OneGuyFromBarlick

Anyone got the next one?

Pure engineering. What's this?

Is it supposed to have rollers in it, plus water, and sit in the post office for moistening stamps?

Sorry Maz, no. Far too big for that.

spool from a valve ?

Bloody hell Bodge! Spot on! It's the steam valve out of the horizontal cylindrical port on a Corliss Valve engine.
Now someone has to think of another.....

Can anyone tell me what this is?

Adjustable reamer?

For swaging boiler tubes in the end plates?

Sorry, neither is right but I can see where you were both coming from.

Inserting into the end of a textile printing roller?
Or inserting into the end of a beam on a loom or warp sizer.

A beam pike..... Sorry China, no.

Is it a spindle for a lathe?

Stanley wrote: ↑12 Nov 2020, 05:07 A beam pike..... Sorry China, no.

I was trying to think of the word 'mandrel' but it wouldn't come into my mind!

A mandrel? Isn't that the posh word for what Big Kev has suggested?

I have to give it to you both, it is a mandrel and beyond that it's an expanding mandrel but I'm not going to force that out of you. The internal jaws are on a taper and can be tightened by bumping the collar up or down the shaft. You got that faster than I'd have thought!
Next one for shaving?

The top object is a 50p piece for scale. What is the lower one?

It makes me think of the jet ear studs found in the bronze age ring cairn above Earby.

Sorry Wendy, wrong material. Made of cast iron.

Drawer handle?

A Jean stud?

Sorry, neither of them but Maz's Jean Stud is probably nearest.

It looks like a larger version of one of the studs I have for my dress shirt.

Reinforcing grommet for a tarpaulin sheet?

Boots! Has anyone mentioned boots?!

Kev's quite right but it's not for a shirt. Not a grommet China sorry and nowt to do with boots Maz.
You're all in the right area. Assume it's a fastener, question is, for what?