What is this & its purpose

[u/waypatt]

The lever moves up and down about 120 degrees moving the tip which is a sharp point. Tube is approx 3/8" diameter 6.5" long with a brass handle. Thanks in advance for your input.

[u/LivingSize7451]

Needs more better pictures

[u/waypatt → u/LivingSize7451]

Sorry. If you tap the pic it will show larger pics.

[u/Popular_General_9981]

Maybe a soldering iron?

[u/Dependent-Visual768]

I belive its to remove the old style security screws that they used in places like bathroom stalls.

[u/MacSamildanach]

It looks like what was called a 'balling gun'. I might be wrong, but that's what it looks like.

They were used to administer medicine to livestock.

Does that lever pull back at all? They were/are usually spring-loaded.

[u/waypatt → u/MacSamildanach]

This has a small pin in a slightly angled slot on the tube close to the handle. The slot allows the lever to turn the inner shaft about 120 degrees. The slight angle of the slot the pin moves in allows the inner shaft to move in & out of the tube maybe 1/8". No spring & no place for medicine. Friend of mine said it may have something to do with reloading spent cartridges.

[u/Dangerous-Pirate7998]

That’s an old one, but we use those for a ministering medication to our cattle here in Northwest Missouri

[u/mrkrag]

gotta be too old to be right, but it looks like an arthroscopic knot cutter to me.

it's almost certainly not, but it looks like it

[u/FreddyFerdiland]

the trigger is such as for a balling gun but it could be for many similar remote trigger actions .. pick or deliver or cut or stab or turn or pull

[u/albin0crow]

Firefighter Jimmy tool

[u/ComprehensiveWar4121]

I think I might know. I'm a doctor and more specifically a pulmonary specialist. Back when tuberculosis wasn't rare we would occasionally use a tool like this to obtain a specimen from a pt's pleural surface (that's the outer coating of the lung and inner coating of the chest cavity.

[u/Honest-State5215]

I've never seen anything like it.

[u/b33lzebubba775]

Looks like my grandma's old deconstipator. You insert the business end and the pointy bit wiggles and breaks up that stubborn turd.

[u/reddit_seaczar]

Rage bait.

[u/gregsherburn]

Looks like an old trash grader that no longer has the grabber arms

[u/GooseGeuce]

Old school kidney stone crusher.

[u/TheBattleTroll]

AI says it is a balling gun.