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Rob
What is it? XCV
Dec 29, 2005
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"R.H." wrote in news:WJNsf.91395$lh.53041 @tornado.ohiordc.rr.com:
545 - I think it's called a Pedometer. It measures how far you've walked. 546 - Telephone stand.547 - Drive-in movie speaker.
548 - A bellows.549 - Looks familiar but can't place it. Something to do with concrete forms?
550 - No clue.545 - Pedometer 546 - ? 547 - Microphone 548 - Bellows 549 - ? 550 - ?
Jon
545: Wheel from a pedometer for measuring distance. 546: for holding bunches of bananas? 547: Microphone 548: end of a bellows 549: A wheel or pulley puller of some type 550: ??? A marking device of some kind?
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"J>> This week's photos have just been posted:
549 Screw for securing a workpiece to the bench used in woodcarving. Fits up from underneath. 550 Meat tenderizer/tester
That hit map of the world is cool, saved it for future use. How many places do you post What is it? too?
Looks like drive ins really are going the way of the past.
SW metalworking
548 Bellows that have been repaired by replacing the original nozzle with a garden hose nozzle.
A very intresting use for the part on 548. :-) That is a "garden hose" high velocity nozzle but used on a bellows (by the looks of it). Must be some home made device. ...lew...
545. Counts how many pedestrians you run over. 546. Hint: John Holmes. 547. Robot rat. 548. Device to inflate cartoon characters and make them float away. 549. Superseded by Heimlich Maneuver. 550. Device to tickle people through their calluses.
539. Dork beer mug.
540. Hole storage box. 541. Air flattener. 542. Japanese traffic signs. 543. Aquaman's sex toy. 544. Failed prototype salad spinner.Posted from rcm in leu of going to work.
O.K. Posting from rec.crafts.metalworking again, and hoping that it gets properly posted this time, unlike the previous two tries.
545) Pedometer -- counts steps and displays them in units of miles based on stride length. 546) To hold fireplace materials, perhaps?547) Speaker from a drive-in theatre. Volume control knob is long gone -- perhaps broken off the shaft. The hook on the back keeps it in the window of the car.
548) Nozzle of a fireplace bellows. A rather nice looking one, at that.549) Hmm ... not sure why the end is so sharp. It is obviously designed for a wrench to grip the square at the top to tighten it. I suspect that the two square eyes on the casting link to arms which apply leverage to clamp something as the screw is advanced -- but what is being held is not clear. I guess that I will have to wait for someone who has seen one in service to identify it.
550) Perhaps for perforating the soil around a potted plant? That seems within the capabilities of the spring as described.Now to see what others have guessed -- after making sure that the article really gets posted. :-)
Enjoy, DoN.
546 - Don't know for sure since it isn't banged up but it looks like the piece of furniture my farrier uses. Put the horse's hoof on the top to steady it for filing and trimming up and the small steel plate below is for pounding the shoe narrower until it fits. 547 - There's a memory jogger. Speaker from a drive-in.
Steve.
547. A speaker from an old drive in movie 548. Fireplace bellows with a "driveway sweeper" hose nozzle attached.
From RCM
549 is a carver's screw - the sharp end screws into the piece being carved and the other end is fixed to the bench with the wingnut.
Now a collectable item since many drive ins have switched to radio broadcast now.
looks a lot like the new ones sold at Wal~Mart, made out of cheap wood, fake leather and a hose nozzle.
546 - Michael Jackson's barstool.
B.
Missing its corkscrew.
#549 does look a lot like a woodcarver's screw but not quite. I'm not convinced...
--humunculus
#546 looks like it was built as a walker for gradma, that carried her books and a little tabletop for her tea once she found a place to sit.
--humunculus
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