What is it? Set 315
Rob H.
Rob
Alexander Thesoso
left end, pointing up, goes in nice glass diffuser/shade.
1805 Guess: Slot machine. Used in a saloon. Spin and drop in coin, get 1,
2 or 3 drinks or cigars.
1806 Guess: Reloader for a removable cylinder from a cap and ball revolver.
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Y?
1801 - A Dipstick of some sort, possibly broken/shortened?
1802 - Looks like it might be used to pick up or move something hot. Does
the handle pull up and spread the bent wirey bits apart??
1803 - A Cockfighting spur?
1806 - An old Pill Press?
Y.
Michael Kenefick
1802 rope maker, industrial
1803 need more pictures
1804 what the other guy thinks, gas lamp?
1805 not sure
1806 Muzzle loader
Lloyd E. Sponenburgh
I don't have the material for which it's used figured out, but 1802 is
made to grab and bunch together some loose (and apparently fibrous)
substance (maybe like cotton lint, feathers, wool).
The tines expand outward when the bottom plate is pulled up toward the
top plate, but the way they're formed, they still overlap enough to
capture and pull together whatever's between them when they're contracted
again.
Maybe it's for stuffing feathers in pillow cases.
LLoyd
Lloyd E. Sponenburgh
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> I don't have the material for which it's used figured out, but 1802 is
> made to grab and bunch together some loose (and apparently fibrous)
> substance (maybe like cotton lint, feathers, wool).
>
Technically, the tines expand when the ring is pulled, so I guess it could
be used to spread something open and hold it that way so long as there's a
pull on it.
LLoyd
Roy Smith
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> A new set of items has been posted:
>
> http://55tools.blogspot.com/
Question about 1801: is that the entire object? It's hard to tell from the
photo, but the bottom of it looks jagged, as if it were broken off from a
larger piece of something. If so, then my guess would be a dipstick for
measuring fluid level in some kind of tank or sump.
1802 looks like a large version of a kitchen whisk. Maybe part of an
industrial butter churn? Or a cake batter mixer?
1803 looks like some variation on a fid or sailmaker's palm.
1804 is almost certainly a gas lamp or burner. The heart-shaped thing on
the lower right is the valve handle, it pivot n the piece immediately to
the left o that, and you see the air shutter on the burner assembly. The
lower-left of the image is "up".
TwoGuns
I think I saw something similar to #1803 many years ago when a wayward
uncle took me to a cock fight back in the 1950's. They put these
around the legs of the fighting roosters. They are very nasty and the
guys handling the roosters had to be very careful when they tried to
grab the winner. Sometimes there wasn't a winner because both roosters
died. Have the times changed?
DL
Phil Kangas
"Rob H." <> wrote in message >A new set of items has been
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> http://55tools.blogspot.com/
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>
> Rob
1802 is easy. It's a chimney cleaner. Used to remove
built up creosote. No doubt in my mind. I've used one
of these _many_ times. They don't do a good job on
removing the hard glass like creosote so I came up
with my own design.
phil kangas
Rob H.
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> "Rob H." <rhv...@gmail.com> wrote in message
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>>A new set of items has been posted:
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>> http://55tools.blogspot.com/
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>>
>> Rob
>
>
> 1801 - A Dipstick of some sort, possibly broken/shortened?
This was an advertising give-away, the text on it is not related to its use
but it would have been used indoors.
Rob
Rob H.
>> http://55tools.blogspot.com/
>>
>>
>> Rob
>
> 1802 is easy. It's a chimney cleaner. Used to remove
> built up creosote. No doubt in my mind. I've used one
> of these _many_ times. They don't do a good job on
> removing the hard glass like creosote so I came up
> with my own design.
> phil kangas
This answer is correct.
Rob
Rob H.
> http://55tools.blogspot.com/
>
> Rob
>I think I saw something similar to #1803 many years ago when a wayward
>uncle took me to a cock fight back in the 1950's. They put these
>around the legs of the fighting roosters. They are very nasty and the
>guys handling the roosters had to be very careful when they tried to
>grab the winner. Sometimes there wasn't a winner because both roosters
>died. Have the times changed?
>DL
Apparently the times haven't changes, it is indeed a cock fighting spur.
Rob
Steve W.
1801 - Looks like a dipstick for a transfer pump.
1802 - Chimney cleaner.
1803 - nasty looking back scratcher?
1804 - Looks like a modified gas burner, maybe for glass work?. The tip
isn't original judging by the knurling on it compared to the rest of the
fixture.
1805 - Version of a Plinko machine?
1806 - I have seen one of these. Didn't know what it was then either ;-)
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Ted Schuerzinger
> 1806 - I have seen one of these. Didn't know what it was then either ;-)
Fence tightener. That's the default answer to all of these. :-)
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Andrew Erickson
> A new set of items has been posted:
>
> http://55tools.blogspot.com/
My guesses for this week:
1801 - Promotional dipstick for...umm..some piece of farm equipment?
oil laps with opaque founts?
1802 - Chimney flue cleaning apparatus, intended to work on the pull
stroke?
1803 - Neat looking sail mending kit?
1804 - I'm pretty sure this is a wall-mounted swing arm gas light,
probably missing a mantle and/or shade.
1805 - Gambling (or perhaps more likely, prize merchandizing) game
machine; insert coin at the top, and whatever slot it falls in on the
(presumably spinning) wheel thingy determines the payout or prize
somehow.
1806 - Manual pill making machine (for medicinal or other related uses)
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B.
Rob H.
>> A new set of items has been posted:
>>
>> http://55tools.blogspot.com/
>
> My guesses for this week:
>
> 1801 - Promotional dipstick for...umm..some piece of farm equipment?
> oil laps with opaque founts?
It would be almost impossible to guess this answer so I'll give a hint, I
would place it in the category of home security.
Rob
Bill McKee
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1803 is the spur they install on a gamecock for cock fighting. The real
spur goes through the silver part.
LDosser
Opening locked interior doors.
Rob H.
>>>> http://55tools.blogspot.com/
>>>
>> It would be almost impossible to guess this answer so I'll give a hint, I
>> would place it in the category of home security.
>>
>>
>> Rob
>
> Opening locked interior doors.
Nope, that's not it.
Rob
Alexander Thesoso
> It would be almost impossible to guess this answer so I'll give a hint, I
> would place it in the category of home security.
old fashioned keyhole to prevent someone from peeking through.
Rob H.
"Alexander Thesoso" <alexande...@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> With this hint:
>> It would be almost impossible to guess this answer so I'll give a hint, I
>> would place it in the category of home security.
>Hang on a doorknob.
The above statement is correct, the rest is not.
Robert Bonomi
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>"Alexander Thesoso" <alexande...@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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>> With this hint:
>>> It would be almost impossible to guess this answer so I'll give a hint, I
>>> would place it in the category of home security.
>
>
>
>>Hang on a doorknob.
>
>
>The above statement is correct, the rest is not.
>
Guess: a room 'security alarm' device. hang it over the _front_ of the
knob, If anybody tries to turn the knob from the outside it falls off and
hits the floor with a clatter.
Rob H.
>>
>>
>>The above statement is correct, the rest is not.
>>
>
> Guess: a room 'security alarm' device. hang it over the _front_ of the
> knob, If anybody tries to turn the knob from the outside it falls off and
> hits the floor with a clatter.
LDosser
If someone tries to Unlock the door using the key, this thingie prevents
those old fashioned keys from completely entering the lock.
LDosser
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Other wise sleep on floor with eye facing up. Perp turns door knob, thingie
falls point first in your eye, thus waking you ...
Rob H.
> If someone tries to Unlock the door using the key, this thingie prevents
> those old fashioned keys from completely entering the lock.
This hook does not go into the keyhole, if that's what you mean.
Rob
Stormin Mormon
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Stormin Mormon
CY: I think you're right. I was thiking dipstick.
1802 rope maker, industrial
CY: You totally got me. I'll agree with anything on this
one.
1803 need more pictures
CY: My first thought was pump oiler. Lookign back, the cock
fighting spur makes sense.
1804 what the other guy thinks, gas lamp?
CY: I could see gas valve, lower right. Now that I look some
more, I see the swivel, and the tube to keep the lamp away
from the wall. The photo is upside down, of course.
1805 not sure
CY: The only thing I can guess is some kind of gambling
machine. Drop a coin in, and make it spin.
1806 Muzzle loader
CY: My first thought was stuffing corks into wine bottles,
or bottle capping. With the second look, I'm thinking more
like apothacary pill packer.
LDosser
No, but the rest of it could block the keyhole ...
Cliff
Cliff
DoN. Nichols
have to reply to this -- the first that I have seen, and comment on my
opinions to this set of suggestions, since I can't start without seeing
at least these.
1801) Looks like a tool for rotating a cylindrical part of something,
probably a typewriter or a TeleType.
1802) This one looks like it is intended to be cast into concrete to
provide an anchor point which will survive a fairly strong pull.
"rebar" bent in several places, so it won't pull out of the
concrete.
1803) Looks like something worn on a thumb or finger to hook strands
of thread, string, or wire in some kind of assembly operation.
Perhaps for cable lacing?
On 2009-12-17, Alexander Thesoso <alexande...@hotmail.com> wrote:
> 1804 A gaslight lighting fixture. Right end screws on to gas pipe in wall,
> left end, pointing up, goes in nice glass diffuser/shade.
I agree with the above for (1804).
> 1805 Guess: Slot machine. Used in a saloon. Spin and drop in coin, get 1,
> 2 or 3 drinks or cigars.
Hmm ... my guess for this is that it is an early coin acceptor
for a bus or trolley driver.
> 1806 Guess: Reloader for a removable cylinder from a cap and ball revolver.
And for this -- my thought is that it is either a sizer for cast
bullets of three different calibers, or perhaps for loading shot
into a shotgun shell.
But I prefer the first, with the "Push" button to kick the sized
bullet back up where you can grip it.
The removable cylinder suggestion does not seem right with the
visible difference in size for the first two holes, and a
presumable difference in the third one as well.
Enjoy,
DoN.
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Tensioning tool for picking locks?
E Z Peaces
>
> "Alexander Thesoso" <alexande...@hotmail.com> wrote in message
> news:hgervj$fed$1...@news.eternal-september.org...
>> With this hint:
>>> It would be almost impossible to guess this answer so I'll give a
>>> hint, I would place it in the category of home security.
>
>
>
>> Hang on a doorknob.
>
>
> The above statement is correct, the rest is not.
>
>
a skeleton key. However, some thieves knew how to turn the key from the
outside. The countermeasure was a retainer, hung from the doorknob and
sticking through the loop of the key to keep it from turning.
Fleming 1954 2,684,587
McKay 1951 2,568,081
Hagan 1950 2,517,480
Wiley 1944 2,835,244
Amos 1943 2,316,544
Bunker 1928 1,667,508
Ryan 1909 942,753
Gibbons 1881 251,041
Knight 1875 167,674
and many more
Rob H.
> a skeleton key. However, some thieves knew how to turn the key from the
> outside. The countermeasure was a retainer, hung from the doorknob and
> sticking through the loop of the key to keep it from turning.
Correct! That's exactly how it was used to keep out intruders.
Rob
Steve B
>
>> >>>Hang on a doorknob.
Is it to operate a transom?
Lloyd E. Sponenburgh
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>
>>
>>> >>>Hang on a doorknob.
>
> Is it to operate a transom?
Say "goodnight", Gracie.
The answer has already been guessed and confirmed.
LLoyd
Ted Schuerzinger
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>>
>>>
>>>> >>>Hang on a doorknob.
>>
>> Is it to operate a transom?
>
> Say "goodnight", Gracie.
Goodnight Gracie.
Rob H.
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Thanks to all who participated this week.
Rob
Stormin Mormon
seen one of the skeleton key blockers. Really interesting.
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