In article <[email protected]>, Rob H. <[email protected]>
wrote:
> Just posted a new set of items:
>
> http://55tools.blogspot.com/
Youch! Tough set...
1831 is obviously for doing something electrical... but with the knife
switch doesn't seem to be for Morse Code.
1832: A horn (as in blown by the mouth) of some type, but not an
orchestral instrument.
1833: A 17th Century planter for ornamentals? A pickling vat?
1834: Not a clue.
1835: See 1834.
1836: This is easy. Before butane lighters existed, we used one of
these to light our naptha stove when we went camping. Circa 1970 or so.
Pressing the lever with your thumb rotates the wheel at the end which
rubs against a flint and creates a series of sparks.
In article <[email protected]>, DoN. Nichols
<[email protected]> wrote:
> Well ... I can't just click on it, because my e-mail client does
> not understand HTML and has no linkage to a browser (by my choice), but
> if I cut and paste it to a command line following the browser
> invocation, and if the line is in quotes, it works fine. I can tell you
> why it would not work without the quotes on a unix system -- the '#' is
> a character which says "the rest of this line is a comment, so ignore
> it."
>
> I'm presuming that you run Windows, so I don't know whether the
> same applies there or not.
The "#" is a standard part of HTML and has been for more than a decade.
Time to join the '90's, Don.
In article <[email protected]>, DoN. Nichols
<[email protected]> wrote:
> I believe in a firm
> separation between e-mail and HTML.
Yeah, I do too. But reality keeps interfering.
Oh well.
"Rob H." <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> Just posted a new set of items:
>
> http://55tools.blogspot.com/
>
>
> Rob
1836. A lighter for a stove -- uses a friction wheel and a magnesium
"flint."
--
Ed Huntress
"Rob H." <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
>>> 1836. A lighter for a stove -- uses a friction wheel and a magnesium
>>> "flint."
>>
>> Misch metal (a cerium alloy) surely? Magnesium is quite hard to light
>> on its own. Magnesium firelighters are usually a combination of three
>> things, flint, steel and magnesium. The "hot spark" that sets it off
>> is actually a fragment of burning steel, which then in turn sets off
>> the magnesium shavings.
>>
>> Misch metal (and I believe uranium, but I've not found an "Atomic
>> Frizzen" to try it) is one of the few metal alloys that can reduce
>> this to a reliable two-part process: hard steel wheel directly against
>> the alloy.
>>
>> A good read is Primo Levi's collection of chemistry-themed
>> autobiographical short stories. One of those is on his survival in a
>> concentration camp, aided by having acquired some cerium alloy and so
>> being able to make cigarette lighters for trade.
>
>
> I don't know what it's made from, but yes, it's a lighter that shoots
> sparks for a stove or grill.
To get technical, it's ferrocerium: an alloy of Misch metal, iron oxide, and
magnesium oxide. Sometimes called a "magnesium flint," as a nickname, but
technically incorrect.
--
Ed Huntress
In article <[email protected]>,
David <[email protected]> wrote:
>1831 : Prototype for http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mouse_Trap_(board_game)
>
>:o)
Don't think so. "Mouse Trap" was actually based on a Rube Goldberg drawing.
"Rob H." <[email protected]> wrote in news:hj99e7025k6
@news6.newsguy.com:
> Just posted a new set of items:
>
> http://55tools.blogspot.com/
>
>
> Rob
I'm sure it's not right but 1831 looks like a primitive bug
zapper.
On 21 Jan, 13:45, "Ed Huntress" <[email protected]> wrote:
> 1836. A lighter for a stove -- uses a friction wheel and a magnesium
> "flint."
Misch metal (a cerium alloy) surely? Magnesium is quite hard to light
on its own. Magnesium firelighters are usually a combination of three
things, flint, steel and magnesium. The "hot spark" that sets it off
is actually a fragment of burning steel, which then in turn sets off
the magnesium shavings.
Misch metal (and I believe uranium, but I've not found an "Atomic
Frizzen" to try it) is one of the few metal alloys that can reduce
this to a reliable two-part process: hard steel wheel directly against
the alloy.
A good read is Primo Levi's collection of chemistry-themed
autobiographical short stories. One of those is on his survival in a
concentration camp, aided by having acquired some cerium alloy and so
being able to make cigarette lighters for trade.
In article <[email protected]>, "Rob H." <[email protected]>
wrote:
> Just posted a new set of items:
>
> http://55tools.blogspot.com/
My guesses for this week:
1831 - Interesting looking gadget. The oval thing with the two high
voltage terminals on the right I take to be a high voltage transformer
or coil; the square box next to it I'm guessing is a high-voltage
capacitor. The motor driven wheel appears to be a contactor/circuit
breaker in connection with the big spring coil thing on the left, which
is also connected to a meter of sort. It's not clear what the other
object on top of the open coil is, but it almost looks like a "bug" code
key. Likewise, the thing on the platform in the back isn't very
visible, but its shadow makes it look like an old square radio antenna.
All this would seem to suggest a very early radio transmitter, probably
some variant on the spark gap designs. It looks as though it would be
rather dangerous in operation, too, if only from the unguarded spinning
fan thingy that would seem to have a fair bit of finger-chopping
momentum.
1832 - Very long skinny funnel?
1833 - Horse watering trough (obviously no longer functional)? Planter?
Part of the business end of a cheese or other press?
1834 - Belt shifter for flat belts?
1835 - There's not much sense of scale here, unfortunately. Perhaps
it's a foot or base for something, like a chair or table or outrigger
for leveling a machine. The circular shape would help spread out the
load.
1836 - Pocket clip cigar(ette) lighter?
Now to read other guesses...
--
Andrew Erickson
"He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain that which he cannot
lose." -- Jim Elliot
1831 Spark Gap Radio Transmitter.
1836 Guess: Piezoelectric igniter. I've seen piezoelectric igniters that
looked very much like this, but this thing seems to have more 'stuff' than
is needed.
"Rob H." <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> Just posted a new set of items:
>
> http://55tools.blogspot.com/
>
>
> Rob
>> 1836. A lighter for a stove -- uses a friction wheel and a magnesium
>> "flint."
>
> Misch metal (a cerium alloy) surely? Magnesium is quite hard to light
> on its own. Magnesium firelighters are usually a combination of three
> things, flint, steel and magnesium. The "hot spark" that sets it off
> is actually a fragment of burning steel, which then in turn sets off
> the magnesium shavings.
>
> Misch metal (and I believe uranium, but I've not found an "Atomic
> Frizzen" to try it) is one of the few metal alloys that can reduce
> this to a reliable two-part process: hard steel wheel directly against
> the alloy.
>
> A good read is Primo Levi's collection of chemistry-themed
> autobiographical short stories. One of those is on his survival in a
> concentration camp, aided by having acquired some cerium alloy and so
> being able to make cigarette lighters for trade.
I don't know what it's made from, but yes, it's a lighter that shoots sparks
for a stove or grill.
Rob
Rob H. wrote:
> Just posted a new set of items:
>
> http://55tools.blogspot.com/
>
>
> Rob
1835: I think it's to rotate something between two spindles. The cross
engages one end of the thing to be turned. A spindle goes into the hub.
Another spindle goes into the other end of the thing to be turned.
Perhaps the thing to be turned is a reel or roll of something for sale
in a store. Perhaps the thing to be turned is a workpiece.
"E Z Peaces" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> Rob H. wrote:
>> Just posted a new set of items:
>>
>> http://55tools.blogspot.com/
>>
>>
1831 Anything to do with transmission/reception of Morse code?
"Robert Bonomi" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> In article <[email protected]>,
> David <[email protected]> wrote:
>>1831 : Prototype for http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mouse_Trap_(board_game)
>>
>>:o)
>
> Don't think so. "Mouse Trap" was actually based on a Rube Goldberg
> drawing.
I wasn't being serious. :o)
> 1835 - There's not much sense of scale here, unfortunately. Perhaps
> it's a foot or base for something, like a chair or table or outrigger
> for leveling a machine. The circular shape would help spread out the
> load.
I had asked the owner for the diameter but never heard back, not many
guesses on it so it's still a mystery for now.
The link below is supposed to take you directly to the answers halfway down
the page but that doesn't work when I click on it, it ignores the #answers
and takes me to the top of the page. Not sure why it doesn't link
correctly, but if you copy and paste it then it should take you right to
the answers.
http://55tools.blogspot.com/2010/01/set-319.html#answers
Rob
> The link below is supposed to take you directly to the answers halfway
> down
> the page but that doesn't work when I click on it, it ignores the #answers
> and takes me to the top of the page. Not sure why it doesn't link
> correctly, but if you copy and paste it then it should take you right to
> the answers.
>
> http://55tools.blogspot.com/2010/01/set-319.html#answers
>
>
> Rob
Sorry, I posted the wrong link in my previous post:
http://55tools.blogspot.com/2010/01/set-320.html#answers
Rob
On 2010-01-21, Rob H. <[email protected]> wrote:
> Just posted a new set of items:
>
> http://55tools.blogspot.com/
Posting from rec.crafts.metalworking as always.
1831) A rotary spark gap radio transmitter.
Totally illegal to use now, as it spreads noise over most of
the radio spectrum.
A knife switch has been connected in place of the key normally
used for sending Morse code. (There was no way to send
intellegable speech through one of these things. Normally, the
two binding posts would accept wires from the key so it was in a
convenient location.
Looks as though the antenna was on the wood base shown behind it
to the right.
1832) A mouth and lungs powered foghorn for small water craft moving in
the fog.
1833) At a guess -- for tromping grapes to make wine. Until I saw
the view from the top showing the wood slats, I was thinking an
old cistern for accumulating rainwater.
1834) This looks to me to be a tool for shifting long flat belts
running to overhead shafts (and powering machine tools) to
different pulley steps for different speeds. The hook on the
back is for hanging it somewhere within easy reach. These were
common in shops powered by overhead shafts, run by either a
single electric motor for the whole shop, or by a steam engine
to power the whole shop.
The shafting had "grease monkeys" (large leather discs) around
the shafting running back and forth to take up oil which ran out
along the shafts and prevent it from dripping down on the
workers and the workpieces.
1835) For winding up wire or steel tape on the ends of the square
radial boards, and being turned by hand on the round
cross-section circle.
Knowing the size could determine how much would be wound up per
turn.
1836) Perhaps designed for spring-loaded lancing to get a blood
sample? Somewhat akin to the tiny things used with blood sugar
checking kits?
Now to see what others have suggested.
Enjoy,
DoN.
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On 2010-01-22, Rob H. <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> The link below is supposed to take you directly to the answers halfway
>> down
>> the page but that doesn't work when I click on it, it ignores the #answers
>> and takes me to the top of the page. Not sure why it doesn't link
>> correctly, but if you copy and paste it then it should take you right to
>> the answers.
>>
>> http://55tools.blogspot.com/2010/01/set-319.html#answers
[ ... ]
> Sorry, I posted the wrong link in my previous post:
>
> http://55tools.blogspot.com/2010/01/set-320.html#answers
Well ... I can't just click on it, because my e-mail client does
not understand HTML and has no linkage to a browser (by my choice), but
if I cut and paste it to a command line following the browser
invocation, and if the line is in quotes, it works fine. I can tell you
why it would not work without the quotes on a unix system -- the '#' is
a character which says "the rest of this line is a comment, so ignore
it."
I'm presuming that you run Windows, so I don't know whether the
same applies there or not.
Enjoy,
DoN.
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On 2010-01-23, Dave Balderstone <dave@N_O_T_T_H_I_Sbalderstone.ca> wrote:
> In article <[email protected]>, DoN. Nichols
><[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Well ... I can't just click on it, because my e-mail client does
>> not understand HTML and has no linkage to a browser (by my choice), but
>> if I cut and paste it to a command line following the browser
>> invocation, and if the line is in quotes, it works fine. I can tell you
>> why it would not work without the quotes on a unix system -- the '#' is
>> a character which says "the rest of this line is a comment, so ignore
>> it."
>>
>> I'm presuming that you run Windows, so I don't know whether the
>> same applies there or not.
>
> The "#" is a standard part of HTML and has been for more than a decade.
Of course it is -- and was so when I first started writing my
own HTML for my web sites.
*But* -- it also has a separate meaning in a command line in
unix -- if you type something like:
opera http://www.whatever.com/this-and-that.html#locator
to start the browser and get to the later point in the web page. Opera
happens to be my choice of browser, FWIW.
It may have the same effect in a command line in Windows' MS-DOS
window (the only place you get a command line in standard Windows,
unless you have installed Cygwin and are using a unix style shell like
bash.)
> Time to join the '90's, Don.
You mean having an e-mail client which understands HTML? Why
would I *want* such a thing, which can send me places where I don't want
to go without giving me a chance to say no? I believe in a firm
separation between e-mail and HTML.
I was not *complaining* about the '#' in the URL.
What I was *trying* to do was to show why the '#' in a URL in an
e-mail *might* be interpreted by the e-mail client as a comment
delimiter before it was passed to the browser. It *did* appear as
though it was being interpreted as a comment delimiter in the cases
which the original poster (our puzzle master) was complaining/commenting
about. This is probably e-mail client dependent -- even within Windows.
Enjoy,
DoN.
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