What is it? CII

Most have been answered already.

586. Looks like a paint mixer, but seems to have more vanes than most I've seen.

581 marked oversize with inch markings is a curious item.

A special version called a sand pump was used to remove sand that could collect in the bottom of the well, limiting the well's water capacity.

Dale Scroggins

See, we didn't have drilled wells when I was growing up, we had a dug well, and we used a cedar bucket on a rope, altho, thinking back, I remember at least one person who had something similar, but their well was 10 or 12" ceramic pipe, and I barely remember something similar, but it wasn't as long and narrow.

My paternal grandmother had a dug well at her house and I have one under my kitchen. I wouldn't take water from the one under my kitchen, but it has a cool beehive-shape top that shows some fairly impressive bricklaying skill went into it.

My wife's grandmother drew water from her drilled well using a bailer almost until her dying day at 90+. I drew water with a bailer from a drilled well at my maternal grandmother's place. She wouldn't hear of having city water. I think she thought the treatment chemicals were slow poisons. But, then, she also thought all unused electric receptacles had to be covered so the electricity wouldn't leak out and "do who knows what to us." She refused to have an electric pump in her well because she thought the electricity would somehow make the water unhealthy.

Strange ideas to be sure, but quite a few old folks held similar opinions about "those new-fangled things that are just made so people can be lazy."

I remember going with my cousins to a store in Barton, OH to get a gallon jug of "coal oil" for lamps for an elderly lady who would have nothing whatever to do with anything electrical. She always put in a few cents extra for candy to pay us for going.

Well, mine is flat unglazed ceramic on the backside, with a sharp edge on the hole, so I 'spect it's truly a keyhole cover.

I'd imagine a drawstring pull would be glazed all over and have radiuses at both ends of the hole.

Jeff (Bucking for a bit part on CSI....)

I don't see an adjustment to control cutting depth on mine, it has a round blade that is held in place by a single screw. Though the tool is not symetrical and does cut deeper on one side.

Rob

Don,

I didn't see any answers in your post, just the quote from the OP and your sig. I'm not asking you to re-write it, but if you still have your original reply saved somewhere, maybe you could post it or at least figure out the problem.

Rob

But, alas, nowhere near big enough for a knob of any kind. (except on an oscilloscope, but that's OT. ;-) )

Thanks, Rich

These are keyholes for warded locks, not cylinder locks. The hole has to be big enough for the wards to fit through, and is typically on the order of 1/2 inch high. The widest part is the shaft hole that someone might look through, which from memory I would say is around 3/16 inch in diameter. And the hole in the cover plate is often made larger than the internal hole in the lock mechanism.

As to the cover, you want it to work so that when you push it aside to use the keyhole, you push more or less horizontally and only a little upward, so it swings back but not too readily. To implement that, the cover is pivoted at a point some little way above the actual hole. See:

According to R.H. :

I know *what* the problem is.

2) As a result, after spell-checking I usually save a copy to the file /tmp/safety before attempting to send.

Apparently, this time I was distracted and forgot to delete the original information and read in /tmp/safety.

Here is the original, minus the headers:

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O.K. Posting from rec.crafts.metalworking again:

Two basic variable transformer sections for controlling two different trains on two track sections (which may or may not interlink).

The two black buttons which say "reverse" interrupt the power momentarily to step a reversing switch in the engines.

The red handle I'm not positive about, since I never had this model, but I suspect that it is for controlling track switches to divert the trains from one track section to another.

I do remember that there was a red button to engage a decoupler to allow the train to leave some of the cars behind at selected points.

The one which I had was only for a single train.

As I see it, you lower it into the liquid with a second line holding the stopper raised to allow liquid to flow through it until it gets to the desired depth, then you release the second line, allowing the stopper to close, and draw the entire device back to the surface.

It looks like a rather kludgy variation on a Nissen bottle, (I hope that I got the spelling right) used by oceanographers to take samples at various depths.

It looks as though this is for forming rings of fairly small thickness material.

Now to see what others have said.

However -- I would like to propose a change in the item numbering scheme. You never have as many as ten, so what I would suggest is a number encoding the puzzle page number (102 in this case), followed by a hyphen and a single digit. So this last one above would become: "102-6" instead of "592".

This might make it more obvious to those who post answers to the previous week's puzzles that there is something different here. :-)

Enjoy, DoN. ======================================================================

I've got a couple of other minor changes that I'm thinking about, I'll add your idea to the list, though I haven't yet decided if I'll implement any of them.

Thanks for the re-post.

Rob

I'm an American who works for a major company, but occasionally travels on business overseas.

I am currently in China and when I try to access the above website from there, I get the following:

-------- Network Error (tcp_error) A communication error occurred: "Operation timed out" The Web Server may be down, too busy, or experiencing other problems preventing it from responding to requests. You may wish to try again at a later time.

For assistance, contact your network support team. ----------

I can get the website when I use the company VPN through a gateway in the USA.

I guess this website is too subversive for the Chinese government. :-)

(Actually some other blogs on the site might be in that category)

Jerry

Thanks for the info, I have noticed that I don't get any hits from China but I never thought that it might be banned by the government. Part of me would like to think that my site is too subversive for them but I'm guessing that all blogspot sites are blocked from the general public.

Rob

According to R.H. :

At least, please consider adding a *very* visible bar -- say a black and yellow diagonal striped bar -- separating the new puzzle photos from the display of the previous week's.

Alternatives would be to change the background color for the area displaying the last week's puzzle photos -- or make it necessary to click a link to see them.

It currently really looks too much like a continuation of the puzzles, and many who don't come buy every week make the mistake of answering the ones which have already been answered.

You're welcome.

Thanks for the continuing supply of puzzles.

Enjoy, DoN.

I'll keep my eye out for a visible bar that will look good on my site, but until then I'll leave a good deal of space between the two latest posts.

The reason that I keep the previous week's post on the front page is so that new visitors will see a wider range of objects. Some posts have tools for all six items, so the second set will hopefully contain something that will appeal to a larger number of people.

I did find something that I was going to use as a separator between posts, but instead I decided to include it as one of the puzzles, it will be the last entry in this week's post. It's a little different than what is usually seen on my site, so depending on what kind of response it generates, I may or may not continue with similar puzzles.

Rob

Hi Rob,

How about making thumbnails of last weeks puzzle entries and then putting them all in one row at the bottom of the page. That way people can get an idea of what they look like. Make it so they can click on any one of them to bring up last weeks set.

Just an idea...

That's a good idea, too late for this week but possibly for the following set, if I like how it looks.

Rob