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Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS
Posted: 02 Aug 2025, 02:50
by Stanley
Coincidence Ian, that will be a mains connection.
What's going on here?
Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS
Posted: 02 Aug 2025, 07:28
by Gloria
Looks like trains on a boat?
Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS
Posted: 02 Aug 2025, 07:35
by Stanley
I think I have to give it you Gloria. What I really wanted you to say was that it is a cross channel train ferry from the days when you could get on a train for say Paris and the whole train was shipped across the channel and went forward on continental lines. But what you say is quite correct.
Now I shall have to think of another object!
Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS
Posted: 03 Aug 2025, 03:11
by Stanley
What is it? (Canon isn't good enough!

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Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS
Posted: 04 Aug 2025, 02:58
by Stanley
No takers?
Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS
Posted: 04 Aug 2025, 05:05
by Big Kev
A carronade at the former Carron Works?
Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS
Posted: 04 Aug 2025, 05:16
by Stanley
Or model thereof..... Exactly right Kev. You lot are getting too knowledgeable!
Now we need another object.
Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS
Posted: 05 Aug 2025, 02:18
by Stanley
What is it?
Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS
Posted: 05 Aug 2025, 08:28
by PanBiker
It looks like a telescopic aerial re-purposed, (commercially) into a pocket expanding pointing device for lecture purposes.
Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS
Posted: 05 Aug 2025, 08:45
by Steeplejerk
Telescopic magnet I think

Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS
Posted: 05 Aug 2025, 08:46
by Stanley
Sorry Ian but no. You're right about the telescopic bit....
Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS
Posted: 05 Aug 2025, 08:49
by Stanley
Tom came in with the right answer as I was typing that!
You're right Tom a powerful little magnet on the end of a telescopic rod. A very hand bit of kit. I have used t it so many times to get me out of sticky corners.
Now we need another object!
Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS
Posted: 05 Aug 2025, 09:47
by PanBiker
Re-purposed twice then. I know Johnny Howell who taught us at Burnley college 50 odd years ago used one for pointing purposes.

Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS
Posted: 06 Aug 2025, 02:21
by Stanley
What is it?
Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS
Posted: 06 Aug 2025, 07:41
by Gloria
A weight for perhaps a clock?
Or a balance weight for a sash window?
Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS
Posted: 06 Aug 2025, 09:13
by Stanley
Too easy wasn't it Gloria. You were right, a clock weight.
Now we need another object.
Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS
Posted: 06 Aug 2025, 13:41
by Gloria
IMG_6467.jpeg
What can you tell me about this?
Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS
Posted: 07 Aug 2025, 02:05
by Stanley
I feel as though I ought to know but nothing is coming to me. Looks like a good one Gloria!
Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS
Posted: 07 Aug 2025, 04:46
by Steeplejerk
Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS
Posted: 07 Aug 2025, 07:30
by Gloria
No not part of a rivet gun.
Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS
Posted: 07 Aug 2025, 08:37
by Stanley
Is it the nozzle of an oiler?
Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS
Posted: 07 Aug 2025, 08:40
by Gloria
No Stanley it isnβt. Nothing to do with any liquid.
Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS
Posted: 07 Aug 2025, 11:24
by Stanley
I stared at it until my eyes hurt. Nothing! I give up.....

Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS
Posted: 07 Aug 2025, 11:43
by Gloria
IMG_6469.jpeg
Try it from this angle
Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS
Posted: 07 Aug 2025, 15:36
by PanBiker
Is it a spool carrier for tying fishing flies?