What is it? CLXXVII

1028 Orrery

1030 Palm Gun

1025: Spoke wrench, probably for an automobile wheel, seems too large for a bicycle.

Yep, I was using one today!!! Motorcycle wheel spoke wrench.

1026 - radio transmitter - aircraft related.

1026. VOR (Visual Observation Reference)

VORTAC installation. VHF Omni-Ranging. Provides a radio navigation aid to pilots. Have one a few miles from my place.

I forget what the TAC stands for now.

125. spoke wrench - motorcycle or car 126. secret death ray installation prior to introduction of stealth cloaking technology 127. Stanley core box plane 128. big ass orrery 129. I should know what it is - I don't 130. looks like a fancy speed indicator R

1025 Spoke Wrench? 1026 Vortac Station 1027 Some sort of hand plane. 1030 Pistol

Tacan. Military.

Wes

Former F4-J Radar Tech. Tacan belonged to Com/Nav department.

1030 is a palm pistol

#1029 appears to be a cable / wire pulling grip. Probably an old style as the "Chinese finger" style woven wire grips are most prevalent these days.

Actually, that is a VOR (visual omni range) navigation station and it may,or may not, have TACAN (TACtical Air Navigation) consolidated with it. There are more VORs than TACANs.

Jim Chandler Commercial Multi-engine pilot Former USAF nav systems technician

I always thought VOR stood for VHF omnidirectional range, but as I have very little knowlege in this area I am most likely wrong.

Stuart

I believe you are right. Often Tacan stations are co-located at the same point. I wonder with GPS in place how many Tacan stations are still operating.

Wes

According to R.H. :

O.K. As usual, posting from rec.crafts.metalworking.

1025) Hmm ... what's the material here? It sort of looks like Bakelite or some other early fairly rigid plastic.

If that is the material, I think that it is a gauge for measuring something like perhaps wire sizes. I see that odd sizes are on one end and even sizes on the other. And like wire sizes, the larger the number, the smaller the size.

Presumably, the key part of the maker's name (preceding "PRODUCTS" on the handle) has been blurred out by Photoshop or the like.

It *almost* looks like a wrench, but the final size slot is not deep enough, and the thickness is a bit too great to be reasonable for one made of steel.

1026) This looks like a VOR (VHF Omni-Range) aircraft navigation aid, and I have seen them (as a kid) in a ranch surrounded by cattle. Perhaps even a VORTAC (add TACAN to the mix), which I think came out after the time I visited the site as a kid. 1027) A plane for squaring the meeting point of two sides at about 90 degrees. (There is an adjustment for dealing with small mismatches.) 1028) Orrey? (Not sure that I have the spelling right, and my spelling checker does not know that word. :-) 1029) Do you mean a 3/4" long screw into the block from each end of the hole, since it appears to me that there are actually four holes, but both ends of each are visible in the surface. (Plus another four holes in the bottom which was not mentioned.)

At a guess, it is some kind of counterbalance weight which can be tuned by removing screws and replacing them with shorter or longer ones -- or even trapping lead shot between the ends of two screws coming into the same hole from both ends.

1030) Some form of wheel-lock pistol -- in which the disk rotating runs hardened steel past flint to make sparks to light off the powder?

Or maybe some form of shot or powder dispenser. I think that it is firearms related in any case.

Now to see what others think.

Enjoy, DoN.

1025: Spoke wrench. The steps allow it to fit several different sizes.

1028: Orrery, named after Lord Orrery, who owned the first one.

1030: Repeating muff pistol, or palm pistol.

It is indeed! I have one in my tool box. I trued, and laced quite a few motorcycle wheels with it.

Steve R. (once a Harley wrench)

Very high frequency Omni Range - but this one includes a military TACAN (TACtical Air Navigation) antenna, making it a VORTAC Gerry :-)} London, Canada

It's metal, several people got the answer - motorcycle spoke wrench.

Pete got this one right, it's a cable grip for pulling cable through conduit. Each of the bottom holes are connected to two holes on the side, so the cable goes in the bottom and the screws are then tightened to secure it.

Rob