MYSTERY OBJECTS

[Big Kev]

You gave a big clue that it was in the news recently

[Stanley]

What (exactly!) are we looking at here....

[Tizer]

Rope for one of Brunel's ships?

[Steeplejerk]

Flywheel/roperace ropes think the company was from Dukinfield

[Stanley]

Tom's memory has served him well. Cotton driving rope for export. Most likely made by Kenyons in Dukinfield.
So we need a new object.

[Stanley]

What is it?

[Steeplejerk]

Putting a groove in metal

[Stanley]

That's what it does Tom but what is it?

[Steeplejerk]

Tin cans ??

[plaques]

To make the wiring bead on sheet metal. The wire is inserted in the groove then the edge is formed round it. Don't know the name of tool I'll offer up 'Bead Former' . My brother was a sheet metal worker old style.

[Stanley]

You all have it of course but I'm trying to dig out the name it was given as I think it's important we remember these things. The name is 'A tinners Jenny'. Jenny is a corruption of engine, see 'spinning Jenny' for another example.
Right, give me another object.

[Stanley]

What is it?

[plaques]

I know but will keep my mouth shut because I don't have the next object.

[Stanley]

[Cathy]

An early jar opener

[plaques]

This is my deluxe model.

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[Big Kev]

Ball joint separater?

[Stanley]

Sorry, only Ken has it up to now.....(He's dead right......)

[Stanley]

Tell them Ken, nobody is going to get it. I can't find my heavy duty model, I must have lost it somewhere down the road.....

[Stanley]

There it is in the top left hand corner hung on a nail with the fan belts. This is 45 years ago in the workshop at Hey Farm. (This was an early iteration of today's playroom....)

[Big Kev]

Valve spring compressor.

[plaques]

Kev's got it. To be more exact a valve spring compressor for side valve engines.

Now a bit of and odd one, can anyone throw any light on this object. about three quarters of an inch diameter.

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[Tizer]

Are we looking vertically down on 9 glass tubes or valves?

[Stanley]

Or is it the head of a cutter for very hard material, like granite.....

[plaques]

Tizer's on the right track. Nine glass thingies but what are they.