Next week I have plans on Thursday so I'll be posting on Wednesday afternoon, here is this week's set:
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Next week I have plans on Thursday so I'll be posting on Wednesday afternoon, here is this week's set:
Lew
1753 - sharpening steel
1757 - photographic timer (probably Gralab)
On 10/22/2009 1:30 AM Lew Hodgett spake thus:
That's what I was going to guess (though I think I'd drop that last "e")[1], though it's hard to tell without being able to see the surface of the rod, which would have fine ridges (like a big file). I remember we had one in the house when I was growing up, that my dad used to sharpen the carving knives and such.
[1] OTOH, maybe that's Remington's brother?On 10/22/2009 1:20 AM Rob H. spake thus:
a cord, by squeezing the two metal cups together.
1753 A steel for sharpening carving knives. 1757 Darkroom timer.
Steve R.
Pierre
"Rob H." fired this volley in news: snipped-for-privacy@news5.newsguy.com:
1755 looks like a wheel spoke tenoner 1757 is a Graylab photo enlarger timer 1758 looks like a very elegant steel fencepost driverLLoyd
Mine gets used almost every time I cook.
Lew
1754: Door bell?
1755: Rope braider?
1753 - Knife steel, used to smooth the cutting edge burr on a knife.
1754 -
1755 -1756 -
1757 - Looks like a darkroom timer. Does it have a lever on the back switching it from 1 hour to 1 minute?1758 - Looks like a forcible entry door ram. Ours isn't nearly as pretty though!
I was thinking just the opposite.
Bill
On 10/22/2009 7:58 AM Bill spake thus:
The opposite of what? Do tell.
On 10/22/2009 11:08 AM David Nebenzahl spake thus:
Ah, so; after someone else suggested this might be a doorbell, the light went off. What I thought were "cups" could be bells.
Still seems like an awkward, roundabout way to do it, though.
The hand that's pointed at 57 takes one minute to go around, and the numbers are seconds. The hand that's at 7 is an hour all the way around, and each tick is one minute. IOW, it's minutes and seconds, 59:59 max. The knob in the middle turns the second hand to the # of seconds you want, and you set the "hour" hand to the # of minutes you want by moving it by that little tab bent forward at its end.
Cheers! Rich
Hmmm... a string-operated doorbell. What will they think of next? : )
It's not a doorbell, the rope in the front probably went to a foot pedal, steppiug on it would have brought the metal parts closer together. The base of it was most likely attached to a table or workbench.
Rob
Pretty common state of affairs in England/Europe in the 1800's ... the bell strings, ropes and pulleys in a multi-story house look like our electrical rough-in's today.
Yes, you sharpen knives with a stone and use the steel as you said. Done properly, it's a two step operation.
Jeff
It makes perfect sense..it's funny how you can evolved ideas for granted. The closest I got to learning anything like that in school was learning about the "dumb waiter". Do they still put "counter-weights" in new windows?
Bill
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