Anyone know what this thing is?

Looks like a hair pick for an afro to me. Very popular in the seventies.

Steve ;-)

The first one looks like a screwdriver with lots of special tips. The second one looks like a retractable scriber. The third one is definitely a tool for Shraeder tire valve stems: removing and replacing the valve core, retapping the valve core thread or pulling on the vlave stem to insert it, and rethreading the outside of the stem.

Looks like a Klingon toothpick to me.

I'll bet it's for golfers. When the ball leaves a dent in the green they stick a tool like the one pictured under the dent and pull the grass back up. Really. I used to work for a golf nut. He had several different styles of these. Wallet sized ones, key chain sized, larger ones to store in the golf bag, etc. ERS

The first one is a tool for removing the collets that hold the winding stem in pocket watch.

Paul K. Dickman

Sure it was a machinist's toolbox and not his lunchbox? Maybe he liked pickles.

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"Eric R Snow" wrote

I have seen golfers use them, too. Called a divot tool. How big is this one in question?

Steve

How big is it?

Steve

It's 3 1/4" long, the two outer points are 1 3/16" apart, and it's just a little less than 1/16" thick. A magnet will stick to it but not very well. The edges are a bit sharp, as if they weren't meant for frequent handling or maybe they never got around to smoothing them yet.

Rob

You could be right, but have you ever seen them with three tines? It doesn't have nice round edges like you would expect for a hand tool, but maybe it isn't finished. The points are sharp enough that you wouldn't want to put it in your pocket, also there's no hole in it like most divot tools have.

Rob

Correct. Thanks to all who responded, I need to run out for a while tonight and won't be able to reply to more messages until after work tomorrow.

Rob

I'm seeing a frog or fish gig, but that could just be the redneck in me. :)

Jim

It's called a "Header". It's the title of a message which is posted to newsgroups so that people can decide whether to read the "Body", or content of the message, and whether to reply (whether or not they have read the Body)

I can think of a couple of things it could be when finished, bet choice would be to spot a handle on to it and use it as the over sized fork used when cooking on the barbecue grill.

On Tue, 05 Oct 2004 12:33:50 +0800, Old Nick calmly ranted:

And speaking of footerssigs, could you please put a blank line between yours and the body of the message so it's easier to read? Thanks.

I think that number 143 has two uses, a scribe as you mentioned, and as something else.

Rob

Yes, it was probably custom made for something like that.

Yes, but it's used by a particular profession.

Correct, but I think it has a second use.

Correct.

I've been posting links to my site for people there to guess/figure out what the objects are, stop by and join us if anyone is interested.

Rob