What is it? Set 451

Posting from rec.crafts.metalworking as always:

2617) These look like counterweights for something. Likely theater curtains at a guess.

They could be anchors for small craft like rowboats, but the rings on some of them could rust away in a season.

2618) Given the size (too small for a flashlight bulb) I'm going to guess that this is a solar-powered cigarette lighter -- it focuses the heat of the sun on the end of a cigarette placed through the hole.

I guess that it could also be used to light a fuse on an explosive device at a particular hour if set up right.

2619) O.K. The second could be used as a plumber's snake, but the first one looks more like something designed to feed through a pipe and then (as the orange device springs out from passing through the pipe, it will hook on the end and when you pull back, it will turn at right angles, and pull on the whole of the pipe.

The angle of view of the first one does not make it clear whether it is a steel tape, or a wire, but the function would be similar. The wire would be harder to grip and pull on without gloves, of course. :-)

2620) A simple puzzle, missing the small ball which drops in from the left-hand end?

A trap for some kind of large insect or small rodent?

2621) A travel burglar alarm? You set it like a wedge as a door stop, but in addition to making the door more difficult to open, it closes a contact and sounds an alarm.

2622) Perhaps a rack for transporting a bicycle on the back of a car?

Now to post this, and then see what others have suggested.

Enjoy, DoN.

Hmm ... to me the hole looks to small (given the stated diameter) to accept a PR-2 style flashlight bulb. Perhaps some other kind, but I'm not really sure about that. I would be interested in knowing what kind of bulb is expected to fit though that hole.

Enjoy, DoN.

"DoN. Nichols" wrote

I think the orange in the first one is a fold out handle/clamp. the tape continues out to a ball in the upper left corner (not easy to see in the picture). To push the snake out the pipe, just flip out the handle till it clamps and keep pushing. When bring the snake back in the handle can be used to coil the tape back on the inside of the coil. pulling on the coil itself when things get tough.

I'm the source of the picture of the flash light reflector. Since Rob will post the answers today, I can come clean.

The item is a reflector, out of a Harbor Freight strap on head lamp. Been on sale for a while, for two bucks. Down from 5.99. I pulled out the reflector, and the bi-pin bulb, (similar to mini mag bulb, but a bit fatter than a mini mag bulb).

Some years ago, I had one of these head lamps, and the bulb blew. They do have a spare bulb inside. It occured to me to try a conversion kit, that changes Mini-Mag from incandescant to LED. Nite Ize makes such a conversion. Ebay has them, cheaper.

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you pull the reflector out of the head lamp (and take a picture and send to Rob....) the LED conversion goes in, easily enough. Provides usable light, and no filament to blow. Someday I'll check the current draw, and let you know what I find. Might do that, now, actually.

The elastic straps are poor quality, so I bought a couple extra strap on lamps. I'll move the LED module to the next lamp, when the straps stretch out. For two bucks, I can pitch them in to the trash as they stretch out.

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Hmm ... to me the hole looks to small (given the stated diameter) to accept a PR-2 style flashlight bulb. Perhaps some other kind, but I'm not really sure about that. I would be interested in knowing what kind of bulb is expected to fit though that hole.

Enjoy, DoN.

They have all been answered correctly this week, thanks to everyone who supplied the answer for the drain snake.

Rob

Thanks, I learned about a few items I'd never seen. And had fun, too.

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Rob

I have used the same sort of thing when i worked as a telecom installer we used it to snake across under carpet and pull cable back or to snake down ducts to pull cables back down them.

One piece flat sewer tape.

Thanks, I'll send this link to the owner.