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Today's Packing Extractors

Here are a few of the

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corkscrew

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packing extractors currently manufactured:

A. W. Chesterton, Woburn,

Massachusetts, offers Flexible Packing

Extractors

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designed for strong pull

packing removal.

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From advertising

copy we learn that they are

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Constructed of high strength aircraft

cable, precision heat-treated extracting

worm, and unbreakable rotary-swaged

assembly. Worm tips have plastic

protective coating. Large, smooth, easy-

grip handle. Furnished in sets of 4

tools.

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Allstate Gasket and Packing, Deer Park, New York, describes their product with

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Allstate Flexible Packing Hooks are

the most rugged tool available for

packing removal. The flexible shaft is

constructed of twisted steel cable

which easily conforms to close

working conditions. The corkscrew

tips are swaged on to the steel cable -

not welded like most other packing

hooks. Made of tempered steel, the

tips will not straighten out during

packing removal. Allstate packing

hooks reduce the time-consuming job

of repacking pumps and valves.

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The

range of sizes is from 7 1/2

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to 30

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Industrial Packing of Maine and

Washington offers

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Packing Tool Sets

designed to help the maintenance person

remove and install all forms of packing in

the shortest time possible. Flexible

Extractors feature replaceable ends and

your choice of corkscrew or woodscrew

tips.

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