What is it? Set 546

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3188 elevator lift controller 3189 Fence Hammer 3190 Lineman's cable knife or cleaver

3191 Filler Gauge

Robert

Rob H. fired this volley in news: snipped-for-privacy@drn.newsguy.com:

3181 looks like a cranberry basket to me.

3188 seems to be a telegraph/annunciator of some sort, to show in a different room (below or above the sender's) the position of the pointer at the sender's end. COULD be for an elevator, but it doesn't feel right for that.

3189 Classic home-bodged Fencing Tool

3190 Lineman's cable-cutter (They LOVED using this tool, because after using it, they got three days under an umbrella splicing all the pairs they cut!

3191 pipe sizing gauge

3192 telescoping hole gauge (like we wouldn't know what THAT was, here!)

LLoyd

3191 is a machinists radius gauge set similar to this one:

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3181, farmers back scratcher. Or, maybe wooden match holder, or maybe a weeding tool. Was this supposed to be number 3187? 3188, not sure. 3189, specialized hammer. Which speciality, I do not know. 3190, Workplace violence tool for phone workers who go bell. 3191, rod gages, for some thing. Maybe refrigeration, to tell tubing sizes? 3192, no clue.

SM: This is, or very close to a cylinder removal tool. It's used to snap the key cylinder out of Kwikset brand knob locks. I've seen these tools advertised, but I've never owned one. I use the cheapie Kwikset version which is stamped out of flat metal. And costs well under a dollar, last I looked.

Pro version, $29.95, and only 8 left!

SM: I totally don't recognize this.

SM: You got me, I don't know. My first thought is these are ashtrays.

3181 Hand Harvester for small gardens 3182 Elevator floor chooser. 3190 Phone system wire cleave for stripping heavy cable 3191 Go No Go tool for dowels or steel rod. 3192 Inside feeler gauge. Used to get the size of a cylinder. Then you take a micrometer and mic it.

3188 looks like elevator lift controller

3191 gauge for measuring outside diameter or checking for roundness.

3192 Bore gauge - telescoping feeler gauge

Thanks for the link.

Correct

This answer is correct though this particular set of gauges was meant for measuring a specific item.

Good description of it!

Thanks, I just changed the number to 3187.

Not sure if this is correct or not but I'll your suggestion on to the owner of it. Thanks

It does look like an ashtray but I couldn't find any others with metal rods across the top of them. Someone else suggested it was for holding water for use on stamps.

Rob H. :

3188 - flow regulator dial. For opening/closing something like a chimney damper, or controlling the flow of water, etc.

Someone suggested that this is a hand warmer, I think this is probably correct.

Hey, I got it right! but still don't know the item use. Sigh. And I was all excited.

I'm about 99.5% sure about my identification. In the next day or two, I might find one such in a locksmith catalog.

I reread the email that the owner sent and found this:

"I bought this tool a few years ago at a garage sale, and the seller didn't have any idea what it was. (She was selling things that had belonged to her grandfather, as I recall, and there were a number of locksmithing tools, among other things.)"

So it looks like you nailed it.

Thanks

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

3187) I think that this is for digging shellfish in the zone between high tide and low tide. 3188) Looks sort of like an engine-room telegraph for commanding speed from the bridge down to where the men are operating the engine.

But it *could* be another elevator control leer.

3189) Does not look like it was made that way from the manufacturer.

Rather a square to drive wrench sockets has been added to a hammer -- so someone (perhaps an elevator repairman) will have to carry fewer tools.

3190) For chopping a multi-conductor cable to approximate length prior to striping the jacket and connecting the wires to their proper termination.

Might even be for the lead jacketed cable which came before the plastic jacketed cables.

3191) A radius gauge -- both concave and convex radia. (The rounded end or the scooped side.)

I see that this one is in fractional inch sizes, but rather larger than my sets.

3192) A machinist's telescoping hole gauge. Press the two ends of the 'T' together, and gently tighten the knob on the end, then stick it into a bore to be gauged, loosen the knob to let the ends snap out into contact with the walls, very slightly tighten the knob to provide a slip fit and rock the gauge in the hole until the ends just barely pass through the hole, and then tighten it more. Withdraw it, and measure the length across the ends with a micrometer and you know the bore fairly accurately. (It take developing some feel to get good readings with this tool.

Starrett, Brown & Sharpe, and others have made these -- in sets to cover a range of from perhaps 1/2" up to perhaps 4" or so.

Now to post my suggestions and see what others have suggested.

More comments below, but ... :-)

Enjoy, DoN.

Only a guess -- in part from the machinst's scale below it, and the nicely knurled knob at the right. I think that it is a tool intended to deburr the far side of a hole. You squeeze the tips together to fit through the hole, push it through, and when the tips spring open on the far side, pull it back slightly and rotate to clean off the burrs from the original drilling.

Presumably a survivalist's fire starter.

No clue -- other than that it looks perhaps Asian in style.

Maybe for burning incense?

I actually prefer the supplemental questions to be separate from the puzzle ones.

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"Here" is somewhat variable. Remember, these are cross-posted to:

rec.puzzles rec.crafts.metalworking rec.woodworking

and only in the second of those does the "here" fit with a group who would recognize that tool.

*This* is why I always specify which newgroup I am posting from, to sort of get an idea how the answers match with the newsgroups. :-)

Enjoy, DoN.