What is it? Set 376

[Stephen Quinn]

Rob

2171 Shelling peas?

CYA Steve

[Markem]

So Rob is 2171 an oil can opener and spout?

[Rob H.]

Nope

[Rob H.]

It isn't for use with oil cans, it's more of a kitchen tool.

[Michael Kenefick]

[John]

The tool was used for opening the large metal orange juice or tomato juice cans. It would punch a hole in the top of the can by pulling the trigger.

John

[Rich Grise]

2167 - trigger lock 2168 - wire wrap gun, missing the "nozzle." 2170 - antenna rotator indicator

[Rich Grise]

;-) Rich

[Rob H.]

That's not it.

[Rob H.]

Very close, the first part of your answer is too specific and the second word is not specific enough.

[jim]

Is it for making melon balls? Cutting melons into round shapes for fruit salads.

-jim

[Michael Kenefick]

[Rob H.]

It isn't for use on melons.

[Rob H.]

It isn't for making fancy vegetables but this answer is not far off.

[Dave Baker]

of the tool might be for peeling.

[Rob H.]

That's right! The patent says it's for extracting eyes from potatoes or pineapples, also for removing stems and leaves from apples, etc.

[Rob H.]

Haven't been able to confirm any of the guesses for the machine shop device but the rest of them have been answered correctly, check out the link below for the answers along with a video and some links:

[Rob H.]

I just changed my answer for the germination trays to read:

These are vintage germination trays for testing corn kernels. Each farmer saved some of the best ears at harvest time for next year's seed. Up to 10 kernels were removed from each ear and along with a damp piece of cloth one kernel was placed into each of the small pockets (notice 10 pockets per board). These kernels were kept damp and warm until they germinated. Probably any ear that had less than 90% germination was sent back to the crib to be livestock food. Those ears that had 90% and above were shelled and this was the seed he planted. The kernels with sprouts that came out of the trays were fed to the chickens.

I knew the trays were for starting seeds but didn't realize they were used just for testing, one of my friends who was a farmer sent me the correct answer.

Rob

[George W Frost]

" 2167. This is a lock for an old telephone dial, a photo of one locked onto a dial can be seen here, although it should be attached to the first hole, not the last."

Rob, here in OZ, we had the telephone dial and the lock was put in the last hole "0", for that way, anyone could use the phone for local calls, but for interstate calls, the number would be preceded with the "0", thus no interstate calls could be made on the boss's time and telephone, and as we all know, the interstate calls cost an arm and a leg as they were connected manually by a telephonist.

[DoN. Nichols]

Hmm ... lots of businesses tend to have phone numbers which end in "00" -- and it would preclude dialing those as well -- along with any other number which had a '0' somewhere in it.

Enjoy, DoN.