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2680 Is a fragmentation gernade. ( slang term, pocket artillary.)

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Tom.

2679  A model of the Telstar communication satellite. 1 or 2 launched in
1962.  Hey!  50 years ago.

2680  Looks like a "Mills Bomb" early hand grenade.

2681  Organ pipes?

On 10/4/2012 4:06 AM, Rob H. wrote:

On 10/4/12 4:06 AM, Rob H. wrote:
2678: Locking clamp for printing, ca 1880-1897.

The only one I have a guess on is 2679, which I'd guess is a model of a
communications satellite.  I'm probably way off.

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2677, no clue
2678, no clue
2679, no clue
2680, resembles a hand grenade, but the pull pin is a bit small.
2681 church organ pipes, badly in need of wood refinishing.
2682, some version of a chisel wedge.

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2679- Telstar is the only famous comms satellite I can recall

2680- looks like a grenade that would be used on a stick as a booby-trap (pre-claymore mine)

2681- I'd say organ pipes as well, but no need for a handle on organ pipes. Some kind of grain sampler? Oddball feeder?

2677 - looks like a reed trimmer for a woodwind instrument, like a
clarinet, or sax.
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The only one I have a guess on is 2679, which I'd guess is a model of a
communications satellite.  I'm probably way off.

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Solar power beach ball?

You know, that grenade could be a pull the trip wire model?

The "handle" allows the tuner to slide the end wood in or out, to adjust the
note of the pipe.

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2679- Telstar is the only famous comms satellite I can recall

2680- looks like a grenade that would be used on a stick as a booby-trap
(pre-claymore mine)

2681- I'd say organ pipes as well, but no need for a handle on organ pipes.
Some kind of grain sampler? Oddball feeder?

2677 -

2678 -

2679 - Telstar model

2680 - Japanese Type 97 grenade.

2681 - Look like organ pipes

2682 -

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I'm not sure if it's a Mills bomb but it's definitely a hand grenade.

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Correct, the patent on this one is 1920 but I'm sure there were earlier
ones.

Organ pipes is correct, someone had sent in the photo asking what they were.

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Good answer, I'm told it's a trimmer for a clarinet.

My father has interest in old musical stuff, and
I've seen my share of odd things. In use, these
are vertical, and the "handle" is on top.

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Organ pipes is correct, someone had sent in the photo asking what they were.

Oh, forgot. Posting from my desk top
PC as always.

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Organ pipes is correct, someone had sent in the photo asking what they were.

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Good answer, I'm told it's a trimmer for a clarinet.

On 10/4/12 4:06 PM, Rob H. wrote:
Japanese Type 97.  Came out in 1937.  You'd "light" the fuse by removing
the cap and rapping the striker on your helmet.  Sometimes they went off
instantaneously.  That may be why in public-opinion polls in 1945, most
Japanese said it would be okay to execute the emperor.

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        Posting from Rec.crafts.metalworking as always.

2677)   Strange beastie.  Might be to dispense glass microscope
        slides.  The size is about right.  Other than that, no guesses.

2678)   A somewhat wider version of a machinist's jack -- intended to
        live part of a workpiece to the right height above the machine
        table, so the surface being machined is level.

        The "lock" feature is so it does not change its height during
        the vibration of machining.

        Most that I have seen are somewhat smaller, and don't have the
        lock feature.

2679)   Well ... this looks like a satellite.  Smaller than most, but
        larger than the original Vanguard "grapefruit".  The antenna is
        interesting.  It has a lot of silicon solar cells to keep it
        powered in space (no way to get to it to change batteries until
        the shuttle came into being.)

        I guess that it could be something carried aloft on a balloon for
        research, but the fact hat the solar cells cover most of it
        suggests that it is designed to run for a long time at varying
        angles to the sun.

        I've seen one of the Vanguard ones which never got launched.
        (The lab where I worked had vacuum coated them, including later
        ones of various sizes.)

        The white coating is unusual, as is the belt of windows around
        the equator.  (Hmm ... it almost looks as though I see people
        behind the windows, so perhaps this is a model of some large
        scale space station.

2680)   Looks like the business end of a German WW-II (or perhaps even
        WW-I) "Potato Masher" hand grenade.

        It is certainly cast into a shape intended to fragment to make
        lots of shrapnel.

        But a quick look at WikiPedia shows images which are a bit
        different.  It is still a grenade, but not the one which I
        thought.

2681)   Two wood organ pipes -- missing the stems which plug into the
        wind box.  The handles at the right hand end are for
        pushing/pulling plugs which tune the pipe to the desired note.

2682)   Perhaps replaceable blades for something like a road surface
        planer -- to remove upper layers of asphalt paving prior to
        re-paving?

        The first machine I ever saw to do this was labeled a
        "Scaraplane", so I think of this as "scaraplaning".

        Now to post and see what others have suggested.

        Enjoy,
                DoN.

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        The handle is for moving a plug in the end of the pipe, to tune
it to the desired pitch.

        I had a few of these after our school chapel was "re-organized",
and the old pipes were up for grabs.

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2682 are teeth for a thresher cylinder.

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Yes, this is correct.

2676 looks a lot like Telstar
as the original is roughly spherical, measures 34.5 inches (876.30 mm) in
length, and weighs about 170 pounds and this one it 12 inches
it  must be a scale model see    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telstar

Robin from Kiwi land

Telstar model is right, the rest of them have all been identified correctly
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Rob