MYSTERY OBJECTS
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Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS
Both answers correctRamsbottom paper mill 1938ish
Work,the curse of the drinking class (oscar wilde)
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Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS
What is it?
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Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS
Curses! Dead right Tom......
What is it?
What is it?
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"Beware of certitude" (Jimmy Reid)
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Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS
Insert holder for a wood turning lathe?
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Sorry no Gloria but you're right about it being a tool for use with a lathe. It was for a specialised job. You've seen it before.....
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Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS
Is it a special parting off tool?
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Well done Ian, you remembered! Quite right and a very rare tool.
Next one?
Next one?
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What is this
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Gloria
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Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS
Is it for twisting individual strings into cord?
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Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS
That’ll do Stanley, it’s a rope making machine. See below.
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Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS
Thanks Gloria!
Now we need another.....
Now we need another.....
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What is it?
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"Beware of certitude" (Jimmy Reid)
The floggings will continue until morale improves!
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"Beware of certitude" (Jimmy Reid)
The floggings will continue until morale improves!
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Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS
Sorry but no Tom. Stick with electrical though.......
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The floggings will continue until morale improves!
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"Beware of certitude" (Jimmy Reid)
The floggings will continue until morale improves!
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Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS
It's a Leyden Jar if I remember my basic electrical training in Physics at secondary school.
Ian
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Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS
I think you're right Ian but this example has a different name.
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I only have knowledge of standard accepted units.
If it looks like pig and grunts like pig, it probably is one!
If it looks like pig and grunts like pig, it probably is one!
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Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS
Strange but this contradiction could warrant re posting Constitutional Peasants.
Ian
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It is described in the article I found it in as the Baghdad Battery.
(LINK)
(LINK)
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Tenuous link there then with Constitutional Peasants as the King bloke was on his way to the Crusades.
Go on then, good enough excuse, I'm Dennis:
Go on then, good enough excuse, I'm Dennis:
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Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS
What is it?
Stanley Challenger Graham
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scg1936 at talktalk.net
"Beware of certitude" (Jimmy Reid)
The floggings will continue until morale improves!
Stanley's View
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"Beware of certitude" (Jimmy Reid)
The floggings will continue until morale improves!
Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS
A large set of feeler gauges?
Gloria
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Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS
I can see why you thought that Gloria. No, not feeler gauges but a set of something!
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The floggings will continue until morale improves!
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"Beware of certitude" (Jimmy Reid)
The floggings will continue until morale improves!