2009.1.1: This device was created by Richard Bowden when he was in high school (he grew up on the Bowden farm at Goodale's Corner in Orrington, ME, and graduated from Brewer High School in 1956). The bottom appendages would be fitted onto a gear or pulley to remove it from a shaft. The center bolt at the top, which is missing, would be turned into the center of the round shaft, with the appendages grasping the back side of the pulley. "When the center bolt is tightened against the center of the shaft, it pulls the pulley or gear from the shaft," explains its creator. "Visualize a belt pulley on the front of an engine which drives the alternator, air conditioner compressor, power steering, etc.: The pulley needs to be removed from the shaft in order to replace an oil seal which has developed a leak..." Such a hand-made device embodies Maine's propensity for solving problems with both ingenuity and the materials at hand. From the farm of Donald and Thelma Bowden, Goodale's Corner, Orrington, ME., steel, c. 1956.