I have answers for just the first and third ones this week and need some help with the rest.
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Rob
What is it? Set 491
May 02, 2013
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2860 - Would stating the obvious be incorrect then, a child's canoe/coracle paddle?
2860 - Would stating the obvious be incorrect then, a child's canoe/coracle paddle? In fact it's more likely to be a wort (or something similar) stirrer.
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The owner referred to it as a chopper and stated in his email that "the blade is sharp" and that it weighs about four pounds. So I was thinking that most of it was made of metal.
2857 Hmmm... I clearly don't know what this is, but... The precision available from the globe, settings and indications are clearly inadequate for weapons targeting or navigation. I'll guess that this is a teaching-aid.
2859 - Oil can opener. Downward push of the handle would provide pour hole and air hole. Definitely pre spout days
2857, Russian pilot's guidance system?
2858, no clue. Maybe stores a written message for the next shift?
2859, mechanical press of some kind (to mention the obvious).
2860, some kind of canoe paddle. Or, maybe blocks a sluice channel for some kind of drainage system.
2861, from the rust and paint, probably from some kind of construction equipment.
2862, this is a nutty SWAG, but maybe it's a fisherman's earth worm shocker. The round thing inside is a wet cell.
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Rob
2862 - some sort of electrotherapy device?
See the photos here for something not completely dissimilar.
A Globe washing machine!
LOL! Two points for the most creative guess of the week.
Sorry, forgot the "here":
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2857 Sure looks like a movie prop, to send the position of a fictional Russian ship back to mother Russia.---or a death ray targeting device (shades of Captain Video).
2857- Looks like an instrument from the old manned rooskie spy satellite/station used to aim one of the orbit-to-ground telescopes.
satellite/station used to aim one of the orbit-to-ground telescopes.
Was going by memory- WAS used on the almaz spy satellite, but other rooskie orbital craft as well.
Can opener is correct, though it was marked beer can opener for use at a bar. I couldn't find another like it on the web, nor could I find a similar oil can opener.
Thanks for the translations, I'll post them with my answer for it.
I agree that it's probably some kind of quack medical device though I haven't been able to prove it.
Good one Leon!
2861 Is a mount for temporarily attaching a hitch ball to a bumper back when vehicles had real bumpers. Art
Thanks! Looks like you are correct, I just found the patent for it:
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Posting from Rec.crafts.metalworking as always.
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2857) Quite an interesting item.First glance says military, based on the color, but not quite right for US Army equipment.
Closer looks say that it is from Russia. (The lettering on the controls, and on the globe look Cyrrilic to me.
Given the fact that there is a complete globe in it, and the fact that it has scales marked in degrees, and at least one dial in degrees, minutes and seconds, I suspect that it is a target entry console for an ICBM.
In particular, I find the thick red lines at the borders between the US and the neighboring countries to be of interest. I suspect that the globe is in there to serve as a double-check that the latitude and longitude were entered correctly. You dial in the setting, then look at the map to make sure that it looks like where you wanted to hit.
I suspect that the knob to the bottom right of the globe is the arming switch, with a safety lock around it.
And -- it looks like it is designed to mount in a console.
I would be interrested in seeing a translation of the control markings once the answers are all in.
2858) Hmm ... I suspect that the larger plug should also have an O-ring in the groove between where the threads end and the knurled knob starts.At a guess, this was for sampling the atmosphere, for detecting poisonous or explosive gasses which are common in coal mines.
It may hold some absorbent material, and have a pump pulling air into it for some hours or days.
2859) My first guess was that it was to puncture cans like oil cans or beverage cans. (No dimensions to select between the twoP.However, the points are not sharp enough. So -- they may be to open valves in a cylindrical object, or to hold a screw-in lid against rotating by the pins in (perhaps blind) holes, while the cylindrical object itself is rotated below to screw in or unscrew a lid.
2860) A paddle for use on only one side of a canoe (one hand grips the T-bar at the top, and the other hand grips part-way down the handle. but it would be difficult to swap sides quickly.Or -- it could be for stirring something being mixed, a large amount of stew, or a paint, or fertilizer, or whatever.
2861) Looks like a tool for crimping either large electrical terminals, or swaged fittings on the end of steel cables.It has sockets for three different sizes -- and the chained semi-circles could be used to adapt to two other sizes.
However -- one feature does not look right for that purpose. The larger notches are at a greater distance from the threaded bar which applies the force. Unless it is way undersized for the task.
2862) The black cylindrical object is a battery -- to be filled with acid just prior to use.Are the wired rods in the third photo a part of the battery or grounding rods?
At a guess, it is a portable (likely military) telegraph, hooked to the wires, and to a headphone, while the spring-loaded button is the sending key.
I would be interested to know what lives in the drawer.
And the three-fingered thing is another puzzle.
Time to post this, and then see what others have suggested.
Enjoy, DoN.
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