sawney beane wrote:
> Howard R Garner wrote:
> > R.H. wrote:
> >> Another set has just been posted:
> >>
> >> http://puzzlephotos.blogspot.com/
> >>
> >>
> >> Rob
> >>
> >>
> > 708 Gage for railroad wheels, used by my dad as a car inspector.
> Do you know what the various parts of the gage measured? Was his a
> Pratt & Whitney?
>
> The name made me imagine the four gaps were to check diameters or
> thicknesses in overhauling or building an airplane engine.
I was also thinking engines. I think 708 is a go/no-go gauge for
checking tubing diameter either bent or 'blended' with a file.
I'm guessing Russian mils. 6,000 in a circle. Here's a link:
http://www.boomershoot.org/general/mils.htm
Karl
R.H. wrote:
> > 711 looks a lot like the top of that metal semicircle that holds an
> > ordinary world globe, but 6000 what? It should be 90 degrees, so
> > that's probably not it.
>
>
> I'll go ahead and partly answer #711: you are correct, it's the
> top of the frame of a world globe. I saw three other globes this week and
> all of them had degrees on both sides of the frame; only the globe in the
> photo had degrees on one side and different markings on the other. I'll
> give the answer to why it has the number 6000 on it in a couple days if no
> one gets it.
>
> Rob
Using this and the hint that it's used outdoors at a farm or ranch,
could this tool be used for installing a barbed wire fence? I'm not
sure what the ends would be used for, but the notches on the inside
could be used to hold the wire in place with the curve in the tool
wrapping around the fencepost. While the tool holds the wire in place,
you can secure the wire to the post.
-Eric
R.H. wrote:
> > 709) Two large forks at the ends, and smaller ones along the
> > handle. The larger ones may be for prying apart things which
> > snap together. The smaller ones *might* be for pulling clear
> > safety wire which had previously been twisted into a hole in a
> > nut or bolt head.
>
> Part of this answer is close.
>
> Rob
Looks like I was wrong but I learned something I didn't know at that
site so that was good.
Karl
John Husvar wrote:
> In article <[email protected]>,
> "[email protected]" <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > I'm guessing Russian mils. 6,000 in a circle. Here's a link:
> > http://www.boomershoot.org/general/mils.htm
> > Karl
> >
> >
> > R.H. wrote:
> > > > 711 looks a lot like the top of that metal semicircle that holds an
> > > > ordinary world globe, but 6000 what? It should be 90 degrees, so
> > > > that's probably not it.
> > >
> > >
> > > I'll go ahead and partly answer #711: you are correct, it's the
> > > top of the frame of a world globe. I saw three other globes this week and
> > > all of them had degrees on both sides of the frame; only the globe in the
> > > photo had degrees on one side and different markings on the other. I'll
> > > give the answer to why it has the number 6000 on it in a couple days if no
> > > one gets it.
> > >
> > > Rob
>
> Nice link!
>
> Really makes the Minute Of Angle concept much clearer.
> Thanks.
>
> --
> Bring back, Oh bring back
> Oh, bring back that old continuity.
> Bring back, oh, bring back
> Oh, bring back Clerk Maxwell to me.
Rich Grise writes:
> 711 looks a lot like the top of that metal semicircle that holds an
> ordinary world globe, but 6000 what? It should be 90 degrees, so
> that's probably not it.
I suggest it's 6000 grams, in which case the object is a smallish scale
like these:
http://www.northerntool.com/images/product/images/19393_lg.jpg
http://www.aardvarkclay.com/catalog_pics/scales/spring_scale.jpg
but made with the general layout of this big one
http://www.fuhshyh.com/gif/product-1b.jpg
to allow for a larger dial, which in this case rotates through perhaps
1/4 circle, not a full circle, and has its needle out in the open.
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My text in this article is in the public domain.
On Sun, 09 Jul 2006 02:23:16 GMT, Lew Hodgett <[email protected]>
wrote:
>Scott wrote:
>
> >We'd use a block-n-tackle come-along to tension the
> >wire.
>
>God do you bring back memories.
>
>The rope was 3 strand manila and rough as a cob.
>
Yep, and making sure that the clamp stayed attached to the wire was a
trick. Always had to get the wire hauled a bit tighter than needed because
you knew you'd lose some tension between the stretcher and the post onto
which you were tying the wire.
Those were even more fun with woven wire fences like hog wire. I made a
clamp out of a couple of 1 x 4's to get reasonably even tension among all
of the strands.
>Lew
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"R.H." <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
>
>> 711 looks a lot like the top of that metal semicircle that holds an
>> ordinary world globe, but 6000 what? It should be 90 degrees, so
>> that's probably not it.
>
>
> I'll go ahead and partly answer #711: you are correct, it's the
> top of the frame of a world globe. I saw three other globes this week and
> all of them had degrees on both sides of the frame; only the globe in the
> photo had degrees on one side and different markings on the other. I'll
> give the answer to why it has the number 6000 on it in a couple days if no
> one gets it.
>
> Rob
>
>
>
Miles from equator?
Mark & Juanita wrote:
> On Sun, 09 Jul 2006 02:23:16 GMT, Lew Hodgett <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
>> Scott wrote:
>>
>>> We'd use a block-n-tackle come-along to tension the
>>> wire.
>> God do you bring back memories.
>>
>> The rope was 3 strand manila and rough as a cob.
>>
>
> Yep, and making sure that the clamp stayed attached to the wire was a
> trick. Always had to get the wire hauled a bit tighter than needed because
> you knew you'd lose some tension between the stretcher and the post onto
> which you were tying the wire.
>
> Those were even more fun with woven wire fences like hog wire. I made a
> clamp out of a couple of 1 x 4's to get reasonably even tension among all
> of the strands.
>
>
With woven wire I'd pull and fasten the top strand first, then work my
way down, keeping the strands lined up vertically where I stapled them.
That required me to lug a minimum of tools. Then I'd restore tension
to all strands by walking along and using two pairs of pliers to tighten
the ripples.
Tightening was a leisurely activity. It left a fence so straight that I
could I could see from a distance if everything was okay. The ripples
allowed stretching if a limb fell on the fence, and the ripples could
easily be retightened.
sawney beane wrote:
> Howard R Garner wrote:
>
>> R.H. wrote:
>>
>>> Another set has just been posted:
>>>
>>> http://puzzlephotos.blogspot.com/
>>>
>>>
>>> Rob
>>>
>>>
>> 708 Gage for railroad wheels, used by my dad as a car inspector.
>
> Do you know what the various parts of the gage measured? Was his a
> Pratt & Whitney?
>
Photo and instructions have been posted.
<www.cwrail.com/wheelgage.jpg>
<www.cwrail.com/wheelgage1.jpg>
<www.cwrail.com/wheelgage2.jpg>
<www.cwrail.com/wheelgage3.jpg>
Howard R Garner wrote:
> R.H. wrote:
>> Another set has just been posted:
>>
>> http://puzzlephotos.blogspot.com/
>>
>>
>> Rob
>>
>>
> 708 Gage for railroad wheels, used by my dad as a car inspector.
Do you know what the various parts of the gage measured? Was his a
Pratt & Whitney?
The name made me imagine the four gaps were to check diameters or
thicknesses in overhauling or building an airplane engine.
|> R.H. wrote:
|> 711 looks a lot like the top of that metal semicircle that holds an
|> ordinary world globe, but 6000 what? It should be 90 degrees, so
|> that's probably not it.
| I'll go ahead and partly answer #711: you are correct, it's the
| top of the frame of a world globe. I saw three other globes this week and
| all of them had degrees on both sides of the frame; only the globe in the
| photo had degrees on one side and different markings on the other. I'll
| give the answer to why it has the number 6000 on it in a couple days if no
| one gets it.
Could it be the measurement in mils? There're 6400 mils in a circle.
What are the other gradients shown? ____________________________Gerard S.
Howard R Garner wrote:
> sawney beane wrote:
>> Howard R Garner wrote:
>>
>>> R.H. wrote:
>>>
>>>> Another set has just been posted:
>>>>
>>>> http://puzzlephotos.blogspot.com/
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Rob
>>>>
>>>>
>>> 708 Gage for railroad wheels, used by my dad as a car inspector.
>>
>> Do you know what the various parts of the gage measured? Was his a
>> Pratt & Whitney?
>>
> Photo and instructions have been posted.
>
> <www.cwrail.com/wheelgage.jpg>
> <www.cwrail.com/wheelgage1.jpg>
> <www.cwrail.com/wheelgage2.jpg>
> <www.cwrail.com/wheelgage3.jpg>
>
>
Thank you! To a curious reader, those pictures were like four big
slices of cake, hot from the oven.
"R.H." <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
>
> 712. Hint: "_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ driver's tool", eight letters in the first
> word
Backseat driver's tool ;-)
Carl G.
Mark & Juanita wrote:
> Yep, and making sure that the clamp stayed attached to the wire was a
> trick. Always had to get the wire hauled a bit tighter than needed
> because
>> you knew you'd lose some tension between the stretcher and the
post onto
> which you were tying the wire.
> Those were even more fun with woven wire fences like hog wire.
Ah yes, hog wire, I still remember helping my dad string it.
We had a big old brood sow that could give a fence a good test.
The metal intermediate posts weren't to bad; but, the corners and
those locust post.
Ever try to drive a staple into a locust post?
Might as well try driving them into steel.
Lew
"Eric Porter" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> Using this and the hint that it's used outdoors at a farm or ranch,
> could this tool be used for installing a barbed wire fence? I'm not
> sure what the ends would be used for, but the notches on the inside
> could be used to hold the wire in place with the curve in the tool
> wrapping around the fencepost. While the tool holds the wire in place,
> you can secure the wire to the post.
When I bought this tool I didn't know what it was for, then last week I saw
another one just like it marked "barbed wire stretching tool". I haven't
been able to verify this, but as you mention it seems that the slots in the
side would work well at holding the barbs for stretching the wire.
Rob
"Scott Lurndal" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> "Eric Porter" <[email protected]> writes:
> >Using this and the hint that it's used outdoors at a farm or ranch,
> >could this tool be used for installing a barbed wire fence? I'm not
> >sure what the ends would be used for, but the notches on the inside
> >could be used to hold the wire in place with the curve in the tool
> >wrapping around the fencepost. While the tool holds the wire in place,
> >you can secure the wire to the post.
>
> Doesn't look like any fencing pliers or come-along that I
> used to install barbed wire fencing, but then that was more
> than 30 years ago, too.
>
> scott
I have no idea how old this tool is, there isn't a single letter or number
on it that I can see. I'm planning to use the links below on the answer
page, the first is a collage of about a hundred different types of barbed
wire:
http://www.barbwiremuseum.com/Barbed_wire_collage.htm
This next link gives a few details on some specific types:
http://www.barbwiremuseum.com/barbedwireimages.htm
I'm thinking that with so many different kinds of barbed wire there must
also be quite a few different and unusual tools for working with them, so
I'll probably go with the barbed wire answer for now until I find evidence
that it's something else. I've sent a couple emails to some barbed wire
museums, maybe one of them will recognize it.
Rob
"Eric Porter" <[email protected]> writes:
>Using this and the hint that it's used outdoors at a farm or ranch,
>could this tool be used for installing a barbed wire fence? I'm not
>sure what the ends would be used for, but the notches on the inside
>could be used to hold the wire in place with the curve in the tool
>wrapping around the fencepost. While the tool holds the wire in place,
>you can secure the wire to the post.
Doesn't look like any fencing pliers or come-along that I
used to install barbed wire fencing, but then that was more
than 30 years ago, too.
scott
Andy Asberry <[email protected]> wrote in
news:[email protected]:
> On Thu, 06 Jul 2006 08:35:10 -0700, Roger Haar
> <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>>Hi,
>>
>>710 is upside down in the top two photos, but correctly oriented in
>>the bottom photo. This thing sits at the free end of a sickle bar
>>mower for hay, or a reaper cutter, or a combine cutter head. It helps
>>the bar float with changes in the ground's surface and separates what
>>will be cut with what will not be cut. The front point pivots to aid
>>in the floating.
>>
>>
>>Thanks,
>> Roger Haar (a different RH)
>> Tucson, AZ
>>
>>
> This is correct. It is called a shoe. Sometimes there is one on both
> ends of the cutter bar. The one near the pittman arm is the inside
> shoe and the other is the outside or land shoe.
>
> To early farmers, any dividing of a field was "laying off a land."
> Laying off a smaller tract was done for a couple of reasons. At the
> rate of a few acres per day, it might me all a farmer could till
> before the planting or growing season passed. And, secondly, some
> progress could be seen in plowing a smaller tract; the psychological
> benefit of seeing an end to a task.
>
> --Andy Asberry recommends NewsGuy--
Very interesting! Thanks very much. When my wife read this it sparked
some childhood memories of her father talking about the shoe on the
combine.
Gary (who sent in the photo)
Bill Marrs wrote:
> Yup. But what is it CALLED? Driving myself nuts here--the thing has a
> name!
> I remember them a lot more from combines than from mowers. They lifted any
> down
> crop off of the ground. Spent many a day looking down from the operators
> platform
> at a whole row of them. Just can't remember what the name of the part is.
>
>
> "Roger Haar" <[email protected]> wrote in message
> news:[email protected]...
>
>>Hi,
>>
>>710 is upside down in the top two photos, but correctly oriented in the
>>bottom photo. This thing sits at the free end of a sickle bar mower for
>>hay, or a reaper cutter, or a combine cutter head. It helps the bar float
>>with changes in the ground's surface and separates what will be cut with
>>what will not be cut. The front point pivots to aid in the floating.
>>
>>
>>Thanks,
>> Roger Haar (a different RH)
>> Tucson, AZ
>>
>>
>>R.H. wrote:
>>
>>>Another set has just been posted:
>>>
>>>http://puzzlephotos.blogspot.com/
>>>
>>>
>>>Rob
>>>
>
>
They are called lifters. This is a floating lifter with a pivot. Some
were rigid without the pivot.
They are used to lift the crop being cut. They are installed about a
foot apart on the cutter bar.
This lifter was not a divider or used to support the cutter bar.
>
> The fencing pliers we used were like 2T-1900 at
> <http://www.hooverfence.com/tools/fence-pliers.htm>
>
> We'd use a block-n-tackle come-along to tension the
> wire.
>
> scott
I looked again at what was marked on the other similar tool and it read
"barbed wire wrapping tool", I'm guessing that it means wrapping it in coils
or on spools.
The answer for number 712: carriage driver's tool, the part on the upper
left is a hoof pick and the hex is probably for adjusting a carbide lamp,
not sure about the other two parts.
Rob
Hi,
710 is upside down in the top two photos, but correctly oriented in the
bottom photo. This thing sits at the free end of a sickle bar mower for
hay, or a reaper cutter, or a combine cutter head. It helps the bar
float with changes in the ground's surface and separates what will be
cut with what will not be cut. The front point pivots to aid in the
floating.
Thanks,
Roger Haar (a different RH)
Tucson, AZ
R.H. wrote:
> Another set has just been posted:
>
> http://puzzlephotos.blogspot.com/
>
>
> Rob
>
>
According to R.H. <[email protected]>:
> Another set has just been posted:
>
> http://puzzlephotos.blogspot.com/
O.K. Posting from rec.crafts.metalworking as usual.
A bit late, because of a busy day.
708) Looks like a gauge for thickness. 15/16" and 1-1/16" marked for
the two largest ones. No marking (at least on this side) for the
two smaller ones, which are perhaps near 1/4" and 3/16".
The notches on the back edge are for measuring something else.
Perhaps it is a gauge for setting up a machine made by P&W.
709) Two large forks at the ends, and smaller ones along the
handle. The larger ones may be for prying apart things which
snap together. The smaller ones *might* be for pulling clear
safety wire which had previously been twisted into a hole in a
nut or bolt head.
710) Perhaps some kind of point for breaking up sod? I'm not sure
why it would be hinged -- perhaps to clear better when backing
out?
711) It doesn't quite look familiar. The "6000" is part of some
sort of arc-shaped scale, which suggests a pivoted pointer.
It looks die-cast, and thus not particularly strong.
712) combination hex wrench and some sort of prying tool, for
disassembling something, I would guess, but I have no idea what.
713) Hmm ... looks like a cheap version of the J66 tool for punching
down connections on phone termination blocks.
A good collection of difficult to identify things today.
Now to see what others have said.
Enjoy,
DoN.
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According to R.H. <[email protected]>:
>
> > 711 looks a lot like the top of that metal semicircle that holds an
> > ordinary world globe, but 6000 what? It should be 90 degrees, so
> > that's probably not it.
>
>
> I'll go ahead and partly answer #711: you are correct, it's the
> top of the frame of a world globe. I saw three other globes this week and
> all of them had degrees on both sides of the frame; only the globe in the
> photo had degrees on one side and different markings on the other. I'll
> give the answer to why it has the number 6000 on it in a couple days if no
> one gets it.
Well ... a quarter of the circumference of the world is about
6250 miles, and the scale stops short of the pole, so I would guess that
that is the distance from the equator -- or if the globe is one of those
designed to be free of an axis, it allows you to measure the
great-circle distance between two points which are less than a quarter
of the circumference apart -- or by adding the value to the South of the
equator, you could cover a distance of nearly 12000 miles great circle
distance.
Enjoy,
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sawney beane wrote:
> Howard R Garner wrote:
>> R.H. wrote:
>>> Another set has just been posted:
>>>
>>> http://puzzlephotos.blogspot.com/
>>>
>>>
>>> Rob
>>>
>>>
>> 708 Gage for railroad wheels, used by my dad as a car inspector.
> Do you know what the various parts of the gage measured? Was his a
> Pratt & Whitney?
>
> The name made me imagine the four gaps were to check diameters or
> thicknesses in overhauling or building an airplane engine.
FWIW, the Pratt & Whitney Company, which makes (or made--not sure if they're
still in business) machine tools is a different company from Pratt &
Whitney Aircraft that makes aircraft engines. The relationship is that the
aircraft engine manufacturer was started in the Pratt & Whitney building
using a loan from the company and the right to use the name for aircraft
engines, but at no time were they they under the same ownership.
--
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"R.H." <[email protected]> writes:
>Another set has just been posted:
>
>http://puzzlephotos.blogspot.com/
>
>
>Rob
>
>
#710 My guess is that this rode on the outside end of a
mower sickle or perhaps a binder and kept the sickle
a consistent spacing from the ground.
#715 A punchdown tool, but not the standard 66 used with
older style phone blocks, or the standard 110 used with
modern Cat5 wiring systems.
In article <[email protected]>,
"[email protected]" <[email protected]> wrote:
> I'm guessing Russian mils. 6,000 in a circle. Here's a link:
> http://www.boomershoot.org/general/mils.htm
> Karl
>
>
> R.H. wrote:
> > > 711 looks a lot like the top of that metal semicircle that holds an
> > > ordinary world globe, but 6000 what? It should be 90 degrees, so
> > > that's probably not it.
> >
> >
> > I'll go ahead and partly answer #711: you are correct, it's the
> > top of the frame of a world globe. I saw three other globes this week and
> > all of them had degrees on both sides of the frame; only the globe in the
> > photo had degrees on one side and different markings on the other. I'll
> > give the answer to why it has the number 6000 on it in a couple days if no
> > one gets it.
> >
> > Rob
Nice link!
Really makes the Minute Of Angle concept much clearer.
Thanks.
--
Bring back, Oh bring back
Oh, bring back that old continuity.
Bring back, oh, bring back
Oh, bring back Clerk Maxwell to me.
"R.H." <[email protected]> writes:
>
>"Scott Lurndal" <[email protected]> wrote in message
>news:[email protected]...
>> "Eric Porter" <[email protected]> writes:
>> >Using this and the hint that it's used outdoors at a farm or ranch,
>> >could this tool be used for installing a barbed wire fence? I'm not
>> >sure what the ends would be used for, but the notches on the inside
>> >could be used to hold the wire in place with the curve in the tool
>> >wrapping around the fencepost. While the tool holds the wire in place,
>> >you can secure the wire to the post.
>>
>> Doesn't look like any fencing pliers or come-along that I
>> used to install barbed wire fencing, but then that was more
>> than 30 years ago, too.
>>
>> scott
>
>
>I have no idea how old this tool is, there isn't a single letter or number
>on it that I can see. I'm planning to use the links below on the answer
>page, the first is a collage of about a hundred different types of barbed
>wire:
>
>http://www.barbwiremuseum.com/Barbed_wire_collage.htm
>
>This next link gives a few details on some specific types:
>
>http://www.barbwiremuseum.com/barbedwireimages.htm
>
>I'm thinking that with so many different kinds of barbed wire there must
>also be quite a few different and unusual tools for working with them, so
>I'll probably go with the barbed wire answer for now until I find evidence
>that it's something else. I've sent a couple emails to some barbed wire
>museums, maybe one of them will recognize it.
>
>
>Rob
>
The fencing pliers we used were like 2T-1900 at
<http://www.hooverfence.com/tools/fence-pliers.htm>
We'd use a block-n-tackle come-along to tension the
wire.
scott
Yup. But what is it CALLED? Driving myself nuts here--the thing has a
name!
I remember them a lot more from combines than from mowers. They lifted any
down
crop off of the ground. Spent many a day looking down from the operators
platform
at a whole row of them. Just can't remember what the name of the part is.
"Roger Haar" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> Hi,
>
> 710 is upside down in the top two photos, but correctly oriented in the
> bottom photo. This thing sits at the free end of a sickle bar mower for
> hay, or a reaper cutter, or a combine cutter head. It helps the bar float
> with changes in the ground's surface and separates what will be cut with
> what will not be cut. The front point pivots to aid in the floating.
>
>
> Thanks,
> Roger Haar (a different RH)
> Tucson, AZ
>
>
> R.H. wrote:
>> Another set has just been posted:
>>
>> http://puzzlephotos.blogspot.com/
>>
>>
>> Rob
>>
On Thu, 06 Jul 2006 08:35:10 -0700, Roger Haar
<[email protected]> wrote:
>Hi,
>
>710 is upside down in the top two photos, but correctly oriented in the
>bottom photo. This thing sits at the free end of a sickle bar mower for
>hay, or a reaper cutter, or a combine cutter head. It helps the bar
>float with changes in the ground's surface and separates what will be
>cut with what will not be cut. The front point pivots to aid in the
>floating.
>
>
>Thanks,
> Roger Haar (a different RH)
> Tucson, AZ
>
>
This is correct. It is called a shoe. Sometimes there is one on both
ends of the cutter bar. The one near the pittman arm is the inside
shoe and the other is the outside or land shoe.
To early farmers, any dividing of a field was "laying off a land."
Laying off a smaller tract was done for a couple of reasons. At the
rate of a few acres per day, it might me all a farmer could till
before the planting or growing season passed. And, secondly, some
progress could be seen in plowing a smaller tract; the psychological
benefit of seeing an end to a task.
--Andy Asberry recommends NewsGuy--
Four of the six have been answered correctly:
708. Train wheel gage
709. Hint: Used outdoors on a farm or ranch.
710. Part of a sickle bar mower, thanks to all who helped solve this one.
711. The top of a globe frame, the number 6000 represents miles from the
equator.
712. Hint: "_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ driver's tool", eight letters in the first word
713. Quick connect impact insertion tool, for telephone tech.
Several new photos and links have been posted on the answer page:
http://pzphotosan124-1m.blogspot.com/
Rob
On Thu, 06 Jul 2006 09:19:07 +0000, R.H. wrote:
> Another set has just been posted:
>
> http://puzzlephotos.blogspot.com/
>
>
711 looks a lot like the top of that metal semicircle that holds an
ordinary world globe, but 6000 what? It should be 90 degrees, so
that's probably not it.
713 looks a lot like the thing that telephone guys use to shove the
wires into the patchboard terminals.
Thanks,
Rich
> 709) Two large forks at the ends, and smaller ones along the
> handle. The larger ones may be for prying apart things which
> snap together. The smaller ones *might* be for pulling clear
> safety wire which had previously been twisted into a hole in a
> nut or bolt head.
Part of this answer is close.
Rob
R.H. wrote:
>> 709) Two large forks at the ends, and smaller ones along the
>> handle. The larger ones may be for prying apart things which
>> snap together. The smaller ones *might* be for pulling clear
>> safety wire which had previously been twisted into a hole in a
>> nut or bolt head.
>
> Part of this answer is close.
>
> Rob
>
>
It looks like something I'd want in my tool box in certain situations.
The fingers along the sides would be good for picking up the loop at the
end of a tension spring to stretch it for installing or removal.
The forked ends would fit around two general rod diameters to pry and
compress a coil spring around the rod so that the key holding the spring
could be removed or installed.
> 711 looks a lot like the top of that metal semicircle that holds an
> ordinary world globe, but 6000 what? It should be 90 degrees, so
> that's probably not it.
I'll go ahead and partly answer #711: you are correct, it's the
top of the frame of a world globe. I saw three other globes this week and
all of them had degrees on both sides of the frame; only the globe in the
photo had degrees on one side and different markings on the other. I'll
give the answer to why it has the number 6000 on it in a couple days if no
one gets it.
Rob