What is it? Set 404

2339 - Fertilizer (or lime) spreader

Contact printer for old syle pictures looks homemade.

Dave

2336 -

2338 -

2340 - old version of a live trap?

basilisk

deep borders without having to stand in them.

Sonny

Bill

Bill

Posting from Rec.crafts.metalworking as always.

A contact printer for large negatives. (I'm not sure whether this one will handle 5x7" negatives, but at least 4x5" ones. Looks like 4x5", based on the scale which is actually calibrated in half-inches to allow a centered size. It can also be used for smaller negatives, though contacts for 35mm negatives are rather unsatisfying. :-) 2-1/4x3-1/2" is reasonable. the 2-1/4x1-7/8" ones which came from one of my early cameras were marginal as contact prints.

You place the negative on the glass, emulsion side up.

You adjust the vanes to crop it to the part of the image you want.

You place the photographic paper (which is insensitive to red light over the negative.) (Actually, later Pollycontrast papers were a bit sensitive to the red light, but this predates the Pollycontrast papers by quite a bit.)

You close the lid, and count off the seconds (Ideally, you would have it plugged into a darkroom timer, which would allow you to switch it full on for the setup, turn it off, and then to run a timed exposure with the white light to expose the photo paper.)

Then you open it, take the paper, and put it in the series of processing chemicals, wash it, and dry it (usually emulsion down on a ferrotype plate to give a glossy finish).

At a guess -- for unclogging sewer drains and the like, or for breaking up compacting manure.

However, in the stationary position, perhaps it is part of a setup to separate wheat and chaff. The heavier wheat would go out to a ring container, and the chaff might fall straight down.

Seeing the underside of the lower part could help to tell.

Or perhaps something to do with grain -- especially since it appears to be beside the previous item.

Now to post, and then see what others have suggested.

Enjoy, DoN.

Looks like this is correct, thanks to everyone who answered it.

Nailed it.

Good answer, that's what the tag on it said that it was.

I didn't take any photos of it directly, I noticed it in my photo since it was next to the fish trap, so I don't have any other views of it. There's a tag on it that might give the answer but I didn't pay much attention to it since I was focused on the trap.

Rob

I need some help with two of the items this week:

Steve R.

bottom one was for cedar shingles.

According to the owner they are ice chippers, though they do look sort of like shingle tools.

No luck yet identifying number 2339 but the rest of the answers can be seen here: