MYSTERY OBJECTS

catgate · Post by **catgate** » 08 Nov 2012, 13:18

Tizer wrote:Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS

Post Author: Tizer » Thu Nov 08, 2012 11:10 am
I think Catgate would have replied to the last two mystery objects with `ruler'!

I have not replied to most of the above items because they are not particularly "mystery".( In fact I have several of the engineering items featured and more.) Most items have been items which are of specialist use and thus are uncommon, but certainly not "Mystery".

Post by **Stanley** » 10 Nov 2012, 06:36

Catty, so I'm wasting my time.... Surprising how many people open this topic. Of course they are mysteries if you don't know what they are!
Bodge has got it , its the adapter for holding collets in the nose of the lathe and yes there is a draw bolt that goes with them. Collets are used for holding specific sizes of round stock for turning, especially in repetition work. Their virtue is that they always hold the rod perfectly central. Try this one, but if you know it, please speculate on how it got there.

Post by **Pluggy** » 10 Nov 2012, 09:33

Its an old vice with the handle missing. It was bolted to a younger tree to secure it, and the tree grew around it.

Post by **Tizer** » 10 Nov 2012, 11:12

Sometimes when you try to fell an old garden tree such as a cherry the saw hits metal in the centre of the trunk - the metal rod or pipe that the owner used as a stake when the tree began to get loosened by the wind. The tree has to be sawn off above the stake (guesswork!) and the remaining trunk might stay there for many years, covered in ivy or clematis. Don't be surprised if you hit metal in a tree and find it's a coin - some people like to go around knocking coins edgewise into trees!

Post by **Stanley** » 11 Nov 2012, 06:07

You're right of course. It used to be at the corner where Forty Steps meets the path down the side of Clough Mill Dam in Ouzledale. It's a blacksmith's vice and I have always wondered why it was there. A rag and bone man called Brydon had a 'marine store' by the side of the dam that serves Ouzledale and it's quite likely that the vice dates back to that time. Now I'll have to look for another MYSTERY for you! This one is too easy....

Post by **Wendyf** » 11 Nov 2012, 08:01

At last, one that isn't a mystery to me! It's a spring balance. (I think)

Post by **Gloria** » 11 Nov 2012, 08:55

I'm with Wendy on this.

Post by **PostmanPete** » 11 Nov 2012, 11:14

It looks like the sort of weighing scales that fishermen use...?

Post by **PanBiker** » 11 Nov 2012, 11:21

I will hazard a guess that it may well be made by Salter.

Post by **Stanley** » 12 Nov 2012, 05:59

Well done Ladies! You got there first. German actually and it's a spring balance that weighs up to 28lbs. Try this one....

Post by **David Whipp** » 12 Nov 2012, 07:54

Useful for a flagellant?

Post by **PostmanPete** » 12 Nov 2012, 09:28

David Whipp wrote:Useful for a flagellant?

I reckon you'd be 50 shades of beetroot if you tried that...!

Post by **Bodger** » 12 Nov 2012, 09:40

Lubrication chain, and no it's not written in reverse

Post by **Stanley** » 13 Nov 2012, 05:19

Nowhere near yet lads. Comrade Nolic has seen these......

Post by **Nolic** » 13 Nov 2012, 06:48

Has he? Nolic

Post by **Stanley** » 13 Nov 2012, 07:52

Almost certainly, think back to the days when we had a textile industry.

Post by **Wendyf** » 13 Nov 2012, 08:17

Is it a collection of chains that held batches of samples? My dad was in the timber trade and samples of Formica etc were all on similar little chains.

Post by **Gloria** » 13 Nov 2012, 08:58

Just guessing here---was it used underneath some moving part and was dragged along to clean something??

Post by **Stanley** » 13 Nov 2012, 10:06

Don't think of them as a bunch. Consider what individual chains could be used for.

Post by **Nolic** » 13 Nov 2012, 13:43

Were they used by cutlookers? Nolic

Post by **Gloria** » 13 Nov 2012, 16:00

Is it for chain-mail??

Post by **Stanley** » 14 Nov 2012, 04:44

Sorry, you haven't got there yet but Comrade Nolic is in the right place, the mill. A proper mystery?

Post by **Nolic** » 14 Nov 2012, 07:05

No idea. Nolic

Post by **Stanley** » 14 Nov 2012, 07:57

I think I'd better come clean... They are heald chains used to suspend certain sorts of specialised healds instead af the strings used in sheds weaving ordinary cloth like Bancroft. Ernie Roberts gave them to me and told me what they were. Right, we need another...

Dead simple? Not quite what it seems, look carefully....

Post by **Pluggy** » 14 Nov 2012, 08:31

A glove you can wear on either hand. Possibly so that when the palm side gets worn you swap hands and have a relatively new palm side ?