What is it? Set 242

[Rob H.]

I've got another busy weekend coming up so the answer page will be posted early tomorrow morning.

[Ed Huntress]

1363: A brassiere-drying frame for women who have had breast implants. These come in pairs, usually. 1365: A deer chiller, to keep the chest cavity open while the dead deer is cooling off. 1366: A stick with a piece of metal on the end of it. 1377: A grapple for something dead that's sunk to the bottom. 1368: A drying frame for some kind of skin or pelt.

[joeljcarver]

[Ned Simmons]

[Roger Haar]

Hi,

Item 1363 is an antique version of the famous aluminum foil helmet, see:

are used to protect one's brain from invasive radio waves. (wink wink)

Thanks Roger Haar

[Brian Lawson]

Well,

1367 looks like a spring loaded gadget to "grab" something, probably in a liquid.

1368 is a bending frame to make the wooden structure for snow-shoes.

Brian Lawson, Bothwell, Ontario.

[cavelamb himself]

Laugh if you want Roger, but the word is that cell phones can cause serious problems. A tim foil hat might be just the thing afterall!

[Rob H.]

Although I found this one at the whitetail museum, it isn't directly related to deer, but it would have been used by an outdoorsman.

Rob

[Ed Huntress]

Then, it's good for hanging and drying wet socks. d8-)

-- Ed Huntress

[Marc Dashevsky]

From where can I hear this word?

[David G. Nagel]

Only if you fasten it on with 1 1/2" staples....

[DoN. Nichols]

1363) Some kind of folding carrier for something? I'd be interested in seeing it in its folded state too, to see how small it gets. 1364) Looks like a tool for bending a wire at a specific radius. About the right size for bending the leads on a carbon composition resistor prior to mounting it on a printed circuit board -- except that those usually bend both ends at the same time, and are not as old as this appears to be. Plastic is usually sufficient for this task, not forged or cast metal. 1365) Gathering hay as it is sheared? 1366) No real clue (nor even a guess) on this one. 1367) A grapple which is dropped with the fingers pointing out in a radial pattern, and either when it hits in the center or when the rope pulls on it, the fingers all snap down to grasp whatever it was tossed onto. 1368) Looks like a frame for bending the sides of a dulcimer or similar musical instrument.

Now to see what others have guessed.

Enjoy, DoN.

[Steve W.]

From where can I hear this word?

[Richard Heathfield]

writer who can't spell 'metastasizing' - I'm not normally one to pick on people's spelling, but (a) people who are paid for writing ought to be able to do it properly!, and (b) the fact that he or she is unable to spell the word suggests unfamiliarity with it, which further suggests that he or she doesn't know spit about cancer.

There are lots and lots of reasons not to use cell phones. We don't need the excuse that they're carcinogenic! (Whether they are truly carcinogenic or not is something that I simply don't know - but the above articles fail to convince me in all kinds of ways.)

[kfvorwerk]

[Marc Dashevsky]

nk wink)

Thanks. Good article. It doesn't persuade me, but it is responsibly written and explains the evidence, or lack thereof, well.

Years ago some people were concerned that high power lines caused cancer in people living near them. Scientists could come up with no explanation for how such a weak electric field could cause cancer. I recall hearing of a study in Europe that showed that it was the herbicide used to keep the lines clear of vegetation that was causing the cancer. Can anyone confirm this or is it apocryphal?

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[whit3rd]

1367: My imagination comes up with a ham in a smokehouse, with this gizmo holding it, and now I'm getting hungry...

[kfvorwerk]

wink wink)

I use a bluetooth headset, not to prevent irradiation. It's because those little phones are really uncomfortable to hold to your head. Karl

[Marc Dashevsky]

Interesting -- it was transformer on normal power lines, not living near high-power lines. It could easily have been the PCBs in the transformers that contributed to the effect, if indeed there is one.

[Barbara Bailey]

"Ed Huntress" wrote in news:48884b25$0$20919$ [e-mail]:

Looks more like the frame for forming the outer rim of a snowshoe to me.