What is it? Set 330

One of the items in this week's set could be considered to be appropriate for today's date:

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Rob H.
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Am 01.04.2010 10:50, schrieb Rob H.:

1891

Is a drum-magazine for a sub-machinegun, prob. cal. .45ACP

regards from .de Walter

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news.arcor.de
1896 From the background, I'll guess this is a Police ID machine, to take mug-shots and finger-prints.

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Alexander Thesoso

"Rob H." fired this volley in news: snipped-for-privacy@news7.newsguy.com:

1894 might be one of a number of Appalachian "idiot stick" jokes. 1895 looks like a "sex pendulum" for determining the sex of an unborn child (or chicken egg). To-and-fro, male; circles, female.

LLoyd

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Lloyd E. Sponenburgh

1891- drum magazine- tommygun?

1896- fingerprint comparator.

Dave

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Dave__67
1891 Film holder? 1892 not sure 1893 Part of a CAT Earth Moving Tractor? 1894 Early Cotter Pin? 1895 Plumb Bob? 1896 BETA video player for Law enforcement?

Rob H. wrote:

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Michael Kenefick

yep, beat me to it. Lookslike it went on the thompson submachine gun.

Here is a picture to the modern version of that magazine.

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Lee Michaels

Nope, this one actually has a function.

Correct, it was sold as a chicken egg tester but it didn't work as advertised. Basically a quack device, this is the one that I was alluding to in my OP.

Rob

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Rob H.

1894--looks like it could be an ancestor of the common pencil! : )

Bill

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Bill

1892: Pounded by a blacksmith over an anvil to help sever (hot) metal rod?

Bill

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Bill

1891 - Thompson 50 round drum magazine. The wing handle is used to wind the internal spring. 1892 -

1893 - Looks like a bogie link from a rubber tracked excavator.

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1896 - photo comparison tool?
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Steve W.

1891) I believe this to be a drum magazine for a Thompson submachine gun.

O.K. Now I'm *sure*. See:

and in particular:

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which suggests that this is a 39 round "XL" magazine, not the larger 50 round drum.

1892) Looks like combs for neatly running three wires parallel.

I've never seen them in person, so I'm just guessing that such existed somewhen.

1893) From the size and the color, I suspect that this is a link for something in earthmoving equipment, perhaps a bulldozer to allow tilting the blade.

1894) For running wire into a groove. Made as a field repair part after seeing the ones used in the factory I suspect.

1895) The shape looks like a bullet -- perhaps about .30 cal, based on the scaling from the length. However, this seems too long for normal muzzle velocities. The cross-drilled tail is to turn it into a key chain decoration. The material is wrong, though it might have been a normal bullet which was chrome plated for the decorative function indicated by the cross-drilling.

1896) This one looks like a the monitors for a CAD workstation, but I don't see the keyboard, mouse, or digitizing tablet.

It looks to have a coin slot, which might suggest that it is really used for photocopying in a library. Hmm ... perhaps a microfiche or microfilm reader with the ability to make copies of individual pages, which would suggest a library for technical purposes.

Now to see what others have suggested.

Enjoy, DoN.

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DoN. Nichols

Reading this, as I do, in a text-based newsreader on a text console (yes, the 80s called, they want their internet back), perhaps we need a "what is it?" quiz where we're given the name of the object and then have to work out what it really is. I'll start:

1) "Sex pendulum"

Phil

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Phil Carmody

No verifiable answer yet for the forked tool, I think we have the right general answer for the large yellow part but I haven't been able to nail down its exact use, the rest of them have been answered correctly:

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Rob H.

Maybe 1892 is a predecessor to Starretts' Wire Gauge (model #281, etc). Sorry if this has already been guessed.

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Bill

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