"Alexander Thesoso" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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> I've never been in the tanning business, but from what I've read, the
> tanning process produces immensely bad smells. I guess, if you have
> burned out your nose, having a stinking process going on in the basement
> of your residence might not bother you. It might, however, bother guests.
>
>
>
> "Rob H." <[email protected]> wrote in message
> news:[email protected]...
>>
>> "Doug Miller" <[email protected]> wrote in message
>> news:[email protected]...
>>> In article <[email protected]>, "Rob H." <[email protected]>
>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>> http://55tools.blogspot.com/
>>>>
>>>>> 1901 - With two corners touching the foundation, I don't think it was
>>>>> originally intended to be so long. The rounded near corner suggests
>>>>> to
>>>>> me pushing things in and dragging them out.
>>>>No correct answers yet for this one, but this is the closest guess so
>>>>far.
>>>
>>
>>
>>> Tanning vat?
>>
>>
>> Good guess! This is correct.
>
>
that's what i thought too. "no way that's a tanning vat". wow. people in
the old days were tough huh?
b.w.
On 8 Apr, 10:42, "Rob H." <[email protected]> wrote:
> I need some help with the last one in this set:
>
> http://55tools.blogspot.com/
First one is a Heathkit self-build bathythermometer, which I think
they sold as a fish finder. It's a thermometer on a long cable, to
measure underwater temperatures and find fish that like to hang around
in inversion layers. Also works for submarines.
1897 - What the other say. lol It does appear to be left handed. The
dial may be used to pull the lead back in.
1898 - fish / fishing pliers
1899 - Manual Microfilm roller
1900 - Hay mover
1901 - 1280 air conditioning, allowed cool, moist air to circulate in
the house
1902 - Microfilm development container. Or a round hand plane.
Rob H. wrote:
> I need some help with the last one in this set:
>
> http://55tools.blogspot.com/
>
>
> Rob
1897 is some kind of Heathkit product, clearly for measuring some property
in a circuit or electronic device. The pull-out wire gets screwed somewhere
in the circuit and the large screw thing in the center of the device gets
attached to a ground point or something similar. What its measuring I dont
know, it doesn't look like the meter is graduated for ohms, amps or volts
(all of which tend to start at zero).
Google doesn't show any matches when I search for Heathkit.
1898 is a pair of pliers :)
"William Wixon" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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> "Rob H." <[email protected]> wrote in message
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>>
>>>> http://55tools.blogspot.com/
>>
>>> 1901 - With two corners touching the foundation, I don't think it was
>>> originally intended to be so long. The rounded near corner suggests to
>>> me pushing things in and dragging them out.
>>>
>>> I think it was for soaking lumber. It might have been for kyanizing,
>>> but I think it was for wood intended to be bent, such as for wheel
>>> felloes. Some were made from lumber larger than 2 x 4", which I suppose
>>> would require a long soak.
>>
>>
>>
>> No correct answers yet for this one, but this is the closest guess so
>> far.
>>
>>
>> Rob
>
>
>
> 1901. keeping milk cool.
>
oh, lloyd already guessed "refrigerator".
how about soaking flax? don't they soak flax prior to drawing it into
fibers?
wow. no way. look at what a huge operation "retting" flax can be.
http://www2.fisheries.com/archive/images/photos/dorset3small.jpg
http://homepage.ntlworld.com/sean_quinn/cdun/knock.jpg
http://www.gutenberg.org/files/21534/21534-h/images/img043.jpg
b.w.
"Rob H." <[email protected]> wrote in message
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>
>>> http://55tools.blogspot.com/
>
>> 1901 - With two corners touching the foundation, I don't think it was
>> originally intended to be so long. The rounded near corner suggests to
>> me pushing things in and dragging them out.
>>
>> I think it was for soaking lumber. It might have been for kyanizing, but
>> I think it was for wood intended to be bent, such as for wheel felloes.
>> Some were made from lumber larger than 2 x 4", which I suppose would
>> require a long soak.
>
>
>
> No correct answers yet for this one, but this is the closest guess so far.
>
>
> Rob
1901. keeping milk cool.
"Rob H." <[email protected]> wrote in message news:[email protected]...
|I need some help with the last one in this set:
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| http://55tools.blogspot.com/
1900: A device to hold a large animal, on a spit for
rotational security during roasting over an open fire;
also a device to administer due punishment to the
serf who happened to drop the cow into the fire.
pavane
1897 is a Heathkit fisherman's thermometer. The "screw thingy" lower
right is the retrieve handle. The meter starts at 32, because mostly you
don't care if the water down there is colder than 32... <G>
1898 looks like "bicycle pliers" to me.
1899 looks like an early version of the "BetterPak" packaging tape
measuring/wetting/cutting machine.
1900 vaguely looks like what I'd call a British head pike. I can't find
one now, but I saw once a drawing of something like that with five heads
impaled on the points, for display.
1901 looks like a chiller for pickling crocks, jars, etc... Sort of the
residential version of a country "spring house".
1902 draftsman's pencil sharpener.
"Lloyd E. Sponenburgh" <lloydspinsidemindspring.com> fired this volley in
news:[email protected]:
> 1897 is a Heathkit fisherman's thermometer.
BTW... that was called the Heath "Thermo Spotter"
http://www.nostalgickitscentral.com/heath/products/misc/mi104.jpg
LLoyd
1901: the size is about right for a wooden bathtub? If the tub were
boat-shaped
like a modern tub, and wooden, it'd have to be kept moist to not leak,
so the
basement makes some sense as a location.
Or , it could be for a 'food bank' (earthen storage for root
vegetables).
Or, a mushroom farm patch.
Heck, I don't know.
1902: perhaps a kitchen appliance, to shave ginger or horseradish.
Seems
a little unlikely as a vegetable peeler, it'd be hard to hand-hold.
"Jonathan Wilson" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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> 1897 is some kind of Heathkit product, clearly for measuring some property
> in a circuit or electronic device. The pull-out wire gets screwed
> somewhere in the circuit and the large screw thing in the center of the
> device gets attached to a ground point or something similar. What its
> measuring I dont know, it doesn't look like the meter is graduated for
> ohms, amps or volts (all of which tend to start at zero).
As per Andy's post temperature - the meter starts at 32, 32F = 0C
>
> Google doesn't show any matches when I search for Heathkit.
>
> 1898 is a pair of pliers :)
In article <[email protected]>, "Rob H." <[email protected]> wrote:
>I need some help with the last one in this set:
>
>http://55tools.blogspot.com/
1898 is a pliers, obviously; I imagine that the square holes in one handle
enable it to be used as a wrench for taps and/or screw extractors.
1902 - a vegetable slicer perhaps?
1897, My Dad used to make Heathkits, and I've read the
catalogs. I'd have to guess a thermometer.
1898 looks like a pliers with a valve wrench in the handle.
Possibly for welders, with acetylene tanks.
1899, no clue.
1900, looks like what you'd put on front of a tractor, for
moving round hay bales.
1901, no clue.
1902, no clue.
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"Rob H." <[email protected]> wrote in message
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I need some help with the last one in this set:
http://55tools.blogspot.com/
Rob
1897 is a Heathkit fisherman's thermometer. The "screw
thingy" lower
right is the retrieve handle. The meter starts at 32,
because mostly you
don't care if the water down there is colder than 32... <G>
CY: Now, that makes sense.
1898 looks like "bicycle pliers" to me.
CY: The tab on the one handle could help peel tires back,
for changing. Why the square holes, then?
1899 looks like an early version of the "BetterPak"
packaging tape
measuring/wetting/cutting machine.
CY: When I was a kid, my Dad did have a machine for
dispensing brown paper tape. You'd put water in the little
bin, and the tape would dispense already wetted, and ready
to put on the cardboard package.
1900 vaguely looks like what I'd call a British head pike.
I can't find
one now, but I saw once a drawing of something like that
with five heads
impaled on the points, for display.
1901 looks like a chiller for pickling crocks, jars, etc...
Sort of the
residential version of a country "spring house".
CY: Could be.
1902 draftsman's pencil sharpener.
CY: Some similarity. My Dad had (and likely still has) a
draftsmans pencil sharpener.
"Andy Dingley" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:45f5d2d2-9f09-4262-a7f3-86391f496737@i25g2000yqm.googlegroups.com...
> On 8 Apr, 10:42, "Rob H." <[email protected]> wrote:
>> I need some help with the last one in this set:
>>
>> http://55tools.blogspot.com/
>
> First one is a Heathkit self-build bathythermometer, which I think
> they sold as a fish finder. It's a thermometer on a long cable, to
> measure underwater temperatures and find fish that like to hang around
> in inversion layers. Also works for submarines.
Correct, the side of it has charts that show which fish can be found at
different temperatures.
Rob
Rob H. wrote:
> I need some help with the last one in this set:
>
> http://55tools.blogspot.com/
>
>
> Rob
1901 - With two corners touching the foundation, I don't think it was
originally intended to be so long. The rounded near corner suggests to
me pushing things in and dragging them out.
I think it was for soaking lumber. It might have been for kyanizing,
but I think it was for wood intended to be bent, such as for wheel
felloes. Some were made from lumber larger than 2 x 4", which I suppose
would require a long soak.
>> http://55tools.blogspot.com/
> 1901 - With two corners touching the foundation, I don't think it was
> originally intended to be so long. The rounded near corner suggests to
> me pushing things in and dragging them out.
>
> I think it was for soaking lumber. It might have been for kyanizing,
> but I think it was for wood intended to be bent, such as for wheel
> felloes. Some were made from lumber larger than 2 x 4", which I suppose
> would require a long soak.
No correct answers yet for this one, but this is the closest guess so far.
Rob
In article <[email protected]>, "Rob H." <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>>> http://55tools.blogspot.com/
>
>> 1901 - With two corners touching the foundation, I don't think it was
>> originally intended to be so long. The rounded near corner suggests to
>> me pushing things in and dragging them out.
>>
>> I think it was for soaking lumber. It might have been for kyanizing,
>> but I think it was for wood intended to be bent, such as for wheel
>> felloes. Some were made from lumber larger than 2 x 4", which I suppose
>> would require a long soak.
>
>
>
>No correct answers yet for this one, but this is the closest guess so far.
Tanning vat?
"Doug Miller" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> In article <[email protected]>, "Rob H." <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>>
>>>> http://55tools.blogspot.com/
>>
>>> 1901 - With two corners touching the foundation, I don't think it was
>>> originally intended to be so long. The rounded near corner suggests to
>>> me pushing things in and dragging them out.
>>No correct answers yet for this one, but this is the closest guess so far.
>
> Tanning vat?
Good guess! This is correct.
I've never been in the tanning business, but from what I've read, the
tanning process produces immensely bad smells. I guess, if you have burned
out your nose, having a stinking process going on in the basement of your
residence might not bother you. It might, however, bother guests.
"Rob H." <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
>
> "Doug Miller" <[email protected]> wrote in message
> news:[email protected]...
>> In article <[email protected]>, "Rob H." <[email protected]>
>> wrote:
>>>
>>>>> http://55tools.blogspot.com/
>>>
>>>> 1901 - With two corners touching the foundation, I don't think it was
>>>> originally intended to be so long. The rounded near corner suggests to
>>>> me pushing things in and dragging them out.
>>>No correct answers yet for this one, but this is the closest guess so
>>>far.
>>
>
>
>> Tanning vat?
>
>
> Good guess! This is correct.
Rob H. wrote:
>
>>> http://55tools.blogspot.com/
>
>> 1901 - With two corners touching the foundation, I don't think it was
>> originally intended to be so long. The rounded near corner suggests
>> to me pushing things in and dragging them out.
>>
>> I think it was for soaking lumber. It might have been for kyanizing,
>> but I think it was for wood intended to be bent, such as for wheel
>> felloes. Some were made from lumber larger than 2 x 4", which I
>> suppose would require a long soak.
>
>
>
> No correct answers yet for this one, but this is the closest guess so far.
>
>
> Rob
Figs are best propagated by cuttings. They seem to root best if stored
cool and moist first. I wonder if this pit was to store plant cuttings
for a few days or over the winter.
"Alexander Thesoso" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> I've never been in the tanning business, but from what I've read, the
> tanning process produces immensely bad smells. I guess, if you have
> burned out your nose, having a stinking process going on in the basement
> of your residence might not bother you. It might, however, bother guests.
Just a guess but maybe some of the process took place outdoors and the less
obnoxious steps used the indoor pit.
Still not sure about the last item, no luck finding a patent for it, the
answers for this set can be seen here:
http://55tools.blogspot.com/2010/04/set-331.html#answers
Rob
On 2010-04-08, Rob H. <[email protected]> wrote:
> I need some help with the last one in this set:
>
> http://55tools.blogspot.com/
Posting from Rec.crafts.metalworking as always.
1897) This looks to me to be a thermocouple on the end
of a reel intended to measure temperature at a distance. From
the physical design, and the range on the meter scale, I would
guess that it is for measuring the temperature at different
depths for predicting how deep the fish are likely to be.
Is there any way to measure the length of cable paid out?
The presence of the button suggests that there is some active
circuitry in there -- an amplifier to produce sufficient signal
over the relatively short range of the scale.
The linkage to water comes from the lowest reading being the
freezing point of water.
1898) Pliers with square drive sockets in one handle (probably to fit
valve stems when the handle is off -- either for security or
because it is being worked upon.
The spike on the end of each handle I suspect is for fishing out
old washers when they are being replaced.
Hmm ... perhaps it is for controlling the shutoff valves on
portable acetylene and oxygen tanks, and the points for clearing
clogged nozzles on the torch?
1899) Hmm ... something long and flat rolled up in the big end, with
a crank to either feed it out or to rewind it.
It looks as though part of the other end is designed to shear
off the flat something, and the gearing presumably can be set to
feed a precise length. Better contrast and a bit more detail in
the photos might show more.
1900) Hmm ... possibly a top of a lightning rod?
Or a holder for a bundle of hay to be burned held aloft?
It appears to be in a museum, FWIW.
1901) Cistern -- to store rain water for drinking and cleaning
purposes during periods between rain in dry parts of the
country?
1902) At a guess it is a plane for adjusting the fit of a door which
has swollen in humid weather without leaving piles of wood
shavings on the floor. It captures the shavings in the housing.
Or - it could be for taking shavings to sample the quality of
the wood -- perhaps for import duty determination or something
similar.
Now to see what others have suggested.
Enjoy,
DoN.
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