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#575 Wand from static shock machine? #577 A very old toaster #580 Large tongs for stretching canvas

Stuart Pearson

575: Some kind of medical instrument. Maybe some UV-comb or the like. The made weird things at that time. 577: A toaster ("Shiny like a toaster") 578: Hardness-tester (by Rockwell) 580: For bending thin sheet metal. Roofing usage

Nick

#576 is a tsuba from a Japanese sword

#577 is a toaster for bread.

575: electro-stim wand 576: I was thinking it was a decorative cover for the hole in a wood stove, but I'm going with katana tsuba 577: toaster 578: Rockwell hardness meter (tests hardness of metal) 579: patch jag for the end of a cleaning rod (firearm barrel cleaning) 580: tongs for bending sheet glass?

575: Not a clue

576: Escutcheon

577: Toaster. I used to have one like it.

578: Lacking a clue here, too.

579: Plumb bob?

580: Brake for bending metal?

575. my guess would be part of some kind of old fashioned hokey electric neon "health massage" device. 576. japanese sword guard. looks like it's made out of iron. i can't figure out what the design is supposed to be. looks like two fronds from a plant of some sort but can't figure out what. looks like there are two spaces for some parts that are missing. (bezel(s) for gemstones or other material?) 577. electric toaster (when i was a kid (~1969) my grandmother was still using hers) (bakelite handles missing?) 578. no idea but "rockwell" makes me think it's some kind of hardness tester. no idea how it'd be used. 579. no idea but my guess is it's some kind of wood-to-metal fastener. (actually from the photo i can't even really tell if the close end is threaded.) 580. with those long tong handles i would've thought it's some kind of blacksmith's tool. need to keep your hands away from the heat. no idea though what it's used for though.

#575 For analytical chemistry? #576 Lock escuscion(sp?)? #577 Toaster #578 Rockwell hardness gauge #579 ? #580 Tongs for metal working?

572 Sprue cutter for castings 573 lawn de-thatcher/aerator

575: I'm going with HV gas discharge tube for questionable medical purposes - I saw several very much like this at "The Museum of Questionable Medical Devices" in Minneapolis, before it closed. I've tried searching their website, but don't see it. The device is filled with rarefied gas, and the HV supply goes to that metal cap, and it lights up like a neon lamp, tingles a little where the fingers are dragged over the skin, and makes ozone. ;-)

And everybody got 577 the toaster and 578 the Rockwell tester. )-;

The 580 tongs I'm guessing are for hot sheet metal.

Cheers! Rich

Item 570 is a form for hammering copper sheet, reposse. Gary Pewitt N9ZSV Sturgeon's Law "Ninety per cent of everything is crap"

"Rich Grise" wrote: (clip)The 580 tongs I'm guessing are for hot sheet metal. ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ The same thought passed through my mind. The style and construction of those tongs says "blacksmith." The width says "sheet metal." A piece of sheet metal the width of those tongs would be too stiff to bend cold, so we come to hot sheet metal. But nothing in a blacksmith shop would heat a piece of sheet metal that wide uniformly, so there must be more to the story.

It's on of those neon or argon gas filled applicators that were sold with the 'quack' "Blue Ray" medical devices. I have one just like it that came as with the antique machine that I own.

Harry C.

They're seaming tongs for closing the joints on standing seam roofs.

Paul K. Dickman

#579 looks like a modernized #566. ;-)

Cheers! Rich

Oh, man... Is there any way to buy them out?

Seriously. Contact info? Anyone from the Twin Cities that can help?

I think the tongs are for quenching thin stock such as a knife blade so that it does not twist.

Yup, probably about .30 cal or slightly larger

-Bruce

577 OLD ELECTRIC TOASTER That's the only one I know this time

Howard on RCM

What's a Google? All I ever use in Altavista...

Pete C.