What is it? Set 288

[Rob H.]

As I mentioned on the site, next week I'll be posting a day early since I'll be out of town on Thursday.

[Winston]

--Winston

[kfvorwerk]

1639. I'm guessing a metal detector for nails and such when recycling old lumber for wood working. Couldn't find one that looks like it though. Karl

[Alexander Thesoso]

1641 Guess/vague impression that I've seen this before... Police radar horn/transmitter-receiver that slips over the window glass in the police car side window.

[Andrew Erickson]

1639 - Handheld metal detector.

1640 - Strength tester for three-armed persons

1641 - Microwave (or other high frequency) feedhorn assembly, possibly used for a radar system of some sort. (One possible likely application that comes to mind is for an automatic supermarket door opener.)

1642 - Maybe a gizmo that was used with a handcart to help tip barrels back onto the cart when starting out. A rope or strap through the link could be pulled (or attached to the hand cart), and the toothy rim of this casting engaged on the far side of the barrel. In this way, the barrel would be tipped back onto the cart rather than forward off of it when starting out.

1643 - Seems to be a control lever for some kind of equipment. It could probably be off of most anything--forklift, loader, backhoe, some industrial machine, etc.

1644 - This would seem to measure out fixed doses of some liquid into the lower compartment. Perhaps it was used for dispensing/selling inebriating beverages. The little inner bucket fills until it overbalances, dumping the collected contents, and then resets itself; a similar mechanism, on a much much larger scale, is not uncommonly seen at water parks, dumping huge amounts of water on the patrons at intervals.

[Rob H.]

This is correct, I found one for less than $12, seems like a decent price for a metal detector.

[Rob H.]

Yes, it's an old police radar gun from the 1960's.

residence will still be occupied when I'm gone for the day but you make a good point, thanks for your concern.

Rob

[DoN. Nichols]

And I did not see it until Thursday anyway, because I was too busy to finish the newsgroup last night. :-(

others have said.

1639) Looks like a wand used by the transportation safety types for checking out aircraft passengers. A hand-held metal detector of limited range and sensitivity to supplement the walk-through sensors to localize what the walk-throughs spotted. 1640) A really weird tool, which *must* have some play in some of those riveted joints, otherwise there is no need for the joints at all.

At a guess, it could be used for turning a long screw after clamping onto it -- but I'm not sure how it would clamp without seeing other photos.

1641) Police speed radar gun -- designed to clamp onto a window rolled part way down.

Looks as though it can be swiveled to point parallel to the car's direction of travel, but at the moment it is set to look at about 90 degrees to that direction.

1642) Perhaps something to improve the grip on a bottle to allow one to loosen it? Looks about right for the traditional mayonaise bottle -- or perhaps for a Mason jar. 1643) The description suggests that the far end of the pipe is open.

Could be a control lever for some kind of earth moving equipment or the like. It does not look like something designed as a stick for aircraft control -- except perhaps in a homebuilt.

1644) Test sampling at a brewery?

Now to see what others have said.

Enjoy, DoN.

[kfvorwerk]

Best price I've seen. I sent the link to my brother. He does a good bit of resawing and I don't know if he has one. Thanks Karl

[XR650L_Dave]

1643 could be a light-duty railroad switchyard control lever that had an electronic interlock of some kind.

Dave

[Martin H. Eastburn]