MYSTERY OBJECTS

[Stanley]

Coincidence Ian, that will be a mains connection.



What's going on here?

[Gloria]

Looks like trains on a boat?

[Stanley]

I think I have to give it you Gloria. What I really wanted you to say was that it is a cross channel train ferry from the days when you could get on a train for say Paris and the whole train was shipped across the channel and went forward on continental lines. But what you say is quite correct.
Now I shall have to think of another object!

[Stanley]

What is it? (Canon isn't good enough! )

[Stanley]

No takers?

[Big Kev]

A carronade at the former Carron Works?

[Stanley]

Or model thereof..... Exactly right Kev. You lot are getting too knowledgeable!
Now we need another object.

[Stanley]

What is it?

[PanBiker]

It looks like a telescopic aerial re-purposed, (commercially) into a pocket expanding pointing device for lecture purposes.

[Steeplejerk]

Telescopic magnet I think

[Stanley]

Sorry Ian but no. You're right about the telescopic bit....

[Stanley]

Tom came in with the right answer as I was typing that!
You're right Tom a powerful little magnet on the end of a telescopic rod. A very hand bit of kit. I have used t it so many times to get me out of sticky corners.
Now we need another object!

[PanBiker]

Re-purposed twice then. I know Johnny Howell who taught us at Burnley college 50 odd years ago used one for pointing purposes.

[Stanley]

What is it?

[Gloria]

A weight for perhaps a clock?
Or a balance weight for a sash window?

[Stanley]

Too easy wasn't it Gloria. You were right, a clock weight.
Now we need another object.

[Gloria]

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What can you tell me about this?

[Stanley]

I feel as though I ought to know but nothing is coming to me. Looks like a good one Gloria!

[Steeplejerk]

Looks like part of a rivet gun

[Gloria]

No not part of a rivet gun.

[Stanley]

Is it the nozzle of an oiler?

[Gloria]

No Stanley it isn’t. Nothing to do with any liquid.

[Stanley]

I stared at it until my eyes hurt. Nothing! I give up.....

[Gloria]

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Try it from this angle

[PanBiker]

Is it a spool carrier for tying fishing flies?