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1678: Hook holder for snelled fish hooks.
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1675. Carbide lamp. I'll guess for a car.
1676. Torque wrench. Don't know what for.
Karl
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1675 carbide lamp. Could be for a bicycle, motorcycle, or early car. More
likely the first two.
1680 looks a bit like a paravane used to deflect mines away from ships.
Steve R.
Is t just me or these things getting harder?
1675 Miners acetelyne lamp
1677 burr cutter for pipe ends? looks like it might fit 1/2", 3/4", and
1" pipe before cutting the threads.
1680 is a towed gunnery target
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> 1679: Branding iron for the Lazy Colon Ranch.
E Z,
Until I looked at the set of items again, I thought you were, for some
reason, referring to:
http://www.oldandsold.com/articles17/colon-3.shtml
Kerry
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My guesses:
1675 - Appears to be a specialized lamp of some sort. Maybe it's an
early magic lantern projector or some theatrical effect.
1676 - Torque spanner wrench, for tightening nuts or whatever with a
notch in the side rather than the more common multiple flats. From the
size, perhaps this was used specifically in the adjustment of some
optical instrument (microscope lens or eyepiece, perhaps--too small for
most camera lenses).
1677 - Wrench for water or gas mains, presumably so shaped because the
corresponding valves sometimes get corroded and generally worn or
mistreated.
1678 - This appears to be some manner of specialized reamer, maybe for
making countersink holes in metal plates for large screws or rivets?
1679 - Hammer with two prongs. Why one might want a hammer with two
prongs and what one would do with one if one had it, I haven't the
foggiest idea.
1680 - Target for antiaircraft fire practice, towed with a long cable?
Now to read other guesses.
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> Rob
1675 - Carbide lantern. Looks like it's from a coach.
1676 -
1677 - Looks like something used to deburr pipe for assembly.
1678 - Internal version of the above?
1679 -
1680 - Target sled. It gets towed behind a ship for gunnery practice.
That one belongs to the 178th training squadron out of Springfield OH.
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Steve W.
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>> Rob
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> 1678: Hook holder for snelled fish hooks.
This answer is correct.
Rob
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> 1675 carbide lamp for bicycle or car
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> i am sorry, no more silly guesses this week
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> greetings from germany
> chris
Yes, I found a similar light that was marked as being used on a bike, not
sure if they were also mounted on carriages or auto as others have
mentioned.
Rob
Kerry Montgomery wrote:
> "E Z Peaces" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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>> Rob H. wrote:
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>> 1679: Branding iron for the Lazy Colon Ranch.
> E Z,
> Until I looked at the set of items again, I thought you were, for some
> reason, referring to:
> http://www.oldandsold.com/articles17/colon-3.shtml
> Kerry
>
>
Wow! In London about 1895, a large percentage of women dissected had
abdominal organs that were misshapen and and displaced downwards. It
didn't occur to the doctor that corsets might have caused this.
Instead, he blamed it on a failure to wake up and take a poop at 2 AM as
nature intended, and somehow the weight of the fecal matter pulled the
bowel toward the feet of the sleeping woman.
In 1908, x-rays of healthy young men showed that their colons sagged.
If this doctor saw nothing wrong with corsets, I guess he didn't know
that the healthy way to inhale involves letting the belly and diaphragm sag.
I had thought Lazy Colon meant a tendency toward constipation. Perhaps
the rhythmic sagging of correct breathing could help keep things moving.
As for the tool, instead of a two-dot branding iron, maybe the pins are
to tighten wire. The horizontal strands of some cattle mesh have
ripples, and their springiness keeps the fence tight. This tool could
create or tighten such ripples.
> 1676. Here it is:
> http://www.ntractorclub.com/forums/manuals/messages/1478.html
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> About two-thirds of the way down, on page 4. Don't look if you're still
> guessing.
>
Thanks, that's another great link, based on what the owner of the tool told
me, I had a different answer in mind.
Five of the six have been answered correctly this time around:
http://answers294n.blogspot.com/
Rob
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1678 is a holder for fishing hooks.
On 2009-07-23, Rob H. <[email protected]> wrote:
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Posting from Rec.crafts.metalworking as always.
1675) Looks like a kerosene (or perhaps an acetylene (carbide)) fired
lamp for a really old vehicle and I *think* based on the red
jewel on the right) that it might be a lamp for mounting on a
ship facing to the rear so the red marks the port (left) side.
If so, there will be a green jewel in the other side to mark the
starboard (right) side.
1676) A weird torque measuring wrench -- for tightening something
with slots instead of flats.
1677) A wrench for reaching down (perhaps into a hole in the ground
giving access to a water shutoff valve. It appears to be
designed to fit multiple sizes with a single wrench.
1678) Hmm ... it looks like an incomplete nose-hair trimmer for a
troll or other giant being. :-) There should be a rotating
slotted cylinder inside what is shown to use as a cutter blade.
Really -- no real clue as to what it is for, so I describe what
it reminds me of. :-)
1679) A hammer which also acts as a pin spanner wrench. The two
pins fit into holes of the same spacing, and the hammer handle
turns the whatever.
1680) Looks like a towed target drone -- used for anti-aircraft
practice towed behind a manned aircraft on a *long* cable.
There seem to be some hits mostly on the upper wing (from the
current orientation, which appears to be upside down.
Now to see what others have guessed.
Enjoy,
DoN.
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