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What is it? LII

Just posted some more photos tonight:

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290 - ceramic electrical insulator 291 - erasing guard for drafting 295 - a type of staple used for wood fastening
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Lane

290. Insulator 291. Eraser shield 292. Some sort of ratchet tooth 293. Metal flower sculpture 294. Multi-head cutter 295. Corrugated fastener for joining two pieces of wood, like parts of a picture frame.

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Gary Brady

type, ie. where used. Electric fence maybe. The size tho suggests something heavier, telephone line or power line? The two metal ends do not connect inside. The ceramic body exists to hold them, in a fixed distance apart, yet not connected electrically. The bizarre shape, with ridges, is so that high voltage corona is somewhat reduced, air currents over those ridges will tend to stir the air and break up an ionized air channel. So I'll guess it's more for a power line. I don't see any mounting -- both ends are designed to accept a bare wire -- so now I'm wondering what it would be used on

#291 is a draftsman's eraser shield. You put that over your drawing and apply your eraser in one of the holes, to erase just the item you want. (Once upon a time, people made technical drawings with pencil on paper.)

#292. Something familiar about it but it escapes me.

293. ditto. Artificial metal plant? 294. I've never, ever seen anything like this. 295. That's the blade out of a fancy potato cutter. But where's the rest of it? How did it attach?

We used to play this game at Christmas time. Everybody had to buy somebody else a wierd strange gift and the recipient had to figure out what it was. If they couldn't they might have to wait a year to find out.

Wood

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Woody Brison

paper for detail sanding.

294. Soma kinda stepa cutta?
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Leon

# 289--holds a stack of 45 rpm vinyl records upon the spindle for automatic play.

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PrecisionMachinisT

# 288

Light meter setting exposure in photography.

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PrecisionMachinisT

in a rock crevice and it opens up to make a good hold. The rope through the cleat supports your weight.

dwhite

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Dan White

Piton ?

Kris

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Kris Baker

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Steve
292 Sanding tool. Uses small sanding belts. Quite handy.
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CW

Howdy,

Nope... wrong name.

A piton is hammered in place (frequently damaging the rock.)

This 284 gadget is essentially a set of cams. They can be rolled to narrow their profile, placed in a crack in the rockface, and then expanded. They don't damage the rock.

All the best,

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Kenneth

290. Alien TP roll holder. (they have wavy butts) 291. Mistake selector. 292. Rubber band tensioner. 293. Stupid goth kids trying to worship the Anti-Santa. 294. A Device. 295. Metal corn cob--only not with corn.
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B.B.

290) Electrical insulator. Supported by a wire around one of the grooves. It might be an insulator for connecting a long-wire antenna to the downfeed wire. If I could see a parting line anywhere, I would suggest that it be a feedthrough insulator for going though a window or the like. 291) Erasing shield for an old typewriter without correction ability built in. 292) It looks intended to wedge a sliding window from motion. Perhaps a sliding rear window in a pickup truck, based on the size. If it were larger, I would think that it was for a sliding glass door. 293) For hanging some kind of foodstuffs to cure. if it were smaller I would suggest that it was an early and nasty version of barbed wire. It looks as though the spikes are cut free from the shank and bent out. 294) A stepped wrench for unscrewing something -- perhaps some kind of valve seats? Rather ugly casting, in any case, with no apparent effort to clean off any flash. 295) I wish I remembered the name of this. It is intended to join two pieces of wood edge to edge or end to end. The near edge is driven in, with the stress along the width in use.

Enjoy, DoN.

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DoN. Nichols
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Golf training device? Shoemaker inside measuring device?

# 293

Part of a fence

# 294

Axis part of some heavy gear machinery

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Jon Haugsand

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Jeff R

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290. a porcelein insulator?

291. a gasket?

292.

293. wouldn't want to be on wrong end of it! some form of drag / trawl

294. a multi-key for very boring locks?

295. wood joining thingy

These are hard - first time I really havent had a clue for any of selection.

Regards

Matthew Newell

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Matthew Newell

only 4", not too high voltage though)

291: stencil 293: anchor 295: Corrugated nail, often used in picture frames
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Matthew Russotto
293 Seed corn cob dryer. Pick the best of this years corn cobs, stick them on this thing and hang them up to keep them away from rodents and to dry for next years seed corn.
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woodcraftssuch

290. a "spark gap". Used in old phone lines and antenna leads. One terminal was attach to a ground rod and the outside line and the feed into the building were attached to the other terminal. If lightning hit the the antenna or phone line, the surge would jump the gap and go to ground instead of into the building. 291. An eraser shield

293. A hanger for drying leaf tobacco

294. A tool for installing/removing fittings on cast iron radiators

295. a corrugated staple for butt joining two pieces of wood

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Gjpostma

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