Someone just sent me the link below, according to the photo it was part of an overhead trolley track, as was answered in the comments on my site:
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What is it? Set 447
Jun 28, 2012
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2593 looks as if it would clamp squares between 4 and 5.5". If you cut such a square on the butt of a log, the clamp might help you cut a square timber, using a guided saw or perhaps hand tools. 2594 could help a carpenter use chisels to cut a groove about an inch wide and up to 2" deep. It would scribe, then find spots where the groove was too narrow.
Posting from Rec.crafts.metalworking as always.
2593) Never seen anything like it before. At a guess, it is to hold a wood 4x4 upright while concrete is poured around it and allowed to set.2594) These look like some kind of tongs used by a blacksmith.
At a guess from the shape, the two points are put in a hole in the workpiece, and the ring around the shanks is slid down towards the ring at the handle end, thus allowing the points to spread apart and grip the workpiece.
2595) Hmm ... fifteen compartments does not give a clue like say 26 would (type for a printer or alphabetical groupings of objects) and it does not look deep enough to hold sheet music books, though it could serve as a piano bench once the lid is closed.And you call it a desk, but it does not really look tall enough to be a desk.
So -- no -- no guesses.
2596) This, however, is clear. It is the claw bolted to a chainsaw just below where the blade attaches to control the chainsaw (and its operator) being drawn into the work being cut.2597) I find it difficult to be sure which holes are being described in this one. Perhaps a second photo showing the other position of the lever would help.
It looks sort of like a window latch on steroids. And it looks as though the flat piece nearest the bottom of the photo has had two ends broken off which completed the holes for two of the screws intended to mount it. The center hole in that flat piece looks as though it was a third screw hole for mounting it.
2598) Strange -- and another point of view would help on this one as well.Hmm ... perhaps a "frog" for where two rails join into one, or one splits into two depending on which direction you are traveling.
A bit small for modern railroad rails, but perhaps for the rails used in a mine for ore carts? Certainly for use with flanged wheels similar to those on railroad cars.
Now to post this and then see what others have suggested.
Enjoy, DoN.
Marking the spacing of nails in a horseshoe?
Enjoy, DoN.
Good job on getting the trolley switch. The latch is still unidentified but the rest of the answers can be seen here:
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