There's something funny about the hoops, which is why I put a question mark on it. They don't look like regular wrought-iron hoops -- maybe wire or something -- but I can't make it out from the photo. Powder kegs usually did not have wrought-iron hoops because of the sparking hazard.
I'm gonna guess some type of early whisk?
Don't get stuck in this rut Bill Get in the groove man !!
The hoops are made of wire, probably a good idea to avoid sparking as much as possible but I did see a powder keg on the web with iron hoops.
Rob
Yeah, I recall that there were some, which I saw in a museum when I was a kid. There were some that used copper hoops but that must have been expensive in those days.
Posting from Rec.crafts.metalworking as always.
2221) Given the size the set of holes on the top, and the lever along the side, I suspect that this is some kind of novelty food grater, perhaps for nutmeg given the size. 2222) Some kind of small barrel -- perhaps for ale or something similar? 2223) 3" inside diameter -- inside of *what*? Inside the small center hole, inside the three arcs between the spokes, or inside the circle suggested by the three legs?It sort of looks like a device to suspend a container over a flame. But if the 3" is inside the legs, then it might be something to be screwed down to a wooden rail or table to hold a candle in a glass.
2224) Perhaps for use in a tool booth, with the buttons representing different entry ramps to the tollway, and the phone for communicating with the central office and the police in case of problems. 2225) Well ... the eyes to the left and right with the hook suggest something which is wrong -- based on the orientation of the ratchet teeth. It is designed to push the ends apart, not to pull them together. 2226) A self-defense weapon -- held inside a fist, with the points serving as attack points, and the rest of it increasing the mass of the fist to give a more powerful blow -- with the grooves intended to keep it from slipping out of the hand in the middle of a fight.Now -- to see what others have suggested.
Enjoy, DoN.
Could it be wisk, something like this:
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Or -- to be jailed for cruelty to records. I can't imagine any way that this would track properly without exerting enough force on the stylus so it would rapidly shorten the life of the recording.
And -- what RPM is it set to? It is bound to be wrong everywhere except at one radius.
And if you put it on backwards, it would play the record backwards, as in some of the old stories about nasty trick built into some rock recordings. :-)
Enjoy, DoN.
Turned upside down and driven into into the ground, it looks like it would do a good job of holding a rope or cable. There's even a good place to hold a knot and enough room to tie one. I'm not convinced...
Bill
RPM or MPH ??
The last one, 3" i.d. of the three legs.
It's for holding something but not for a candle.
Correct
When I said: "In all seriousness, what a wonderfully goofy idea!!! Whoever thought this up deserves an award for creativity." I was expressing awe that our society can produce such a product. I don't want to pick a fight about the explosive subject of combining the words 'rational' and 'vinyl' in a discussion. (I still have a good working vinyl system.) Thinking about how this thing works... The left and right wheels are separately servoed. A common speed input goes to each servo. A tracking signal, derived from the stylus displacement from center, is a differential input to the servos. This centers the stylus and makes the thing go in a circle (ok, spiral). The difference in rotation of the wheels is used to derive a radius measure, which is used to generate the speed input signal, to make the speed compensate for the different linear velocity at different radii. (Or money could be spent on a gyro to get rotation rate.) All this is done in a fairly-low-volume toy at an amazingly low price.
The owners tried it as a whisk and said it was not very effective at that, but if I had to pick one of the guesses I would still say whisk, just not a very well designed one. Other suggestions for it include: pot scraper, rug beater, carpet cleaner, and pipe scraper. Looks like it's still a mystery for now.
Rob
You could pick one up on eBay and find out for sure:
Don't bother buying one on eBay. This video shows how it works and why it doesn't need all the fancy stuff you thought of:
Does anyone else find it curious that 45 (RPM) is damn close to the difference between 33-1/3 and 78.26?
78.26 was the "official" speed for 78s, arising from some easy to reach gear ratio coupled to a synchronous AC motor. (I suppose that was established before they started driving turntables with those rubber idler wheels).Five of the six were identified correctly this week:
Rob
If they hold it upright and just shake it up and down, do the loose rings at the top make a sort of jingling noise, like a ring of keys or some kind of tambourine?
What's the loose stuff at the bottom? Is it like rags, or a cloth, or hide, or something that could be swung around like some kind of stylized broom?
I'm thinking some kind of fetish, like a magickal stick used by a medicine man or some kind of tribal guru, used in healing rituals - the jangling rings scare away the evil spirits, and the loose stuff at the bottom sweeps them out of the patient's body.
But I'm nuts, so never mind. ;-D
Cheers! Rich
What did folks use to clean cast iron stoves ~200 years ago?
Bill
Perhaps something to go into the mouth of a hooked fish for extracting the hook?
Enjoy, DoN.
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