What is it? Set 516

Rob H. fired this volley in news:l4al6i02260 @drn.newsguy.com:

3008 is the handle of a manual(ly) hammer(ed) drill (star drill) for concrete or stone. The handle fits a taper on the butt end of the drill, and the taper extractor is to get it back off again. A small sledge is used to hammer it, and the flanges on the handle are to protect the holding hand in case of a miss. 3009 looks to me like an old drop-light cage. ('drop candle cage'?) 3010 obviously a driver for an object that might have both a slotted cover and one with an offset hole (for security?) I've seen similar drivers for special equipment, but this one doesn't ring any bells. 3011 no clue. I can see how it works, and it's only good "on the lift", but I can't recall seeing any farm or lumbering equipment with such a quick-release handle on it.

3007 early version of the game "connect four" Or, traveling salesman's version of a cheese grater. 3008, no clue. 3009, part of a candle lantern. Or maybe bird cage for anorexic birds. 3010, a faucet key of sorts, for a restricted access port. I saw something like this a couple years ago, and the memory is escaping me. 3011, need a better picture. 3012, no clue

3012 is a set of pinch dogs used in woodworking . Used to hold boards together while gluing or for shaping operations . -- Snag Learning keeps you young !

A few wild guesses, as usual:

3007. Used for making fresh pasta. 3008. Morse taper chisel handle. Wedge used to eject bit from handle. 3009. Cage for inspection lamp. Missing the working parts. 3010. A dunno. 3011. A handle (possibly one of a pair) for handling the ash can of a solid fuel fire/furnace/woodburner. 3012. Timber dogs, that's what we call 'em. Never seen the 'T' shaped one.

Nick.

3008. The original Hammer Drill. As an apprentice I spent many "enjoyable" hours drilling holes in concrete with one of those. I especially liked drilling up into ceilings while standing on top of a rickety old wooden ladder.

You have no idea how much a person can appreciates an electric hammer drill until you have made a few hundred holes with one of those drills.

A tapered bit fits into the drill handle. The key is used to change bits.

By the way, that was an excellent method for teaching someone how to use a hammer. :)

LdB

These first two are correct

You have the right idea here

I don't have an answer for this one but for some reason thought it might be for use on milk cans.

Partial credit for this one, it _is_ for use with a piece of bread, but not for toasting.

Yes, I think pinch dogs is a more common name for these.

The one on my site was used by the phone company.

The round hole offset, I remember seeing some thing like this on a GM family vehicle hub cap. Pontiac or Buick, maybe?

Bird feeder?

Ah, a perforated breadboard!

This tool was not for use on cars.

Nope, not a feeder of any kind

I don't think that I would call this device a breadboard, which is normally just a piece of wood, if you could describe how you think it's used then I could say whether it's correct or not.

;) I was playing the fool. In the days of tubes, one would buy a breadboard to screw down components for an experimental circuit. Nowadays they use printed-circuit boards with hundreds of holes. They're often called perforated breadboards.

Thanks for the clarification, makes more sense now, I'll explain my misunderstanding it tomorrow when I post the answers.

3007: A bread-slice halver. It takes a full slice of bread, and after passing a knife down the central slot, delivers two half-slices. The wood strip on the bottom is VERY small cutting board.

It's intended for very frugal individuals who think the presliced bread is too thick...

Posting from Rec.crafts.metalworking as always.

3007) I'm going to make some possibly unjustified assumptions about this one. 1) That it is a stainless steel. 2) That the inner end of the holes is well smoothed.

If so --it could be to hold cut film (4x5") upright and allow full access by developer through the holes (probably with something like nitrogen burst aeration) to be used for developing, stop-bath, fixing, and washing of the film in a light-tight tank, or in a dark room.

Is that wood at the bottom? If so, I hope that it is wax covered so it does not absorb and retain the chemicals for one of the baths to carry over to the next.

3008) A changeable bit hammer impact drill. The tapered part shown as a crossbar is the "drift key" to remove the tool, which is fitted in a tapered socket. Usually used with Morse tapers, but I suspect that this is a different taper because it is so short.

Probably for drilling holes in concrete, and the rubber handle protects the hand holding it from most of the shock from the hammer. (And the mushroom upper end protects the hand from the hammer during misses. :-)

3009) If it had a bottom, I would think that it is intended to hold a candle as a form of lantern. (And I guess that one could clip in there.)

Lacking that, a cage for a petrified snake stood on end? :-)

3010) One end is a straight screwdriver blade. The other is to drive a special head with a single offset hole into which the pin fits.

The pin -- and the slug of which it is a part, appear to be spring loaded and slide into the sleeve of the body, to keep the wrench from simply rotating around the pin.

3011) Not enough detail and angle of view to really tell about this, sorry. Perhaps if I had seen one as part of the whole machine, I would recognize it.

3012) The left three are intended to drive into two pieces of wood, and to draw them together.

The right-hand one appears to be for joining two pieces of wood at right angles to a third piece, forming a 'T' joint.

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

Enjoy, DoN.