MYSTERY OBJECTS

[Big Kev]

[Big Kev]

How about this one?

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[Stanley]

God knows, it reminds me of the old TV test transmission. Something like that?

[Big Kev]

I'll give you a clue. Calibration.

[Steeplejerk]

Is it something to do with printing

[Stanley]

IS IT for calibrating the definition of digital lenses?

[Big Kev]

That'll do it. It's for calibrating auto focus lenses. You focus on the QR code and take a pic. You can then check, against the number scale, if the lens is focusing in the correct place and adjust if necessary. All of my lenses needed a 'tweak' to get them spot on.

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[Gloria]

Wouldn’t have got that in a month of Sundays……..good one.

[Stanley]

Can you tell me exactly what we are looking at?

[PanBiker]

Looks like a piece of a safe.

[plaques]

A tool box lid. A Jonny Pickles bespoke box. Moore & Wright had fewer drawers.

[Stanley]

Not a safe Ian.
Ken, sorry no but there is a Johnny Pickles connection.....

[Steeplejerk]

A mould for something

[Tizer]

Was it to frame a photo of Johnny Pickles?

[Gloria]

Looks like a panel out of a door.

[Stanley]

You're on the right lines Gloria. think closure rather than door. You've met it before in shed matters.

[Big Kev]

An access hatch cover from a boiler?

[Stanley]

You'#re getting close. It's a lid..... but what for? Clue. made in Barlick by Johnny at Henry Brown and Son,

[Wendyf]

The Riley St Chapel clock?

[Stanley]

No sorry. Clue..... When Johnny was foreman at Henry Brown and Sons he designed and they made donkey engines at the Havre Park foundry. This was a survivor and Newton used it as a surface plate until I gave him a proper one, he gave this to me. But what is it?

[Gloria]

The base the boiler sat on?

[Stanley]

Sorry Gloria but no. Last Clue!

[Stanley]

I'll knock it on the head today.....

[Steeplejerk]

Engine bed

[Stanley]

No.... Think lids and look at that engine....