O.K. Well, when you can. :-)
Posting from Rec.crafts.metalworking as always. Where are you all posting from, since this appears on three newsgroups.
2983) Hmm ... if it were smaller and had four pins in line, and had wires connected to each pin, I would know what it is for.As it is -- I think that it is intended to hold some fairly soft (like meat or potatos) sample for some kind of testing.
Obviously, the points are replaceable, and can be adjusted so both make contact at the same time with a flat surface.
2984) Maybe for digging some plants out by the roots. I don't know. 2985) Either the "cents" part of an old (pre electronic) cash register, or flags used to price produce in bins.I find it hard to imagine that a cash register would be designed to require 100 flags like this. It should have separate flags for the tens of cents and the units of cents. But I guess that one could have been made like this at one time.
Aha! Perhaps setting price flags in gasoline pumps -- again, pre-electronics.
Too small to be the price set on signs visible from the street.
2986) Does that blade pivot in the vertical part, or is it fixed for pounding on something? The notch sort of looks like a wire stripper, but not quite right, depending on what the other side looks like.If the blade pivots, it is a lever to adjust the height of something.
2987) I guess that this is one of those common things which I don't normally handle. :-) 2988) Pulley for leather belt drive. Given the size, I think that it might go between a steam tractor as a power source and a large circular saw as in a sawmill.The crowning is to keep the belt centered. It tends to run to the highest part of the crown.
And one this size is a bit too heavy to do from cast iron as many of them were.
Now to post and then see what others have suggested.
Enjoy, DoN.