What is it? Set 461

Rob H.

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Oct 4, 2012, 4:06:16 AM10/4/12

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Howard Beal

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Oct 4, 2012, 4:23:18 AM10/4/12

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

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Oct 4, 2012, 5:56:30 AM10/4/12

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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?

J Burns

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Oct 4, 2012, 7:34:19 AM10/4/12

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2678: Locking clamp for printing, ca 1880-1897.

Ted Schuerzinger

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Oct 4, 2012, 8:17:58 AM10/4/12

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On Thu, 4 Oct 2012 04:06:16 -0400, Rob H. wrote:

> This week's set of items has been posted:

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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Oct 4, 2012, 8:47:48 AM10/4/12

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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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Oct 4, 2012, 9:42:46 AM10/4/12

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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?

Bill

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Oct 4, 2012, 10:00:17 AM10/4/12

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2677 - looks like a reed trimmer for a woodwind instrument, like a
clarinet, or sax.
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Stormin Mormon

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Oct 4, 2012, 10:42:41 AM10/4/12

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Naah, it's a solar powered volleyball. With GPS.

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Stormin Mormon

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Oct 4, 2012, 10:44:18 AM10/4/12

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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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Steve W.

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Oct 4, 2012, 11:42:06 AM10/4/12

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2677 -

2678 -

2679 - Telstar model

2680 - Japanese Type 97 grenade.

2681 - Look like organ pipes

2682 -

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Rob H.

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Oct 4, 2012, 4:06:26 PM10/4/12

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

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

Rob H.

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

Rob H.

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> 2681 church organ pipes, badly in need of wood refinishing.

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

Rob H.

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> 2677 - looks like a reed trimmer for a woodwind instrument, like a
> clarinet, or sax.
> Bill

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

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Oct 4, 2012, 4:28:08 PM10/4/12

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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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Oct 4, 2012, 4:28:31 PM10/4/12

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Oh, forgot. Posting from my desk top
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J Burns

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Oct 4, 2012, 6:27:33 PM10/4/12

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On 10/4/12 4:06 PM, Rob H. wrote:
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>> 2680 Looks like a "Mills Bomb" early hand grenade.
>
>
> I'm not sure if it's a Mills bomb but it's definitely a hand grenade.

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.

DoN. Nichols

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Oct 4, 2012, 9:38:00 PM10/4/12

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On 2012-10-04, Rob H. <rhv...@gmailnospam.com> wrote:
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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.

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

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.

Rob H.

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Yes, this is correct.

Robin Halligan

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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

Rob H.

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Oct 5, 2012, 3:34:58 PM10/5/12

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

Telstar model is right, the rest of them have all been identified correctly
this week, more information and some links can be found here:

http://55tools.blogspot.com/2012/10/set-461.html#answers

Rob

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Thanks, Rob. I totally enjoy this web page, each week.

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