What is it? Set 525

[Jim Wilkins]

Pencil is fine where floating graphite dust won't short out vacuum-tube circuits.

[Dan Coby]

It is also a lighter.

Dan

[woodchucker]

3065 Looks like a Ligher pen... lighter in one end, and pen in the other.

[Rob H.]

Correct, it's called a Penciliter.

[Rob H.]

That's it, for use in laboratories.

[Mark Brader]

3062 - I am reminded of dialogue from the movie "The Rocketeer":

"How do I look?" "Like a hood ornament."

I think it *is* a hood ornament, but one that also serves as a thermometer for engine temperature.

3063 - Aircraft navigation aid, the sort of thing they used before radio-based navigation was available.

[Leon]

I suspect that temp gauge actually sets on top of the radiator.

[Dr Nick]

I'm sure you're right - I was using "engine" in its widest sense!

[DoN. Nichols]

Posting from the usenet newsgroup rec.crafts.metalworking as always. Which newsgroup are *you* finding this in of the three to which these puzzles are cross-posted?

3061) Hmm ... nicely made brass or bronze work.

The thumbscrew adjusts the friction between the arms of the 'X', and presumably also the friction which allows them to rotate.

It could be something like a spool for paying out string, or perhaps a tool for transferring angles.

I would like a better look at the details of the interconnection of the arms -- and of course this one does not happen to have larger images offered. :-)

3062) This one is a temperature gauge built into a radiator cap from the time when the radiator cap protruded above the hood of a car.

I don't know whether this may also include a pressure gauge, and I don't see any signs of this in the patent drawings.

It also includes a logo for the car maker. I'm not sure who, but I suspect that it is not the Rolls Royce "Winged lady".

3063) Some sort of directional sign poured from concrete. Not sure why it is there -- pointing to some kind of historical marker or something similar, perhaps?

And it may be large enough to be easily seen from the air.

3064) Based on a recent item, I would say that this is some kind of universal tool for a wagon-maker or to be carried for on-the-road repairs to a wagon. The center has the same kind of square drive which is used for the hub nut in a wagon wheel, which is recessed inside the hub. Aside from that -- it has two sizes of square wrenches, an nipper/wire cutter on the side, another wire cutter between the square wrench jaws, perhaps a re-threading feature in the end, not sure why one of the handles is bent, but it may simply be a limit to how far you can close it.

O.K. Given the winged thumbnut to close it I guess that it is a limit for the stroke.

3065) Not enough views to really tell, but I think that it might be a combination of a pen and a cigarette lighter.

Or, it may be that there is a sharp hardened point, and it is struck by a mechanism when the pocket clip lever is operated.

3066) Now -- *this* one I am sure about. It is a a sharpener for a set of cork borers, used in a chemistry lab to make holes through corks to pass glass tubing through. You slide the end of the brass tubing over the tapered body, hold the edge of the hinged knife blade against it, and rotate it to put a fresh edge on the bevel.

The borers are stored nested -- and each has a T-handle at the end opposite the cutting end.

There is also a solid rod stored in the smallest one, to push the cut out cork out of whichever size you just used.

Now to post and then see what others have suggested.

Enjoy, DoN.

[DoN. Nichols]

Looks like it has the ability to turn the hub nuts on wagon wheels, like the tool which was purely for that purpose in a recent puzzle.

I was at first thinking of a spring loaded center punch, but now believe that it was for shattering tempered glass windshields as a rescue tool.

Absolutely not. Cork borer set sharpener. I've got one somewhere.

Enjoy, DoN.

[DoN. Nichols]

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So -- my earlier guess was right, instead of the spring-loaded center punch as a windshield remover which I just posted. :-)

Enjoy, DoN.

[Rob H.]

They have all been correctly identified this week, the answers can be seen here:

Rob

[Stormin Mormon]

Thanks. I look forward to the post with the answers, one of these days. I enjoy these.

[Lloyd E. Sponenburgh]

Stormin Mormon fired this volley in news:LJIvu.73417$ [e-mail]:

Done been & gone, Stormy. You gotta be quick!

Just go to his site, and look at the answers.

Lloyd

[Stormin Mormon]

Not done. Rob always puts the word "ANSWERS" in the subject line.

[Lloyd E. Sponenburgh]

Stormin Mormon fired this volley in news:C6Kvu.106364$ [e-mail]:

He did. It was - I think - yesterday. Let me check the wayback.

Lloyd

[Lloyd E. Sponenburgh]

"Lloyd E. Sponenburgh" fired this volley in news:XnsA2A4D2BBA1253lloydspmindspringcom@216.168.3.70:

Here it is... yesterday:

Subject: Re: What is it? Set 525 From: Rob H. Newsgroups: rec.puzzles,rec.crafts.metalworking,rec.woodworking

They have all been correctly identified this week, the answers can be seen here:

Rob

[Stormin Mormon]

Funny. That doesn't say answers, in the subject line. Rob always puts "answers" in the subject line.

[Lloyd E. Sponenburgh]

Stormin Mormon fired this volley in news:sNVvu.77500$ [e-mail]:

Me? I look for the above.

Lloyd

[Rob H.]

Except when I forget, I'll try to remember it next time.