MYSTERY OBJECTS

[PostmanPete]

I know what it is an where it is but I had to Google it to find out.

How did you manage to Google a photo...?

[PanBiker]

Google what it looks like - say what you see = "tree with textile rings", works for me

Then switch search results to images. Follow image back to source and you should arrive somewhere in the capital.

[Whyperion]

While your completing Panbikers heavy clue , any idea what you might call this , and what its made of might have originally come from ( the location should be secret I could find no public photo of it referencing its full current location and I dont think the landowner wants to make it too public )

[Stanley]

They are cast iron columns out of an industrial building, almost certainly a textile mill. The support brackets for the lineshaft bearings give them away. Much heavier than normal.

[Stanley]

Try this one. No scale but I think you can get an idea from the weave of the tablecloth.

[EileenDavid]

Looks like one of the things you put on a pully to put the light on. Eileen

[PanBiker]

Screw on drawer handle

[Stanley]

Sorry Kids, nowhere near. Clue, it's to do with old vehicles.

[EileenDavid]

Is it a gear lever knob or the choke? Eileen

[chinatyke]

Nozzle from a steam ejector?

[Stanley]

Much smaller than you all think. Diameter is less than half an inch. Think vehicles with coach-built cabs.......

[Bodger]

locator for droopy doors ? ie alignment

[chinatyke]

Fitting for fastening elastic that held the hood of a convertable car, like a pram hood but bigger?

[Gloria]

Is it one of those screw things that opened old coach windows?

[Stanley]

Bodge has got it. It fitted between the two parts of the hinge on the door, the conical part dropped in the fixed hinge plate and the spherical top was the surface the door hinge sat on. The hinge was completed by a bolt through the lot with a tab washer so that the nut could be locked without being tight. If the door started to droop with age you just fitted new brass seats. This hinge was used on all old cars and wagon cabs and were last used on coach built vehicles and wagon cabs. Try this one....

[Bodger]

If we are looking at the hand tool, you will be using it on the engines shortly ?. If it's the brass bit with a protrusion, i'll have to think !

[Gloria]

The brass thing looks very tactile, quite heavy, very smooth, I want to hold it. Is it some sort of weight?

[EileenDavid]

The brass thing looks like a flip top lighter Eileen

[Tripps]

There's a better shot of the brass thing on Shed Matters Sep 16th 3rd photo down.

[PanBiker]

The spanner looks like it is a special design for use on pipework nuts, cranked to get into awkward areas, semi open jaws for access over tubing.

The other object are only there for scale, a bit of OCD going on there though with the alignment.

I have a similar compulsion with regard to toast! I have to slice it into irregular shapes before eating, can't do square toast! That might seem a bit irrational but I can still recognise a brass Zippo.

With regard to the tactile feel of polished metal, I have a Huang Chromatic harmonica which is a great big lump of chrome steel. I cant play it very well but I do like to handle it.

[Stanley]

Bodge knew but was being cagey, Ian has it exactly. It's a special heavy ring with a gap for tightening union nuts on pipework. This size was for fuel injector pipes on Diesels, smaller ones were for union nuts on brake pipes. They were made heavy so they wouldn't spring open in use. The brass bit is of course one of my Zippo lighters. I gave up on gas lighters long ago after getting segs on my thumb from the flint wheel. As for OCD... not in this case though I admit to being a candidate in other matters. They just happened to be there and give scale to the pic. Try this one.... (I have an idea this is a repeat)

[chinatyke]

Nut splitters?

(I have one with a triangular end for Brazil nuts.)

[Stanley]

Yup! I thought that might be a bit too easy for you clever lot! Thinking cap back on......

[Stanley]

Try this one. Exact name for them please....

[catgate]

Arthur and Albert