Re: What is it? LXVIII

damned! This it is! For pressing those disks with the lengthy hole in the middle onto the spring and fiddling the rod from the rear throug and then turn it 90 deg.

Nick

damned! This it is! For pressing those disks with the lengthy hole in the middle onto the spring and fiddling the rod from the rear throug and then turn it 90 deg.

Nick

Better known as shoe hold down springs.

I haven't fished much, so I am curious. I have never seen a fisherman sharpening his fish hooks. Just how often should one sharpen a fishhook? When they get dull, isn't it easier to use a new one?

ObPuzzle: What three fish are found in Busk Ranch, Utah?

Carl G.

Sorry about the OT Post/ObPuzzle, I didn't notice that the only follow-up newsgroup was rec.woodworking, and that rec.puzzles was not included in the follow-up list.

Carl G.

Is the Space Shutte made out of steel!? >>8-O

Nick

Of course not -- but a thin layer of steel on the walking surfaces could work with such shoes.

And it might not have been for the shuttle, but perhaps for one of the stations (SpaceLab, or one of its successors.

Enjoy, DoN.

I'm in. How much?

Ob. Puzzle: Did the previous poster check the links I provided?

Looks like they've all been answered correctly, but I'm not sure about 392:

Rob

Thanks for the link.

O.K. Once others started guessing/identifying it as that, I decided that they were more likely to be right than I was.

I just tried to find my examples to photograph them, but they are not in the toolboxes where I expected them.

I guess that the trick is whether the knurls form a straight cylinder or whether they are tapered. If a straight cylinder, it would be a knurled nut tool, if tapered, it could be to grip the edges of the disc-shaped retainers on brake shoes.

O.K. Those are names for them -- but what are they *used* for?

Enjoy, DoN.

A standard size switch knurled nut is about .590" diameter, although I think I've seen larger, less common ones.

The end opening on my K-D Tools pin retainer tool is about .833 diameter (and tapering inward). I didn't have a new retainer to measure.

WB ................

Older knurled dress nuts *are* tapered. They have a rather nice, rounded profile. More recent ones are straight in cross-section.

Neither nor, it was made for the MIR! Drop forged and riveted.

Nick

The one I have is about the same size with a slight taper, so I'll probably go with the "brake shoe retaining spring tool" answer unless I find some evidence that it's for something else.

Rob

According to an anonymous comment on my site:

"Cataloged as a "Mincing Knife". An exact image of this one shows up in an

Ulu knives are for multiple purposes, as mentioned on this site:

Rob

Unfortunately they were displayed so that the bottom was not visible, you would think that they would mount them with one showing the top and the other one showing the bottom, maybe I'll suggest that to the museum.

Rob

Anything an Eskimo needs a knife for. Once on some "National Geographic"-type show I saw a clip of someone using one to split stick matches in two so they'd get twice as many lights per box.

Cheers! Rich