What is it? Set 475

I think 2766 is a critcial part of a "needle valve". I have no furtherinfo about it.

Bill

2762 Werner makes ladders. Maybe you could use it to contruct an A-frame ladderfrom two extension (straight) ladders?

Bill

2763 Is the tip of a ceremonial halberd. In the 17th century, rich, pompous, ostentatious people might show off when giving a social affair by having a bunch of guys standing around in fancy dress holding sticks with these on the ends acting like guards. Also used in hollywood costume dramas as a herald bangs the bottom of the stick on the floor and announces arriving guests.

2765 Hmmm... No provision to dispose of or collect scrap suggests occasional rather than repetitive use. Steel cutter against a brass back-up block suggests cutting something like leather. Perhaps this was used in a harness-maker's shop to shape the ends of leather straps.

2766 A tool of some sort, temporarilyy fitted for aligning or centering something??

2761: I see a pawl. I think it was a turnstile. With only two arms, I guess it required a person to walk through an arc of nearly 180 degrees. That may have made it necessary to walk upright, ruling out ducking under the arm.

Your correct Bill, these ship with the Werner ladders that fold and telescope. This is so you can break them down into two separate A-frames. Think I've used my set once since I bought the ladder 5+ years ago.

Hey Rob,

2761 is a winch or capstan. The handle(s) are missing, at least are not in the photo. A rope or whatever would be passed around the drum a minimum of 1-1/2 times and then pass by the projection. This type requires someone to "tail it" in use. It appears to have a ratchet dog that will work in either direction by just "flipping" it over. With this type device, there is only a way to apply "pull", and just releasing holding pressure (the tailing guy) allows the line to slip to do a controlled release of the "load".

2762 as someone else has mentioned, Werner's make ladders, and my GUESS is that this package allows turning an extension ladder (or two to get equal leg lengths) into a step ladder with rungs on both up-rights.

2763 Flag standard, top fitting.

2764 no clue

2765 looks like a shear to trim "something". maybe leather belt(ing??) or paper or even wood, to produce a nice radius dependant on the width of the material. Each of the "base" uprights is a different width to allow selecting the simple proper channel for one to use, and there is a pin-stop for each to set the end of the "material" against.

2766 no clue, but something makes me wonder if it could be an internal "locking" in an extendable pipe.

Take care Happy New Year.

Brian Lawson, Bothwell, Ontario. XXXXXXXXXXXXXXX

The person who sent me the photo was given this item by someone who challenged him to see if he could find out what it is. The challenger knows the answer and when asked if it was part of a valve, he said it was not.

Capstan is correct.

Yes, it's a halbard flag staff finial, this one was used by Civil War infantry.

I need some help with the last item this week:

Note the ratchet pawls at the base to hold rope tension.

Flow regulator valve of some sort. O-rings are a clue.

Cutter -- note the bite marks in the bronze anvil and the out-cannel honed blades. Fence pickets? Mass production machine -- having a dozen or so preset channels means no time wasted setting up.

Good eye! I didn't notice the ratchet pawls.

Posting from rec.crafts.metalworking as always.

2761) A two-man capstan -- a bit small but usable for not too great a load. Most would have sockets for up to eight men to walk around it with wooden bars stuck in square holes at the top. one man or perhaps two would maintain tension on the free end of the line. (This is called "tailing". The line would feed in at the bottom and walk up the taper.

The anchor chain or line (rope) would be wrapped several turns around the barrel at the waist, and as they walked around it, it would draw up the anchor -- or host a yard with a sail, or anything else which required a lot of pulling force on a long line.

The ratchet pawl at about 5:00 O'Clock on the base clicks as it passes over each of the radial ribs in the base plate (looks like eight of them in total) and prevents it from turning backwards. The pawl can be flipped over to allow turning in the opposite direction if neeeded.

The men would have to be careful to step over both the incoming line, and the free end.

2762) Strange in several ways. Each is held together with rivets, but an Allen key and a small open end wrench packaged in the carrying case. It looks as though the arms are intended to slide into tracks of some sort.

So I really don't know what this one is, and no real guess.

2763) Assuming that the bottom end is hollow, I would say that it is a decorative cap for the end of a flagstaff. The shape is that of a halberd. It is not for our national flag, but it may be for the flags for some church or fraternal organization -- perhaps Knights of Columbus?

2764) Perhaps some uncommon form of (spinning) top?

2765) It is designed to cut a half-round end on things of various width (likely wood). Looks like perhaps a 2" or maybe 3" cut.

There is a separate guide and cutter for each width

2766) Hmm ... green anodized Aluminum -- or perhaps Titanium.

The O-rings are to keep it from slipping off too easily.

The Nylon part appears to adapt it to a smaller shaft, but may not be an original part of it.

Perhaps some kind of penetrator for testing hardness of relatively soft items.

Now to post and see what others have suggested.

Enjoy, DoN.

This makes a lot of sense. And it may have been used to trim the ends of a whole stack of straps (or belts for humans).

As for scrap -- perhaps just put a rectangular trash can on the floor against the back. Or perhaps it is fed a continuous strip, leaving a concave cut on the back end.

And is it possible that those pins were intended to have a hole in the strap placed over it, so the arc cut forms a half circle around that as a center. I don't see provisions for that to also punch the hole, so there must be another machine to punch the holes in the middle of the width of the strap.

Enjoy, DoN.

2766 Piston for paint ball gun

Robert