OneGuyFromBarlick

68F (20C) is the ideal temperature for developer fluid. For developing photographic paper.

Kev has got it. It's a temperature gauge for monitoring a dish of developer.
Now we need another object.

What am I looking up at from underneath?

That's a good one.... The mesh is too big for a bird feeder I think. Or is it?

You are spot on Stanley, it’s a bird feeder.

Sorry Gloria!



Try this one. What is it? Or more accurately, what was it used for?

Don’t know, but it looks like it’s had a battering.

That's a necessary part of its function Gloria.

A chisel for a pneumatic drill?

Sorry Kev, no, it's a hand tool.

Caulking chisel

Well done Tom, exactly right. Back in the day high pressure water pipes were made by making a collar on one end of a cast iron pipe. The plain end of the next pipe was forced in and the collar filled with lead wool which was pounded down using the caulking iron to make a solid seal.
Next one?
(Lost technology.... One very popular way of sealing the joints in cast iron pipes was by creating a 'rust setting joint'. The joint between the spigot and collar was sealed at the base with a caulking of lead wool and then the joint was filled with a paste made of cast iron borings and Sal-Ammoniac. This mixture rusted and swelled and made a permanent joint.)

What is it?

No takers? I'll review progress at dinner time.

Looks like toll for pulling something? Is it anything to do with car engine valves or clutches?

Tap reseating tool?

Forgot to look yesterday, sorry. Kev has it right it's a tap or valve re-seating tool. Very old now probably over 100 years but still useful.



What is it? It's half an inch in diameter.

No takers? I shall take a view later. You've seen it before, this is a memory test!

Is it a weight which hangs off something….. a plumb line perhaps?

I can see why you thought that Gloria but no. Remember the small size and here's a big clue, it is a bearing, but what for?

Morris Cowley door mirror bearing?

That could be right Kev but I can't say. What I can say is that you are close enough. Well done! This one was the bearing from the hinge on a vehicle door.
Next object?

What is it?

You need a clue. made by Johnny Pickles as an accessory for use with his 1956 OT lathe.....
You've seen it before.....

Is it a copying attachment?