MYSTERY OBJECTS
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Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS
What is it?
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The floggings will continue until morale improves!
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The floggings will continue until morale improves!
Old age isn't for cissies!
Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS
Is it a removal spanner for lifting the knee on a milling machine, bit of a long shot?
Gloria
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Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS
No Gloria.... Sorry!
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"Beware of certitude" (Jimmy Reid)
The floggings will continue until morale improves!
Old age isn't for cissies!
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"Beware of certitude" (Jimmy Reid)
The floggings will continue until morale improves!
Old age isn't for cissies!
Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS
No - It's for winding us up with . . .
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Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS
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Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS
Ken has it. You have to be a certain age to recognise the CI spanner that came with iron bedsteads for erecting them.....
Next one?
Next one?
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"Beware of certitude" (Jimmy Reid)
The floggings will continue until morale improves!
Old age isn't for cissies!
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"Beware of certitude" (Jimmy Reid)
The floggings will continue until morale improves!
Old age isn't for cissies!
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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!
Old age isn't for cissies!
Stanley's View
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"Beware of certitude" (Jimmy Reid)
The floggings will continue until morale improves!
Old age isn't for cissies!
Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS
Is it for filling with some sort of oil, and burning.
I know I'm in my own little world, but it's OK... they know me here.
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Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS
Very close Cathy but sorry, no.
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"Beware of certitude" (Jimmy Reid)
The floggings will continue until morale improves!
Old age isn't for cissies!
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"Beware of certitude" (Jimmy Reid)
The floggings will continue until morale improves!
Old age isn't for cissies!
Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS
Is it for Incense
I know I'm in my own little world, but it's OK... they know me here.
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Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS
No Cathy, much more mundane.....
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"Beware of certitude" (Jimmy Reid)
The floggings will continue until morale improves!
Old age isn't for cissies!
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"Beware of certitude" (Jimmy Reid)
The floggings will continue until morale improves!
Old age isn't for cissies!
Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS
Don’t tell me it’s for candles, I can’t see how it could be secured.
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Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS
Sorry, Neither of you is getting any warmer.....
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"Beware of certitude" (Jimmy Reid)
The floggings will continue until morale improves!
Old age isn't for cissies!
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scg1936 at talktalk.net
"Beware of certitude" (Jimmy Reid)
The floggings will continue until morale improves!
Old age isn't for cissies!
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Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS
Is it for dripping oil into or onto something?
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Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS
In a way Wendy but not the way you are thinking. Lubricating is the way to go!
Stanley Challenger Graham
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scg1936 at talktalk.net
"Beware of certitude" (Jimmy Reid)
The floggings will continue until morale improves!
Old age isn't for cissies!
Stanley's View
scg1936 at talktalk.net
"Beware of certitude" (Jimmy Reid)
The floggings will continue until morale improves!
Old age isn't for cissies!
Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS
Is it for storing spills?
Gloria
Now an Honorary Chief Engineer who'd be dangerous with a brain!!!
http://www.briercliffesociety.co.uk
http://www.lfhhs.org.uk
Now an Honorary Chief Engineer who'd be dangerous with a brain!!!
http://www.briercliffesociety.co.uk
http://www.lfhhs.org.uk
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Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS
Stick to oiling!
Stanley Challenger Graham
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"Beware of certitude" (Jimmy Reid)
The floggings will continue until morale improves!
Old age isn't for cissies!
Stanley's View
scg1936 at talktalk.net
"Beware of certitude" (Jimmy Reid)
The floggings will continue until morale improves!
Old age isn't for cissies!
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Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS
I'm quite surprised, you have had this twice before and I was sure you'd get it quickly.
Get back to oiling!
Get back to oiling!
Stanley Challenger Graham
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scg1936 at talktalk.net
"Beware of certitude" (Jimmy Reid)
The floggings will continue until morale improves!
Old age isn't for cissies!
Stanley's View
scg1936 at talktalk.net
"Beware of certitude" (Jimmy Reid)
The floggings will continue until morale improves!
Old age isn't for cissies!
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Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS
Described as a feather oiler the last time it made an appearance
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Because a feather was what was used to transfer the oil. Now please tell me who used it and where.....
Stanley Challenger Graham
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scg1936 at talktalk.net
"Beware of certitude" (Jimmy Reid)
The floggings will continue until morale improves!
Old age isn't for cissies!
Stanley's View
scg1936 at talktalk.net
"Beware of certitude" (Jimmy Reid)
The floggings will continue until morale improves!
Old age isn't for cissies!
Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS
a conical tinplate oil holder that hung on the loom frame with a feather in it for transferring the oil.
Kev
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Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS
Exactly right Kev.....
Now for the next one......
Funny thing is I went for a furtle through my weaving pics and can't find a pic of a feather oiler on a loom. They were thin on the ground evidently at Bancroft. Most weavers had a Marvel dried milk tin with a hole punched through the lid for the feather....
Now for the next one......
Funny thing is I went for a furtle through my weaving pics and can't find a pic of a feather oiler on a loom. They were thin on the ground evidently at Bancroft. Most weavers had a Marvel dried milk tin with a hole punched through the lid for the feather....
Stanley Challenger Graham
Stanley's View
scg1936 at talktalk.net
"Beware of certitude" (Jimmy Reid)
The floggings will continue until morale improves!
Old age isn't for cissies!
Stanley's View
scg1936 at talktalk.net
"Beware of certitude" (Jimmy Reid)
The floggings will continue until morale improves!
Old age isn't for cissies!