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"R.H."

05/07/2007 6:17 AM

What is it? CLXXVII

Set 177 has just been posted:

http://puzzlephotos.blogspot.com/


Rob


This topic has 18 replies

jj

in reply to "R.H." on 05/07/2007 6:17 AM

05/07/2007 3:48 AM

1025: Spoke wrench, probably for an automobile wheel, seems too large
for a bicycle.

Rr

RicodJour

in reply to "R.H." on 05/07/2007 6:17 AM

05/07/2007 5:19 AM

On Jul 5, 6:17 am, "R.H." <[email protected]> wrote:
> Set 177 has just been posted:

125. spoke wrench - motorcycle or car
126. secret death ray installation prior to introduction of stealth
cloaking technology
127. Stanley core box plane
128. big ass orrery
129. I should know what it is - I don't
130. looks like a fancy speed indicator

R

SR

Stephen Robinson

in reply to "R.H." on 05/07/2007 6:17 AM

05/07/2007 6:57 PM

[email protected] wrote:
> 1025: Spoke wrench, probably for an automobile wheel, seems too large
> for a bicycle.
>
Yep, I was using one today!!! Motorcycle wheel spoke wrench.

AT

"Alexander Thesoso"

in reply to "R.H." on 05/07/2007 6:17 AM

05/07/2007 10:18 AM

1028 Orrery

1030 Palm Gun


"R.H." <[email protected]> wrote in message
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> Set 177 has just been posted:
>
> http://puzzlephotos.blogspot.com/
>
>
> Rob

PC

"Pete C."

in reply to "R.H." on 05/07/2007 6:17 AM

05/07/2007 2:34 PM

"R.H." wrote:
>
> Set 177 has just been posted:
>
> http://puzzlephotos.blogspot.com/
>
> Rob

#1029 appears to be a cable / wire pulling grip. Probably an old style
as the "Chinese finger" style woven wire grips are most prevalent these
days.

SR

"Steve R."

in reply to "R.H." on 05/07/2007 6:17 AM

05/07/2007 5:04 PM


"R.H." <[email protected]> wrote in message
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> Set 177 has just been posted:
>
> http://puzzlephotos.blogspot.com/
>
>
> Rob


1025: Spoke wrench. The steps allow it to fit several different sizes.

1028: Orrery, named after Lord Orrery, who owned the first one.

1030: Repeating muff pistol, or palm pistol.


SR

"Steve R."

in reply to "R.H." on 05/07/2007 6:17 AM

05/07/2007 5:07 PM


"Stephen Robinson" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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> [email protected] wrote:
>> 1025: Spoke wrench, probably for an automobile wheel, seems too large
>> for a bicycle.
>>
> Yep, I was using one today!!! Motorcycle wheel spoke wrench.

It is indeed! I have one in my tool box. I trued, and laced quite a few
motorcycle wheels with it.


Steve R. (once a Harley wrench)



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"R.H."

in reply to "R.H." on 05/07/2007 6:17 AM

05/07/2007 9:35 PM


> 1025) Hmm ... what's the material here?

It's metal, several people got the answer - motorcycle spoke wrench.


> 1029) Do you mean a 3/4" long screw into the block from each end of
> the hole, since it appears to me that there are actually four
> holes, but both ends of each are visible in the surface. (Plus
> another four holes in the bottom which was not mentioned.)


Pete got this one right, it's a cable grip for pulling cable through
conduit. Each of the bottom holes are connected to two holes on the side,
so the cable goes in the bottom and the screws are then tightened to secure
it.


Rob

Rr

"R.H."

in reply to "R.H." on 05/07/2007 6:17 AM

06/07/2007 5:34 PM

They've all been answered correctly this week, though I'm still not sure if
the navigation station is a VOR or VORTAC type, I'm going with VOR for now.
More details on the rest can be seen here:

http://pzphotosan177-xt.blogspot.com/

The link for the core box plane is the same one posted by Scott in this
thread.


Rob

GB

Gary Brady

in reply to "R.H." on 05/07/2007 6:17 AM

05/07/2007 12:08 PM

R.H. wrote:
> Set 177 has just been posted:
>
> http://puzzlephotos.blogspot.com/
>
>
> Rob
1026. VOR (Visual Observation Reference)

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[email protected] (DoN. Nichols)

in reply to "R.H." on 05/07/2007 6:17 AM

05/07/2007 8:09 PM

According to R.H. <[email protected]>:
> Set 177 has just been posted:
>
> http://puzzlephotos.blogspot.com/

O.K. As usual, posting from rec.crafts.metalworking.

1025) Hmm ... what's the material here? It sort of looks like
Bakelite or some other early fairly rigid plastic.

If that is the material, I think that it is a gauge for
measuring something like perhaps wire sizes. I see that odd
sizes are on one end and even sizes on the other. And like wire
sizes, the larger the number, the smaller the size.

Presumably, the key part of the maker's name (preceding
"PRODUCTS" on the handle) has been blurred out by Photoshop or
the like.

It *almost* looks like a wrench, but the final size slot is not
deep enough, and the thickness is a bit too great to be
reasonable for one made of steel.

1026) This looks like a VOR (VHF Omni-Range) aircraft navigation aid,
and I have seen them (as a kid) in a ranch surrounded by cattle.
Perhaps even a VORTAC (add TACAN to the mix), which I think came
out after the time I visited the site as a kid.

1027) A plane for squaring the meeting point of two sides at about 90
degrees. (There is an adjustment for dealing with small
mismatches.)

1028) Orrey? (Not sure that I have the spelling right, and my
spelling checker does not know that word. :-)

1029) Do you mean a 3/4" long screw into the block from each end of
the hole, since it appears to me that there are actually four
holes, but both ends of each are visible in the surface. (Plus
another four holes in the bottom which was not mentioned.)

At a guess, it is some kind of counterbalance weight which can be
tuned by removing screws and replacing them with shorter or
longer ones -- or even trapping lead shot between the ends of
two screws coming into the same hole from both ends.

1030) Some form of wheel-lock pistol -- in which the disk rotating
runs hardened steel past flint to make sparks to light off the
powder?

Or maybe some form of shot or powder dispenser. I think that it
is firearms related in any case.

Now to see what others think.

Enjoy,
DoN.
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[email protected] (DoN. Nichols)

in reply to "R.H." on 05/07/2007 6:17 AM

07/07/2007 3:24 AM

According to Scott Lurndal <[email protected]>:
> [email protected] (DoN. Nichols) writes:
>
> >1027) A plane for squaring the meeting point of two sides at about 90
> > degrees. (There is an adjustment for dealing with small
> > mismatches.)
>
> Strangely enough, this plane is designed to create a trough lengthwise
> in a piece of stock with a semicircular profile.

Interesting -- and following your web site link I see how it is
used.

> Stanley #57. See more here: <http://www.supertool.com/StanleyBG/stan8.htm>
>
> Note the first description line of the #56 :-)

I like a lot of that fellow's writing. He has his tongue nicely
in cheek. :-)

Enjoy,
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Barbara Bailey

in reply to "R.H." on 05/07/2007 6:17 AM

05/07/2007 8:07 AM

On Thu, 5 Jul 2007 06:17:15 -0400, "R.H." <[email protected]> wrote:

>Set 177 has just been posted:
>
>http://puzzlephotos.blogspot.com/
>
>
>Rob


1030 is a palm pistol


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John Husvar

in reply to "R.H." on 05/07/2007 6:17 AM

05/07/2007 12:14 PM

In article <[email protected]>,
"R.H." <[email protected]> wrote:

> Set 177 has just been posted:
>
> http://puzzlephotos.blogspot.com/
>
>
> Rob

VORTAC installation. VHF Omni-Ranging. Provides a radio navigation aid
to pilots. Have one a few miles from my place.

I forget what the TAC stands for now.

HR

Howard R Garner

in reply to "R.H." on 05/07/2007 6:17 AM

05/07/2007 7:01 AM

R.H. wrote:
> Set 177 has just been posted:
>
> http://puzzlephotos.blogspot.com/
>
>
> Rob
1026 - radio transmitter - aircraft related.

KM

"Kerry Montgomery"

in reply to "R.H." on 05/07/2007 6:17 AM

06/07/2007 3:55 AM


"RicodJour" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> On Jul 5, 6:17 am, "R.H." <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Set 177 has just been posted:
>
> 125. spoke wrench - motorcycle or car
> 126. secret death ray installation prior to introduction of stealth
> cloaking technology
> 127. Stanley core box plane
> 128. big ass orrery
> 129. I should know what it is - I don't
> 130. looks like a fancy speed indicator
>
> R
>
R,
By the rules, that'd have to be:
128. bigassorrery
Kerry

sS

[email protected] (Scott Lurndal)

in reply to "R.H." on 05/07/2007 6:17 AM

06/07/2007 5:36 PM

[email protected] (DoN. Nichols) writes:

>1027) A plane for squaring the meeting point of two sides at about 90
> degrees. (There is an adjustment for dealing with small
> mismatches.)

Strangely enough, this plane is designed to create a trough lengthwise
in a piece of stock with a semicircular profile.

Stanley #57. See more here: <http://www.supertool.com/StanleyBG/stan8.htm>

Note the first description line of the #56 :-)

scott

Bb

Bruce

in reply to "R.H." on 05/07/2007 6:17 AM

06/07/2007 11:31 AM

On Thu, 5 Jul 2007 17:04:59 -0700, "Steve R." <[email protected]>
wrote:

>
>"R.H." <[email protected]> wrote in message
>news:[email protected]...
>> Set 177 has just been posted:
>>
>> http://puzzlephotos.blogspot.com/
>>
>>
>> Rob
>
>
>1025: Spoke wrench. The steps allow it to fit several different sizes.
>
>1028: Orrery, named after Lord Orrery, who owned the first one.
>
>1030: Repeating muff pistol, or palm pistol.
>
>
1030 is a "Chicago Firearms Company "Protector", commonly called a
"palm pistol". With approximately 70% original finish and in good
mechanical condition it wold be worth between 2500 and 3000 dollars.

Bruce in Bangkok
(brucepaigeatgmaildotcom)

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