OneGuyFromBarlick

For peeling or segmenting fruit?

For scoring something like a pizza or orange peel before serving?

No but you are both in the right area. It has a very specific use.

There is a clue in the picture.

A chestnut skin splitter prior roasting.

plaques wrote: ↑17 Nov 2020, 22:00 A chestnut skin splitter prior roasting.

No.

Is it for cleaning the groove out on the nut?

It would be handy for pressing keypads when shopping to avoid the virus. Could be a stone age plastic arrow head. Scraping excess makeup off after a night out, I give in.

Chestnut peeler? Does it clip on the thumb?

I've got to give it to Gloria. It is spoon shaped and is for scooping out the chestnuts, but the other side has a small serrated edge that I'm guessing is for removing the skins. It came with the chestnuts. We get free skin peelers/cutters, like Maz and Stanley suggested, but they are different.

Actually Gloria may be right, it could be spoon-shaped to accommodate the thumb and just a skin peeler and not a scoop.

plaques wrote: ↑18 Nov 2020, 08:50 It would be handy for pressing keypads when shopping to avoid the virus.

I have a widget just for that, also useful for pulling open doors Now, just for fun, what's the '2000' for that's also on my key ring?

A crown cork bottle opener in the days before cans. Or a thingy for taking stones out of horses hoofs?

Is it a Millenium Bug keyring?

Plaques got it

If you carry that in your trouser pocket I'll bet it wears them out quickly!

And I wouldn’t want to meet him down a dark alley. Hehe

What is it?

Looks like a plumber's mat for protecting surrounding stuff when soldering pipe joints.

I think we have had this before.

Cathy wrote: ↑19 Nov 2020, 13:46 I think we have had this before.

I know we've had it before but the trouble is I can't remember what it was for.

chinatyke wrote: ↑19 Nov 2020, 14:48 Cathy wrote: ↑19 Nov 2020, 14:46
I think we have had this before.
I know we've had it before but the trouble is I can't remember what it was for.

And it was you that finally got it.

Plumbers soldered joint wipe.

An oil lamp wick?

Gas lamp mantle

Hee hee. All good responses but Wendy sneaked up on all of you , it's a new wick for a brooder lamp with a big burner. I once bought a fist-full for the Ellenroad Engine.



Here's the crosshead. If you follow the pipe from the lubricator you'll see it goes to a circular object hanging in the track of the crosshead. This is a piece of thick wick like our mystery object. The hole for the lubrication of the crosshead bearing had a cup with a flat plate mounted on the top which brushed the wick each time it passed it. As it did it picked up a drop of oil which drained into the cup below and from there into the crosshead pin. You needed to know that!
Next object please....

plaques wrote: ↑19 Nov 2020, 19:38

chinatyke wrote: ↑19 Nov 2020, 14:48 Cathy wrote: ↑19 Nov 2020, 14:46
I think we have had this before.
I know we've had it before but the trouble is I can't remember what it was for.

And it was you that finally got it.

Was it really? That's the beauty of Alzheimer's, I experience new things every day.