I need some help with the last one in this set:
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I need some help with the last one in this set:
they sold as a fish finder. It's a thermometer on a long cable, to measure underwater temperatures and find fish that like to hang around in inversion layers. Also works for submarines.
Google doesn't show any matches when I search for Heathkit.
1898 is a pair of pliers :)
As per Andy's post temperature - the meter starts at 32, 32F = 0C
1898 - fish / fishing pliers
1899 - Manual Microfilm roller1900 - Hay mover
1901 - 1280 air conditioning, allowed cool, moist air to circulate in the house1902 - Microfilm devel> I need some help with the last one in this set:
1898 looks like "bicycle pliers" to me.
1899 looks like an early version of the "BetterPak" packaging tape measuring/wetting/cutting machine.1900 vaguely looks like what I'd call a British head pike. I can't find one now, but I saw once a drawing of something like that with five heads impaled on the points, for display.
1901 looks like a chiller for pickling crocks, jars, etc... Sort of the residential version of a country "spring house".1902 draftsman's pencil sharpener.
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BTW... that was called the Heath "Thermo Spotter"
enable it to be used as a wrench for taps and/or screw extractors.
1902 - a vegetable slicer perhaps?
Correct, the side of it has charts that show which fish can be found at different temperatures.
Rob
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1901 - With two corners touching the foundation, I don't think it was originally intended to be so long. The rounded near corner suggests to me pushing things in and dragging them out.
I think it was for soaking lumber. It might have been for kyanizing, but I think it was for wood intended to be bent, such as for wheel felloes. Some were made from lumber larger than 2 x 4", which I suppose would require a long soak.
No correct answers yet for this one, but this is the closest guess so far.
Rob
Or , it could be for a 'food bank' (earthen storage for root vegetables). Or, a mushroom farm patch. Heck, I don't know.
1902: perhaps a kitchen appliance, to shave ginger or horseradish. Seems a little unlikely as a vegetable peeler, it'd be hard to hand-hold.1897) This looks to me to be a thermocouple on the end of a reel intended to measure temperature at a distance. From the physical design, and the range on the meter scale, I would guess that it is for measuring the temperature at different depths for predicting how deep the fish are likely to be.
Is there any way to measure the length of cable paid out?
The presence of the button suggests that there is some active circuitry in there -- an amplifier to produce sufficient signal over the relatively short range of the scale.
The linkage to water comes from the lowest reading being the freezing point of water.
1898) Pliers with square drive sockets in one handle (probably to fit valve stems when the handle is off -- either for security or because it is being worked upon.The spike on the end of each handle I suspect is for fishing out old washers when they are being replaced.
Hmm ... perhaps it is for controlling the shutoff valves on portable acetylene and oxygen tanks, and the points for clearing clogged nozzles on the torch?
1899) Hmm ... something long and flat rolled up in the big end, with a crank to either feed it out or to rewind it.It looks as though part of the other end is designed to shear off the flat something, and the gearing presumably can be set to feed a precise length. Better contrast and a bit more detail in the photos might show more.
1900) Hmm ... possibly a top of a lightning rod?Or a holder for a bundle of hay to be burned held aloft?
It appears to be in a museum, FWIW.
1901) Cistern -- to store rain water for drinking and cleaning purposes during periods between rain in dry parts of the country? 1902) At a guess it is a plane for adjusting the fit of a door which has swollen in humid weather without leaving piles of wood shavings on the floor. It captures the shavings in the housing.Or - it could be for taking shavings to sample the quality of the wood -- perhaps for import duty determination or something similar.
Now to see what others have suggested.
Enjoy, DoN.
1901. keeping milk cool.
oh, lloyd already guessed "refrigerator". how about soaking flax? don't they soak flax prior to drawing it into fibers?
wow. no way. look at what a huge operation "retting" flax can be.
Good guess! This is correct.
I've never been in the tanning business, but from what I've read, the tanning process produces immensely bad smells. I guess, if you have burned out your nose, having a stinking process going on in the basement of your residence might not bother you. It might, however, bother guests.
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