What is it? Set 457

[Rob H.]

This week's set has been posted:

[Kenefick]

2653: Animal Tagger? 2654: Ceramic Insulators? 2655: Part of a music box. 2656: making lots of concentric circles? 2657: Stamp used to fix all the White House keyboard "W"s?

[Kenefick]

[Lloyd E. Sponenburgh]

"Rob H." fired this volley in news: [e-mail]:

2657 is a Steak brand. The non-shown sides have R & (probably) MR on them. The show sides are for Well and Medium.

Lloyd

[David B]

2654 - Pepper pots for telegraph poles.

2656 - Circle drawing tool.

2657 - Barbeque tool for marking steak: W - Well done, M - Medium, R - Rare, B - Blue.

2658 - Farming tool.

[J Burns]

2656 will keep eight valves in order. It's not musical chairs!

[J Burns]

2653: The line wires of a mesh fence have ripples to keep them tight and springy. This tool might be to tighten stretched ripples or make new ones. The L-shaped tongue might help guide the line wire into the notch.

[Leon Fisk]

[Artemus]

It holds the valves from a V8 engine when overhauling it. My parents had one from the '40's which had advertising for a garage on it. Art

[Artemus]

Oops. Forgot to add #2656. Art

[Rob H.]

Yes, these tools were used on a farm.

[Rob H.]

This answer is correct.

[Rob H.]

I don't have an answer for this one yet, but the owner of it did say "The tool has quite a strong odour similar to that of an automotive or machinery workshop."

[Rob H.]

Hay rakes is correct.

[DoN. Nichols]

2653) Strange looking beastie. I'm not sure how old it is, but what it looks to be to me is a crimper for some kind of crimp splice or terminal which is held in the clip in the bottom

An extra view of the moving part fully engaging the clip in the bottom might give more clues. (Something like the last, but with the lever fully compressed.)

2654) The look somewhat like tiny drinking mugs with brewery markings on them.

But they *could* be insulators.

Or they could be strange chess pieces, given the variety of shapes.

2655) This sort of looks like the works in a pepper grinder, but obviously much larger.

Could it be for breaking and grinding stone? Or perhaps something like clam shells -- to make lime?

2656) Hmm ... the printing looks designed to skip the areas of the holes, which suggests that they are related, rather than the holes were drilled into a yardstick for a different purpose.

And the text suggests automotive parts (piston rings).

Perhaps it is to store engine valves for an (up to) 8 cylinder engine during stripdown and reassembly?

2657) The high contrast suggests that it is to print the letters shown by transferring paint, rather that to burn the letters into wood like a brand.

Are there two other letters on the two sides which we can't see? It is interesting that the two shown are almost vertical mirror images of each other -- other than the slope on the sides of the 'W' vs the vertical sides on the 'M'.

'W' might go with the other compass directions -- but 'M' does not fit that at all, which is why seeing the other two sides might be helpful.

2658) Part of a harvesting machine -- perhaps horse drawn?

Or perhaps a net drying and repair rack?

Now to post and then see what others have suggested.

Enjoy, DoN.

[Rob H.]

Still not sure about the first one but the rest have been answered correctly this week:

was hoping to find a video of the hay rakes in action but didn't have any luck, I'll have to see if I can get a demonstration at an antique machinery show.

[WW]

This week's set has been posted:

2654 Insulators for electric fence wire. WW

[Stormin Mormon]

Been out of town for a few days. Posting from my desktop PC, as usual.

2653, no clue. 2654, salt shakers, or electrical insulators. 2655, no clue. 2666, alignment holes for setting up a machine. 2657, meat tenderizer? 2658, sock drying rack for outdoors

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[David B]

Are you sure about the spark plugs? There appear the wrong shape and a little large at 1½"

D

[Steve W.]

They are for the old plugs that you can take apart to service. Most were

3/4 or 1" pipe thread.