The latest set has just been posted:
Rob
The latest set has just been posted:
Rob
greetings from germany Chris
801 looks exactly like a brass version of a car mechanic's ball-joint splitter. It's designed for pressing something out of something else or into something else anyway. You wouldn't get much force on that handle though so it isn't for anything heavy duty. 802. The right hand end is clearly the jaw of a spanner so I guess it's designed for getting at hard to reach nuts. 804. The teeth have the form of saw teeth. Gripping teeth would normally be symmetrical. Looks like you clamp it to something moving and then it saws through something else.
-- Dave Baker Puma Race Engines
799: COACHMAKER'S PLOW PLANE
I know! They are torture instruments used by the Spanish Inquisition.
Bob Kolker
I never expected that!
I think it's actually sort of a flexible crow's-foot wrench, to reach difficult-to-reach bolts. Note the square on the end, where a handle could be attached.
Also, though I agree the cotter pin is not original, I wouldn't be surprised if it had interchangeable heads, for different size bolts.
Actually, I want one. I can think of a couple of locations on my truck where that would be useful.
Hi,
801 looks like a pair that clamps onto a yard stick or something similar to make a trammel. OR similarly onto a framing square to layout stairs.Thanks Roger Haar
R.H. wrote:
#799 Stringing slot cutter. #801 Trammel points
"Bob Kolker" schrieb im Newsbeitrag news: snipped-for-privacy@individual.net...
not spain and middle ages, guantanamo bay today!
greetings from germany, chris
According to R.H. :
O.K. Posting from rec.crafts.metalworking as usual.
799) This is a strange one. At least part of it appears to be a plane designed for grooving the edge of a board, with a guide on one side to keep it on track -- but I'm not at all sure what the semi-circular bronze guide is for. But it appears to have a precision adjustment, and maybe a scale for measuring its position. 800) At a first guess, I would say that it is intended to stab into a wall and hold a candle (in the spring clip), and perhaps to hold a torch or a kerosene lantern in the ring as well.I *think* that it is shown upside down so the loop beside the candle holder could be a hook for holding some accessory.
801) At first, I thought that these were to clamp onto a yardstick to transfer measurements -- but this would require a 2" wide yardstick -- a bit too wide for those commonly available.But they still could clamp to a flat board, and serve as a form of trammel. Just a guess, however.
802) A wrench for accessing things rather difficult to reach otherwise. And it looks to me as though the other end could drive sockets (1/2" drive, I think) in similarly awkward locations. 803) Rather specialized forms of cleavers. Perhaps the hooks are helpful in butchering an animal? 804) A non-skid clamp to fit a 2x4 perhaps? It looks as though the non-skid teeth were made from a saw blade -- but it does not look long enough to be actually *usable* as a saw.Congratulations -- I had to guess at *all* of these, with no feel of certainty. This is a new level of difficulty. Only (802) seems fairly clear to me.
Now to see what others have guessed
Enjoy, DoN.
Christian Stüben wrote in news:eh9in5$7dg$1 @news01.versatel.de:
Could it have been used in Auschwitz, Sobibor, or Treblinka? Perhaps even in Belzec, Majdanek, or Chelmnos in the thirties and forties?
Hi Henry,
"Henry St.Pierre" schrieb im Newsbeitrag news:Xns986221CBF353Ahankstarusadatanetne@216.196.97.142...
Yep, maybee. There are much more concentration camps (
Very close, it was made for use by firemen.
Rob
According to the seller these are not block knives, but were created to be used on a particular plant.
Rob
There are no correct guesses yet for 801, according to the patent they were invented to be used by a woodworker.
Rob
Was it a cane knife for sugar cane. I live in Hawaii and the only ones I've seen look like this.
R.H. wrote:
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