What is it? Set 410

Made of wood?

"Rob H." fired this volley in news: snipped-for-privacy@news1.newsguy.com:

Tough part is trying to answer without peeking at previous answers, anyway:

2372

2374- easy to say machinists angle block, but that big hole is for something... small but shiny one over on tractorshed.com

2376- olympic torch used by the US, again too lazy to google from when

Dave

Ok, you got me. I did an immediate shape recognition, and didn't look at the size and fine detail. This is a model of a Cray 1 computer.

2372 - Looks like a set of trammel points and some other pieces.

2374 -

2376 - Gimbaled ships lantern. Possibly a masthead lamp.

Thanks, I figured it was for a machinist but didn't know the name of it, found similar ones searching on angle block but ever more when I searched angle plate.

2374: maybe a tool holder for a lathe? Bits clamp to the flats, and the big hole is for bolting the holder to the tool sled.

2376: either a kind of lamplighting tool (on the end of a long pole) or maybe some kind of torch (but I see no way to attach any windshield).

Posting from Rec.crafts.metalworking as always.

as an example of the size, those steps could be used (and were used) for seating.

2373) Some interesting form of lock?

It can be bolted to a machine's table, and the workpiece bolted to it to hold it in the proper orientation for the work.

2376) Some form of oil fueled lamp -- and based on the photo behind it, it may be an "eternal flame" to honor someone who is gone.

But it also appears to be gimbaled, as would be common on a shipboard lamp.

Now to spell check this, post it, and go on to see what others have suggested.

Enjoy, DoN.

Not at 12" height -- but a *model* of a Cray-1 supercomptuer, yes I agree.

Enjoy, DoN.

#2371 A cray-1 supercomputer. Circular to get the wire lengths short. #2376 A lamp

Thanks, this is probably the best guess that I've heard for it, the

Rob

Hmmm ... still a bit small for the working models designed to fire .22 LR cartridges, so I guess that it is not a working model. I doubt that it would even work with .177 caliber.

O.K. I'm interested in what (2372) turns out to be. A better exposed shot of the two parts near the legs at the right hand end might help.

In your description of (2374) -- was that a description of how it was found being used? It normally was not attached to a workbench, but rather to the T-slotted moving cast iron table which was part of a milling machine or perhaps a vertical turret lathe.

The large hole (which others commented on) was simply a way of somewhat reducing the weight that the gusset which fills the 'V' to increase rigidity would add to the plate. The part closest to the V adds little rigidity, and adds more weight proportionally than it is worth.

The 'V' on one face is to keep a cylindrical part vertical The tapped holes are for bolting workpieces to the angle plate, or to use with hold-down clamps to hold the workpiece to the plate without having to drill holes into the workpieces.

Enjoy, DoN.

Good catch, I got the description from the Wikipedia link where they had said it was attached to a work table, and I mistakenly wrote work bench instead. I just fixed my answer and added your description of it being attached to a "T-slotted moving cast iron table which was part of a milling machine." Thanks!

Rob