What is it? Set 334

[Rob H.]

Six more items have been posted on the web site:

[Alexander Thesoso]

1919 Bread slicing guide.

[Rumple Stiltskin]

1918- The skeleton of a robot roll-away bug.

[beecrofter]

1917 is a bee escape/ queen excluder- it only lets worker bees pass

[Steve W.]

1915 -

1916 - Old hydrant tool. Large hole fits older hex caps, small pentagon fits the valve control rod, curved section likely has a hole in the ear section for the older pin lug style hoses.

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1919 - Bread slicing guide?

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[Steve W.]

Hey, there are quite a few women on those red trucks now as well....

That particular tool isn't real common any longer, Most have the adjustable types now.

[Doug Miller]

How does that work, then? The queens are too large to pass through the holes in the wire cones?

[Rob H.]

Good answer, this is correct.

Rob

[Rob H.]

Yes, but I was told it was a bee trap, not sure if it was used inside the hive or outside.

The queen can enter through the wire cones but can't get back out, and as beecrofter mentioned, the workers can pass through the metal grate to attend to her.

Rob

[beecrofter]

And through the spacing of the wire rods as well

[William Wixon]

that's funny. i can picture orville wright being SO anal retentive and therefore *totally* miffed at his mother/wife/sister because they didn't serve him perfectly uniform .5625 thick slices of bread that he spent HOURS building this bread slicing "miter box" so he could have perfectly uniform slices of bread. lol. wasn't so much an aid to them but to him. lol. i don't blame him though, just a funny imaginary perspective on a great american hero. we all have our funny little quirks. you never hear about his idiosyncrasies.

b.w.

[J. Clarke]

Were you around in the days before sliced bread? Such guides were not uncommon.

[DoN. Nichols]

1915) Looks like an expanding scraper to put a nice finish on the ID of a bore.

Some, I've seen with flaps of sandpaper and rotated by an electric drill or a drill press or milling machine.

This one is for a workpiece which is being rotated by ( perhaps ) a lathe.

Assuming that the image has not been reversed (they sometimes have, here) it either is for a workpiece being rotated in reverse on the typical lathe, or it is the leading edge of the flaps which cuts -- and I would expect that to generate forces beyond the ability to grip the wooden handle and prevent it from rotating with the workpiece.

1916) A wrench for use by a firefighter. The smaller socket (pentagonal) is for the valve stem on a fire hydrant, and I think also fits the caps over the openings. The crescent is probably for tightening the hose onto the hydrant. I'm not quite sure where the big hex socket would be applied. Looks like about 2-1/2" between flats, assuming that is a 2x4 that is is resting on. 1917) Hmm ... designed to attract and trap flying insects like bees or wasps? The sliding door is to release them into some other container, or to free them -- or to allow smoking them into insensibility for transfer to another container? 1918) To guide something like a large hose into a hole? 1919) For holding ground glass onto which an image is projected by some other part not visible with a lens or a pinhole? 1920) One edge for cutting while rocking the blade (sort of like an early pizza cutter), and the other end looks as though it is for crimping a lid onto a container -- sort of like an oversized cap for a soda bottle.

Now to see what others have suggested.

Enjoy, DoN.

[Steve W.]

I get to use mine a bit. Have one of the newer lightweight ones now. much easier to handle than those older iron monsters.

What Dept. were you with?

[William Wixon]

oh. i stand corrected. obviously i failed in my attempt at humor as well.

b.w.

[J. Clarke]

When I read that exchange the first time I got that the adjustable women were popular and that your ex was an "older iron monster". Then I figured out you were talking about nozzles. Which puts my mind into a totally different gutter.

[Steve W.]

Rottenchester, know it well. I live 4 hours east 20 minutes from Cooperstown. My current FD is a rural one. Not a hydrant in sight. Drafting is the order of the day.

[Lloyd E. Sponenburgh]

"J. Clarke" fired this volley in news: [e-mail]:

No, he was talking about wenches... ARH! WRENCHES!

LLoyd

[Lloyd E. Sponenburgh]

"Stormin Mormon" fired this volley in news:hrens7$j8g$ [e-mail]:

You've got me ALL confused now. I thought THOSE were the "females riding the red trucks"...

LLoyd

[Rob H.]

I forgot that the owner of this device had given further description of it in his email:

"There are two of them, they are a mirror image of one another (maybe right and left). Each segment has a "part number" BP 96, BP 97, BP 98 BP 99, BP100, BP

101, BP102,BP 103, BP110 and BP111. The larger end is BP110 The smaller end is BP 111 and the center is BP100. The ends are the only difference, they are reverse of each other large to small. all part numbers are the same from left to right except the ends. It springs shut but only opens as wide as I showed you in the pic.they are not made of steel, it is an alloy maybe magnesium the springs are not rusted so maybe stainless, but the pins are rusted a bit. The parts are cast and then some machine work that appears to fit well so fairly modern. The other one (right) that I left at the store has what looks like some sort of rubber cement on the flat side that I think is the bottom."