What is it? XCVIII

563 Old fire extingisher

564 Saw set, for setting the teeth on saws

565 ??

566 ??

567 Ammo Carrier?

568 ??

from rcm

My one piece of insight to share on #471 is that if you look at the red numbers, they are different by 4 or 5 from the adjacent red numbers. With the exception of 9 and 0 (which are either 1 or 9 apart, depending on how you look at it.)

My gut feeling is that this dial is for remapping the 0-9 digits such that adjacent digits do not come out near each other in the remap, maybe something like a grey code. The 20-tooth cog and the microswitch-style rider look like something out of a phone pulse-switching system, although what kind of stepper switch they might control I still do not fathom.

Tim.

"563 Old carbon tet fire extinguisher

564 Saw set

565 Ice crusher?

566 ?

567 Ammo pouches---M1 carbine? Garand?

568 leather skiving tool?

Hi Rob...My guesses...

563 Is that a Galileo Thermometer Globe? 564 Saw Tooth Set 565 Art Deco (70's) mixer/blender 566 Cane Handle 567 WWI Ammo Belt 568 Crimping tool of some sort?

565. Jetson's coffee grinder?

566. Place holding pointer used when reading from a Torah scroll?

That insect like thing depicted on it makes me wonder, but maybe it's a representation of a locust like insect which is considered kosher?

Jeff

Hi

565 looks like an ice crusher from about 1960.

566 looks like a top piece for a walking stick, but ir might be a bit small. Clearly a round shaft ( 1/2 to 3/4 inch in diameter) fits into it.

Thanks Roger Haar

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568. Stanley spokeshave with handles that attach on ends or with one upright. Came with flat and curved bases, and a fence. Can't remember the number offhand.

John Martin

Good call. Stanley #67 "Universal".

566. A "Beauty and the Beast" edition of a candle holder ?

246. Tool box ? jewelry box ?

447. some tool to place or remove horse shoes ?

212. a square peg for matching square holes ?

244. it looks like a rope could be put around in the gap around the screw, and screwing the bottom part would hold the rope in place. better yet, an identical object like this one would have its loop fit in the gap. It could make a strange chain.

518 looks very much like a foundry worker's "floor rammer".

Tom

543: Seems like long ago an old timer pointed to one of those and said it was a fencing tool. You looped the wire on one of the teeth and levered it against whatever was handy to tighten the wire, and you hammered staples with the hammerhead. How you held the wire tight while you removed the puller and switched to the hammerhead is unclear.

447: I did get pictures of that last fall. Well, I *took* some pictures. They didn't come out so good. I thought there was enough light but there wasn't. I've been working on some of them and if you want I can post the one or two that actually have something to see on ABPW later this evening. I believe there's one where you can clearly see this part as one piece of a one-man bucksaw. I haven't talked about it because I'm embarassed about saying I was going to take photos and then coming back with mostly pictures of a black cat eating licorice in a cave at midnight.

#564 Saw Set (for setting handsaw teeth) #565 Ice Crusher #568 Stanley #65? universal spokeshave

I have a guess at 244.

It is a weight from a chain from a WWII D-Day Flail tank.

See the picture on the right near the bottom of:

The front of the tank had a rotating cylinder with 6-ft. chains attached. The chain had fist-sized weights hung on it. The flailing chains detonated mines.

Well, I'm late, as usual, but there is at least one I want to guess at before I read everybody else's answers:

563 - a decorative dangly thing, on art deco chandeliers and the like. 564 - clearly some kind of squeezer with interchangeable dies, but I have no idea what it's supposed to squeeze. 565 - Art Deco Salad Shooter? 566 - Walking Stick Finial, sans stick 567 - Ammo Belt 568 - no idea 569 - oops! Never mind. ;-)

Cheers! Rich

That's not what I know as a "fencing tool", but it certainly looks like it could be used for that.

The problem of tightening the wire and hammering in the staple at the same time was one that happened with the fencing tool I know of, too. What I remember doing was hammering the staple most of the way down over the wire, and then pulling the wire tight and letting the staple do most of the work of holding it there while I did the rest of the holding with a gloved hand. Also, if you pull the wire tight in such a way that it ends up wrapped partway around the fencepost, the friction against the fencepost will help hold it tight.

Of course, I was about 12 at the time, so probably what happened more often than not is that my father pulled the wire tight, and I used an ordinary hammer to drive in the staple. :)

In any case, the hammerhead on a fencing tool of any sort is primarily there for making occasionally repairs when you don't want to carry more tools around; for actually building a fence, it makes a lot more sense to use a proper hammer for the hammering.

- Brooks

D'OH! Yes! Of course! That's where I've seen those things dangle! (I had guessed "something decorative, like a chandelier") It was so many decades ago, I definitely remember seeing them hanging in soft metal straps, but forgot entirely where I saw one, until just now, you triggered my memory - in my Grandma's attic!

Except, I'd be more likely to categorize it as an early version of a "sprinkler"[1], not a whole extinguisher, unless it's full of halon or something. ;-)

Thanks! Rich

[1]Or maybe a "splasher?" ;-) It's held by a band of low-melting alloy, which when it melts, drops the globe on whatever's under it, the glass is incredibly fragile, it breaks, and dumps the liquid all over everything. I remember Dad cautioning me not to touch them in Grandma's attic, because they were so fragile. ;-)

Maybe from an "Enigma" coder/decoder circa WWII. I'm almost sure I've seen such a thing before - the 45 degree bevel on the back is a dead giveaway that it stuck out from some console, but I can't remember for the life of me where I've seen it.

Thanks, Rich

You people should also be posting these answers as comments on the puzzlephotos site, so the people who posted them can have the benefit of your answers too!

- Brooks