Rob H. <[email protected]> wrote:
> I need some help on the fifth item this week:
>
> http://55tools.blogspot.com/
>
>
>
> Rob
2924. I have seen similar in Houston. Like this one, a stand alone unit
with no visible connection to anything. I was always under the assumption
that it was a training/practice installation for linesmen. Similar to the
tall small buildings that firemen train/practice with.
2925. Insulation stripper.
On 19 Jul 2013 13:47:55 -0700, Rob H. <[email protected]> wrote:
>>2923 loading mechanism for photographic slides.
>>
>>
>>The rest look pretty weird this week!
>
>
>Yeah, some of them are kind of strange looking, but you should see the ones that
>are too weird for the site. People have sent in around twenty or thirty items
>that
>I considered too odd to post.
Rob, what do you prefer to have people do when they have something you
might be interested in?
I have some that apply specifically to small-shop machining, but which
are old or odd. Some, or maybe many members here will recognize them,
I think, but they're intesting nonetheless. You may or may not find
them worthwhile, but they should interest RCM members.
--
Ed Huntress
Posting from my desktop PC as always.=20
2923, toy tollgate for toy cars. The black thing is the camera window so =
that the state PD can mail out tickets for talking on cell phone, etc.=20
2924, some kind of power grid distribution network. The insullators give =
it away.=20
2925, cigar cutter, or possibly insullation stripper.=20
2926, blood lancet designed for use at blood drives at factories and =
warehouses. The drop of blood is then used to check for iron content =
before the donor donates with this:=20
http://mcdn.toolking.com/catalog/product/s/h/shop-vac9700510.jpg
2927, no clue.=20
2928, totally no clue.=20
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Learn more about Jesus=20
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I need some help on the fifth item this week:
http://55tools.blogspot.com/
Rob
Man, that is enough to get the curiosity going. =20
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>The rest look pretty weird this week!
Yeah, some of them are kind of strange looking, but you should see the =
ones that
are too weird for the site. People have sent in around twenty or thirty =
items
that
I considered too odd to post.
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> http://55tools.blogspot.com/
2923 is a slide gate and cassette tray for an old cassette-style slide
projector.
2924 ?Grounding array for an antenna of some sort? Perhaps as EMP
protection? Of for an ELF transmitter? That control tower looks to have
a substantial bunker beneath it.
2925 Cable jacket strippers.
Lloyd
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>> http://55tools.blogspot.com/2013/07/set-502.html#answers
>
>
> Hmm ... About (2925). Most arrows that I have seen have three
> approximately equally spaced feathers (fletching), and this i obviously
> designed to cut two grooves at 180 degree spacing.
>
> So -- are you *sure* about this one?
Yeah, Rob. The blades aren't the right shape for fletching, either.
This is definitely NOT for cutting slots for fletching. They aren't
usually slit, but gouged. Slits would promote cracking.
Rob, once upon a time, I've used a tool very much like that for stripping
heavy cables. I can't find any modern tools that look just like that,
though.
LLoyd
"Rob H." <[email protected]> wrote in message
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>I need some help on the fifth item this week:
>
> http://55tools.blogspot.com/
>
>
>
> Rob
2926 - roofing tool/hammer for shingles. Poss. magnetic.
Nick.
On 19 Jul 2013 15:24:43 -0700, Rob H. <[email protected]> wrote:
>>Rob, what do you prefer to have people do when they have something you
>>might be interested in?
>>
>>I have some that apply specifically to small-shop machining, but which
>>are old or odd. Some, or maybe many members here will recognize them,
>>I think, but they're intesting nonetheless. You may or may not find
>>them worthwhile, but they should interest RCM members.
>
>
>I would be happy to look at photos of whatever you have, you can send them to my
>email address which can be found on my profile page. A link to my profile is
>located a little below the last photo in each week's set.
>
>I'll be looking forward to seeing your machining items. Everyone else here is
>also
>welcome to send in some pictures, I'm always in need of things to post.
>
>
>
>Rob
OK, and thanks. I'll get to it as soon as the temperature drops below
98F. <g>
--
Ed Huntress
2923 I agree with MB on this.
2924 Guess... Test facility, to apply high electric fields or
lightning to a missile.
2925 Seems to be intended to slit or split the end of a specific size
dowel. I've no idea of what the specific purpose is.
2928 To ram a cork into a long necked, large wine bottle???
On 7/18/2013 4:05 AM, Rob H. wrote:
> I need some help on the fifth item this week:
>
> http://55tools.blogspot.com/
>
>
>
> Rob
>
"Rob H." <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
>I need some help on the fifth item this week:
>
> http://55tools.blogspot.com/
>
>
>
> Rob
>
2923 Slide tray mechanism
2924 Power substation/ switching station
2925
2926 Hammer to knock out cattle and blade to slice throat
2927
2928 Jig to crown a gun barrel
Robert
In article <[email protected]>, Mark Brader says...
>
>Got one! 2923 is part of a manual-feed slide projector. The trough
>holds a tray of slides, with one slot for each slide and one side open
>so they can slide out horizontally. The moving parts are best seen
>in the last picture, which shows them in mid-motion. The top and
>bottom bars are guides and the middle one serves to push the slide
>into the projector. Inside the projector the top and bottom bars are
>connected to another middle bar that pushes the slide out. To advance
>to the next slide you pull the knob out all the way and then push it
>back in again. This also rotates a gear (seen in the top photo) that
>engages a rack on the bottom edge of the tray, advancing the tray by
>one position. The gray square is a shutter that is opened to let the
>projection beam through; it might be manually controlled as well, or
>it might be triggered by the changer mechanism somehow.
Correct. Good description of it!
>In 2924 the insulators seem to mark it as a high-power electrical
>installation of some kind -- maybe a switching station of some kind,
>not yet connected to the power lines?
You are on the right track here.
>2923 is a slide gate and cassette tray for an old cassette-style slide
>projector.
Yes
>2924 ?Grounding array for an antenna of some sort? Perhaps as EMP
>protection? Of for an ELF transmitter? That control tower looks to have
>a substantial bunker beneath it.
That's it! The switches were for the Voice of America antennas in SW Ohio, not
actually sure if it's grounding related or not.
>2925 Cable jacket strippers.
According to the owner it's not for use on cable.
>Rob, what do you prefer to have people do when they have something you
>might be interested in?
>
>I have some that apply specifically to small-shop machining, but which
>are old or odd. Some, or maybe many members here will recognize them,
>I think, but they're intesting nonetheless. You may or may not find
>them worthwhile, but they should interest RCM members.
I would be happy to look at photos of whatever you have, you can send them to my
email address which can be found on my profile page. A link to my profile is
located a little below the last photo in each week's set.
I'll be looking forward to seeing your machining items. Everyone else here is
also
welcome to send in some pictures, I'm always in need of things to post.
Rob
>
> Hmm ... About (2925). Most arrows that I have seen have three
>approximately equally spaced feathers (fletching), and this i obviously
>designed to cut two grooves at 180 degree spacing.
>
> So -- are you *sure* about this one?
Actually I'm not sure about this tool, the owner had said it was for arrows, and
I
had done some searching for similar arrow tools and insulation strippers but
found
no proof for either. The owner of it is a guy who has been collecting tools for
a
long time and currently sells tools for a living, so for now I'm going to go
with
his answer, next time I see him I'll ask where he got it and if he knows more
about it. Unfortunately he does not have email.
On 7/20/13 8:04 AM, Lloyd E. Sponenburgh wrote:
> "DoN. Nichols" <[email protected]> fired this volley in
> news:[email protected]:
>
>>> http://55tools.blogspot.com/2013/07/set-502.html#answers
>>
>>
>> Hmm ... About (2925). Most arrows that I have seen have three
>> approximately equally spaced feathers (fletching), and this i obviously
>> designed to cut two grooves at 180 degree spacing.
>>
>> So -- are you *sure* about this one?
>
> Yeah, Rob. The blades aren't the right shape for fletching, either.
> This is definitely NOT for cutting slots for fletching. They aren't
> usually slit, but gouged. Slits would promote cracking.
>
> Rob, once upon a time, I've used a tool very much like that for stripping
> heavy cables. I can't find any modern tools that look just like that,
> though.
>
>
> LLoyd
>
Wicker spread with the Roman Empire. It became very popular in the 19th
Century because it was more durable and sanitary than upholstered
furniture. It remained popular in the 20th Century. Before synthetics,
I suppose a craftsman would cut or buy willow of a certain diameter.
Could this have been a tool to split it?
>>> Hmm ... About (2925). Most arrows that I have seen have three
>>> approximately equally spaced feathers (fletching), and this i obviously
>>> designed to cut two grooves at 180 degree spacing.
>>>
>>> So -- are you *sure* about this one?
>>
>>Yeah, Rob. The blades aren't the right shape for fletching, either.
>>This is definitely NOT for cutting slots for fletching. They aren't
>>usually slit, but gouged. Slits would promote cracking.
>>
>>Rob, once upon a time, I've used a tool very much like that for stripping
>>heavy cables. I can't find any modern tools that look just like that,
>>though.
>>
>>
>>LLoyd
>
>Its not an arrow fletcher. I have a number of fletchers going back
>to the 40s.
>
>Its a cable stripper OR a dowel slitter for cutting lines in dowells
>to hold the glue before driving them in.
>
>Had an uncle with the very same tool and as a kid I asked him about it
>and thats what he told me. He was an electrician. I saw him use that
>tool to strip jacketed multi conductor cable and make dowels
Well, you guys make a good case, I just changed my answer to read:
"This is most likely for cutting the insulation on cable."
I won't see the owner of it again for a few months but will still ask him about
it when I do.
Rob
>Wicker spread with the Roman Empire. It became very popular in the 19th
>Century because it was more durable and sanitary than upholstered
>furniture. It remained popular in the 20th Century. Before synthetics,
>I suppose a craftsman would cut or buy willow of a certain diameter.
>Could this have been a tool to split it?
I guess it's possible though I just did a search on it and didn't see any
similar
ones.
On 7/20/13 2:43 PM, Rob H. wrote:
>> Wicker spread with the Roman Empire. It became very popular in the 19th
>> Century because it was more durable and sanitary than upholstered
>> furniture. It remained popular in the 20th Century. Before synthetics,
>> I suppose a craftsman would cut or buy willow of a certain diameter.
>> Could this have been a tool to split it?
>
>
> I guess it's possible though I just did a search on it and didn't see any
> similar
> ones.
>
I've found pictures of piles of willow rods, waiting to be sold to
craftsmen. Not all willow was split, but I believe it was all peeled by
pulling it through a brake. I've found only 3 brakes, all different.
If brakes are hard to find these days, a splitter might be impossible.
Splitting at a certain point was a way to make a 90º bend, as in a
wicker chair. An amateur might stick his knife through the rod and
twist. Somebody who bent hundreds of rods in a day would want a tool.
It probably wouldn't be necessary to cut all the way through a rod to
get it to bend. Hence the adjustable blades.
This would be similar to the use the owner gave, except that the purpose
would have been to make the rod flexible. A machine shop could have
sold these tools through the places that sold willow rods. When the
cottage chair-weaving industry disappeared, nobody would have known that
the tool was for.
Rob H. wrote:
>>
>> Hmm ... About (2925). Most arrows that I have seen have three
>>approximately equally spaced feathers (fletching), and this i obviously
>>designed to cut two grooves at 180 degree spacing.
>>
>> So -- are you *sure* about this one?
>
>
> Actually I'm not sure about this tool, the owner had said it was for arrows, and
> I
> had done some searching for similar arrow tools and insulation strippers but
> found
> no proof for either. The owner of it is a guy who has been collecting tools for
> a
> long time and currently sells tools for a living, so for now I'm going to go
> with
> his answer, next time I see him I'll ask where he got it and if he knows more
> about it. Unfortunately he does not have email.
>
>
>
From the length of the knives it looks like it would cut the object
in half.
--
GW Ross
A little inaccuracy saves tons of
explanation.
On Sat, 20 Jul 2013 07:04:36 -0500, "Lloyd E. Sponenburgh"
<lloydspinsidemindspring.com> wrote:
>"DoN. Nichols" <[email protected]> fired this volley in
>news:[email protected]:
>
>>> http://55tools.blogspot.com/2013/07/set-502.html#answers
>>
>>
>> Hmm ... About (2925). Most arrows that I have seen have three
>> approximately equally spaced feathers (fletching), and this i obviously
>> designed to cut two grooves at 180 degree spacing.
>>
>> So -- are you *sure* about this one?
>
>Yeah, Rob. The blades aren't the right shape for fletching, either.
>This is definitely NOT for cutting slots for fletching. They aren't
>usually slit, but gouged. Slits would promote cracking.
>
>Rob, once upon a time, I've used a tool very much like that for stripping
>heavy cables. I can't find any modern tools that look just like that,
>though.
>
>
>LLoyd
Its not an arrow fletcher. I have a number of fletchers going back
to the 40s.
Its a cable stripper OR a dowel slitter for cutting lines in dowells
to hold the glue before driving them in.
Had an uncle with the very same tool and as a kid I asked him about it
and thats what he told me. He was an electrician. I saw him use that
tool to strip jacketed multi conductor cable and make dowels
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Got one! 2923 is part of a manual-feed slide projector. The trough
holds a tray of slides, with one slot for each slide and one side open
so they can slide out horizontally. The moving parts are best seen
in the last picture, which shows them in mid-motion. The top and
bottom bars are guides and the middle one serves to push the slide
into the projector. Inside the projector the top and bottom bars are
connected to another middle bar that pushes the slide out. To advance
to the next slide you pull the knob out all the way and then push it
back in again. This also rotates a gear (seen in the top photo) that
engages a rack on the bottom edge of the tray, advancing the tray by
one position. The gray square is a shutter that is opened to let the
projection beam through; it might be manually controlled as well, or
it might be triggered by the changer mechanism somehow.
In 2924 the insulators seem to mark it as a high-power electrical
installation of some kind -- maybe a switching station of some kind,
not yet connected to the power lines?
As usual, no idea on the rast.
--
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Toronto Haiku that people find so
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My text in this article is in the public domain.
On 2013-07-18, Rob H <[email protected]> wrote:
> I need some help on the fifth item this week:
>
> http://55tools.blogspot.com/
Posting from Rec.crafts.metalworking1 as always.
2923) An adaptor to run a magazine of 35mm slides through
a projector originally designed for being fed one
at a time. Not sure which, but it may be one of the
early Leica (Leitz) projectors.
It could be a stack loader, not for magazines, but I don't see
the pusher and follower.
2924) It looks like a switching station for electrical power
distribution, but I don't see the power feeds into and out of
it. Perhaps the lines are buried underground?
Or it could be an intersting and directional antenna array
of some sort -- really high power given the size of the
insulators.
2925) This looks like a tool for stripping the insulation on a
heavy (likely rubber) jacketed electrical cord. Possibly
telephone line drop cord.
Spread the two handles, slip the wire in from the T-bar end,
close the handles, hook the fingers into the hooks, and pull.
2926) For puncturing a sheet metal container, I think. Maybe for
starting modification openings to housings for HVAC equipment.
(I've seen someone use a screwdriver for the purpose. :-) Not
exactly a neat hole, but sufficient to the purpose.
2927) Looks like it is intended to puncture and fold back a part
of the metal top of a container -- perhaps something like the
old automotive oil cans.
And it might slide down an upright rod in a table, which would
make it for puncturing something like juice cans -- V8 or the
like.
2928) I think that this is a tool for drilling holes in the upper end
of furniture legs -- for mounting to the furniture via dowels
and glue.
The wood part actually looks like a beat up leg blank which
has been modified to serve as part of a clamp.
Now to post this and then see what others have suggested.
Enjoy,
DoN.
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On 2013-07-19, Rob H <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>>2926 - roofing tool/hammer for shingles. Poss. magnetic.
>>Nick.
>
>
> Roofing hammer is correct. The answers for this set can be seen at the link
> below,
> though I'm still not 100% sure about the fifth one:
>
> http://55tools.blogspot.com/2013/07/set-502.html#answers
Hmm ... About (2925). Most arrows that I have seen have three
approximately equally spaced feathers (fletching), and this i obviously
designed to cut two grooves at 180 degree spacing.
So -- are you *sure* about this one?
Enjoy,
DoN.
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