What is it? Set 489

[DoN. Nichols]

Might I suggest that you first try another search engine. My current preference is for one called DuckDuckGo which does not track you, and does not offer ads.

I noticed that the URLs in your previous postings were *very* long. I had the window widened to about 350 characters (in a double-monitor screen), and it still folded to one and a half lines. :-)

Sometimes, you can work around this by trimming off the very long first part of the Google url, and leaving just the actual URL of the site.

Good luck, DoN.

[Dr Nick]

They could indeed. I'm not sure if they are hollow (one of them looks to be open ended). If so, and the right size, they could be capillary pipe ends:

[j Burns]

Rats, I posted in last week's thread!

2846: The arms look spindly. I wonder if they're metal. Near the arms, there's a wide groove across the board on the side that would be up. I wonder if it's for slicing through something instead of cutting against the board. The last raised portion could serve as a visual gage to slice something into 1" pieces and drop them into a container about 24" in diameter. I've never seen a barrel of pickled eel.

2848: Are the push buttons electrical? There are mirror sundials. Perhaps XI is for the hour around 11 AM and the XII is for the hour around noon.

[DoN. Nichols]

I downloaded the image, and played with the gamma and I believe that dark face is just a case of the angle of illumination -- and perhaps even reflection of a dark area adjacent to the photo area.

If I had believed that the end was open, that it might be something like a very small percussion cap.

Enjoy, DoN.

[Rob H.]

I had sent the owner of them an email asking for the size but never heard back, maybe he is on the road.

Good answer! That's exactly what they are.

Thanks to everyone who identified the scope mount, we have a probable answer for the mirrors, and I'm still not sure about the other two mystery items:

Rob

[Rob H.]

The arms look like metal to me, since several people suggested it was a cutting board I sent an email to the owner asking if there are any knife marks on it, I'll post his reply when I get it.

The owner described the button as a simple buzzer so I would say that it's an electrical PB.

[Stormin Mormon]

Rob

[Artemus]

Hmmm. I thought about 2847 being some kind of anchor but rejected this as the wire ring securing the post to the plate would shear off too easily. Art

[Rob H.]

That's a good point, I still consider this one to be unsolved though sometimes I still post the most common guess, hopefully we'll get the definitive answer for it in the near future.

[Rob H.]

Pretty funny, btw I did hear back from the owner who sent the actual size of the copper crushers: Mean length, uncompressed .3998", Mean diameter, uncompressed .2260"

[Ralph]

2849 I can not go along with that being called a tooth. I have been a ag mechanic for 40 years and anyone in farming in the midwest calls them guards,knife guards or some are rock guards or stub guards (no top bar or point on them). If you look at any John Deere parts catalog you will only find guards, no tooth. Keep up the good work, I look forward to your pictures every week. Ralph

[Rob H.]

I guess you can tell that I'm not a farmer, I went ahead and changed my answer this morning to guard, it does sound like a more official name. Though there are plenty of hits on Google for both sickle bar mower teeth and sickle bar mower finger, I agree that guard is a better term for it.

Rob

[DoN. Nichols]

I considered that in my suggested answer, and said that if there were recesses in between the post and the barrel around it to allow concrete to flow in and set, this would make up for that.

Even wrenching down seriously on that large nut at the top could shear the wire ring without something else helping.

It would probably be strong enough if the load were intended to be a guy wire, pulling at an angle (say 45 degrees) instead of straight up. And the spread of the base would make that pretty likely.

A photo of it disassembled would help greatly.

Enjoy, DoN.

[DoN. Nichols]

O.K. Way too large for my second suggestion (the pin tumblers). Mean diameter would have to be closer to 0.100" for that to work. Good thing that I made that the second guess -- based on other criteria. :-)

Thanks, DoN.

[Stormin Mormon]

O.K. Way too large for my second suggestion (the pin tumblers). Mean diameter would have to be closer to 0.100" for that to work. Good thing that I made that the second guess -- based on other criteria. :-)

Thanks, DoN.