What is it? XCIX

The John entity posted thusly:

You _thought_ it was a wire cutter, but...

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Oleg Lego
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Item 574 is a vinyl record press to flatten LP records when they got warped.

John

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John

The caption says it's the unmarked one. Obviously the blasting engineer who found them ground off the trademark in case Western Union detectives came around asking questions about missing tools.

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Sawney Beane
569 - bicycle or motor cycle wrench Kool-Tool is more versatile

570 - I'm betting its a facial prosthetics making kit from the WW I era. Medicine had progressed enough that soldiers survived horrible facial disfiguring injuries by then. Guessing that the parts registered to the skull fitting into the third, missing part of the mold, and wax or liquid latex was poured into the mold.

That's assuming the parts shown are out of some low melting point metal. If they're out of aluminum (aluminium for the Brits) or iron or steel, then unvulcanized rubber could be placed between the mold parts, heated and pressed between them to form a vulcanized rubber facial prosthetic

571 - probably an early tap (whole threader) - most likely for wood rather than metal

572 = wire stripper and cutter

573 - grass lawn aereator or dethatcher

564 - saw set - used to set the teeth on a saw blade

565 - food grinder or iice crusher circa 1970's

564 - cane handle

563 - M-1 rifle ammo clips bolders

568 - probably a leather shaving tool

charlie b

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charlie b

Now that I look at it again, it's something I remember from my long-ago youth. We lived in a mining town and my Dad worked summers in the mine (he was a teacher the rest of the year). He carried one very much like that. That job used to scare the crap out of me when I was kid; every couple of years some miner would kill himself from a blasting cap explosion. They had the habit of carrying them in their shirt pockets. He was more careful than that, but I always used to worry that he wouldn't come home one day.

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Doug Payne

In that case I'd hazard that they're molds for papier mache masks or similar.

EDEB.

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<ed

I wonder if these things would get past airport screenings?

(I wouldn't try it but my guess is that others would)

Jerry

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Jerry Donovan

I'm still going with 573 being an aerator, as a de-thatcher is designed to vigorously rake the lawn to break up the thatch.

563 Can't definitely state M-1 ammo pouches, but somewhere in the thread there was discussion about what they connected to, and that would definitely be the standard military web-belt.
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Norman D. Crow

Shouldn't this thread be called : "Re: What is it? IC" instead ?

571: I think everyone has been looking at the wrong end. Look at the other end, it's a flat screwdriver. and it does look used, unlike the square end that does look untouched. My guess is, it used to have a wooden handle that fell apart. and the thing that look like teeth are meant to give a better grip both rotationally and transversally between the wood and the metal. The handle would be made of 2 parts held together with some kind of collars.

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dhrm77

Doesn't an aerator generally have hollow teeth?

scott

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Scott Lurndal

I use a web site that translates numbers into roman numerals and vise versa, if you try to translate IC it says invalid input, so I guess for some reason they don't use that for 99.

It does look like a screwdriver, but it's definitely a tap for making screw holes.

Rob

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R.H.

It's listed in the FBI's Guide to Concealable Weapons:

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but the one they show is the older version that isn't disguised as a wrench. The original had just regular round holes where there are now hexes. Even though it's on the list, I would bet you could get it past 99% of airport security by casually saying it's a bicycle wrench.

Rob

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R.H.

There are plenty of the star wheel and spike types to be found on the web, but I do remember golf courses using the hollow ones that leave big holes, I always disliked paying to play on a course that had just been aerated.

Rob

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R.H.

I've seen them both ways. I've seen commercial self-powered ones with the hollow teeth, but the one shown here you throw a couple concrete blocks in the weight box and tow it behind your riding mower or lawn tractor.

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Norman D. Crow

It's not sharp or pointy, nor is it a gun or explosive. Those are really the things that fall into the category of banned items, thus one would be hardpressed to have it rejected. Just about anything can be turned into a weapon by someone sufficiently skilled.

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Mark & Juanita

Looks like a cheap rotary hoe for a garden tractor. Same principle, breaks up clods and aerates soil.

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Mark & Juanita

I wouldn't count on it. My wife accidentally left my 9/16" wrench in her backpack once, and they wouldn't let her take it on the plane; apparently tools of that sort are prohibited too. ("Disassembly of the airplane in flight is NOT ALLOWED!")

- Brooks

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Brooks Moses

The standard rule is that, when a low-value letter is placed before a higher-value letter to indicate subtraction (such as IX indicating

10-1=9), the low-value letter can only be the next power-of-ten below the higher-value letter. Thus, V and X can only be preceeded by I, L and C can only be preceeded by X, and D and M can only be preceeded by C. And so, to get 99, one writes the 90 as XC, and the 9 as IX. And thus: XCIX.

- Brooks

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Brooks Moses

In the photo, one end has a buckle and the other has a loop for a web belt to pass through. I've found a picture of an M1 rifle belt. On each side it had a section with five pouches. They were connected by a length of plain web in back. I've read that the M1 cartridge was about 3", so at 17", the piece in the picture looks right for the right side of an M1 belt.

I wonder. If each piece with pouches was 17" and there was a length of web behind, the belt must have been several inches longer than 34. Wasn't it too big for a lot of soldiers?

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Sawney Beane

Back in1976, when they first got started with passenger screening and prohibiting "named" items, I was flying home for the weekend. I my briefcase I had my "unrestricted airfield security pass" (I worked on airports), a cheap multi point screwdriver with ~1" bits, and one of those 12V. circuit tracers that look like an ice pick with a ground lead. Security confiscated the screwdriver because it was on the list, but when I asked about the circuit tracer, they told me it was OK because "it is test equipment." Gerry :-)} London, Canada

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Gerald Miller

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