What is it? Set 379

[J Burns]

2190: Held Daniel Crestmark's balls. This legendary marksman kept the bore of his Kentucky Long Rifle scrupulously clean with a wet patch. He used the cap from his lipstick case to measure his powder.

Most riflemen used hard lead balls so they wouldn't deform too badly to jam down the bore. Crestmark's case protected his soft lead balls. He'd choose one and push it through the center hole to trim it to the precise size of his bore.

The end of his ramrod was a hollow cone. As he tapped the ramrod to pack the ball against the powder, the ball would deform, becoming pointed with its sides mashed into the grooves of the rifling.

Harper's Ferry began producing 54-caliber yaggers in 1803. Crestmark found himself tossed onto the Ash Heap of History.

[Rob H.]

Good guess, key is correct. Tough set this week, no answer yet for the large metal device or the two wooden tools. The rest of the answers can be seen here:

[Rob H.]

The two wood tools were part of a private collector's display in his museum, the walls were full of tools that were mostly grouped according to use but a lot of adjacent items were not related so the C-clamps and tach are not good clues for these tools.

Rob

[Jerry - OHIO]

2186- Who would pay money to dry corn that way ??A beam & four nails would be cheaper !!!Goes to show !!!Sucker born every bay !!! I thought farmers were smarter then that!! Jerry

[John]

The small tool above the C clamp in 2188 looks like an rpm measurement tool. You would push the end of the device onto the end of a shaft and the dial on the side would spin and record revolutions. With a stopwatch you could determine rpm.

John

[John]

Here is a picture of one.

John

[Jerry - OHIO]

Now I know how to use mine! I didn't know about the stop watch! Makes sense now !! Jerry

[Bob AZ]

We used these as a trouble/working light in aircraft. It plugged in such as a bulb would in a socket. Note the small pins used to align the plug as needed in a socket. The pins are also used to retain the plug, again as in retaining a bulb in a socket. The shutter is used to restrict the light path as desired.

Bob AZ

[Bill]

Bill

[Gerald Miller]

Looks a lot like it might be somewhat related to the old, naphtha fueled blow torch. The slanted part being the torch itself, feeding the hot fuel air mixture into the main body with many slots to release the flammable mixture to the flame area. the small basin below the main portion being the pan to hold raw liquid fuel which is ignited to pre-heat the torch. I suspect that this assembly was provided with a burner grate to support a lead pot as used by plumbers when assembling cast iron "bell and spigot" pipe. Gerry :-)} London, Canada