What is it? Set 260

[J. Clarke]

The thing that's bugging me is that I feel like I've seen one of those damn things somewhere and I have no idea where it was.

[Pete Snell]

Geez, that looks an awful lot like one of those things that waitresses clip their orders to which the cook then spins around to see each one in turn............ Ticket rail?

Pete

[David G. Nagel]

1471 is a leather working tool that is used to cut pieces off to shape what ever is being made. 1474 is a boot jack. You place one toe of the handle and the heal of the other book in the U shaped opening. Lift on the heal and slip you foot out of the boot. Reverse for the other boot.

Dave Nagel

[DoN. Nichols]

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Hmm ... no click to make it bigger, but I saved it and cropped in as much as I can given the jpeg artifacts. (Not sure how much better the raw image from the camera would have been -- this one has been processed by a Microsoft program based on the exif data.

anyway -- it looks to me as though at least some of the holes around the ring have studs in them facing in towards the center, which makes it's use as a tire bead setter less likely.

I see two oxygen tanks lying down, instead of locked upright as they should be. A tank of some fuel gas (I don't think that it is acetylene, so perhaps propane or natural gas) at the right front corner. Acetylene would have to be strapped upright to make it usable without a few hours of upright resting after being turned upright from lying down.

The rods with the hooks on the ends lok as though they might be used to hook the blow-molded plastic sign covers in place if it is truly a ring for a sign.

Of course -- it could be totally unrelated to anything else in the truck -- having simply been scavenged from somewhere as a source of metal. :-)

Enjoy, DoN.

[humunculus]

Exactly! Hmmm....

--riverman

[Terry Coombs]

On the right hand side of that object at the front is what looks to me like an exhaust pipe . I'd bet even money it's a welding machine , a big one too !

[Nahmie]

Wild guess here - Could it have anything to do with pipeline work? I see a lot of trucks like this in the East Texas area, several right here in the RV park we stay in, and these guys are doing gas/oil pipeliune construction. Still don't know what that big ring is for, but just thought I might throw in an alternative employment for the vehicle.

[Jerry Wass]

I think it's a belt rack out of a clothing store

[john]

The welder in the front is sometimes called a pipeliner.

John

[Steve R.]

The uprighting tool was used to centre punch the location of pivot holes, mainly in marine chronometers. They are horological tools, but have other uses, mainly in instrument making. My Boley Standard watchmakers lathe is much newer, but has many hobby uses, and I still make the odd watch part with it!

Steve R. ----For many years a repairer of antique watches and clocks.

[Mike Marlow]

On Sat, 29 Nov 2008 02:54:27 -0500, E Z Peaces cast forth these pearls of wisdom...:

Of course the circumfrance of a tire compresses. Don't over complicate this - simply let some air out of a tire and watch the circumfrance compress.

No need for all of this elboration to simply seat a bead.

Are you talking about big trucks? If so, they don't seat like a car tire. They use split rims. An entirely different manner of seating a tire.

[humunculus]

Show this picture to one of the guys with a truck like this, and ask him what the ring is for!

--riverman

[Terry Coombs]

Take a good look next time you see a parked semi-truck . Namy are using tubeless tires and solid rims now , just like their smaller cousins . I believe radial tires are what makes this possible , because of the more flexible sidewalls .

[Mike Marlow]

On Sun, 30 Nov 2008 06:56:14 -0600, Terry Coombs cast forth these pearls of wisdom...:

Sunofagun. Just when ya think ya knows something, someone comes along and tells ya that ya don't. I hate it when that happens. I really was not aware that the big trucks got away from split rims.

[Terry Coombs]

Another aspect of that is the weight issue . Stamped steel rims are lighter , leaving more of the gross weight limitations for cargo . And the more ya can haul , the more money ya can make .

[Ed Pawlowski]

Some trailers no longer have a dual wheel/tire but one big wide-ass tire instead.

[Nahmie]

Senior moment . . . haven't seen any welders here this month. Had about 6 of them last winter. Norm

[Nahmie]

They got away from the split rims for safety purposes too. Many people injured/killed when servicing the split rims, becdause the ring would come loose under pressure. Most either used a safety cage when inflating them or put the ring side down.

Those big tires are called "super singles", and are OK for some things, but they're terrible in snow country or even in fresh rain with a light load. Some outfits use them on the drive axles of the tractors, and they'll spin loose real easy. Norm

[dpb]

Mike Marlow wrote: ...

About 20-30 years ago or so... :)

Still have one old ('58) truck w/ 'em -- it's an experience when it's worked on these days as none of the tire shop working kids have ever seen one, what more worked on one.

Also a pita as it's got 8.25x20 and hardly anything is that small any more so have to pay full list to get something ordered for it.

[Mike Marlow]

On Sun, 30 Nov 2008 13:20:51 -0500, E Z Peaces cast forth these pearls of wisdom...:

Ahhh - now I see what you were referring to. Sorry - I could not take that out of your original statement. With this, I now agree with your earlier statement.