MYSTERY OBJECTS

[Steeplejerk]

Rivet splitter

[Stanley]

Oh Tom! What shall I do....? That's one use for it but there is another more common one. Go back to what Peter said about caulking and think of the opposite!

[Steeplejerk]

Uncaulking

[Stanley]

In effect yes. Actually this is getting silly. It was used for splitting flanges in a pipeline, usually steam of course. Even if a joint was leaking, the sealing medium tended to hold the flanges together. Drive this fine edged tool in and they popped apart.
Now we need another object!

[Stanley]

What is it?

[Steeplejerk]

Coal tipper on the canal

[Whyperion]

Looks like Wigan Pier (is that on the Leeds-Liverpool Canal ?

[Stanley]

Both right, for tipping coal wagons into boats and reputed to be the origin of 'Wigan Pier'.
We need another object.

[Stanley]

What is it?

[Big Kev]

For young bullocks? Castration?

[Whyperion]

I was going to say it looks like something that every boy scout should have , but if Kev is right then maybe not and can an admin then delete this thought

[Stanley]

Correct Kev, clamp used in old fashioned hot iron castration.
We need another object now!

[Stanley]

What are they?

[Cathy]

Might they be vacuum cleaner brushes

[Stanley]

I can see why you thought that Cathy but no. They are industrial and more like claws than brushes.

[PanBiker]

Are they out of a carding machine or are they only rotary teasers?

[Stanley]

Sorry Ian, no.

[Stanley]

You need a clue.... Think power transmission.....

[PanBiker]

Are they electric heating elements?

[Stanley]

Sorry, no. Think archaic mechanical transmission.....

[Stanley]

I shall give it until dinner time....

[Gloria]

I’m stumped.

[Stanley]

A clue for you Gloria. Lineshafting was involved.

[Big Kev]

Is it for cleaning belts?

[Gloria]

Is it for joining belts?