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Rob
What is it? LXXXIII
Nov 10, 2005
37 Replies
#507: immersion heater #508: Wire stripper (to remove isolation)
Nick
#503 is a portable deer stand climbing step. Unfold, screw into tree trunk. Put in the next one. Up you go. These fold up and fit in your pocket.
Karl
#497 is an old blow torch.
505 appears to be part of one of those old hand exercizer devices-- i.e., the grip enhancers.
506 is a wire crimper, isn't it? It looks like something I've seen phone technicians use.
502 looks like part of a mop attachment, which means it's probably part of a car engine :)503 is one of Tom Delay's favorite toys. He's been looking all over for it and without it, no one listens to him any longer.
504 is an ear grabber extender. It's for elderly women who want to grab you by the ear but don't feel like getting up. It's got a button on the other side which extends it by three feet.506 is an early (rejected) prototype for the soup ladle.
502 is used to split the jacket on romex type electrical cable. Used to be called a "cable ripper" not sure if that is still so.
503 is a screw in step for climbing into tree stands and such.
504 I know I've seen one of those in a catalog or someplace, but drawing a blank!505 is the spring from one of those hand grip excerciser things.
506 is a wire stripper. The cutter jaws are spring loaded and self-adjusting for the size of wire.507 is some sort of old wood workers scooper-outer tool. I imagine it is for some specific task, but I don't know what!
498 are those little things to hold windows in before the glaze is smeared on. Mike
I forgot 505 and 506:
505 looks like a spring from a clothes pin.506 appears to be a wire stripper.
Mike
505 is part of a safety pin.
504. Shoelace tightener 507. Bowl gouge for wood-lathe?
502. Romex stripper -- for slitting the cover on non-metallic electric cable. 503. Removable "step" for climbing into a tree stand. 504. no idea. Possibly a manual tension scale to measure force needed to move something? 505.
506. Wire stripper, used to strip multiple cunductor flat cables.
507. Made something similar for a reenactor. That one was for twisting rope.
Umm, it's got a 7/8" inside diameter. That's a big safety pin.
502. Cable jacket stripper, usually for romex
505. Spring part of a large safety pin
507. ?Scorp? for hollowing wooden shapes.
We want to be REALLY safe.
--julie
Like a cable tension checker, or something?
Well, held vertically it would just be a scale, as in for weighing things, like fish.
Yes, could be, but most of the fishing scales I've seen have a hook or ring on both ends. It looks much like the device my wife uses in her work to test the effort needed to open a door, for example.
She's an Independent Living Advocate, kind of an ADA enforcer. You know, like: "Hey, Louie, get current with your ADA compliance or we'll teach ya a little bit about disabilities. Know what I'm saying?" (OK, not really quite that bad.:)
She works for an Independent Living Center, which helps businesses and housing Property Managers figure out how to follow ADA Accessibility Guidelines as easily and cheaply as possible and on finding housing for folks who are in nursing homes, but who could live independently. (And much more cheaply for the government agencies paying the nursing home costs.)
Guess that means it probably isn't a clothes pin either. LOL
Mike
Hey Rob,
My guesses:
501 Flaying tool, to cut blubber from whales or other animals.502 Romex ripper, for cutting outer sheath, and has wire gage holes
503 Portable wooden structure "step", to screw in a pole or tree to climb504 Tension gage, for wire or rope, or possibly even spokes
505 The spring for a clamp lamp or some other clamp-on device506 Wire strippers, for finer gages, with adjustable strip length setting
507 Not sure at all, but possibly along with other like tools is used in flaying bones??Keep up the good work! Where do you post the "correct answers", and when?
Brian Lawson, Bothwell, Ontario.
502. Romex stripper
503. Tree/pole step
504. twisting tool
505. hand exerciser
506. wire stripper
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