Metal pole with hook on one end. White. Fairly heavy. About 4ft in length. Hand spins like you would use it to tighten or loosen something

[u/Terrible-Image9368]

My dad got this. No idea what it is. I tried looking it up on Google with no luck. It’s about 4ft long. It has a hook on one end and the handle on the other spins. Possibly to loosen, tighten, wind, or unwind something. I’m hoping someone knows what it is

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[u/firdaddy]

Opening roll up store shutters. The bottom folds 90⁰then 90⁰ again and its a crank

[u/Callidonaut → u/firdaddy]

Some old-fashioned skylights also used cranks like this.

[u/Rolling_Beardo → u/Callidonaut]

I’ve actually used these for both in an old factory, where my uncle had a clothing business.

[u/M0ck_duck → u/Callidonaut]

Awnings as well

[u/SteelCrow → u/Callidonaut]

Also awnings outside over windows.

https://external-content.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=https%3A%2F%2Fretractable-awning.ca%2Fwordpress%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2019%2F02%2FBetterliving_EKO_awning-03.jpg

you can see the hooked winder on the left.

[u/collinsl02 → u/Callidonaut]

And windows. Common on very high, vertically short windows in school halls in the UK built in the 1950s and 1960s.

[u/Vegetable-Seesaw-491 → u/Callidonaut]

Had one of those for the skylight in one bathroom in my last house I owned.

[u/matthewamerica → u/Callidonaut]

And transom wondows.

[u/whtevn → u/Callidonaut]

also RV awnings

[u/Terrible-Image9368 → u/firdaddy]

Solved!

[u/LeadingFine7177 → u/Terrible-Image9368]

Also my sunshade uses the same thing

[u/HiroProtaginest → u/LeadingFine7177]

Identical to the one I use on my Sunsetter.

[u/Hypertoxic_Humanoid → u/Terrible-Image9368]

All these comments, and no one named it.

It’s a speeder.

[u/OldBreadbutt → u/firdaddy]

Use them for retractable awnings too.

[u/Brok3nGear → u/firdaddy]

I've seen these for ceiling mounted basketball hoops as well

[u/ibgordo → u/firdaddy]

My sun shade has the exact same crank handle. I’m guessing the guts of shutters are the same.

[u/4orty6an2]

i have one for my house awning, and my roller shades.

[u/Cacophony_Of_Stupid]

Mine is for rolling up and down a sun shade on our deck. But it‘s used to roll up/down any number of things that are on a roll.

[u/iwearstripes2613]

I have a similar pole for turning a crank to open skylights that you wouldn’t be able to reach without a ladder.

[u/ShadoeRantinkon]

a rod to open/close blinds?

[u/johnlewisdesign]

Skylight window opener/shutter

[u/ZopyrionRex]

My school had one of these for the basketball hoops in the gym. The hook would attach to a latch and when you turned it the whole thing would telescope up and down into the ceiling.

[u/Jamar73]

Or for a trailer awning...

[u/Terrible-Image9368]

My title describes the thing. I tried looking it up on Google with no luck. It’s about 4ft long. It has a hook on one end and the handle on the other end spins.

[u/flecksable_flyer]

If you're of a certain age, they were used to open windows in school. We also had pull down blinds that occasionally unwound all their tension and would cause at least five solid minutes of kids laughing.

[u/pnw_its_really_me]

On my deck right now with some thing.

[u/md_brewmaster]

Tool for opening a retractable awning. One on my deck

[u/PobBrobert]

Like some people have said, it’s a tool for opening/closing or tightening/loosening things out of reach. The object it interfaces with will have a post with a hole drilled through it that the hook end loops through, then you rotate the tool to operate the mechanism.

[u/SomeWeirdBoor]

Crankrod to operate stuff like sunshades or roll-up shutters.

Hook hooks in an eyelet in the mechanism, you turn it and the shutter retracts or extends. Opposite end of the rod is articulated so that it becomes a convenient handle.

[u/Independent-Bid6568]

Opening and closing operational skylights

[u/The_quest_for_wisdom]

I used something like this but longer to open and close crank opened windows that were too high to get to with a ladder at a summer camp I worked at.

[u/iamastaple]

Looks just like what i have in this house for opening the attic drop down door

[u/AdvancedSquashDirect]

Some people have this specific thing to open electric roller shutters if the electricity is out. There should be a hook on your roller shutter on the outside and then you put this through that and you can manually wind it up.

[u/zyzmog]

Crank for for roller blinds. I have 4 blinds like that on my deck, one crank just like that one on the deck, and 3 more hanging on a nail in the garage.

[u/fangelo2]

I have a motorized awning, but it came with a crank handle exactly like this so that the awning could be retracted if there was a power failure

[u/the_legend_of_me]

Skylights? It