2013, 03:52:10 PM »
And who now knows what a tommy-bar is? Or a pom-pom grease gun?
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Offline Barry

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Re: $5000 "O" Ring
« Reply #16 on: January 26, 2013, 04:30:44 PM »
A Tommy bar is used to turn the box spanner you mentioned earlier or the axle mentioned here http://www.bmwr65.org/cgi-bin/yabb2/YaBB.pl?num=1356044074/4#4


I presume the grease gun is the telescopic push type. Got one of those too
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Re: $5000 "O" Ring
« Reply #17 on: January 27, 2013, 03:00:22 AM »
Pom Pom was a nick name for the Royal Navy ship mounted Anti Aircraft guns in WW2 presumably due to the noise they made when fired, never heard a grease gun being referred to as Pom Pom though.

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Dizerens5

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Re: $5000 "O" Ring
« Reply #18 on: January 27, 2013, 08:49:47 AM »
I also have one of those old little brass grease guns. Works perfectly with a bit of rag over the business end to make a seal! I often also wondered why they were called "pom-pom". Well, it was 50 years ago and many of the users would have seen service in WW2 and seen plenty of guns in action. Maybe the telescopic action of the grease gun reminded them of the recoil mechanism of an AA gun.
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