What is it? Set 307

[Rob H.]

Next week I have plans on Thursday so I'll be posting on Wednesday afternoon, here is this week's set:

[Lew Hodgett]

1753: Sharpening Steele

Lew

[LDosser]

1753 - sharpening steel

1757 - photographic timer (probably Gralab)

[David Nebenzahl]

On 10/22/2009 1:30 AM Lew Hodgett spake thus:

That's what I was going to guess (though I think I'd drop that last "e")[1], though it's hard to tell without being able to see the surface of the rod, which would have fine ridges (like a big file). I remember we had one in the house when I was growing up, that my dad used to sharpen the carving knives and such.

[1] OTOH, maybe that's Remington's brother?

[David Nebenzahl]

On 10/22/2009 1:20 AM Rob H. spake thus:

a cord, by squeezing the two metal cups together.

[Steve R.]

1753 A steel for sharpening carving knives. 1757 Darkroom timer.

Steve R.

[pierre]

1758 is a battering ram used by police forces to break down doors.

Pierre

[Lloyd E. Sponenburgh]

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

1755 looks like a wheel spoke tenoner 1757 is a Graylab photo enlarger timer 1758 looks like a very elegant steel fencepost driver

LLoyd

[Lew Hodgett]

Mine gets used almost every time I cook.

Lew

[Dave Balderstone]

1754: Door bell?

1755: Rope braider?

[Steve W.]

1753 - Knife steel, used to smooth the cutting edge burr on a knife.

1754 -

1755 -

1756 -

1757 - Looks like a darkroom timer. Does it have a lever on the back switching it from 1 hour to 1 minute?

1758 - Looks like a forcible entry door ram. Ours isn't nearly as pretty though!

[Bill]

I was thinking just the opposite.

Bill

[David Nebenzahl]

On 10/22/2009 7:58 AM Bill spake thus:

The opposite of what? Do tell.

[David Nebenzahl]

On 10/22/2009 11:08 AM David Nebenzahl spake thus:

Ah, so; after someone else suggested this might be a doorbell, the light went off. What I thought were "cups" could be bells.

Still seems like an awkward, roundabout way to do it, though.

[Rich Grise]

The hand that's pointed at 57 takes one minute to go around, and the numbers are seconds. The hand that's at 7 is an hour all the way around, and each tick is one minute. IOW, it's minutes and seconds, 59:59 max. The knob in the middle turns the second hand to the # of seconds you want, and you set the "hour" hand to the # of minutes you want by moving it by that little tab bent forward at its end.

Cheers! Rich

[Bill]

Hmmm... a string-operated doorbell. What will they think of next? : )

[Rob H.]

It's not a doorbell, the rope in the front probably went to a foot pedal, steppiug on it would have brought the metal parts closer together. The base of it was most likely attached to a table or workbench.

Rob

[Swingman]

Pretty common state of affairs in England/Europe in the 1800's ... the bell strings, ropes and pulleys in a multi-story house look like our electrical rough-in's today.

[jeff_wisnia]

Yes, you sharpen knives with a stone and use the steel as you said. Done properly, it's a two step operation.

Jeff

[Bill]

It makes perfect sense..it's funny how you can evolved ideas for granted. The closest I got to learning anything like that in school was learning about the "dumb waiter". Do they still put "counter-weights" in new windows?

Bill