On Thu, 07 Oct 2010 17:56:59 +0930, Kevin(Bluey) wrote:
> 2058 is a n access key/handel to an electrical switch box or breaker
> cabinet.
Are square nuts that uncommon that this would serve as a valid lock?
My father was a volunteer fireman decades back, and I seem to remember
that when he showed us the department's "hydrant" (not an actual fire
hydrant if I recall, but functionally equivalent for quickly filling up
the engines' tanks), it had a five-sided nut, since those were uncommon.
They did have a similar tool, however, for loosening the nut.
--
Ted S.
fedya at hughes dot net
Now blogging at http://justacineast.blogspot.com
On 10 Oct 2010 15:36:59 GMT, [email protected] (Scott Lurndal)
wrote:
>Bill <[email protected]> writes:
>>Rob H. wrote:
>>>>> http://55tools.blogspot.com/2010/10/set-357.html#answers
>>>>>
>>>> Maybe the "grabber" was used to grab chickens, before bathing them for
>>>> instance.
>>>>
>>>> Bill
>>>
>>>
>>> Sounds like a good use for it! Although I'm thinking that this one is
>>> going to be hard to nail down.
>>
>>I would be looking around for something like that if I had to butcher a
>>chicken. I couldn't find anything at Google to back up my guess though.
>> It's a great game you make!
>
>Having butchered chickens, it's not that difficult to catch and decapitate
>a chicken - all that's required is a hatchet. I've never heard of anyone
>bathing a chicken. Plucking them is a chore, however.
>
>scott
You bathe them in water at 160 deg. F for one minute (IIRC) and the
feathers come out rather easily.
Gerry :-)}
London, Canada
"Rob H." <[email protected]> wrote in message
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>
>
>> How about a watermelon plugger?
>>
>> LLoyd
>
>
> It's not a plugger
It's for getting the juice out of a lemon.
Kerry
On 2010-10-07 17:24:27 -0400, "Rob H." <[email protected]> said:
> According to the ower of it, it's a mailbag lock but I couldn't find a
> single one on the web. Just did a search on duffle bag lock and found
> a couple just like it, so it looks like your answer is right. I would
> guess it could also be used with mailbags.
The "classic" canvas mail bag had a cinch lock -- a tab snapped over a
hasp and firmly gripped the rope threaded through eyelets at the open
end of the bag. You could put a lock ring through the hasp. I loaded
and slung enough of these... the tab could hold a routing label.*
Bag: http://img11.shop-pro.jp/PA01056/039/product/18413244_o1.jpg
Cinch lock detail: http://img11.shop-pro.jp/PA01056/039/product/18413244_o3.jpg
Here's a bunch of postal locks, none that I could tell being
specifically for mail bags:
http://restraintsblog.blogspot.com/2009/03/recent-mail-lock-auctions.html
*Other interesting, and even-then-outmoded, technology in use in that
mail room: Elliott Adressograph and twine baling machines** so old that
no permanent repairs could be made. They ran strictly on "a lick and a
prayer." And often two, three, or even more attempts to get the bundle
tied... The final outmoded tech: Gertie and Tudy, mother and daughter
who could hand-stuff inserts in 35,000 newspapers in about the same
amount of time as the press run!
The press kicked one paper at an angle every 50 copies -- the guy
flying the press learned to count by threes to add or subtract enough
papers to make up the individual carriers' bundles, which were then
handed to the frustrated guys at the baling machines. How did we know
how many papers went in each bundle? Simple, we used a big fat black
crayon to mark the count on cover sheets a couple hours before the
press started. (The route numbers were stamped on the cover sheets with
the Elliott.)
**I'm not quite old enough to have know the tech that preceded the
balers -- hand-tying the bundles and then cutting the twine from the
ball with a small knife -- sort of a cockspur worn at the base of and
to the outside of the pinkie.
Somebody wrote:
> Having butchered chickens, it's not that difficult to catch and
> decapitate
> a chicken - all that's required is a hatchet. I've never heard of
> anyone
> bathing a chicken. Plucking them is a chore,
---------------------------------
Remember those days.
At less than $1/lb, makes you appreciate the availability at the
market.
Lew
Bill wrote:
>
> Michael A. Terrell wrote:
> >
> > Scott Lurndal wrote:
> >>
> >> Having butchered chickens, it's not that difficult to catch and decapitate
> >> a chicken - all that's required is a hatchet. I've never heard of anyone
> >> bathing a chicken. Plucking them is a chore, however.
> >
> >
> > You don't bathe them, but dunking them in scalding hot water makes
> > them a lot easier to pluck.
> >
>
> I used "bathing" as a (humorous) euphemism (looked it up: "the
> substitution of a mild, indirect, or vague expression for one thought to
> be offensive, harsh, or blunt").
Most of the people here are grown so if the thought of dunking a dead
bird in scalding water to help remove the feathers offends them, they
need to grow up.
--
Politicians should only get paid if the budget is balanced, and there is
enough left over to pay them.
Rob H. wrote:
>
> None of the suggestions for this one are correct, it's kind of hard
> to guess the answer so I'll give a hint, it would be found in the
> category of 'kitchen tools'.
>
A coring tool?
--
-Mike-
[email protected]
Scott Lurndal wrote:
>
> Having butchered chickens, it's not that difficult to catch and decapitate
> a chicken - all that's required is a hatchet. I've never heard of anyone
> bathing a chicken. Plucking them is a chore, however.
You don't bathe them, but dunking them in scalding hot water makes
them a lot easier to pluck.
--
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enough left over to pay them.
"J Burns" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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> On 10/8/10 5:39 PM, Rob H. wrote:
>> They've all been answered correctly this week except for the grabber
>> which is still unidentified, also there is an update on the STOP lens
>> from a previous set:
>>
>> http://55tools.blogspot.com/2010/10/set-357.html#answers
>>
>>
>> Rob
> http://www.alibaba.com/showroom/motorcycle-brake-lights.html
>
> Here's a Chinese manufacture of blue halogen brakes lights.
>
> In the 1940s, I wonder if laws specified the color of brake lights all
> over the US. Maybe it was for the military. At night in a stateside
> convoy where not all drivers knew the way, blue taillights could help a
> driver follow the right vehicle.
>
The one I saw years ago at a vintage car convention was on a 1920s car.
Steve R.
On 10/7/2010 5:41 PM, Rob H. wrote:
> This week I need some help with the third item:
>
> http://55tools.blogspot.com/
>
>
> Rob
2058 is a n access key/handel to an electrical switch box or breaker
cabinet.
--
Kevin (Bluey)
"I'm not young enough to know everything."
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"Rob H." <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
>
>>> http://55tools.blogspot.com/
>
>> # 2053 is a bag lock issued by the army for a duffle bag
>
> According to the ower of it, it's a mailbag lock but I couldn't find a
> single one on the web. Just did a search on duffle bag lock and found a
> couple just like it, so it looks like your answer is right. I would guess
> it could also be used with mailbags.
>
>> # 2056 are a pair of removable rockers for a chair
>
> Correct
>
>
> Rob
>
Thinking about it overnight, the idea of a mailbag came into my head and I
was going to get out of a nice warm bed to add that, but then thought better
and it would wait till the morning.
But, I had remembered that the railways here, when they used to move postage
bags by train to the city, they used such a locking device.
I'd just cut out a new design on my CNC plasma table. Made a nice
wrench for my Uncle. It fits drain pipe plugs. Square. Used 1/4" HRS.
Martin
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On 10/7/2010 11:59 PM, DoN. Nichols wrote:
> On 2010-10-07, Ted Schuerzinger<[email protected]> wrote:
>> On Thu, 07 Oct 2010 17:56:59 +0930, Kevin(Bluey) wrote:
>>
>>> 2058 is a n access key/handel to an electrical switch box or breaker
>>> cabinet.
>>
>> Are square nuts that uncommon that this would serve as a valid lock?
>
> No -- They used to be *very* common. An open-end wrench, or a
> Crescent (adjustable) wrench would work as well on a square fitting.
>
> However -- what has been overlooked is that there are four lugs
> for driving something else surrounding the barrel near the handle
> flange.
>
>> My father was a volunteer fireman decades back, and I seem to remember
>> that when he showed us the department's "hydrant" (not an actual fire
>> hydrant if I recall, but functionally equivalent for quickly filling up
>> the engines' tanks), it had a five-sided nut, since those were uncommon.
>
> Almost all fire hydrants have a tapered five-sided nut designed
> to shrug off any normal wrench.
>
>> They did have a similar tool, however, for loosening the nut.
>
> Of course -- they need them at every fire hydrant.
>
> But much larger than the puzzle item.
>
> Enjoy,
> DoN.
>
"Rob H." <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> This week I need some help with the third item:
>
> http://55tools.blogspot.com/
>
>
> Rob
# 2053 is a bag lock issued by the army for a duffle bag
# 2054 is a curly stainless thingamabob for napkins
# 2055 is a pumpkin picker-upper
# 2056 are a pair of removable rockers for a chair
# 2067 is some of the insides of a one arm bandit poker machine
# 2057 is a tap from an air compressor
In article <[email protected]>,
DoN. Nichols <[email protected]> wrote:
> Almost all fire hydrants have a tapered five-sided nut designed
>to shrug off any normal wrench.
Yeah, but since pretty much every hydrant-opening malcontent has one
by now, a lot of them have magnetic covers as well.
--
The problem with socialism is there's always
someone with less ability and more need.
Cork Screw?
On 10/07/2010 05:13 PM, Rob H. wrote:
>
> "Bill" <[email protected]> wrote in message
> news:[email protected]...
>> On 10/7/2010 4:11 AM, Rob H. wrote:
>>> This week I need some help with the third item:
>>>
>>> http://55tools.blogspot.com/
>>>
>>>
>>> Rob
>>
>> 2054: For wrapping around a (cloth) napkin and silverware?
>>
>> Bill
>
>
> None of the suggestions for this one are correct, it's kind of hard to
> guess the answer so I'll give a hint, it would be found in the category
> of 'kitchen tools'.
>
>
> Rob
"Rich Grise" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> On Sat, 09 Oct 2010 03:11:42 +0000, Matthew Russotto wrote:
>> In article <[email protected]>, DoN. Nichols
>> <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> Almost all fire hydrants have a tapered five-sided nut designed
>>>to shrug off any normal wrench.
>>
>> Yeah, but since pretty much every hydrant-opening malcontent has one by
>> now, a lot of them have magnetic covers as well.
>
> I'd always figured that when I wanted to do that, I'd just use a
> chain-type pipe wrench. ;-)
>
> Cheers!
> Rich
>
>
I have seen firemen use a Stilson pipe wrench!
Steve R.
"Rob H." <[email protected]> fired this volley in news:i8le9802dh1
@news7.newsguy.com:
>
> "Michael Kenefick" <[email protected]> wrote in message
> news:[email protected]...
>> Cork Screw?
>
>
> Nope
>
>
I believe it's a fruit (apple?) corer.
LLoyd
"Rob H." <[email protected]> fired this volley in
news:[email protected]:
f
>> A coring tool?
>
>
> Nope
>
How about a watermelon plugger?
LLoyd
"Rob H." <[email protected]> fired this volley in
news:[email protected]:
> They've all been answered correctly this week except for the grabber
> which is still unidentified, also there is an update on the STOP lens
> from a previous set:
>
Rob, the fence machine is probably the most elegant thing I've seen on
blogspot.
It's MARVELOUS! I saw the "stops" (gaps and widened teeth in the gears),
and envisioned that the gears could only turn a certain distance. I saw
the pawls, and disagreed that that "don't engage anything" (there were
slots in the gears for them to engage). But I couldn't for the life of
me figure out what it did. And in this day of computer-controlled
machinery, that's just a REALLY COOL device!
LLoyd
J Burns <[email protected]> fired this volley in news:i8ohs2$fvo$1
@news.eternal-september.org:
> 2055: One claw looks bent. It appears to be for picking up light
> objects, and the handle looks scorched.
>
> Even before aluminum foil, potatoes, sweet potatoes, corn, squash, and
> maybe fish were cooked in coals. If a lot of people were eating at a
> barbecue, this might be just the tool for getting food out of hot ashes.
>
I'm guessin' it's a turnip or onion puller. It just "looks right" for
that.
LLoyd
2056 I was going to guess the same as George W Frost... Clamp on rockers to
convert a regular chair to a rocker.
2058 Crank guess: "Danger Retard Spark Before [Cranking] Engine" Crank
for starting car engine.
"Rob H." <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> This week I need some help with the third item:
>
> http://55tools.blogspot.com/
>
>
> Rob
On 10/7/2010 4:11 AM, Rob H. wrote:
> This week I need some help with the third item:
>
> http://55tools.blogspot.com/
>
>
> Rob
2057 (Guess) It appears to me that it came off of the bottom of a
locomotive/train. I can even see what looks like a brake, and gear
stops that will be helpful in climbing mountains.
Bill
"Bill" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> On 10/7/2010 4:11 AM, Rob H. wrote:
>> This week I need some help with the third item:
>>
>> http://55tools.blogspot.com/
>>
>>
>> Rob
>
> 2054: For wrapping around a (cloth) napkin and silverware?
>
> Bill
None of the suggestions for this one are correct, it's kind of hard to guess
the answer so I'll give a hint, it would be found in the category of
'kitchen tools'.
Rob
>> http://55tools.blogspot.com/
> # 2053 is a bag lock issued by the army for a duffle bag
According to the ower of it, it's a mailbag lock but I couldn't find a
single one on the web. Just did a search on duffle bag lock and found a
couple just like it, so it looks like your answer is right. I would guess
it could also be used with mailbags.
> # 2056 are a pair of removable rockers for a chair
Correct
Rob
"Michael Kenefick" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> Cork Screw?
Nope
> 2058: DANGER: Close cover before striking match!
> DANGER: Remove spanner before starting engine!
> Could be anything! ;-)
I'll narrow it down some then:
-the danger is not from electricity
-the tool is used on something that: is not a machine, does not have wheels,
would not be found in a typical big box hardware store
Probably hard to guess the answer if you don't own the item this tool is
used with.
Rob
"Bill" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> Rob H. wrote:
>
>> None of the suggestions for this one are correct, it's kind of hard to
>> guess the answer so I'll give a hint, it would be found in the category
>> of 'kitchen tools'.
>>
>>
>> Rob
>
>
> For pitting an olive???
>
> Bill
Negatory
"Mike Marlow" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> Rob H. wrote:
>
>>
>> None of the suggestions for this one are correct, it's kind of hard
>> to guess the answer so I'll give a hint, it would be found in the
>> category of 'kitchen tools'.
>>
>
> A coring tool?
Nope
2053. Padlocking something? Yeah, I know. That's no help.
2054. Decorative napkin holder
2055. A picker upper of some kind "d'uh". But, what?
2056. Skis, from the 1800s.
2057. No clue.
2058. A wrench of some kind "d'uh". But, what?
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"Rob H." <[email protected]> wrote in message
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This week I need some help with the third item:
http://55tools.blogspot.com/
Rob
On 10/7/10 5:47 PM, Rob H. wrote:
>
>
>> 2058: DANGER: Close cover before striking match!
>> DANGER: Remove spanner before starting engine!
>> Could be anything! ;-)
>
>
> I'll narrow it down some then:
>
> -the danger is not from electricity
> -the tool is used on something that: is not a machine, does not have
> wheels, would not be found in a typical big box hardware store
>
> Probably hard to guess the answer if you don't own the item this tool is
> used with.
>
>
> Rob
>
It's used with a drill. "Danger, drill hole before inserting peg."
It's for keeping square pegs in alignment when inserting them into round
holes.
Rob H. wrote:
> They've all been answered correctly this week except for the grabber
> which is still unidentified, also there is an update on the STOP lens
> from a previous set:
>
> http://55tools.blogspot.com/2010/10/set-357.html#answers
>
>
> Rob
Maybe the "grabber" was used to grab chickens, before bathing them for
instance.
Bill
Rob H. wrote:
>>> http://55tools.blogspot.com/2010/10/set-357.html#answers
>>>
>> Maybe the "grabber" was used to grab chickens, before bathing them for
>> instance.
>>
>> Bill
>
>
> Sounds like a good use for it! Although I'm thinking that this one is
> going to be hard to nail down.
I would be looking around for something like that if I had to butcher a
chicken. I couldn't find anything at Google to back up my guess though.
It's a great game you make!
Bill
> Rob, the fence machine is probably the most elegant thing I've seen on
> blogspot.
>
> It's MARVELOUS! I saw the "stops" (gaps and widened teeth in the gears),
> and envisioned that the gears could only turn a certain distance. I saw
> the pawls, and disagreed that that "don't engage anything" (there were
> slots in the gears for them to engage). But I couldn't for the life of
> me figure out what it did. And in this day of computer-controlled
> machinery, that's just a REALLY COOL device!
>
> LLoyd
Glad to hear that you liked fence machine, it was quite fascinating to see
it work in person. It wasn't the same one that was on the video but it
operated equally well.
Rob
On 10/8/10 5:39 PM, Rob H. wrote:
> They've all been answered correctly this week except for the grabber
> which is still unidentified, also there is an update on the STOP lens
> from a previous set:
>
> http://55tools.blogspot.com/2010/10/set-357.html#answers
>
>
> Rob
http://www.alibaba.com/showroom/motorcycle-brake-lights.html
Here's a Chinese manufacture of blue halogen brakes lights.
In the 1940s, I wonder if laws specified the color of brake lights all
over the US. Maybe it was for the military. At night in a stateside
convoy where not all drivers knew the way, blue taillights could help a
driver follow the right vehicle.
On 10/8/10 5:39 PM, Rob H. wrote:
> They've all been answered correctly this week except for the grabber
> which is still unidentified, also there is an update on the STOP lens
> from a previous set:
>
> http://55tools.blogspot.com/2010/10/set-357.html#answers
>
>
> Rob
2055: One claw looks bent. It appears to be for picking up light
objects, and the handle looks scorched.
Even before aluminum foil, potatoes, sweet potatoes, corn, squash, and
maybe fish were cooked in coals. If a lot of people were eating at a
barbecue, this might be just the tool for getting food out of hot ashes.
Having been a malcontent, I assure you. it's possible to open a
hydrant with five sided lug. Using common tools. Now that I'm over 40
and less of a malcontent, I won't provide much more in the way of
details.
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"Matthew Russotto" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
In article <[email protected]>,
DoN. Nichols <[email protected]> wrote:
> Almost all fire hydrants have a tapered five-sided nut designed
>to shrug off any normal wrench.
Yeah, but since pretty much every hydrant-opening malcontent has one
by now, a lot of them have magnetic covers as well.
--
The problem with socialism is there's always
someone with less ability and more need.
Very, very, bad procedure. Rounds off the corners, eventually all
that's left is round. Then, the FD wrenches won't work.
--
Christopher A. Young
Learn more about Jesus
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.
"Steve R." <[email protected]>
wrote in message news:[email protected]...
> I'd always figured that when I wanted to do that, I'd just use a
> chain-type pipe wrench. ;-)
>
> Cheers!
> Rich
>
>
I have seen firemen use a Stilson pipe wrench!
Steve R.
Michael A. Terrell wrote:
>
> Scott Lurndal wrote:
>>
>> Having butchered chickens, it's not that difficult to catch and decapitate
>> a chicken - all that's required is a hatchet. I've never heard of anyone
>> bathing a chicken. Plucking them is a chore, however.
>
>
> You don't bathe them, but dunking them in scalding hot water makes
> them a lot easier to pluck.
>
I used "bathing" as a (humorous) euphemism (looked it up: "the
substitution of a mild, indirect, or vague expression for one thought to
be offensive, harsh, or blunt").
Bill
Michael A. Terrell wrote:
>
> Bill wrote:
>>
>> Michael A. Terrell wrote:
>>>
>>> Scott Lurndal wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Having butchered chickens, it's not that difficult to catch and decapitate
>>>> a chicken - all that's required is a hatchet. I've never heard of anyone
>>>> bathing a chicken. Plucking them is a chore, however.
>>>
>>>
>>> You don't bathe them, but dunking them in scalding hot water makes
>>> them a lot easier to pluck.
>>>
>>
>> I used "bathing" as a (humorous) euphemism (looked it up: "the
>> substitution of a mild, indirect, or vague expression for one thought to
>> be offensive, harsh, or blunt").
>
>
> Most of the people here are grown so if the thought of dunking a dead
> bird in scalding water to help remove the feathers offends them, they
> need to grow up.
I used bathing as a euphemism for the hatchet job. Dunk all you want.
A good idea, but like most good ideas, someone else got there first.
google "featherless chicken"
"Ted Schuerzinger" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> On 10 Oct 2010 15:36:59 GMT, Scott Lurndal wrote:
>
>> Plucking them is a chore, however.
>
> Somebody need to develop a genetically modified featherless chicken. ;-)
>
> --
> Ted S.
> fedya at hughes dot net
> Now blogging at http://justacineast.blogspot.com
On Thu, 07 Oct 2010 04:11:20 -0400, Rob H. wrote:
> This week I need some help with the third item:
>
> http://55tools.blogspot.com/
>
2053: Art Deco Bike lock
2054: Art Deco Sconce on a wall with hemp carpet wallcover
2055: some kind of picker-upper, but I have no idea what for. Cow
frisbees?
2056: I can't even figure out which object in the photo I'm
supposed to identify - it's kinda busy, after all.
2057: ?
2058: DANGER: Close cover before striking match!
DANGER: Remove spanner before starting engine!
Could be anything! ;-)
Cheers!
Rich
On Sat, 09 Oct 2010 03:11:42 +0000, Matthew Russotto wrote:
> In article <[email protected]>, DoN. Nichols
> <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Almost all fire hydrants have a tapered five-sided nut designed
>>to shrug off any normal wrench.
>
> Yeah, but since pretty much every hydrant-opening malcontent has one by
> now, a lot of them have magnetic covers as well.
I'd always figured that when I wanted to do that, I'd just use a
chain-type pipe wrench. ;-)
Cheers!
Rich
On Sun, 10 Oct 2010 16:41:02 -0700, "Lew Hodgett"
<[email protected]> wrote:
>Somebody wrote:
>> Having butchered chickens, it's not that difficult to catch and
>> decapitate
>> a chicken - all that's required is a hatchet. I've never heard of
>> anyone
>> bathing a chicken. Plucking them is a chore,
>---------------------------------
>Remember those days.
>
>At less than $1/lb, makes you appreciate the availability at the
>market.
>
>Lew
>
I don't remember the unit price but in the early '50s my mother used
to stuff and roast chickens including a pint of gravy for fifty cents
over the price of the raw bird. One year, a good customer asked her to
cook the family thanksgiving turkey and I think she had the nerve to
ask a fee of five dollars to cook the thirty five pound bird - took
the whole day in a metal "baby bath tub" and used a half cord of dry
maple fire wood. THe next year they settled for two smaller birds and
insisted that she take $50 for her trouble.
Gerry :-)}
London, Canada
Alexander Thesoso wrote the following:
> 2056 I was going to guess the same as George W Frost... Clamp on rockers to
> convert a regular chair to a rocker.
>
> 2058 Crank guess: "Danger Retard Spark Before [Cranking] Engine" Crank
> for starting car engine.
At 3-3/8 inches long? Must be a really, really, low compression engine. :-)
--
Bill
In Hamptonburgh, NY
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To email, remove the double zeroes after @
Bill wrote:
>
> Rob H. wrote:
> >>> http://55tools.blogspot.com/2010/10/set-357.html#answers
> >>>
> >> Maybe the "grabber" was used to grab chickens, before bathing them for
> >> instance.
> >>
> >> Bill
> >
> >
> > Sounds like a good use for it! Although I'm thinking that this one is
> > going to be hard to nail down.
>
> I would be looking around for something like that if I had to butcher a
> chicken. I couldn't find anything at Google to back up my guess though.
> It's a great game you make!
My grandmother was a little over four feet tall when I would visit
the family farm in the early '60s. She would walk into their chicken
lot and grab the chicken she was was going to cook by its neck and swing
it in a circle, breaking its neck. Then she went to the waiting stump
and used an ax to cut off it's head. They never knew what was
happening.
The old farmers claimed that the meat wasn't as good if you didn't
kill them fast enough.
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On 2010-10-07, Rob H. <[email protected]> wrote:
> This week I need some help with the third item:
>
> http://55tools.blogspot.com/
Posting from Rec.crafts.metalworking as always.
2053) This looks to me to be a bicycle lock -- capable of
locking the frame *and* the detachable front wheel to
a bike parking frame.
2054) Hmm ... aside from the apparent diameter, this looks like
a part from inside a mechanical pencil used to advance or
retract the "lead" by rotating the eraser cap. A projecting pin
follows the spiral groove, and advances or retracts the holder
for the "lead".
I would presume that this serves a similar function, but in
something a bit larger. Maybe for advancing/retracting a candle
in a holder?
2055) I think that *I* need help for this one too. :-)
Perhaps for picking up hot cannonballs? Oil-coated bowling
balls? Something with lots of claws and teeth?
2056) Look like they are rockers for a convertible straight/rocking
chair. Never seen one, or even heard of one, but that is what
it looks like.
O.K. Here is a similar (but not identical) one:
http://www.freepatentsonline.com/6439656.html
2057) This looks like a puzzle more than a really functional device.
The gears don't look capable of carrying loads, and the
plurality of pawls which don't really seem to engage anything
say that it is not truly functional.
2058) A lever for manually powering something which is normally
powered by electricity or other mechanical power (hence the
warnings). There are similar warnings on the plastic crank for
closing an electrically powered skylight when the power is out
or the power supply is dead. :-)
This appears to engage both to a square shaft, and to notches in
a surrounding collar.
Now to see what others have suggested.
Enjoy,
DoN.
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On 2010-10-07, Ted Schuerzinger <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Thu, 07 Oct 2010 17:56:59 +0930, Kevin(Bluey) wrote:
>
>> 2058 is a n access key/handel to an electrical switch box or breaker
>> cabinet.
>
> Are square nuts that uncommon that this would serve as a valid lock?
No -- They used to be *very* common. An open-end wrench, or a
Crescent (adjustable) wrench would work as well on a square fitting.
However -- what has been overlooked is that there are four lugs
for driving something else surrounding the barrel near the handle
flange.
> My father was a volunteer fireman decades back, and I seem to remember
> that when he showed us the department's "hydrant" (not an actual fire
> hydrant if I recall, but functionally equivalent for quickly filling up
> the engines' tanks), it had a five-sided nut, since those were uncommon.
Almost all fire hydrants have a tapered five-sided nut designed
to shrug off any normal wrench.
> They did have a similar tool, however, for loosening the nut.
Of course -- they need them at every fire hydrant.
But much larger than the puzzle item.
Enjoy,
DoN.
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Bill <[email protected]> writes:
>Rob H. wrote:
>>>> http://55tools.blogspot.com/2010/10/set-357.html#answers
>>>>
>>> Maybe the "grabber" was used to grab chickens, before bathing them for
>>> instance.
>>>
>>> Bill
>>
>>
>> Sounds like a good use for it! Although I'm thinking that this one is
>> going to be hard to nail down.
>
>I would be looking around for something like that if I had to butcher a
>chicken. I couldn't find anything at Google to back up my guess though.
> It's a great game you make!
Having butchered chickens, it's not that difficult to catch and decapitate
a chicken - all that's required is a hatchet. I've never heard of anyone
bathing a chicken. Plucking them is a chore, however.
scott
Ted Schuerzinger wrote:
>
> On 10 Oct 2010 15:36:59 GMT, Scott Lurndal wrote:
>
> > Plucking them is a chore, however.
>
> Somebody need to develop a genetically modified featherless chicken. ;-)
Tennessee Bird Walk Lyrics
Take away the trees and the birds
All have to sit upon the ground, uum
Take away their wings and
The birds will have to walk to get around
And take away the bird baths
And dirty birds will soon be ev'rywhere
Take away their feathers and
The birds will walk around in underwear
Take away their chirp and the
Birds will have to whisper when they sing
And take away their common sense and
They'll be headed southward in the spring
Oh remember my darling
When spring is in the air
And the bald headed birds
Are whisp'ring ev'rywhere
You can see them walking
Southward in their dirty underwear
That's Tennessee Bird walk
How about some trees so the birds
Won't have to sit upon the ground, uum
How about some wings so the
Birds won't have to walk to get around
And how about a bird bath or two
so the birds will all be clean
How about some feathers so their
Underwear no longer can be seen
How about a chirp so the birds
Won't have to whisper when they sing
And how about some common sense so they
Won't be blocking traffic in the spring
Oh remember my darling
When spring is in the air
And the bald headed birds
Are whisp'ring ev'rywhere
You can see them walking
Southward in their dirty underwear
That's Tennessee Bird walk
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