What is it? XCVIII

As seen on the answer page, the word automatic is on the wall bracket that holds it, so maybe that's a reference to the low melting alloy.

Rob

Where did you post them? I scanned the three groups that this thread is in but didn't see a post with your subject line, maybe I just missed it.

Rob

Interesting idea, I'll have to see if I can find a close-up of the weights that they use for those.

Rob

I couldn't find a model number on it, just the company name and location, nor could I find any similar looking ones on the web or in my tool books.

Rob

Yes, I think that it's some type of rammer/tamper, probably for sand but I included it because I couldn't find another one like it to confirm its use.

Rob

Sorry, but that's not quite correct.

The other 'common' use for carbon-tet was as a dry-cleaning fluid.

Hat-making used mercury in the making of the 'felt' from which many types of hats are formed. (ranging from Stetsons, to Derbys. :)

Hatmakers _chewed_ (literally, as in 'masticated') the source material, to soften it, prior to forming into final shapes.

The long-term effects of ingestion of low levels of mercury in that work, did give rise to various forms of insanity.

The long-term effects of ingestion of low levels of mercury in that work, did give rise to various forms of insanity.

I was wondering why three of the pockets have four small air holes on the back while the other two do not.

I think you may be right about it being attached to a leather strap, or possibly a rope as someone else mentioned, the metal is partly smooth on the inside from wear. Or it could have clamped on to a piece of metal on a scale. Someone from a weight and scale collector web site said that it was an ice weight, but I couldn't find anything about it to confirm this, nor would he elaborate when asked.

I'm leaning toward tripod leg on this one too, but for what I don't know.

Tomorrow I'll post a closer shot of the jaws.

Also tomorrow I'll measure this one, I don't have it with me here.

Rob

According to R.H. :

A growing number of news servers reject articles with binary attachments in non-binary newsgroups. The solution is to put the image on a web site (the dropbox, if you don't have one of your own), and just post the URL for it to the newsgroup.

Enjoy, DoN.

On Sat 21 Jan 2006 04:25:43p, "R.H." wrote in news:HxyAf.31930$ snipped-for-privacy@tornado.ohiordc.rr.com:

Ack. Sorry Rob. ABPW is alt.binaries.pictures.woodworking

If you can't get to that one, we'll have to work something out. As far as I know, Google doesn't carry any of the binary groups so if that's all you can use, we'll have to work on it.

Dan

According to R.H. :

I think that those are intended (two at a time) to match hooks in the end of the other half of the ammo belt, to adjust it to the wearer. That end would thread through the rectangular guide on the right-hand end (your back view), and plug into a pair of holes to set the length. Are there reinforcing rings in those holes?

Interesting.

Part of my reason for suspecting this is the angled foot, which would be level when the legs of a tripod were properly spread.

O.K. Thanks.

O.K. Thanks again.

Enjoy, DoN.

Thanks, looks like you nailed this one, it appears to be the same piece of hardware, if you don't mind I'll post one of the photos on my site.

Rob

On Sat 21 Jan 2006 07:20:56p, "R.H." wrote in news:Y5BAf.29365$ snipped-for-privacy@tornado.ohiordc.rr.com:

Oh sure. I'm pretty sure just posting them to abpw puts them in the public domain :-) but you have my permission to use either of them as you like.

Dan

Since I haven't known anyone who built wire fences without wearing a good set of leather gloves, I can't see as how that's a problem!

(They're on the side where your fingers go, not the side where your palm goes, right?)

- Brooks

Nope, it most definitely doesn't put them in the public domain! People tend to act like it does sometimes, but that's only the "they won't find out so they won't sue me" sort of public domain. :)

(Well, sometimes it's more the "they probably don't mind, so they won't sue me" sort of public domain, as in this case, I suppose.)

- Brooks

The holes along the top and bottom of the ammo belt are larger and have reinforcing rings, the smaller holes aren't reinforced.

Here is a photo showing the wear on the upper piece of this weight, the slot is wider at the opening and tapers a bit narrower so the wear is more prominent about 1/4" from the edge.

A closer shot of the jaws:

One possibility for this tool is that it could be a miter clamp, as seen in this photo:

It's not tapered, though it does look like it is in the photo.

Just measured this tool, it's 15/16" square, you're probably right about it being a gauge, I couldn't find any similar ones to verify it, so I included it in the unsolved set.

Rob

Well ... if the photos are your *own* work, and you post them to an alt.binaries newsgroup with no restrictive notices, that is pretty much equivalent to putting them in the public domain.

However -- if you *don't* own the rights, that is a different matter. It is copyright infringement in aid of more copyright infringement. :-)

Enjoy, DoN.

Dan:

Brooks Moses:

Don Nichols:

No, sorry, Brooks has it right. If you want to put something in the public domain, you have to do it explicitly, as below.

According to R.H. :

Yes -- those larger holes are to prevent tear-out of the loaded pockets. the others don't really *need* reenforcing rings, though they

*might* have had some. In any case -- the holes are to allow joining to the other half of the ammo belt, and to adjust for the wearer's size (and for the number of layers of warm clothing he may be wearing as well. :-)

That looks like an intentional smoothing, not wear -- and it is for a strap, not a rope (though the strap *could* be canvas instead of leather). If it were wear from a rope, it would form two grooves on either side of the screw which secures the two halves together.

Or it could have clamped on to a piece of metal on a

Yes -- I think that this is not wear, but intentional grinding to allow some flexing of the strap enclosed.

O.K. Not a punch, based on those shots.

That looks like a proper function for it. And the pivoting of the separate piece would allow it to deal with two pieces of wood of different width.

O.K.

Enjoy, DoN.