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Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS
Posted: 13 Oct 2023, 03:12
by Stanley
No takers? If not I'll knock it on the head.
Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS
Posted: 13 Oct 2023, 07:29
by Gloria
No idea Stanley, sorry can’t add anything.
Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS
Posted: 13 Oct 2023, 07:47
by Big Kev
Optical centre punch
Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS
Posted: 13 Oct 2023, 08:38
by Stanley
Kev has it right. How the hell did you know that? I wouldn't have got it if I hadn't bought one and found it was useless. If anyone wants it, all they have to do is call in and they can have it!
Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS
Posted: 13 Oct 2023, 08:46
by Big Kev
Stanley wrote: ↑13 Oct 2023, 08:38
Kev has it right. How the hell did you know that? I wouldn't have got it if I hadn't bought one and found it was useless. If anyone wants it, all they have to do is call in and they can have it!
You posted about it in Shed Matters

Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS
Posted: 13 Oct 2023, 10:20
by Stanley
You have an excellent memory Kev......

Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS
Posted: 14 Oct 2023, 03:13
by Stanley
This lives in the shed and fulfils a very useful purpose, it's used every day. However this wasn't its original function and that's what I want to know. What did it start out in life as..... (Probably over a century ago....)
Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS
Posted: 14 Oct 2023, 10:03
by PanBiker
Is it an eyepiece lens from a telescope or recovered from a set of powerful binoculars?
Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS
Posted: 14 Oct 2023, 10:37
by Stanley
You've hit on the right format Ian, but what did it come from, neither of those two, much older....
Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS
Posted: 14 Oct 2023, 10:52
by Gloria
Is it an eyepiece off an old rifle?
Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS
Posted: 14 Oct 2023, 13:09
by Stanley
No Gloria, follow Ian's lead. It's an entirely different piece of optical equipment. Think what was common a century ago.....
Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS
Posted: 14 Oct 2023, 14:08
by PanBiker
A microscope then?
Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS
Posted: 15 Oct 2023, 01:55
by Stanley
Sorry Ian, no. In optical terms just the opposite function.....

Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS
Posted: 15 Oct 2023, 09:49
by Tizer
A jeweller's lens (loupe)?
Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS
Posted: 16 Oct 2023, 02:35
by Stanley
Sorry no. (Although the use I put it to is exactly that function, I use it for reading the fine graduations on scales....)
It started life in a household object about 100 years ago. What I am after is what that object was. Like other simple objects it's so obvious it's invisible!
Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS
Posted: 16 Oct 2023, 04:43
by Cathy
A non scientific magnifying glass

Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS
Posted: 16 Oct 2023, 04:51
by Stanley
Yes, that';s what I use it for Cathy but what did it start out in life as a century ago? What can you think of in the house in those days that needed an adjustable lens?
Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS
Posted: 16 Oct 2023, 05:42
by Big Kev
Slide projector?
Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS
Posted: 16 Oct 2023, 06:07
by Stanley
Yes!!!! Or perhaps a 'magic lantern'. That's what it is and very useful too. Well done.....
Now for the next one?
Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS
Posted: 17 Oct 2023, 02:42
by Stanley
What's the name of the river?
Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS
Posted: 18 Oct 2023, 03:27
by Stanley
If there are no takers I shall knock it on the head at midday.....
Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS
Posted: 18 Oct 2023, 05:43
by Wendyf
I'll take a wild guess at the Nidd.
Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS
Posted: 18 Oct 2023, 05:51
by Stanley
No Wendy, sorry. You've all seen it before, it's featured on here before. A clue, I must have been up somewhere very high to get a picture like this......
Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS
Posted: 19 Oct 2023, 02:44
by Stanley
I'll kill it at dinnertime.....
Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS
Posted: 19 Oct 2023, 13:04
by Stanley
It's the River Derwent at Matlock Bath. Pic taken from the top of Masson Mill chimney.....
Next one anyone?
Any idea what this is and what's going on?