What is it? Set 379

Posting from rec.crafts.metalworking as always.

2185) Looks like an old automobile trouble light, designed to plug into a cigarette lighter outlet.

The hook keeps it from sliding away from where it is being used.

What is not clear is why the mechanical shutter instead of a switch in the cord.

Of course -- it could be a timing light, missing perhaps the part to fire the bulb -- but the bulb sort of looks like an incandescent -- though it might not be the original lamp.

2186) If the diagonal part between 3 and 15 on the drawing is a spring or a rubber band, then it is some kind of shock mount, perhaps for something like transporting nitroglycerine or some similarly sensitive product.

If there were a pointer of some sort, I would consider it to be possibly a form of scale instead.

2187) Looks like a tool for manipulating the grate in a woodstove, or something similar. 2188) Well ... the central object is a Starrett mechanical tachometer which you have put up before. But I presume you are asking about the wood object just above it instead.

That looks like something for supporting a workpiece between centers -- but since there is not a thread on the shaft of the T-handled part, nor a visible thumbscrew for locking it down, instead I will suggest that it is for pushing a cork into a style of bottle with a depressed center.

The fact that it is displayed with the tach and some small C-clamps in interesting, and calls into question what kind of museum display it happens to be.

2189) Way too blurred to really make a guess at all. Sorry. 2190) Slips on over a small pipe. Might serve to keep rain out of an exhaust pipe until opened. Perhaps if I looked up Crestmark, I would learn more -- or perhaps not.

Now to see what others have suggested.

Enjoy, DoN.

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DoN. Nichols
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2190: Held Daniel Crestmark's balls. This legendary marksman kept the bore of his Kentucky Long Rifle scrupulously clean with a wet patch. He used the cap from his lipstick case to measure his powder.

Most riflemen used hard lead balls so they wouldn't deform too badly to jam down the bore. Crestmark's case protected his soft lead balls. He'd choose one and push it through the center hole to trim it to the precise size of his bore.

The end of his ramrod was a hollow cone. As he tapped the ramrod to pack the ball against the powder, the ball would deform, becoming pointed with its sides mashed into the grooves of the rifling.

Harper's Ferry began producing 54-caliber yaggers in 1803. Crestmark found himself tossed onto the Ash Heap of History.

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J Burns

Good guess, key is correct. Tough set this week, no answer yet for the large metal device or the two wooden tools. The rest of the answers can be seen here:

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Rob

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Rob H.

The two wood tools were part of a private collector's display in his museum, the walls were full of tools that were mostly grouped according to use but a lot of adjacent items were not related so the C-clamps and tach are not good clues for these tools.

Rob

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Rob H.

The small tool above the C clamp in 2188 looks like an rpm measurement tool. You would push the end of the device onto the end of a shaft and the dial on the side would spin and record revolutions. With a stopwatch you could determine rpm.

John

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John

Here is a picture of one.

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John

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John

We used these as a trouble/working light in aircraft. It plugged in such as a bulb would in a socket. Note the small pins used to align the plug as needed in a socket. The pins are also used to retain the plug, again as in retaining a bulb in a socket. The shutter is used to restrict the light path as desired.

Bob AZ

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Bob AZ

2189: Guess: A choke (part of carburation) for an antique tractor.

Bill

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Bill

Looks a lot like it might be somewhat related to the old, naphtha fueled blow torch. The slanted part being the torch itself, feeding the hot fuel air mixture into the main body with many slots to release the flammable mixture to the flame area. the small basin below the main portion being the pan to hold raw liquid fuel which is ignited to pre-heat the torch. I suspect that this assembly was provided with a burner grate to support a lead pot as used by plumbers when assembling cast iron "bell and spigot" pipe. Gerry :-)} London, Canada

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Gerald Miller

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