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Rob
and again my silly guesses
1092 degausser 1093 for making the inner hole into döner kebab meat. umh, only joking. second try ... tool for making holes into tough materials, like leather? for shoemakers, upholsterers?1095 some kind of self powered kids toy?
greetings from germany chris
forgot some more guesses ...
1092 electromagnet for early reed relay or electrical brake / current brakegreetings from germany chris
1092 Current transformer 1095 Knife sharpener
1092 Current Transformer Used to measure AC current. Wire with the current to be measured goes through the hole. AC ammeter connects to the terminals. Contains a torroidal core with a multi-turn winding connected to the terminals. Used to keep the ammeter at ground or safe voltage, to avoid the need of breaking any insulation on the wire, and to get a much smaller current into the ammeter than is flowing in the wire. This one seems to be marked as a 50:1 ratio (steps the current down 50:1, would step the voltage up 50:1, but the ammeter, being low impedance, introduces low back resistance into the line.
It might work as a degausser, but that is not what it was made for.
1093 Eyelet or grommet installer.1095 Knife Sharpener.
1095 A knife sharpener. Roll back and forth on the counter. We had one growing up.
form of coinage. Almost certainly modern repro.
1092 Current transformer. Stick a power feed of many Amperes through the central hole and measure a smaller current (maybe 1/100th or 1/50th) from the two terminals on the top. It'll be marked with a measuring ratio somewhere and a usable frequency range (which I think I can see) 1093 Patent paper fastener. Lots of these around in that period, before wire staples came to dominate. 1094 Clip-on hook. A wire is twisted through the four lugs on the RHS of the 1st picture to hold it in place, then the LHS hangs down to make a double hook. 1095 Toy. There's a weight and a ratchet or clutch in the middle, so that you roll it away and then it comes back to you.Andy Dingley fired this volley in news: snipped-for-privacy@22g2000hsm.googlegroups.com:
It is visibly marked with the ratio, too.
Nah.... it's a rolling knife sharpener. That one's a bit big for the average countertop or cutting board -- you'd have to roll it longways. Modern ones are smaller.
LLoyd
1095 is a rolling knife and scissor sharpener.
Jim Chandler
1091 is a strigil. It was used to scrape oil or sweat from the body, along with any dirt and dead skin following a bath, exercize or participation in a sporting event. 1095 appears to be a knife-sharpener, probably sold to housewives to use in the kitchen.
1093: Device for cancelling checks 1094: hooks onto a wire or cord to pull it in some way, might act as a stand off... 1095: knife sharpener 1096: Doll Bed heater, fill with coals from fireplace or stove and slip it between the sheets.
I can't believe that you would doubt the veracity of a vendor at my local flea market, he wouldn't have been asking $35 for it if it wasn't authentic. ;->
I think you're right that it's basically a hook, but for what specific purpose I haven't been able to find out.
Rob
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Make it simple for all. Set the "reply-to" field appropriately. This is not attacked by spammers, because it isn't broadcast by a cursory examination of a newsgroup. So it doesn't attract spam.
1091: Pot handle 1092: Transfomer 1093: Leather punch, perhaps for putting a hole for an eyelet into a boot 1094: World's smallest pickaxe 1095: Lousy grindstone 1096: Device for removing coals from a fire
According to R.H. :
Well ... that is fair enough -- *I* block a lot of road-runner sites because of spam or sshd attacks coming from them. :-)
I do try to avoid blocking the genuine mail servers, when I can recognize them.
1091) Hmm ... it looks like a side piece of a military helmet -- though it looks more Greek, but the lettering appears to be Chinese. 1092) A current transformer. You feed a wire through it, and measure the current produced between the two terminals. (You can boost the sensitivity by running multiple loops through the hole, instead of just a single wire.I *think* that the moulded-in data shows a ration of 50:5. Mine is a black case with a black anodized aluminum label with natural aluminum lettering, and the ratio on it is 400:5. This suggests that the standard meter hooked to it is 5A full scale, no matter what the scale *actually* says.
Mine, also has the frequency range of 50 Hz to 400 Hz, and is rated for 600 V.
Yours appears to have a VA (Volt-Amps) rating as well, though it is difficult to read the moulded lettering in the marbled plastic.
1093) This appears to be an early form of stapleless paper joiner.It pokes a hole through multiple sheets of paper, and folds it down on the top of the hole.
1094) It looks like one half of a set of hinges which disconnect from each other by twisting. It is obviously designed to screw down to flat wood, though I'm not sure what the tongues on either side are for.Perhaps it could be a lock which can be swiveled to release the other half to disconnect.
1095) A knife blade sharpener. You roll it on a countertop. The rubber treads keep it from slipping, and the knife goes to either side of the white stone, held at the proper angle by the sides of the plastic center. 1096) This appears to be a device for getting a pill (perhaps wrapped in meat) into an animal and past the point where the critter can cough it back up.Now to see what others have said.
Enjoy, DoN.
I've cast a few of these beasties myself 8-)
I've lately started to take a serious interest in "ancient" Chinese bronzes. Not because I think they're anything other than modern repro tat, but because I'm just curious as to their patination technologies. "Sight reading" chlorides vs. carbonates can be good sport at car-boot sales.
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