What is it? LXXXII

From Rec.woodworking

#472: profile gauge?? #473: the end of a fluorescent tube #474: a type of needle scaler? #475: hole saw. #476: can opener? hose cutter? #477: another descaler?

472. Heavy-duty toothbrush head for scrubbing Cliff's foul mouth out with soap. 473. High-voltage probes for Cliff's electro-shock psycho-therapy. 474. Mini-roto-rooter for clearing the detritus out from the hollow between Cliff's ears. 475. A screw-pull for extracting Cliff's head from his arse. 476. A tool for prying open Cliff's eye lids so that he might one day see reality. 477. A spanking paddle to be applied to Cliff's backside each and every time he spams these newsgroups.

476 Can opener 477 Carding tool. Believe used in the process of making wool into thread or yarn.

477 Or maybe making flax into linen.

#476: can opener #477: I think it's a comb for flax or hemp fiber, used prior ro spinning. The needles are too long and too coarse and the head is too small for it to be for wool.

Barbara

472. Set of pins for measuring hole diameters. 473. The end of the light at the tunnel. 474. Stirrer. 475. Makes holes (perhaps in barrels). 476. Tool used to cut off lengths of wooden dowels. 477. Card used in spinning.

Carl G.

I sure hope it isn't for combing hair!!!

472 - Alignment block?

473 - Looks like the connection on an electric skillet

474 - Reaming tool for pipe?

475 - Bung tool for wooden casks

476 - Looks like a can opener but I'm not sure it is. The lower piece appears to swivel?

477 - Flax breaker. Used like a wool card to break the flax into useable fibers prior to carding.

According to R.H. :

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

472) Hmm ... it looks like a variation on a magnetic parallel for holding things higher than the surface of the magnetic chuck on a surface grinder.

Most that I have seen had the aluminum (or brass or bronze) body the full height of the magnetically soft (mild steel) pole pieces. In any case, they transfer the magnetic poles of the chuck to the higher level. (There are also V-blocks made similarly.)

Others are alternating plates of brass and steel, riveted together by brass rods.

I would guess that "J. BRACKEN" is the name of the person who made this as part of his apprenticeship program.

473) contact pins and shell end of a fluorescent lamp tube. 474) I think that this is an internal remote grabber. It probably has a spring loaded plunger which expands the fingers unless the plunger is depressed from the other end, allowing it to be inserted into the object being grabbed, or to release said object. 475) A trepaning wood bit. The screw tip at the center pulls it into the wood workpiece, and the outside legs cut a circular groove until it falls through the workpiece. It is limited as to how deep it will make a hole, simply because it does not have the sharp edges between the center screw and the outer cutters of a typical auger bit to shave wood out of the center of the hole, so the cross-pieces will eventually hit and prevent any farther progress.

However, the lack of those center cutters will reduce the amount of torque which the operator will need to apply to the handles.

476) This looks like yet another variety of can opener. 477) A "card" for wool, perhaps? Designed to straighten out the fibers prior to spining, and to make it easier to separate from the dirt which comes with the sheep.

Now -- to see what others have guessed.

Enjoy, DoN.

#472: Looks like a steel plug gauge set

#473: Receptacle for small appliance recharger or electrical connection. Maybe for an electric razor

#474: Light bulb changer

#475: looks to be some sort of boring tool. Would probably make a pretty nasty edge

#476: No idea

#477: Wool card

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r.w

474 is a fishing spear or 'sling'

-- TomH [ antonomasia gmail com ]

Five of the six have been identified:

472. One of a pair of magnetic parallels

473. The end of a fluorescent light

474. No correct answers yet, closest guess so far is pipe reamer

475. Boring tool for a barrel

476. Can opener, this one works differently than most, with the small forked piece going on top of the rim and the blade cutting up from the side

477. Flax tool

Rob

well, it looks old and pitted with rust, so it looks like an OLD tool. i can't tell if the ends of the wires have barbs on 'em. how about scraping the built up crud off the tubes in a steam engine heat exchanger? (i don't even know if the tubes in steam engine heat exchangers get cruddy, just a wild guess.) maybe you can screw on extensions to make it longer for engines like the "BIG BOY". :-)

b.w.

oops. i meant "number 474..." and "...off the INSIDE of the tubes in a steam engine...." did/do heat exchanger tubes in a steam engine get cruddy? or i guess maybe even a stationary boiler.

i went to china in 1986 and they were still using steam engines there. it was marvelous to ride through the terraced hills of china on a fire breathing dragon. i WISH i had the presence of mind to have begged or bribed a ride in the engine!!! one night i stayed in a hotel near a train yard and it was wonderful to hear a steam engine starting up with a heavy load ("CHUFF CHUFF CHUFF") then the drive wheels breaking loose ("chuffchuffchuffchuffchuff") and the engineer cutting the power and starting up again ("CHUFF CHUFF CHUFF") was wonderful. like time travel.

b.w.

Nope, not for steam engines. Also it wasn't made to have extensions added to it.

Sounds like fun.

Rob

I recently saw a report in TV. They still use steam locos and you can drive them (at extra cost). There's a company (in Germany) offering such travels. I bet you could find someone in the US too who will be happy to send to to China as a coal monkey. ;-)

Nick

No, it's a wool comb, not a card. Used for aligning the wool fibers for making worsted yarn (the smooth stuff) instead of woolen yarn (the fuzzy stuff you're more used to). Cards do the woolen thing.

yours, Michael

Well, at least I was in the right church, just hadn't found the right pew yet.

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Yep...I'm a bit of a fiber geek, so I'm picky about it...

yours, Michael