MYSTERY OBJECTS

[Whyperion]

More fixings of some kind here , but anyone got anymore info on them , and would anyone find them useful , I have no idea why I have them ! ( re post below , The Hilti Anchors I think are of different sizes , probably for fitting into concrete ? PM me if you would find them useful and I will get them to Barnoldswick at the end of the month (or sooner )

[Steeplejerk]

The fixings on the right are Hilti fixings,a 20mm hole is drilled and the sleeve is knocked into it which contains a bullet that is driven in with a punch to open the split ends to secure it.

[Stanley]

Kev. I think you are right but don't know for sure. I got them when I bought a workshop and suspect that they are for watch/clock makers to use on brass. The three-sided one would be ideal for putting the conical oil well round the hole in a plate for an arbor and the flat one for removing burrs from the plate after drilling.
Tom, is dog wood still legal for laddering? I still clearly remember going up Mons when Ronnie Goggins was dropping it. He had used the old dog holes when he was laddering and the ladders went all over the place! Definitely not your standard!

Try this one..... A blast from the past. What's special about it?

[Steeplejerk]

Not sure about the legality Stanley with plug wood,but we still use it ,its ok to use the same dog hole as long as ya put fresh wood in t'hole.

[Stanley]

Young Ronnie didn't bother! There's a pic of you on Forgotten Corners...... It was you with Pater on Butts wasn't it?

[Stanley]

No takers for the blast from the past? It's one of Johnny Pickles' old lathe tools. In the days before high speed steel in stock sizes, if you wanted a small parting tool like this you got the smith to forge you one out of a piece of cast high carbon steel. It has a big shank because he'd be using it in a large lathe. Once made it would be hardened and tempered. Still a good tool but if you get them hot they need to be tempered again.

Now I'll have to think up another one for you..... This should be easy...

[PostmanPete]

Is it a leather strop for sharpening knives? Or possibly a dragons tongue.....?

[Stanley]

Imaginative Pete but unfortunately a long way off the truth. Have another think.

[Stanley]

I thought that one was easy..... I'll come clean tomorrow.

[Stanley]

Here's the answer. The replica nameplates for the Ellenroad engines. These are the rough castings.
Try this one....

[EileenDavid]

Looks like a fancy wet stone for sharpening tools. Eileen

[Bodger]

This is'nt criticism, just a query, should ,

wet

read Whet ?

[Stanley]

He's picky Eileen but correct. You are also near enough correct. It's a piece of best butt leather stuck onto a perfectly flat Keruing block and impregnated with salt-free mutton fat. It's for stropping a very fine edge on a cutting tool, the last stage of really fine sharpening. If you look at a sharp edge under a strong magnifying glass it looks like corrugated iron. Stropping the edge straightens the kinks out. If you mix a bit of jeweller's rouge with the fat it works even better. I use the very finest lapping paste, does the same job. I reckon it took me forty years to crack sharpening and edge and the funny thing was that I also learned that there are times when a coarse edge cuts better than a fine one. Like many other small matters, more to it than meets the eye! Now I'll have to think up another one!

[EileenDavid]

Sorry Sir but spelling has never been my strong point. Only know about Whet stone's as my father was a master carpenter served his time as a wheelwright and my other half is a retired joiner so both use to sharpening tools. Eileen

[Gloria]

That makes you an honourary engineer also Eileen.

[Stanley]

Or even honorary! All right, I'm as bad as Bodge....

Am racking my brains, finding new objects gets harder. Try this one. All right it's a very fine brass bolt, the very best door furniture, but what is it that is different? What was it for?

[Tripps]

Re spelling -

I got an email yesterday from a chap who called me mate when we had barely been introduced and spelled tomorrow as 2moz! I felt like a dinosaur.

[Gloria]

Right Stanley I shall do my lines
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that's your lot.

[EileenDavid]

Which ever way it is spelled thank you Gloria for the award. Eileen

[Stanley]

I think you're taking this a bit too seriously..... Now then, how about the bolt?

[Bodger]

It locks back in the open position, i e the door door cannot lock by accident, it also has a protrusion that could be used as an actuator ?, Toilet door ?

[StoneRoad]

works in the vertical orientation, so needs the retaining stop and loop to pull open?

[Stanley]

Both accurate but not a full explanation. The extension to the side is the clue.....

[Stanley]

Time I put you out of your misery. It's one of two bolts, top and bottom, on one side of a double door set. If the tab wasn't on the bolt the free door wouldn't be restrained by the locked half. very high class door furniture and thin on the ground. Not surprising nobody spotted it. Now then, what next....?

[Stanley]

Dead easy!