What is it? Set 415

[Rob H.]

This week's set has been posted:

[Cliff]

Commonly known as a brush axe or Sandvick.

[Rich Grise]

2402: A sewing cabinet. The round holes in the top are for spools of various colors of thread. 2406: Chastity belt for Dick Cheney.

Cheers! Rich

[Scott Lurndal]

2402: This must be a bar, particularly given the glass rings in the finish.

scott

[Lloyd E. Sponenburgh]

[e-mail] (Scott Lurndal) fired this volley in news:Yifxq.44537 $ [e-mail]:

Lloyd

[Rob H.]

Correct, I guess I didn't look closely enough at that photo, I would have shopped out the rings if I had seen them. ;-)

[Lobby Dosser]

My news reader sees this post and other follow up posts from you, but no longer sees your initial post of new items. Have you changed something on your end for your initial post of a set?

[DoN. Nichols]

2401) Looks like part of a door closer assembly, with the option to quickly disengage it when you need the door to say open while moving things through it. 2402) Perhaps to hold cosmetics during application, given the fold-up mirrors on each side. I suspect that there are provisions for latching them at right angles to the table top. And certainly of historical nature, given the large flag partially visible behind it. 2403) Very interesting, given the V profile on the handle side.

Perhaps for hitting a shoulder on a round something like a tent peg to drive it in gently -- with a projection riding in the V to guide the hammer.

2404) O.K. The close up image shows it as rusted steel and wood, not all copper as the first photo appears to be. (Incandescent lighting improperly compensated by the camera.)

Looks as though it could be a saw blade used to cut small limbs from a tree while standing on the ground, or on not too tall a ladder.

2405) Are there projections of the steel part engaging dimples on the side of the glass part to allow it o pivot that way? There does not seem to be sufficient support otherwise to allow for that.

It almost looks like it would hold a candle, but why tilt like that?

Perhaps a sealing wax candle, tilted to seal a document?

2406) Looks as though it could grip a cork or a wooden plug, once the center pin is pushed in a ways. Slide the ring towards the hook ends and it will close them together, and then lock after it passes the small bump.

Perhaps for pulling and replacing a wine cork or some kind of bung plug?

Now to post this and then see what others have posted.

Enjoy, DoN.

[DoN. Nichols]

Perhaps *you* have changed something in your news filtering? These are cross-posted to three newsgroups, and Rob has "gmailnospam.com" as his domain. Either could be things which could be blocked by filtering. (But since you get the replies, and they are still cross-posted, that could be blocked on either the "From: " or some other header. (Just as yours has a "From: " with a domain of "invalid.invalid" -- another thing which someone might block on.

So -- look to what spam blocking is going on at your end.

Good Luck, DoN.

[Lobby Dosser]

Thanks, I'd considered that but have virtually nothing filtered. Might be the news server though ...

[Stephen B.]

Seems to be wide spread since it has been raised before. I know I do not "delete" posts, only mark them as read, and also stopped seeing the original. I suspect that a server is calling the original message spam and deleting it since it is basically a link with almost no text and appears weekly. but by the time I get home, someone always has replied.

2401: conductors dead mans switch? trigger to unlock the so the inner socket so the handle can be turned and held for moving?

[usablevirus]

"Lobby Dosser" scribbled:

settings - dont show read articles?

[Lobby Dosser]

nope - it's weird as it is just this one instance

[Rob H.]

The photos were from an auction so the flag was not related to the table, just happened to be next to each other.

Good answer, cork puller is correct.

[J Burns]

Maybe Eternal September thinks Rob is spamming when he starts a topic with a URL. Maybe it would slide through if it had more text.

[DanG]

I, too, use Eternal September. I, too, do not see the originating post. To my knowledge I have no filter in my control that would stop the post.

[William Bagwell]

My guess is an over aggressive filter at Eternal September. Rob posts an identical link once a week cross posted to three groups. This apparently triggers a filter on a few servers that his subsequent posts containing new content "Close but, 2405 is not a sex toy:)" do not. If Rob varied each weeks announcement then this problem would probably go away.

[Robert Bonomi]

Do you by any chance do a 'mark all as read', 'junk all', or something similar, in one of the groups it is cross-posted to?

First thing to check -- look in the 'marked as read' messages in your newsreader, and see if the message shows up _there_.

if it is neither in 'unread' or 'read' messages, then the 'problem' is at your newsserver, contact the server operator.

if it's in the 'already read', but you didn't read it, it's an issue in your newsreader.

[Robin Halligan]

Following this i have downloaded all the w"what is it "posts on Eternal September and have looked back and the last post where Rob is the first poster is Subject: What is it? Set 392 Date: Thu, 9 Jun 2011 04:08:32 -0400

after that time they all start with someone quoting rob and giving answers So I'm guessing your right ET is filtering it for some reason.

Robin

[Rob H.]

I haven't changed anything on my end, I agree with most of the replies here that say news servers are probably filtering my posts for some reason. I'll change the subject line next week, and if that doesn't work the following week I'll add a paragraph or two of lorem ipsum to the body of my post, hopefully one of those will fix the problem.

Rob