MYSTERY OBJECTS

[David Whipp]

It's quite small; for splitting slate? (Feels like I'm getting colder, though.)

[Gloria]

For dressing stone???

[plaques]

Short stubby ones where the type used by blacksmiths. The chisel being held captive by the grooves in the side.?

[Stanley]

Time to put you out of your misery I think. It's a punch for marking 'WASTE' on, I should imagine, wood. It would be destructive to hit it hard enough to mark anything harder.
Next for shaving?

[Stanley]

Try this one for size. This is really hard so here are a couple of clues; made from pot hard steel and they came in a variety of sizes.

[Stanley]

No offers? If there are none today I'll come clean. Another clue, think about expanding boiler tubes into the tube plate.....

[Tripps]

No photo - but what was this mystery vehicle?

I was overtaken, very vigorously, yesterday on the way to Cambridge, by a huge black Chelsea tractor. It whizzed up to the next vehicle brakes sharply, the overtook it on a bend. I note the personalised plate said "SIX FF". No issue of low self esteem here.

I know who I think it was, but purely circumstantial. Google reveals only that a certain party escaped prosecution last week thanks to the solicitor known as Mr Loophole who pointed out that the prosecution documents had arrived a few days late so voided the proceedings. The alleged offence was 87mph in a 50mph zone.

I wonder. Anyone know?

[Wendyf]

Freddie Flintoff?

[Stanley]

All very interesting and mysterious, bit like my last mystery object.
Nobody is biting so I'll come clean. It's the hardened taper mandrel that fits in the centre of a clever bit of kit that expands a tube from the inside. It does this because the hardened rollers that do the forming are angled slightly and as you turn the mandrel it automatically forces its way in and the taper expands the tube until it is tight. They come in lots of different sizes.
Anyone got the next for shaving?

[PanBiker]

[Stanley]

Combination tool for measuring spaghetti portions and cutting co-ax cables.....?

[Big Kev]

Is it all one piece or does it come apart?

[PanBiker]

Two pieces, the outer band holding the two is rubber.

[Big Kev]

Cigar cutter?

[PanBiker]

Not there yet Kev

[Pluggy]

I've seen one of those somewhere, something used in the preparation (cutting / insulation removal) of cables (cat5 ?) or networking fibre perhaps.

[PanBiker]

Near enough Stephen, its a Toggle (tm) cutter for thin Ethernet cable. I have shown it length gauge upwards. You can remove the outer jacket, cut screening cable and strip the dielectric back to the correct length leaving the centre conductor and screen the correct lengths for terminating in a BNC connector. All required cuts can be made with the same tool using forward and backward rotation of the tool on the cable. It cuts different depths depending on which way you wind it on the cable. Simple, fast and very effective to prepare the cable for the BNC.

[Pluggy]

I've slept a lot of times since thin Ethernet bit the dust...... Must be early 90s since I last played with it in earnest. T pieces and and 50 ohm terminators, those were the days.

And the delightful way the entire network died if a connection came loose........

[PanBiker]

I did a few installations with "Safernet" make before break connectors, still on BNC's but you could plug and unplug with impunity without decking the network. Replaced some of those a few years later with flood wired Cat5, cabinets and switches. Did quite a few in HM Prisons education departments.

[Stanley]

Try this one....

[David Whipp]

Freestanding inkwell.

[Stanley]

Sorry, no.

[Gloria]

The cover off an electric/battery powered razor.

[David Whipp]

If that's right, Gloria, it's no wonder I didn't recognise it!

[Big Kev]

I'm with Gloria. I'd even go so far as saying it's for a 3 headed Phillishave.

David, you are at a disadvantage when it comes to identifying shaving equipment