Rob H. <[email protected]> wrote:
> A new set has been posted:
>
> http://55tools.blogspot.com/
>
> Larger images:
>
> http://imgur.com/gallery/FxMPj/new
>
>
> Rob
Ok the hammer, one that I played with when I was a kid, had many more than
2 screwdrivers as mentioned by others. IIRC it had 5 or 6 straight blade
screw drivers.. The smallest would work well on eye glasses and about 1.5"
long.
"Mark Brader" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> Hey, I *have* one of those! #3159. My father bought it sometime
> around 1970, I guess. It's a combination tool consisting of two
> screwdrivers and a hammer, nested together. To access the small
> screwdriver you unscrew the silver-color knob and pull it out from
> inside the brass handle; to access the large one you unscrew the
> brass handle, which doubles as the handle of the screwdriver, and
> pull the blade out from inside the hammer shaft.
> --
Yep, I remember this one. I actually bought one of these when young. The
hammer was useless. But I did use the screwdrivers a few times.
In article <[email protected]>, [email protected] says...
>
>
> >
> >Since the reset already seem to have answers...
> >
> >3162 - Probably way off but perhaps to collect maple syrup from
> >a tree?
>
>
> Nope, that's not it, these are much larger than typical syrup taps.
I'm surprised no one has posted this answer before, since I remember a
couple of similar items in the past.
It looks like a gunpowder splitting wedge.
On 17-Apr-14 8:54 PM, Rick wrote:
>
> "John G" <[email protected]> wrote in message
> news:[email protected]...
>> Rob H. wrote :
>>> A new set has been posted:
>>>
>>> http://55tools.blogspot.com/
>>>
>>> Larger images:
>>>
>>> http://imgur.com/gallery/FxMPj/new
>>>
>>>
>>> Rob
>>
>> 3161.
>> Lamp extractor for a panel lamp that I cannot remember where. l-)
>>
>> --
>> John G
>
> I think for Telco work...I have one of those and a box of lamps.
Yep, I'll third that. Used in Aussie telecoms, I saw them used in the
80's & 90's.
Rob H. <[email protected]> wrote in
news:[email protected]:
> A new set has been posted:
>
> http://55tools.blogspot.com/
>
> Larger images:
>
> http://imgur.com/gallery/FxMPj/new
>
>
> Rob
>
Since the reset already seem to have answers...
3162 - Probably way off but perhaps to collect maple syrup from
a tree?
Rob H. <[email protected]> writes:
>A new set has been posted:
>
>http://55tools.blogspot.com/
>
#3159 contains a set of nesting screwdrivers in the handle.
These were sometimes final exam works for machinist apprentices.
It happens that DoN. Nichols formulated :
> On 2014-04-17, John G <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Rob H. wrote :
>>> A new set has been posted:
>>>
>>> http://55tools.blogspot.com/
>>>
>>> Larger images:
>>>
>>> http://imgur.com/gallery/FxMPj/new
>>>
>>>
>>> Rob
>>
>> 3161.
>> Lamp extractor for a panel lamp that I cannot remember where. l-)
>
> Those are for the lamps in old telephone switchboards (and in
> some other phone company stuff). They are slide-base lamps, and this
> grips the glass envelope where it extends past the two slide contacts.
> And the wood plug in between the two spring metal grippers stops it
> sliding in just before the grippers touch the metal slide contacts on
> the lamp, so you don't short the circuit powering the lamp.
>
> The turned down part of the handle is for pushing the
> replacement lamp into the socket prior to installing the snap-in jewel.
>
> Shorter versions of these lamps were used on the multi-line
> phones to light the pushbuttons to show circuits currently being talked
> on, and ones ringing and on hold. Those were changed by finger
> gripping, not a special tool -- once you took the cover off the phone. :-)
>
> You also need another tool, which looks like a pair of needle
> nose pliers, with a notch "/()\" cut in the two jaws near the tips, to
> grip the jewels and pull them out.
>
>
> I know the answers have already been posted (I missed the set
> yesterday -- too busy working on a project). But this tool and the
> hammer/screwdriver set were two which I knew for sure. I had an example
> of the hammer/screwdriver in the late 1940s or very early 1950s. I felt
> that the answer in the posted answers for the lamp puller needed a
> little expansion.
>
> Enjoy,
> DoN.
See this link for lamps.
http://home.frognet.net/~ejcov/telephonelamp.html
--
John G
On 4/17/2014 4:04 AM, Rob H. wrote:
> A new set has been posted:
>
> http://55tools.blogspot.com/
>
> Larger images:
>
> http://imgur.com/gallery/FxMPj/new
>
>
> Rob
>
Posting from my desk top PC in the living
room as always
3157, bulb planting tool. Allows the gardener to make a bulb size hole
in the soil.
3158, sight adjusting tool for military rifle.
3159, non marring lead head.
3160, flagpole rope tensioner.
3161, handle for old time corn cob skewer
3162, part of automatic seed planting device
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3161 Looks like a plugger to check condition of a block of cheese. WW
"Rob H." wrote in message news:[email protected]...
A new set has been posted:
http://55tools.blogspot.com/
Larger images:
http://imgur.com/gallery/FxMPj/new
Rob
"Rob H." wrote in message news:[email protected]...
3159 It has two screw drivers in the handle
3160 claw mount derailleur
http://www.vintage-bike-shop.com/rear-derailleur-huret-svelto-prod1880
Robert
In article <[email protected]>, Mark Brader says...
>
>Hey, I *have* one of those! #3159. My father bought it sometime
>around 1970, I guess. It's a combination tool consisting of two
>screwdrivers and a hammer, nested together. To access the small
>screwdriver you unscrew the silver-color knob and pull it out from
>inside the brass handle; to access the large one you unscrew the
>brass handle, which doubles as the handle of the screwdriver, and
>pull the blade out from inside the hammer shaft.
Correct, although this particular one has four screwdrivers.
In article <[email protected]>, Walter Kraft
says...
>
>#3158 i think it is a gunsmithig tool to adjust iron sights on a gun.
Good answer, it's for installing and removing a pistol sight.
>I'm surprised no one has posted this answer before, since I remember a
>couple of similar items in the past.
>It looks like a gunpowder splitting wedge.
Yes, good memory, I posted these five or six years ago, and reposted them now to
accompany an answer update for a photo from a couple months past.
They've all been correctly identified this week, thanks to everyone who answered
the bike derailleur.
http://55tools.blogspot.com/2014/04/set-541.html#answers
Rob
On 17 Apr 2014 01:04:44 -0700, Rob H. <[email protected]> wrote:
>A new set has been posted:
>
>http://55tools.blogspot.com/
>
>Larger images:
>
>http://imgur.com/gallery/FxMPj/new
>
>
>Rob
#3160 Derailer for a bike missing afew pieces
Hey, I *have* one of those! #3159. My father bought it sometime
around 1970, I guess. It's a combination tool consisting of two
screwdrivers and a hammer, nested together. To access the small
screwdriver you unscrew the silver-color knob and pull it out from
inside the brass handle; to access the large one you unscrew the
brass handle, which doubles as the handle of the screwdriver, and
pull the blade out from inside the hammer shaft.
--
Mark Brader | "If there had been government -- and dare I say industrial?
Toronto | -- research establishments in the Stone Age, by now we
[email protected] | would have had absolutely superb flint tools. But no one
| would have invented steel." -- Arthur C. Clarke
My text in this article is in the public domain.
"John G" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> Rob H. wrote :
>> A new set has been posted:
>>
>> http://55tools.blogspot.com/
>>
>> Larger images:
>>
>> http://imgur.com/gallery/FxMPj/new
>>
>>
>> Rob
>
> 3161.
> Lamp extractor for a panel lamp that I cannot remember where. l-)
>
> --
> John G
I think for Telco work...I have one of those and a box of lamps.
On 2014-04-17, John G <[email protected]> wrote:
> Rob H. wrote :
>> A new set has been posted:
>>
>> http://55tools.blogspot.com/
>>
>> Larger images:
>>
>> http://imgur.com/gallery/FxMPj/new
>>
>>
>> Rob
>
> 3161.
> Lamp extractor for a panel lamp that I cannot remember where. l-)
Those are for the lamps in old telephone switchboards (and in
some other phone company stuff). They are slide-base lamps, and this
grips the glass envelope where it extends past the two slide contacts.
And the wood plug in between the two spring metal grippers stops it
sliding in just before the grippers touch the metal slide contacts on
the lamp, so you don't short the circuit powering the lamp.
The turned down part of the handle is for pushing the
replacement lamp into the socket prior to installing the snap-in jewel.
Shorter versions of these lamps were used on the multi-line
phones to light the pushbuttons to show circuits currently being talked
on, and ones ringing and on hold. Those were changed by finger
gripping, not a special tool -- once you took the cover off the phone. :-)
You also need another tool, which looks like a pair of needle
nose pliers, with a notch "/()\" cut in the two jaws near the tips, to
grip the jewels and pull them out.
I know the answers have already been posted (I missed the set
yesterday -- too busy working on a project). But this tool and the
hammer/screwdriver set were two which I knew for sure. I had an example
of the hammer/screwdriver in the late 1940s or very early 1950s. I felt
that the answer in the posted answers for the lamp puller needed a
little expansion.
Enjoy,
DoN.
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On 2014-04-19, John G <[email protected]> wrote:
> It happens that DoN. Nichols formulated :
>> On 2014-04-17, John G <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> Rob H. wrote :
>>>> A new set has been posted:
>>>>
>>>> http://55tools.blogspot.com/
[ ... ]
>>> 3161.
>>> Lamp extractor for a panel lamp that I cannot remember where. l-)
>>
>> Those are for the lamps in old telephone switchboards (and in
>> some other phone company stuff). They are slide-base lamps, and this
>> grips the glass envelope where it extends past the two slide contacts.
>> And the wood plug in between the two spring metal grippers stops it
>> sliding in just before the grippers touch the metal slide contacts on
>> the lamp, so you don't short the circuit powering the lamp.
[ ... ]
>> Shorter versions of these lamps were used on the multi-line
>> phones to light the pushbuttons to show circuits currently being talked
>> on, and ones ringing and on hold. Those were changed by finger
>> gripping, not a special tool -- once you took the cover off the phone. :-)
[ ... ]
> See this link for lamps.
> http://home.frognet.net/~ejcov/telephonelamp.html
Yes -- the first and third ones illustrated at the top of that
page are the ones that the tool is used with. The middle one is the
kind found in the multi-line phones in the remaining paragraph of mine
quoted above. (Other stuff snipped.)
Enjoy,
DoN.
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On 4/17/2014 4:46 AM, Mark Brader wrote:
> Hey, I *have* one of those! #3159. My father bought it sometime
> around 1970, I guess. It's a combination tool consisting of two
> screwdrivers and a hammer, nested together. To access the small
> screwdriver you unscrew the silver-color knob and pull it out from
> inside the brass handle; to access the large one you unscrew the
> brass handle, which doubles as the handle of the screwdriver, and
> pull the blade out from inside the hammer shaft.
>
I would agree.
3157 For cutting leather maybe
3159 as he said above.
3160 derailer for a bike.
--
Jeff