What's going on here?
MYSTERY OBJECTS
- Stanley
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Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS
Coincidence Ian, that will be a mains connection.

What's going on here?
What's going on here?
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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
Looks like trains on a boat?
Gloria
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Now an Honorary Chief Engineer who'd be dangerous with a brain!!!
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Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS
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!
Now I shall have to think of another object!
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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? (Canon isn't good enough!

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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
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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
No takers?
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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
Or model thereof..... Exactly right Kev. You lot are getting too knowledgeable!
Now we need another object.
Now we need another object.
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
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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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"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
It looks like a telescopic aerial re-purposed, (commercially) into a pocket expanding pointing device for lecture purposes.
Ian
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Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS
Sorry Ian but no. You're right about the telescopic bit....
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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
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!
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!
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!
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Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS
Re-purposed twice then. I know Johnny Howell who taught us at Burnley college 50 odd years ago used one for pointing purposes.

Ian
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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
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 weight for perhaps a clock?
Or a balance weight for a sash window?
Or a balance weight for a sash window?
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
Too easy wasn't it Gloria. You were right, a clock weight.
Now we need another object.
Now we need another object.
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!
Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS
What can you tell me about this?
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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
I feel as though I ought to know but nothing is coming to me. Looks like a good one Gloria!
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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
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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
Looks like part of a rivet gun 


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Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS
No not part of a rivet gun.
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
- Stanley
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Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS
Is it the nozzle of an oiler?
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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
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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 Stanley it isn’t. Nothing to do with any liquid.
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
I stared at it until my eyes hurt. Nothing! I give up..... 

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!
Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS
Try it from this angle
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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