What is it? Set 537

Electric heater (unsafe)

Rob H. fired this volley in news:lge9ft029k6 @drn.newsguy.com:

3138 has just GOT to be a tool for skinning eels!

Lloyd

Posting from my desk top PC in the living room as always.

Oh please go to your pc in your room. And don't come out.

I'd be so bored.... nothing to do but sort dirty socks, and post to usenet. You'd get tired of me.

I guess it could be but I couldn't find one like it on the web.

Correct

Sounds like a good secondary use for it!

It wasn't marked but I think this is correct.

Nope but it is for use by a woodworker.

Posting from the usenet newsgroup rec.crafts.metalworking, as always.

Anyway -- it would be held in a vise, and the leather would be drawn through it.

Given the compound leverage, and the hefty return spring, I think that it is a rather over-engineered nut cracker.

No electrical terminals, so a non-inductive resistor or heating element does not work.

Two nuts at the top to stretch the wires tight.

Narrow opening at the top, and wide opening at the bottom.

I don't see where the ends of the wire (one on each side, or one spanning both sides, depending) are attached.

So -- I have two pure guesses:

often seen when looking through two layers of window screen -- especially if they at angles to each other, but it can be seen from two sets of parallel wires. It is somewhat evident in the view of the bottom of the assembly. But would be clearer if photographed at a distance so both layers of wire were equally sharp.

but not all systems will show extended ASCII characters, nor show them the same on all systems, so I describe it here. :-)

3137) Hmm ... part 'A' is not wood, so given the apparent age of the drawing (patent, I presume) it is more likely to be metal, especially given the hex head on the clamp screw. Plastics and wood would deform under the clamp. Part 'C' may be wood, however.

The notch in the pivoting part looks designed for cutting wire, but we never see it pivoted to an angle to expose the other notch which should be there too.

So -- no real guess what it is supposed to do.

Now to post this and see what others have suggested.

Enjoy, DoN.

Ok, DIY harp doubles as a cheese-grater.

I was thinking of a strainer, but cleaning would be difficult. I note th= e =

protuberances at the top might permit it to be held horizontally off a =

surface, but there's no equivalent on the base. There appears to be a slot at the base that would allow a rectangular it= em =

to be inserted. A picture to emphasise the moir=E9 effect?

Seems more likely

Unlikely to need quite so many passes of the wire

Works OK here!

(rec.puzzles)

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It's a money /life balance.

It's obviously a pasta maker. See earlier posts.

Alexander Thesoso fired this volley in news:lghpbm$crk$ snipped-for-privacy@dont-email.me:

I'd tend to agree that it's NOT a pasta cutter. There's no practical way for a pasta cutter to be two-sided like that and get the bits out of the middle cavity.

The fact that it was indeed made-to-purpose, and not cobbled up seems to indicate some commercial value, though. I don't see a lot of market for Aeolean Harps!

Lloyd

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Rob

Rob, Sonny had found the item, he has posted it a few times.

Maybe I should repost the link. It's a pasta cutter.

Sonny

It is a pasta maker:

Google "wire pasta maker" for many others.

Jeff

Thanks! And thanks to Sonny for the link! Some weeks I don't have time to check all of the newsgroups so I only check rec.puzzles, I didn't see his post there. I've never seen that type of pasta maker before, I'll send this answer along to the owner of it.

I'd like to ask everyone to remember to post their replies to all three newsgroups, I'm sure that others and myself have missed numerous posts that only make it to one of the groups.

Have a great weekend everyone!

Rob