"Rob H." <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
>
>>>>> http://55tools.blogspot.com/
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Rob
>>>> 1552 - horse powered sugar cane crusher - making molasses?
>>>
>>> You've got the right idea but that's not sugar cane.
>>>
>>>> 1554 - pedometer - used by a runner?
>>>
>>> Pedometer is correct but it wasn't used by a runner, the units on the
>>> dial should give a clue.
>>>
>>> Rob
>>
>> How about for a watchman or sentry? If he's supposed to walk a certain
>> circuit at a certain interval, the supervisor should know within ten
>> yards what reading to expect if he drops by to check.
>
> You've got the units right but it's not for a watchman or sentry.
> Rob
OK, wild guess here. Is it for a horse?? I have never heard of or seen a
horse pedometer.
Maybe that should be a hoofometer. :)
"R.H." <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
>
>> > Neither of those, it wasn't used for any type of work.
>>
>> Golf?
>
>
> Yes! It's a golfometer. The rest of the answers for this set can be
> seen here:
>
Of course! I was sent to a golf store recently to purchase an item for
someone. There were a huge number of gadgets and toys in there. Along with
an infinite number of golf clubs and other assorted items. I got dizzy in
the place. Do golfers really buy all that stuff?
On Fri, 27 Feb 2009 13:15:11 -0600, Paul K. Dickman wrote:
> The units are the weird part. Assuming one rotation of the big hand
> for one graduation of the small hand, the units are 1 1/2 ft.
??
On the big circuit, each graduation is 10 yards.
The little circuit says miles. Each graduation is 1/4 mile, which just
happens to be 440 yards.
I'm not sure who would have used it, though.
--
Ted S.
fedya at hughes dot net
Now blogging at http://justacineast.blogspot.com
On Sun, 1 Mar 2009 02:14:57 -0800 (PST), riverman <[email protected]>
wrote:
>On Mar 1, 11:16 am, Gunner Asch <[email protected]> wrote:
>> On Sat, 28 Feb 2009 18:53:51 -0500, "Lee Michaels"
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> <leemichaels*[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>> >"R.H." <[email protected]> wrote in message
>> >news:[email protected]...
>>
>> >>> > Neither of those, it wasn't used for any type of work.
>>
>> >>> Golf?
>>
>> >> Yes! It's a golfometer. The rest of the answers for this set can be
>> >> seen here:
>>
>> >Of course! I was sent to a golf store recently to purchase an item for
>> >someone. There were a huge number of gadgets and toys in there. Along with
>> >an infinite number of golf clubs and other assorted items. I got dizzy in
>> >the place. Do golfers really buy all that stuff?
>>
>> Ever been to a fishing tackle store?
>>
>
>Or a cosmetics counter with your wife?
>
><g>
>
>--riverman
Indeed!!!
"Lenin called them "useful idiots," those people living in
liberal democracies who by giving moral and material support
to a totalitarian ideology in effect were braiding the rope that
would hang them. Why people who enjoyed freedom and prosperity worked
passionately to destroy both is a fascinating question, one still with us
today. Now the useful idiots can be found in the chorus of appeasement,
reflexive anti-Americanism, and sentimental idealism trying to inhibit
the necessary responses to another freedom-hating ideology, radical Islam"
Bruce C. Thornton, a professor of Classics at American University of Cal State Fresno
In article <[email protected]>, E Z Peaces
<[email protected]> wrote:
> I wonder if most courses were 9 holes in those days. I think a golfer
> would walk more than 2.5 miles on 18 holes. Then he'd have to add
> fractions.
Sounds right... 18 holes can be over 6000 yards on the scorecard from
the black tees.
"E Z Peaces" wrote: 1554: A pedometer, which is French for "foot measuring
device."
> Naturally it read in "millimetres", so it would measure up to size 30.
>
> The part that says "miles" was to measure the thickness of socks. When
> Walt Disney had a copyright on "MM", the French used "miles" as the
> abbreviation for "millimetres."
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
:-))))
On Feb 27, 9:20=A0am, "Rob H." <[email protected]> wrote:
> "Howard R Garner" <[email protected]> wrote in messagenews:2Dvpl.=
[email protected]...
>
> > Rob H. wrote:
> >> Just posted a new set:
>
> >>http://55tools.blogspot.com/
>
> >> Rob
> > 1552 - horse powered sugar cane crusher - making molasses?
>
> You've got the right idea but that's not sugar cane.
>
1552- Hmmm, if thats not a 'Goldens New Model 2-roller cane mill',
crushing sugar cane for syrup, then I don't know what it is.
http://tinyurl.com/cz35qs
http://tinyurl.com/decn6o
--riverman
On Feb 27, 12:50=A0pm, "RogerN" <[email protected]> wrote:
> "Tim Shoppa" <[email protected]> wrote in message
>
> news:56ed4307-008b-4022-9bce-2e6c61744c4c@v19g2000yqn.googlegroups.com...
> On Feb 26, 7:25 am, "Lloyd E. Sponenburgh"
>
> <lloydspinsidemindspring.com> wrote:
> > 1553 looks like the original Heathkit digital proportional radio
> > control.
> >It looks like a Model Rectifier Corporation unit to me. But yes, early
> >remote control.
>
> >Tim.
>
> If you look on eBay for a Futaba FP-T there's a couple of them for sale t=
hat
> look almost identical except for the FUTABA label.
You're 100% correct. But I remember the beige box and a red/green
battery meter on a MRC (or memory is fading... International
Rectifier?) unit from when I was a kid too. Would've been early
Lasnerian 70's.
Did International Rectifier sell remote control systems, or was it
always model rectifier?
And I may have been exaggerating about "early", the real early
pioneers did it using vacuum tubes as I recall!
Tim.
I replied to this post over 5 hours ago and it has shown up yet,
hopefully this won't turn out to be a double post, here is what I
posted earlier:
>Hmm, I going to be a sea lawyer here then, and call foul. :-)
>The game is to identify the object, which Howard properly identified
>as a 'Sugar Cane Crusher'. The official name is a 'Cane Mill', so he
>was pretty much spot on.
>Mentioning that it was not sugar cane was a red herring....he never
>said it was. He offered that they were 'making molasses', which was
>correct.
>Anyway, I think its just incidental that they were making molasses at
>that fair...the item is a Cane Crusher, primarily used to crush sugar
>cane, but often used to crush other things, too. :-)
>--riverman
>(I'm not a real lawyer, but I play one on the internet)
Had I known that it was a cane mill I would have posted a different
reply, I
had been told that it was a sorghum press for making sorghum molasses
and I
hadn't yet found one on the web. So I agree that Howard's answer was
correct. Also, thanks for the links, I'll use one on the answer page.
The first item this week, the long tool with a blade and U-shaped
piece,
hasn't yet been guessed correctly but as a clue I'll say that it's
related
to the cane press.
Rob
"Paul K. Dickman" <[email protected]> writes:
>
>"Rob H." <[email protected]> wrote in message
>news:[email protected]...
>>
>>>>>> http://55tools.blogspot.com/
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Rob
>>>>> 1552 - horse powered sugar cane crusher - making molasses?
>>>>
>>>> You've got the right idea but that's not sugar cane.
>>>>
>>>>> 1554 - pedometer - used by a runner?
>>>>
>>>> Pedometer is correct but it wasn't used by a runner, the units on the
>>>> dial should give a clue.
>>>>
>>>> Rob
>>>
>>> How about for a watchman or sentry? If he's supposed to walk a certain
>>> circuit at a certain interval, the supervisor should know within ten
>>> yards what reading to expect if he drops by to check.
>>
>> You've got the units right but it's not for a watchman or sentry.
>> Rob
>
>The units are the weird part. Assuming one rotation of the big hand for one
>graduation of the small hand, the units are 1 1/2 ft.
>
>That's too small to be paces and too much math to be yards.
>
>The only things I can think of that might need 18" counting are cornrows.
>
>Paul K. Dickman
>
The units are yards, One full revolution (440 yards) is a quarter mile.
Probably for measuring distances for foot (or horse) racing?
scott
> Check out this link, and scroll down about halfway to the "Indiana
> State Fair, Aug 2002". Is that the same mill?
>
> http://www.herculesengines.com/sorghum/default.html
> --riverman
It's probably the exact same one, the antique machinery show that I
went to was in Indiana, but it wasn't at the state fair. Good job on
finding that.
Rob
On Feb 27, 2:52=A0pm, E Z Peaces <[email protected]> wrote:
> R.H. wrote:
> >> What about defensive artillery fire? =A0A soldier walks from the gun
> >> position to a certain landmark. =A0Then they know the range when the e=
nemy
> >> advances. =A0It could be for sharpshooters, too.
>
> > Nope, it's not related to any type of weapons.
>
> > Rob
>
> Plowing? =A0Fences?
Neither of those, it wasn't used for any type of work.
R.H. wrote:
> On Feb 27, 2:52 pm, E Z Peaces <[email protected]> wrote:
>> R.H. wrote:
>>>> What about defensive artillery fire? A soldier walks from the gun
>>>> position to a certain landmark. Then they know the range when the enemy
>>>> advances. It could be for sharpshooters, too.
>>> Nope, it's not related to any type of weapons.
>>> Rob
>> Plowing? Fences?
>
>
> Neither of those, it wasn't used for any type of work.
>
Golf?
In article <[email protected]>,
David G. Nagel <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>Actually they are most likely worried that the muleskinners will use the
>mules to packmule explosives or something into the rebuild canal to
>nowhere...
I thought that's how the canal got rebuilt in the first place.
--
It's times like these which make me glad my bank is Dial-a-Mattress
On Feb 27, 11:38=A0am, "Rob H." <[email protected]> wrote:
> >>>>>http://55tools.blogspot.com/
>
> >>>>>Rob
>
> >>>>1552 - horse powered sugar cane crusher - making molasses?
>
> >>>You've got the right idea but that's not sugar cane.
> >> 1552- Hmmm, if thats not a 'Goldens New Model 2-roller cane mill',
> >> crushing sugar cane for syrup, then I don't know what it is.
> >>http://tinyurl.com/cz35qs
> >>http://tinyurl.com/decn6o
>
> >> --riverman
>
> > It could be sorghum, not sugar cane.
>
> Yes, they were pressing sorghum cane to make molasses.
>
> Rob
Hmm, I going to be a sea lawyer here then, and call foul. :-)
The game is to identify the object, which Howard properly identified
as a 'Sugar Cane Crusher'. The official name is a 'Cane Mill', so he
was pretty much spot on.
Mentioning that it was not sugar cane was a red herring....he never
said it was. He offered that they were 'making molasses', which was
correct.
Anyway, I think its just incidental that they were making molasses at
that fair...the item is a Cane Crusher, primarily used to crush sugar
cane, but often used to crush other things, too. :-)
--riverman
(I'm not a real lawyer, but I play one on the internet)
"Tim Shoppa" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
On Feb 27, 12:50 pm, "RogerN" <[email protected]> wrote:
> "Tim Shoppa" <[email protected]> wrote in message
>
> news:56ed4307-008b-4022-9bce-2e6c61744c4c@v19g2000yqn.googlegroups.com...
> On Feb 26, 7:25 am, "Lloyd E. Sponenburgh"
>
> <lloydspinsidemindspring.com> wrote:
> > 1553 looks like the original Heathkit digital proportional radio
> > control.
> >It looks like a Model Rectifier Corporation unit to me. But yes, early
> >remote control.
>
> >Tim.
>
> If you look on eBay for a Futaba FP-T there's a couple of them for sale
> that
> look almost identical except for the FUTABA label.
>You're 100% correct. But I remember the beige box and a red/green
>battery meter on a MRC (or memory is fading... International
>Rectifier?) unit from when I was a kid too. Would've been early
>Lasnerian 70's.
>
>Did International Rectifier sell remote control systems, or was it
>always model rectifier?
>
>And I may have been exaggerating about "early", the real early
>pioneers did it using vacuum tubes as I recall!
>
>Tim.
I used to have a MRC transmitter but it was a 4 channel, 2 stick open gimbal
unit. My first used R/C helicopter came with a Citizenship radio, looked a
lot like Kraft parts. I had a LaTrax Corvette that had a transmitter like
the one in the picture except it was silver/gray color. I guess many of the
old wheel transmitters had pretty much the same box & layout.
Paul K. Dickman wrote:
> "Rob H." <[email protected]> wrote in message
> news:[email protected]...
>>>>>> http://55tools.blogspot.com/
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Rob
>>>>> 1552 - horse powered sugar cane crusher - making molasses?
>>>> You've got the right idea but that's not sugar cane.
>>>>
>>>>> 1554 - pedometer - used by a runner?
>>>> Pedometer is correct but it wasn't used by a runner, the units on the
>>>> dial should give a clue.
>>>>
>>>> Rob
>>> How about for a watchman or sentry? If he's supposed to walk a certain
>>> circuit at a certain interval, the supervisor should know within ten
>>> yards what reading to expect if he drops by to check.
>> You've got the units right but it's not for a watchman or sentry.
>> Rob
>
> The units are the weird part. Assuming one rotation of the big hand for one
> graduation of the small hand, the units are 1 1/2 ft.
>
> That's too small to be paces and too much math to be yards.
>
> The only things I can think of that might need 18" counting are cornrows.
>
> Paul K. Dickman
>
>
440 yards equals 1/4 mile.
"Rob H." <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> Just posted a new set:
>
> http://55tools.blogspot.com/
>
>
> Rob
1553 is a radio control transmitter, for model cars, and perhaps boats.
Depends upon the frequency of the quartz crystals in it.
Steve R.
Rob H. wrote:
> Just posted a new set:
>
> http://55tools.blogspot.com/
>
>
> Rob
1554: A pedometer, which is French for "foot measuring device."
Naturally it read in "millimetres", so it would measure up to size 30.
The part that says "miles" was to measure the thickness of socks. When
Walt Disney had a copyright on "MM", the French used "miles" as the
abbreviation for "millimetres."
Rob H. said:
>
> "Howard R Garner" <[email protected]> wrote in message
> news:[email protected]...
>> Rob H. wrote:
>>> Just posted a new set:
>>>
>>> http://55tools.blogspot.com/
>>>
>>>
>>> Rob
>> 1552 - horse powered sugar cane crusher - making molasses?
>
> You've got the right idea but that's not sugar cane.
>
>> 1554 - pedometer - used by a runner?
>
> Pedometer is correct but it wasn't used by a runner, the units on
> the dial should give a clue.
Given its tiny diameter and enormous units, I reckon it's one of
those things you run over a map to find the RL distance between two
points on that map. (The wheel design has the advantage over a
ruler that you can easily steer it around bends and corners.) I've
got one myself somewhere (albeit a rather newer one!) - jolly
useful in the days before satnavs and Web-based route planners.
--
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Email: -http://www. +rjh@
Google users: <http://www.cpax.org.uk/prg/writings/googly.php>
"Usenet is a strange place" - dmr 29 July 1999
kfvorwerk wrote:
> On Feb 27, 3:41 pm, "David G. Nagel" <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>> E Z Peaces wrote:
>>> R.H. wrote:
>>>>> What about defensive artillery fire? A soldier walks from the gun
>>>>> position to a certain landmark. Then they know the range when the enemy
>>>>> advances. It could be for sharpshooters, too.
>>>> Nope, it's not related to any type of weapons.
>>>> Rob
>>> Some muleskinners, who walked, were very productive. I wonder if this
>>> pedometer was to pay a muleskinner according to distance.
>> An interesting sideline to this message is that the US Dept of Homeland
>> Security are requiring the muleskinners at a Pennsylvania State Part to
>> have the same security clearance/badges as longshoremen at ocean ports.
>
> Of course you're aware of the damage a mule at 4 miles an hour hitting
> a building would do? Need I say how much more devastating it would be
> if you got him up to a trot before impact? They're just thinking of
> our safety. I'm sure elephant mahout's will be next. After all they
> make mules look like 12,000lb airplanes.
> Karl
4 mph! Did any muleskinners walk? I was thinking of those who built
levees and dragged logs, but now that I think of it, I don't remember
any photos.
Aha! A CNN photo shows those Pennsylvania muleskinners walking as their
mules pull a boat!
"Tim Shoppa" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:56ed4307-008b-4022-9bce-2e6c61744c4c@v19g2000yqn.googlegroups.com...
On Feb 26, 7:25 am, "Lloyd E. Sponenburgh"
<lloydspinsidemindspring.com> wrote:
> 1553 looks like the original Heathkit digital proportional radio
> control.
>It looks like a Model Rectifier Corporation unit to me. But yes, early
>remote control.
>
>Tim.
If you look on eBay for a Futaba FP-T there's a couple of them for sale that
look almost identical except for the FUTABA label.
RogerN
"E Z Peaces" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> Rob H. wrote:
>>
>> "Howard R Garner" <[email protected]> wrote in message
>> news:[email protected]...
>>> Rob H. wrote:
>>>> Just posted a new set:
>>>>
>>>> http://55tools.blogspot.com/
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Rob
>>> 1552 - horse powered sugar cane crusher - making molasses?
>>
>> You've got the right idea but that's not sugar cane.
>>
>>> 1554 - pedometer - used by a runner?
>>
>> Pedometer is correct but it wasn't used by a runner, the units on the
>> dial should give a clue.
>>
>> Rob
>
> How about for a watchman or sentry? If he's supposed to walk a certain
> circuit at a certain interval, the supervisor should know within ten yards
> what reading to expect if he drops by to check.
1553 - Futaba FP-T 2F radio control transmitter, maybe late 1970s.
Fairly dirty, so might have been used with gas powered cars - fuel, oil,
rubber dust from the tires, 1/4" off the; incredibly filthy things.
Kerry
R.H. wrote:
>>> Neither of those, it wasn't used for any type of work.
>> Golf?
>
>
> Yes! It's a golfometer. The rest of the answers for this set can be
> seen here:
>
>
> http://answers273-k.blogspot.com/
>
>
> Rob
>
I wonder if most courses were 9 holes in those days. I think a golfer
would walk more than 2.5 miles on 18 holes. Then he'd have to add
fractions.
1553:
Are you sure that transmitter is a two-channel? Several manufacturers
of radio control equipment used to make transmitters with three-axis
sticks (up-down, left-right, and rotation), and they always had
oversized knobs. The slider on the left may be the fourth channel, for
throttle. Ace R/C made the best of these, and they actually work pretty
well for flying. With rudder on the rotation and aileron R-L, they were
much more intuitive for cross-controlling aileron and rudder than
two-stick controllers are. It's a mystery to me why they are off the
market. Maybe they were too expensive to manufacture.
David
Rob H. wrote:
> Just posted a new set:
>
> http://55tools.blogspot.com/
>
>
> Rob
Howard R Garner <[email protected]> fired this volley in
news:[email protected]:
> Rob H. wrote:
>> Just posted a new set:
>>
>> http://55tools.blogspot.com/
>>
>>
>> Rob
> 1552 - horse powered sugar cane crusher - making molasses?
> 1554 - pedometer - used by a runner?
>
1552, yes. Lots of them around here. They're called "cane mills"; one
or two-mule powered.
1553 looks like the original Heathkit digital proportional radio
control.
LLoyd
Kerry Montgomery wrote:
> "David Kazdan" <[email protected]> wrote in message
> news:XMkql.8395$%[email protected]...
>> 1553:
>>
>> Are you sure that transmitter is a two-channel? Several manufacturers of
>> radio control equipment used to make transmitters with three-axis sticks
>> (up-down, left-right, and rotation), and they always had oversized knobs.
>> The slider on the left may be the fourth channel, for throttle. Ace R/C
>> made the best of these, and they actually work pretty well for flying.
>> With rudder on the rotation and aileron R-L, they were much more intuitive
>> for cross-controlling aileron and rudder than two-stick controllers are.
>> It's a mystery to me why they are off the market. Maybe they were too
>> expensive to manufacture.
>>
>> David
>>
>> Rob H. wrote:
>>> Just posted a new set:
>>>
>>> http://55tools.blogspot.com/
>>>
>>>
>>> Rob
>
> David,
> Two channels, for sure. The knob is just a steering wheel. This particular
> transmitter was very popular with R/C car racers back in the day - only need
> steering and throttle. The throttle is a small lever on the right hand side,
> can't see it in Rob's photo. This eBay item shows a little bit of the
> throttle control:
> http://tinyurl.com/afkmn8
> The slider on the left is the on/off switch. I have a couple of these in my
> attic - after seeing the eBay prices I may have to try to market 'em!
> Kerry
>
>
Right. Here's the sort I was thinking of:
http://cgi.ebay.com/Vintage-Kraft-7CS-Single-Stick-Transmitter_W0QQitemZ260366689411QQcmdZViewItemQQptZRadio_Control_Parts_Accessories?hash=item260366689411&_trksid=p3286.c0.m14&_trkparms=72%3A570|66%3A2|65%3A12|39%3A1|240%3A1318|301%3A1|293%3A1|294%3A50
On Feb 27, 11:38=A0am, "Rob H." <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Yes, they were pressing sorghum cane to make molasses.
>
> Rob
Check out this link, and scroll down about halfway to the "Indiana
State Fair, Aug 2002". Is that the same mill?
http://www.herculesengines.com/sorghum/default.html
--riverman
"David Kazdan" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:XMkql.8395$%[email protected]...
> 1553:
>
> Are you sure that transmitter is a two-channel? Several manufacturers of
> radio control equipment used to make transmitters with three-axis sticks
> (up-down, left-right, and rotation), and they always had oversized knobs.
> The slider on the left may be the fourth channel, for throttle. Ace R/C
> made the best of these, and they actually work pretty well for flying.
> With rudder on the rotation and aileron R-L, they were much more intuitive
> for cross-controlling aileron and rudder than two-stick controllers are.
> It's a mystery to me why they are off the market. Maybe they were too
> expensive to manufacture.
>
> David
>
> Rob H. wrote:
>> Just posted a new set:
>>
>> http://55tools.blogspot.com/
>>
>>
>> Rob
David,
Two channels, for sure. The knob is just a steering wheel. This particular
transmitter was very popular with R/C car racers back in the day - only need
steering and throttle. The throttle is a small lever on the right hand side,
can't see it in Rob's photo. This eBay item shows a little bit of the
throttle control:
http://tinyurl.com/afkmn8
The slider on the left is the on/off switch. I have a couple of these in my
attic - after seeing the eBay prices I may have to try to market 'em!
Kerry
On Feb 27, 3:41=A0pm, "David G. Nagel" <[email protected]>
wrote:
> E Z Peaces wrote:
> > R.H. wrote:
> >>> What about defensive artillery fire? =A0A soldier walks from the gun
> >>> position to a certain landmark. =A0Then they know the range when the =
enemy
> >>> advances. =A0It could be for sharpshooters, too.
>
> >> Nope, it's not related to any type of weapons.
>
> >> Rob
>
> > Some muleskinners, who walked, were very productive. =A0I wonder if thi=
s
> > pedometer was to pay a muleskinner according to distance.
>
> An interesting sideline to this message is that the US Dept of Homeland
> Security are requiring the muleskinners at a Pennsylvania State Part to
> have the same security clearance/badges as longshoremen at ocean ports.
Of course you're aware of the damage a mule at 4 miles an hour hitting
a building would do? Need I say how much more devastating it would be
if you got him up to a trot before impact? They're just thinking of
our safety. I'm sure elephant mahout's will be next. After all they
make mules look like 12,000lb airplanes.
Karl
On Feb 26, 5:29=A0am, E Z Peaces <[email protected]> wrote:
> Rob H. wrote:
> > Just posted a new set:
>
> >http://55tools.blogspot.com/
>
> > Rob
>
> 1554: A pedometer, which is French for "foot measuring device."
> Naturally it read in "millimetres", so it would measure up to size 30.
>
> The part that says "miles" was to measure the thickness of socks. =A0When
> Walt Disney had a copyright on "MM", the French used "miles" as the
> abbreviation for "millimetres."
This is why we're not allowed around polite company.
Karl
Rob H. wrote:
>
> "Howard R Garner" <[email protected]> wrote in message
> news:[email protected]...
>> Rob H. wrote:
>>> Just posted a new set:
>>>
>>> http://55tools.blogspot.com/
>>>
>>>
>>> Rob
>> 1552 - horse powered sugar cane crusher - making molasses?
>
> You've got the right idea but that's not sugar cane.
>
>> 1554 - pedometer - used by a runner?
>
> Pedometer is correct but it wasn't used by a runner, the units on the
> dial should give a clue.
>
> Rob
How about for a watchman or sentry? If he's supposed to walk a certain
circuit at a certain interval, the supervisor should know within ten
yards what reading to expect if he drops by to check.
On Mar 1, 11:16=A0am, Gunner Asch <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Sat, 28 Feb 2009 18:53:51 -0500, "Lee Michaels"
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> <leemichaels*[email protected]> wrote:
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> >"R.H." <[email protected]> wrote in message
> >news:[email protected]...
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> >>> > Neither of those, it wasn't used for any type of work.
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> >>> Golf?
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> >> Yes! =A0It's a golfometer. =A0The rest of the answers for this set can=
be
> >> seen here:
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> >Of course! =A0I was sent to a golf store recently to =A0purchase an item=
for
> >someone. =A0There were a huge number of gadgets and toys in there. =A0Al=
ong with
> >an infinite number of golf clubs and other assorted items. I got dizzy i=
n
> >the place. =A0Do golfers really buy all that stuff?
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> Ever been to a fishing tackle store?
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Or a cosmetics counter with your wife?
<g>
--riverman
On Sat, 28 Feb 2009 18:53:51 -0500, "Lee Michaels"
<leemichaels*nadaspam*@comcast.net> wrote:
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>"R.H." <[email protected]> wrote in message
>news:[email protected]...
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>>> > Neither of those, it wasn't used for any type of work.
>>>
>>> Golf?
>>
>>
>> Yes! It's a golfometer. The rest of the answers for this set can be
>> seen here:
>>
>Of course! I was sent to a golf store recently to purchase an item for
>someone. There were a huge number of gadgets and toys in there. Along with
>an infinite number of golf clubs and other assorted items. I got dizzy in
>the place. Do golfers really buy all that stuff?
>
>
Ever been to a fishing tackle store?
<G>
Gunner
"Lenin called them "useful idiots," those people living in
liberal democracies who by giving moral and material support
to a totalitarian ideology in effect were braiding the rope that
would hang them. Why people who enjoyed freedom and prosperity worked
passionately to destroy both is a fascinating question, one still with us
today. Now the useful idiots can be found in the chorus of appeasement,
reflexive anti-Americanism, and sentimental idealism trying to inhibit
the necessary responses to another freedom-hating ideology, radical Islam"
Bruce C. Thornton, a professor of Classics at American University of Cal State Fresno
"Howard R Garner" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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> Rob H. wrote:
>> Just posted a new set:
>>
>> http://55tools.blogspot.com/
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>>
>> Rob
> 1552 - horse powered sugar cane crusher - making molasses?
You've got the right idea but that's not sugar cane.
> 1554 - pedometer - used by a runner?
Pedometer is correct but it wasn't used by a runner, the units on the dial
should give a clue.
Rob
>>>>>http://55tools.blogspot.com/
>>>
>>>>>Rob
>>>>
>>>>1552 - horse powered sugar cane crusher - making molasses?
>>>
>>>You've got the right idea but that's not sugar cane.
>> 1552- Hmmm, if thats not a 'Goldens New Model 2-roller cane mill',
>> crushing sugar cane for syrup, then I don't know what it is.
>> http://tinyurl.com/cz35qs
>> http://tinyurl.com/decn6o
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>> --riverman
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> It could be sorghum, not sugar cane.
Yes, they were pressing sorghum cane to make molasses.
Rob
>>>> http://55tools.blogspot.com/
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Rob
>>> 1552 - horse powered sugar cane crusher - making molasses?
>>
>> You've got the right idea but that's not sugar cane.
>>
>>> 1554 - pedometer - used by a runner?
>>
>> Pedometer is correct but it wasn't used by a runner, the units on the
>> dial should give a clue.
>>
>> Rob
>
> How about for a watchman or sentry? If he's supposed to walk a certain
> circuit at a certain interval, the supervisor should know within ten
> yards what reading to expect if he drops by to check.
You've got the units right but it's not for a watchman or sentry.
Rob
"Rob H." <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
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>>>>> http://55tools.blogspot.com/
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Rob
>>>> 1552 - horse powered sugar cane crusher - making molasses?
>>>
>>> You've got the right idea but that's not sugar cane.
>>>
>>>> 1554 - pedometer - used by a runner?
>>>
>>> Pedometer is correct but it wasn't used by a runner, the units on the
>>> dial should give a clue.
>>>
>>> Rob
>>
>> How about for a watchman or sentry? If he's supposed to walk a certain
>> circuit at a certain interval, the supervisor should know within ten
>> yards what reading to expect if he drops by to check.
>
> You've got the units right but it's not for a watchman or sentry.
> Rob
The units are the weird part. Assuming one rotation of the big hand for one
graduation of the small hand, the units are 1 1/2 ft.
That's too small to be paces and too much math to be yards.
The only things I can think of that might need 18" counting are cornrows.
Paul K. Dickman
"Ted Schuerzinger" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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> On Fri, 27 Feb 2009 13:15:11 -0600, Paul K. Dickman wrote:
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>> The units are the weird part. Assuming one rotation of the big hand
>> for one graduation of the small hand, the units are 1 1/2 ft.
>
> ??
>
> On the big circuit, each graduation is 10 yards.
>
> The little circuit says miles. Each graduation is 1/4 mile, which just
> happens to be 440 yards.
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> I'm not sure who would have used it, though.
>
> --
> Ted S.
There are 8 grads to the mile on the small dial.
If the hand moves two grads per rev of the big hand, then that would be
true.
I don't know this for a fact, but it does make more sense.
Paul K.Dickman
kfvorwerk wrote:
> On Feb 27, 3:41 pm, "David G. Nagel" <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>> E Z Peaces wrote:
>>> R.H. wrote:
>>>>> What about defensive artillery fire? A soldier walks from the gun
>>>>> position to a certain landmark. Then they know the range when the enemy
>>>>> advances. It could be for sharpshooters, too.
>>>> Nope, it's not related to any type of weapons.
>>>> Rob
>>> Some muleskinners, who walked, were very productive. I wonder if this
>>> pedometer was to pay a muleskinner according to distance.
>> An interesting sideline to this message is that the US Dept of Homeland
>> Security are requiring the muleskinners at a Pennsylvania State Part to
>> have the same security clearance/badges as longshoremen at ocean ports.
>
> Of course you're aware of the damage a mule at 4 miles an hour hitting
> a building would do? Need I say how much more devastating it would be
> if you got him up to a trot before impact? They're just thinking of
> our safety. I'm sure elephant mahout's will be next. After all they
> make mules look like 12,000lb airplanes.
> Karl
Actually they are most likely worried that the muleskinners will use the
mules to packmule explosives or something into the rebuild canal to
nowhere...
Dave
Rob H. wrote:
>
>>>>> http://55tools.blogspot.com/
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Rob
>>>> 1552 - horse powered sugar cane crusher - making molasses?
>>>
>>> You've got the right idea but that's not sugar cane.
>>>
>>>> 1554 - pedometer - used by a runner?
>>>
>>> Pedometer is correct but it wasn't used by a runner, the units on the
>>> dial should give a clue.
>>>
>>> Rob
>>
>> How about for a watchman or sentry? If he's supposed to walk a
>> certain circuit at a certain interval, the supervisor should know
>> within ten yards what reading to expect if he drops by to check.
>
> You've got the units right but it's not for a watchman or sentry.
> Rob
What about defensive artillery fire? A soldier walks from the gun
position to a certain landmark. Then they know the range when the enemy
advances. It could be for sharpshooters, too.
On 2009-02-26, Rob H. <[email protected]> wrote:
> Just posted a new set:
>
> http://55tools.blogspot.com/
O.K. Posting from Rec.crafts.metalworking as always.
1549) Hmm ... wrong materials for marine use.
Too short to be a flat belt changing tool -- at least for
the overhead belts.
Really no idea.
1550) Looks like a tool for screwing a bolted coupling flange onto
a threaded pipe. I've seen such flanges used for high vacuum
work, but they were usually welded in place.
1551) For filtering out fine powders from solutions -- perhaps for
medicinal use?
1552) For extracting sugar from sugar cane?
For stripping corn from ears still mounted on the stalks?
1553) Well ... it uses RF for either input or output.
Perhaps a baby minder to be used with a broadcast radio?
Perhaps an alarm triggered by emergency broadcasts? (CD)
1554) A pedometer -- for recording how far a person walks or jogs.
It is activated by the bouncing of the walking or jogging gait,
and presumably has somewhere to set how long a stride the user
has -- or the user has to calculate the actual distance from the
ratio of his/her known stride length and the stride length for
which the pedometer is calibrated.
Now to see what others have suggested.
Enjoy,
DoN.
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riverman wrote:
> On Feb 27, 9:20 am, "Rob H." <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>>"Howard R Garner" <[email protected]> wrote in messagenews:[email protected]...
>>
>>
>>>Rob H. wrote:
>>>
>>>>Just posted a new set:
>>
>>>>http://55tools.blogspot.com/
>>
>>>>Rob
>>>
>>>1552 - horse powered sugar cane crusher - making molasses?
>>
>>You've got the right idea but that's not sugar cane.
>>
>
>
> 1552- Hmmm, if thats not a 'Goldens New Model 2-roller cane mill',
> crushing sugar cane for syrup, then I don't know what it is.
> http://tinyurl.com/cz35qs
> http://tinyurl.com/decn6o
>
> --riverman
It could be sorghum, not sugar cane.
R.H. wrote:
>> What about defensive artillery fire? A soldier walks from the gun
>> position to a certain landmark. Then they know the range when the enemy
>> advances. It could be for sharpshooters, too.
>
>
> Nope, it's not related to any type of weapons.
>
>
> Rob
>
Some muleskinners, who walked, were very productive. I wonder if this
pedometer was to pay a muleskinner according to distance.
E Z Peaces wrote:
> R.H. wrote:
>>> What about defensive artillery fire? A soldier walks from the gun
>>> position to a certain landmark. Then they know the range when the enemy
>>> advances. It could be for sharpshooters, too.
>>
>>
>> Nope, it's not related to any type of weapons.
>>
>>
>> Rob
>>
> Some muleskinners, who walked, were very productive. I wonder if this
> pedometer was to pay a muleskinner according to distance.
An interesting sideline to this message is that the US Dept of Homeland
Security are requiring the muleskinners at a Pennsylvania State Part to
have the same security clearance/badges as longshoremen at ocean ports.