What is it? Set 273

[Rob H.]

Just posted a new set:

[Howard R Garner]

1552 - horse powered sugar cane crusher - making molasses? 1554 - pedometer - used by a runner?

[Lloyd E. Sponenburgh]

Howard R Garner fired this volley in news:2Dvpl.8923$ [e-mail]:

1552, yes. Lots of them around here. They're called "cane mills"; one or two-mule powered. 1553 looks like the original Heathkit digital proportional radio control.

LLoyd

[joelblatt]

1549 an early piston ring compressor 1550 part of a brake tubing flaring tool, not sure about the purpose of the holes around the center hole - maybe sizing holes?

[Gary Brady]

#1554: Used by a medium distance runner.

[Leo Lichtman]

"E Z Peaces" wrote: 1554: A pedometer, which is French for "foot measuring device."

^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ :-))))

[Rob H.]

You've got the right idea but that's not sugar cane.

Pedometer is correct but it wasn't used by a runner, the units on the dial should give a clue.

Rob

[Richard Heathfield]

Given its tiny diameter and enormous units, I reckon it's one of those things you run over a map to find the RL distance between two points on that map. (The wheel design has the advantage over a ruler that you can easily steer it around bends and corners.) I've got one myself somewhere (albeit a rather newer one!) - jolly useful in the days before satnavs and Web-based route planners.

[kfvorwerk]

This is why we're not allowed around polite company. Karl

[Steve R.]

1553 is a radio control transmitter, for model cars, and perhaps boats. Depends upon the frequency of the quartz crystals in it.

Steve R.

[riverman]

8923$ [e-mail]...

1552- Hmmm, if thats not a 'Goldens New Model 2-roller cane mill', crushing sugar cane for syrup, then I don't know what it is.

[Kerry Montgomery]

1553 - Futaba FP-T 2F radio control transmitter, maybe late 1970s. Fairly dirty, so might have been used with gas powered cars - fuel, oil, rubber dust from the tires, 1/4" off the; incredibly filthy things. Kerry

[Ralph Henrichs]

messagenews:2Dvpl.8923$ [e-mail]...

It could be sorghum, not sugar cane.

[Rob H.]

Yes, they were pressing sorghum cane to make molasses.

Rob

[DoN. Nichols]

1549) Hmm ... wrong materials for marine use.

Too short to be a flat belt changing tool -- at least for the overhead belts.

Really no idea.

1550) Looks like a tool for screwing a bolted coupling flange onto a threaded pipe. I've seen such flanges used for high vacuum work, but they were usually welded in place. 1551) For filtering out fine powders from solutions -- perhaps for medicinal use? 1552) For extracting sugar from sugar cane?

For stripping corn from ears still mounted on the stalks?

1553) Well ... it uses RF for either input or output.

Perhaps a baby minder to be used with a broadcast radio?

Perhaps an alarm triggered by emergency broadcasts? (CD)

1554) A pedometer -- for recording how far a person walks or jogs.

It is activated by the bouncing of the walking or jogging gait, and presumably has somewhere to set how long a stride the user has -- or the user has to calculate the actual distance from the ratio of his/her known stride length and the stride length for which the pedometer is calibrated.

Now to see what others have suggested.

Enjoy, DoN.

[riverman]

Hmm, I going to be a sea lawyer here then, and call foul. :-)

The game is to identify the object, which Howard properly identified as a 'Sugar Cane Crusher'. The official name is a 'Cane Mill', so he was pretty much spot on.

Mentioning that it was not sugar cane was a red herring....he never said it was. He offered that they were 'making molasses', which was correct.

Anyway, I think its just incidental that they were making molasses at that fair...the item is a Cane Crusher, primarily used to crush sugar cane, but often used to crush other things, too. :-)

--riverman (I'm not a real lawyer, but I play one on the internet)

[Tim Shoppa]

It looks like a Model Rectifier Corporation unit to me. But yes, early remote control.

Tim.

[riverman]

Check out this link, and scroll down about halfway to the "Indiana State Fair, Aug 2002". Is that the same mill?

[R.H.]

I replied to this post over 5 hours ago and it has shown up yet, hopefully this won't turn out to be a double post, here is what I posted earlier:

Had I known that it was a cane mill I would have posted a different reply, I had been told that it was a sorghum press for making sorghum molasses and I hadn't yet found one on the web. So I agree that Howard's answer was correct. Also, thanks for the links, I'll use one on the answer page.

The first item this week, the long tool with a blade and U-shaped piece, hasn't yet been guessed correctly but as a clue I'll say that it's related to the cane press.

Rob

[R.H.]

It's probably the exact same one, the antique machinery show that I went to was in Indiana, but it wasn't at the state fair. Good job on finding that.

Rob