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Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS
Posted: 24 May 2020, 03:25
by Stanley
You've given up. If there are no offers this morning I shall come clean.
Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS
Posted: 24 May 2020, 08:03
by Gloria
I only know this as a looked on t'internet.
First bicycle land speed record attempt by Charli Murphy in USA 1899, he drafted a steam engine at speeds up to 60mph.
Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS
Posted: 24 May 2020, 08:21
by Stanley
You've got it Gloria, Charles Minthorn Murphy.
Many more such assisted records since.... Nowadays behind cars but then the railway was the most reliable source of speed.
Next one?
Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS
Posted: 24 May 2020, 10:52
by Gloria
Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS
Posted: 24 May 2020, 10:54
by Stanley
Archaeological find. What are they?
Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS
Posted: 24 May 2020, 10:55
by Stanley
Sorry Gloria we crossed. Yours first!
Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS
Posted: 24 May 2020, 10:56
by Gloria
I don't think mine will last long at all.
Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS
Posted: 24 May 2020, 11:26
by PanBiker
Glo's - Micrometer.
Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS
Posted: 24 May 2020, 11:38
by Gloria
PanBiker wrote: ↑24 May 2020, 11:26
Glo's - Micrometer.
Spot on 0 to 1. That didn't last long
Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS
Posted: 24 May 2020, 12:18
by PanBiker
Stanley's look like bones repurposed, maybe for making rope?
Or are they wood and recovered from a sunken ship or longboat?
Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS
Posted: 24 May 2020, 16:36
by plaques
I'll go for PanBiker's rope making.
Rope making blocks. Three strands of fibre would be drawn through the holes while some rotary mechanism would twist them together.
Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS
Posted: 25 May 2020, 02:58
by Stanley
You lot are getting far too good! Exactly right Ian, or at least, that's the accepted explanation. Must have a think!
Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS
Posted: 26 May 2020, 03:41
by Stanley
There is a specific name for this mechanism in miller's terms. What is it and what does it do?
Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS
Posted: 27 May 2020, 04:00
by Stanley
Come on! This is easy, educative and perfect anti-lockdown blues material!
Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS
Posted: 27 May 2020, 05:29
by Bodger
Wiggler ?, , i know from past work places odd name are given by the workers to certain objects / places , one place i worked in ground shale to a fine powder with rollers and pan to make clay, the area it was in was called the "smut hole "
Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS
Posted: 27 May 2020, 05:41
by Stanley
No Bodge but you are on the right track and very close!
Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS
Posted: 27 May 2020, 11:24
by chinatyke
It is a shoe and is used to control the flow of grain into the millstones. The shoe was often vibrated by a 'damsel' for a steadier rate of feed. I used to go to James Bowman's flour mill in Hitchin once a month but the technology was much more modern.
Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS
Posted: 27 May 2020, 11:38
by Stanley
'Damsel' was exactly what I was after China. Well done, not many people know that!
Next one?
Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS
Posted: 28 May 2020, 03:05
by Stanley
Where was I?
Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS
Posted: 28 May 2020, 07:26
by Gloria
Bottom of a chimney somewhere??
Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS
Posted: 28 May 2020, 07:31
by Stanley
Yes, tell me where....
Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS
Posted: 28 May 2020, 08:24
by Gloria
No idea, Bancroft? Queen St? Somewhere over Rochdale way?
Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS
Posted: 28 May 2020, 11:42
by Stanley
Try Rochdale....
Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS
Posted: 28 May 2020, 12:07
by Gloria
Harp Mill, Arkwright Mill, Old Mill, I'm just googling and guessing now?
Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS
Posted: 29 May 2020, 02:29
by Stanley
Gloria, you have a blind spot! Much more obvious than that!
