MYSTERY OBJECTS

[Stanley]

Here's another for you to explain Bodge. You'll know exactly what it is....

[Bodger]

How do i insert / attach an image to the forum ?

[PanBiker]

Have a look at this thread Bodge which should give you a good idea of how to do it.

Images Tips and Tricks

[Bodger]

You could use this with your previous post, the discolouration is anti rust

Sine Bar.jpg

Sine Bar.jpg

[Stanley]

Your getting a bit beyond my pay grade here Bodge but are they sine bars?

[Bodger]

Top of the class Stanley, used them when "marking out" with a height guage.
Just thinking what is it that makes our generation reluctant to dispose of anything ?, i even strip screws and nuts from any old appliance/ equipment being discarded,elecrigal, mechanical etc, the family say its Yors. tightness, but the neighbours know where to come for "things" you cannot buy off the shelf, usually traded for cabbages, spuds, etc.

[Tizer]

I think you've answered your own question Bodge! I tend to hoard stuff too and it's surprising how often I can find just the right widget to solve a problem. At the moment, I've accumulated 3 spare lawn mowers from various places and I'll be giving them to a friend who's more mechanically minded than me. I've cleaned them up and he'll give them a good checking, then they'll go to somebody in need of a cheap mower.

[Stanley]

I occasionally get people knocking at the door with an insuperable mechanical problem that only needs ten minutes attention to solve the problem. Make do and mend and having tools and resources like the jar full of old bits seems to be a dying art.
Just to tidy the mystery objects up, the last two items were precision tools. A vernier height gauge for use on the surface plate and a vernier depth gauge for accurate measurement of hole depth.

Have I tried you with this one?

[chinatyke]

It's one of those steel thing-a-mi blocks that can be adjusted for thickness. Don't know the correct name but when you have a broken table leg you can set the stump on this and adjust it to the correct height. Can also be used in engineering workshops as a thickness gauge, transferring parallels, for throwing at the apprentice lad, doorstop and as a paperweight for keeping the blueprints secure.

[Stanley]

That's right China, you've got it.



Tiz should know what this is.....

[Stanley]

I think this one has escaped Tiz! I'll give it another day.

[Stanley]

Deary me! No takers at all! Are you getting fed up with the objects?
I thought Tiz would leap on this one. It's a clever little multiple purpose glass cutter designed for cutting glass tubes. I have been told they were common in laboratories. You can swap the legs round to give different configurations. I have a similar but much larger cutter with two wheels that was used for cutting metal pipes.
Let me know if you want more.......

[chinatyke]

Yes please. Let's have more.

I should have recognised the laboratory glass cutter, I've used one but a long time ago.

[Bodger]

keep em coming, i had got as far as thinking that the last one was some kind of tube clamp, but could'nt fathom out the wheel

[StoneRoad]

I've lost count of the number of times I used one of those cutters, can't work out why I didn't recognize it!

more objects, please.

I enjoy this type of challenge, and I even get one or two.....

Stanley - Thanks for the thread.

StoneRoad

[Stanley]

I think Tiz is hanging his head in shame, I'll bet he's used one many a time. I shall have a think......

[Stanley]

[Bodger]

Vent plug ?

[Tizer]

Never had one of those glass cutters Stanley, we just scored the tubes with a glass file and snapped them. But we weren't using glass tubing very often except thin ones for gas chromatography columns and even they changed to glass capillary tubing. A lot of other glass tubing was replaced with silicone.

I've been offline a lot lately, there was the local street fair then a Rock & Gem show and all this against a background of dealing with the council planners on the proposed new house. It looks like we'll have to plan in `mitigation measures' for bats in the new building when we demolish the old bungalow - there's thought to be a long-eared bat in the roof (said to be `probably a non-breeding male') which defines the space as a `bat habitat' and it will require us to provide a dedicated open loft space of at least 6m x 2m and 2m high to the ridge. This will be a closed space with an entry for the bat and we can't put stuff in it. That part of the roof will have to be `cut & pitch', not the modern Fink trusses because the long-ears like to fly about a bit in the roof. The world has gone batty!

[Pluggy]

Moulding core plug for casting a plug valve insert ?

[Stanley]

Close Pluggy but not quite there, Have a good look at it.....

[Pluggy]

It is a plug valve insert and the black piece is a wooden plug inside it, but I can't think what it might be for. For testing it in some way ?

[Pluggy]

Or for 'firming it up' a bit while it is machined ?

[Stanley]

Still only close, sorry. It's a cast iron pattern for making a brass lubricator. The black part is wooden and indicates where the core goes into the mould. I got it, along with others, out of the pattern store at Kirkham's Lubricators, Lark Lane Bolton just before they closed down. The finish turners worked on special lathes with long beds and multiple headstocks. They worked by hand like woodturners and each did one operation on the rough casting passing it on to the next turner down the lathe. That gives me an idea for my next pic so you have a clue!

[Bodger]

Stanley , i could run after this, but i don't think hat would help the thread of this topic