One of the items in this week's set could be considered to be appropriate for today's date:
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One of the items in this week's set could be considered to be appropriate for today's date:
Am 01.04.2010 10:50, schrieb Rob H.:
1891Is a drum-magazine for a sub-machinegun, prob. cal. .45ACP
regards from .de Walter
"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
1891- drum magazine- tommygun?
1896- fingerprint comparator.
Dave
Rob H. wrote:
yep, beat me to it. Lookslike it went on the thompson submachine gun.
Here is a picture to the modern version of that magazine.
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
1894--looks like it could be an ancestor of the common pencil! : )
Bill
1892: Pounded by a blacksmith over an anvil to help sever (hot) metal rod?
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.
1894 -1895 -
1896 - photo comparison tool?1891) I believe this to be a drum magazine for a Thompson submachine gun.
O.K. Now I'm *sure*. See:
and in particular:
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.
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
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:
Maybe 1892 is a predecessor to Starretts' Wire Gauge (model #281, etc). Sorry if this has already been guessed.
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