Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS
Posted: 15 May 2024, 05:29
Both answers correct
Ramsbottom paper mill 1938ish
Ramsbottom paper mill 1938ish
What is it?
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Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS
Posted: 15 May 2024, 14:06
What is it?
Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS
Posted: 16 May 2024, 10:39
Thread chaser
Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS
Posted: 16 May 2024, 13:23
Curses! Dead right Tom...... 
What is it?
What is it?
Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS
Posted: 16 May 2024, 20:46
Insert holder for a wood turning lathe?
Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS
Posted: 17 May 2024, 02:04
Sorry no Gloria but you're right about it being a tool for use with a lathe. It was for a specialised job. You've seen it before.....
Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS
Posted: 17 May 2024, 08:54
Is it a special parting off tool?
Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS
Posted: 17 May 2024, 09:17
Is it used for spring winding?
Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS
Posted: 17 May 2024, 11:33
Well done Ian, you remembered! Quite right and a very rare tool.
Next one?
Next one?
Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS
Posted: 17 May 2024, 12:56
What is this
Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS
Posted: 18 May 2024, 01:34
Is it for twisting individual strings into cord?
Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS
Posted: 18 May 2024, 07:32
That’ll do Stanley, it’s a rope making machine. See below.
Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS
Posted: 18 May 2024, 08:52
Thanks Gloria!
Now we need another.....
Now we need another.....
Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS
Posted: 18 May 2024, 10:40
What is it?
Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS
Posted: 19 May 2024, 05:49
Light bulb??
Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS
Posted: 19 May 2024, 05:51
Sorry but no Tom. Stick with electrical though.......
Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS
Posted: 19 May 2024, 09:05
It's a Leyden Jar if I remember my basic electrical training in Physics at secondary school.
Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS
Posted: 19 May 2024, 09:10
I think you're right Ian but this example has a different name.
Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS
Posted: 19 May 2024, 09:14
I only have knowledge of standard accepted units. 
If it looks like pig and grunts like pig, it probably is one!
If it looks like pig and grunts like pig, it probably is one!
Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS
Posted: 19 May 2024, 09:19
Strange but this contradiction could warrant re posting Constitutional Peasants. 
Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS
Posted: 19 May 2024, 10:48
It is described in the article I found it in as the Baghdad Battery.
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Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS
Posted: 19 May 2024, 12:35
Tenuous link there then with Constitutional Peasants as the King bloke was on his way to the Crusades.
Go on then, good enough excuse, I'm Dennis:
Go on then, good enough excuse, I'm Dennis:
Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS
Posted: 19 May 2024, 13:50
What is it?
Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS
Posted: 20 May 2024, 07:25
A large set of feeler gauges?
Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS
Posted: 20 May 2024, 08:18
I can see why you thought that Gloria. No, not feeler gauges but a set of something!