What is it? Set 365

2104: A puzzle. The goal is to remove the four jacks from the string. 2105: Adjustable carpet beater? ;-)

Cheers! Rich

2101: a rebating plane

2102: a dolly hammer used as a dolly while being hit with another hammer to shape metal for tight spaces.

2103: a drinks cooler with the drawers for the glasses , the drinks in the opening top with ice to cool

2103 Guess: It looks like the drawer spacing is just great enough for this to be a storage cabinet for Dictaphone/Edison wax recording cylinders, stored on end.

Great guess! That's what it was made to store.

Rob

It's not a puzzle but was made for use in the home.

Nope, the shape of the large end holds a clue to its purpose.

Rob

Ah. It's for roasting giant marshmallows. ;-)

(please note winky-smiley. ;-) )

Cheers! Rich

I figured that was more of a joke answer than a real guess, but it does look sort of like a carpet beater so I answered it since I was already replying to your other guess. Also I've seen some toy carpet beaters about that size, funny how you don't see many of them around any more. :^)

Rob

2106 The top portion of a steelyard?

--Winston

Could be, but I'd almost doubt it. The hole in the top for the handle would make the curved top surface useless as a sheet metal dolly. The casting below the crown also makes me believe it is more of a special purpose tool.

Rob, thanks for bringing this "subthread" back where it can be seen from rec.puzzles!

#210 Standard 'veryday beading plane?

Bill

My guesses:

2101 A Rabbit Plane 2102 A Hammer for working this sheet metal. 2103 An old indoor commode when a trip to the outhouse wasn't possible. It does make a fine looking storage cabinet though. The thunder Mug that came with it would also make a fine trash can in the shop. 2104 Some kind of attachment for a Mop head? 2105 Did the center bolt have a spring around it? If it did I would say some kind of scale? Or maybe a door hinge?

DL

2104. If the 4 "jacks" are metal then it could be used as a trivet to keep hot pots or pans off a table or counter top. The string keeps them together when not in use. Art

Good answer, this is correct.

Rob

O.K. Posting from rec.crafts.metalworking as always:

2101) A mortising plane -- for putting decorative or functional edges on planks. Now usually replaced with power tools.

The "Comma" or "Apostrophe" shaped piece of wood wedges the blade to the desired depth.

2102) Size?

Looks as though it is to lever the edge of something up relative to another surface.

2103) My first thought was of a case for a wind-up phonograph, but the brackets in the drawers are not right for holding either disks or cylinder recordings. They *might* hold tins of needles, but I can't picture anyone having that many needles, unless they are selling them from this as a display.

And -- they take up too much space for someone to be using a sewing machine which folds up out of the top -- because you would need room for the knees of the operator to pump on the treadle to run it.

2104) Something strange as a game of some sort. 22" is too short to serve as some form of jumprope, and too long for some other things, and the "jacks" are captive on the line.

2105) Looks like a trigger for some kind of trap or snare. Held down by a rope or hook through the 1/2 loop at the bottom. Some kind of load (deadfall, spring-loaded snare, or similar is pulling up at the kink near the upper end of the loop. When something pulls out or down on the wire going to the left, the loop at the top slides off the end of the straight section of wire and releases whatever it is.

2106) Yet another device for tensioning fences? Not much travel, based on the length of thread on the eye-bolt.

Now to send this off and then see what others have suggested.

Enjoy, DoN.

After an extensive web search, I believe 2106 is a 6" Fisher Scientific ruler. :-) Kerry

2105 - A bent coat hanger wire.

First one is a rabbet plane

I hope 2105 is not a horse's bit.

Bill