What is it? Set 285

[Rob H.]

The latest set of items has been posted:

[Steve R.]

1624 citronelle, French (?) for citronella, a mosquito repellent

Steve R.

[Howard R Garner]

Only one idea this week

1625 A device for measuring something like rope.

Howard Garner

[Leon]

1623. Shoe display rack.

1625. An Improved machine, line measure.

1626. Saw blade after a SawStop got a hold of it.

[Doug Miller]

1625 - measures (and cuts?) wire, cord, or something of the like

[notbob]

bottle drying rack.

[RicodJour]

1624 Citroen is lemon, IIRC, so it's probably for squeezing lemon juice onto the fish. R

[Leo Lichtman]

"RicodJour" wrote Citroen is lemon, (clip) ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Oh, Idon't know--I thought the Citroen was a pretty good car. ;-)

[RicodJour]

I'd love to have a DS or SM. Classics, both.

R

[Lee Michaels]

I'd love to have a DS or SM. Classics, both.

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Many years ago, I knew a guy who had a Citreon in Arizona. He used to drive it all over the desert. He took it places that a four wheel drive would have difficulty with. His secret? The Citreon air lift system. He would drive into a gully and lift or lower the car to make it the rest of the way.

I drove with him one day. I was thinking I would have to hike out. But that car went into some rough country and out again. I was impressed. both by the car and his driving skill.

[whit3rd]

1622: log stand (hammer the prongs into a log, then the stand keeps it from rotating)? Right twist to attach, left twist to detach 1623: data cable organizer - the light duty model. 1624: traveling case for a lemon wedge? 1625: wire/rope measurer; every hardware store should have one. 1626: snow anchor (for glacier/snowfield attachment)

[Rob H.]

Yes, this is correct, they are made in various shapes.

Rob

[Rob H.]

These are both correct, the rack was for wine bottles and the other was marked wire measuring machine.

Rob

[BQ340]

1624: Do a Google image search for "fish shaped lemon squeezer"

MikeB

[jeff]

I beleive that 1622 is a tool to hold a flywheel in place while working on a small engines

[Don Young]

I agree. For loosening retaining nut or bolt.

Don Young

[DoN. Nichols]

1621) The main tool is designed for prying up something with a head, and perhaps the other part is intended to lock it in the pried up position.

No idea what that particular something is -- though it might be related to manhole covers of some sort or other.

1622) looks like one of a pair of feet which latch onto something also of cast iron. If so, it is upside down in the photo. 1623) Display rack for something sold to consumers. At a first guess it might have been spools of thread, depending on the diameter of the spikes. 1624) My guess here is that the design of the "fin" causes it to flutter in and out as it is reeled or towed through the water.

Does the pin stick out of the top when the fin is fully inside the body?

1625) Designed to measure out lengths of rope, wire, or cord of some sort. I would guess that the pointers are friction fit on the pins so you can set it to all zeros before you start reeling the product through it. I don't see a lever for quick zeroing otherwise. The visible lever lifts the clamp drum -- and it *might* also be linked to a zeroing mechanism.

I'll bet that if you measure, you will find the roller drums to be precisely 3.8197" +/- 0.002" or so. This would give one full rotation of the drum per foot of product pulled through. (The figure above is 12" (one foot) divided by Pi.) I wouldn't expect any units other than feet given its size, the New York on it, and the apparent age. (Besides -- the size scales well to a one foot circumference drum. :-)

1626) Hmm ... the pins may serve as something to bend wire (perhaps spring wire) around and the gullets are perhaps to hold one end of the wire while the other is being bent.

Now to see what others have suggested.

Enjoy, DoN.

[sandpounder]

1623 Bottle drying rack

[Rob H.]

The owner of this tool had told me that it was a fireman's spanner, but I now agree that it's a flywheel holder, I also rotated the photos so that they are now right side up!

Rob

[Lew Hodgett]

What is so new and improved about the wire measuring machine?

Same thing is still in use at any chandlery that sells cut lengths of rope.

I used one when working at a hardware store while in high school.

Lew