MYSTERY OBJECTS

[Gloria]

Ha Ha all my "other side" were mostly handloom weavers or bookmakers, but ah yes, there is the odd boiler-maker thrown in from the middle/late 1800's.

[EileenDavid]

Gloria you have earned your honorary engineers status Eileen

[Stanley]

Time for a clue, does this help?

[Stanley]

There's a deathly hush.... See if this helps.

[Stanley]

Well, you've either all lost interest or are totally baffled.... Another clue? Here's a view of the other side.....

[Gloria]

Could something be passed through and over the rack and then tightened by turning the pinion----- only a guess. Similar to the modern straps to hold the load on a lorry???

[Pluggy]

If I could hold the whole lot in my hands I could probably work out what it does, but no clue from here....

[Stanley]

The rack is important Gloria. One last clue I think. This does the same job for pipe but isn't as versatile....

[Gloria]

Pipe bender??

[Stanley]

Well done Glo! The one that has been troubling everyone is for bending bar, strip and wire as well as pipes.



This would have been the next clue, the accessories that go with the tool for dealing with different sections. But there you are... Now I have to think of another one I suppose.

[Stanley]

No offers? Ah well.... Try this one!

[David Whipp]

Glad I'm not taking a handful of them every morning... owt to do with peas?

[Gloria]

Either what David says or is it for moths?

[Cathy]

A ceramic tap washer ??

[hartley353]

I have some blocks of bee's wax like that.

[Stanley]

Gloria! I think you ought to post the next one! She's right again, it's a moth ball. I found out the other day that you can still buy them....
David, the tablets of bicarb for peas are usually a bit larger and flatter but I know why you went there.

[chinatyke]

it's a moth ball.

No wonder moths fly round and around if they have two of these.

[Gloria]

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[Wendyf]

I think its a Fordson/Ford, probably mid to late 70's, no idea what model.

[Stanley]

Ford new Major diesel tractor with front hydraulics for a loader?

[Gloria]

Not a Major and not a 70's, but yes they are the front hydraulics for a loader. But I am going to give you more time like Stanley to come up with model, make and year of tractor.

[Wendyf]

Is it a Ford 4000? Produced between 1962 & 1965.

[Gloria]

Near enough Wendy -- it's a Ford 3000 Super Dexta---my husbands favourite project.

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[Wendyf]

Looks lovely Gloria. We have three Internationals in various stages of decay which are projects for the future when Col eventually finishes working on the house. (Plus a flat bed trailer, a tipping trailer and a finger bar mower....all rotting gently whilst awaiting their turn.)

[Stanley]

I had decided Dexta but not the year before I saw Wendy's post. The seat gave it away and the bulge for the instruments. When I went farming in 1953 Lionel had a new Ford Major diesel, A Farmall super BMD diesel, A TVO David Brown Cropmaster and a TVO David Brown crawler. They'd all be classics now. Must be getting old! Glo, your husband might be interested to know that the first Major diesel had a surprising fault. It had a pneumatic control to the pump rod in the injector pump that ran off a venturi. There were reports that if you got them too warm on heavy work when you stopped them there was a danger of them running backwards and when they did the governor failed and they over-revved to destruction. Never saw one do it but that was the word at the time.
Right. Try this one. You've all seen them but what was the name they were usually called when first used for connecting air brakes on a wagon?