What is it? XLV

As I asked the previous poster, any idea where I could see one like it on the web?

Actually, you screw a screw into the #251, it's not much use otherwise.

scott

248. My dad's suspenders. How did YOU get them? 249. Abu Ghraib pocket interrogation kit. 250. "Ribbed for her pleasure" nail. For the woodier trees. 251. Piece from "Barbie's Foundation Drill" playset. 252. Album Cover from Yanni's brief foray into industrial music. 253. Tool for installing stripes into zebras.

Scroll down to #253. (: I actually hunted around for a while because I have seen such a tool out on the internet, but I couldn't find it this time around. However, I did find this gem during my search: Or: for short.

Figured I'd give this a try;

248) Hand exerciser

249) No clue, but it looks painful :)

250) No idea, is the top right end open?

251) Drywall anchor

252) Hold down dogs of some sort?

253) Again no idea, but it too looks painful.

Hmmm, only able to guess at 3 out of 6, oh well.

Regards, Jim C Roberts

The pictures aren't all that good but try page 41 of this:

Best Regards, Keith Marshall snipped-for-privacy@progressivelogic.com

"I'm not grown up enough to be so old!"

252. Pipe clamp jaws for a vise.

Scotty

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But there *should* be. The Phillips driver screws this into the wall, and then a long metal screw is put into the center of the first, and it shifts the point, turning it sideway, and clamps down on the back of the drywall with it. They come in a clear plastic box with several of these, and an equal number of the screws to put into them once they are seated in the drywall.

In particular, they look like jaws to fit inside the normal vise jaws, to grip pipe or other round stock.

No bets on that one.

Enjoy, DoN.

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Don is completely correct - my entire office is partitioned with (what we call in UK) plaster board. The board is not strong enough to hold pictures or maps using a normal screw or tack. this thing you have is pushed into the plaster board - then its external thread is used to pull it all the way into the soft wall till its head is flush, then the smaller fine metal screw is used to attach 'whatever' to the wall via the plastic screw.

I have a tv screen held to wall with them - so I sure hope they work!

Regards

Matthew Newell

WOW! These pics are FANTASTIC! Hattie

Did you ever come up w/ a solution for the weight on the last set (246, I think??)? My dial up is so slow loading the images takes so long I don't want to take the time... :)

Aha! I have a mirror which has a back likely intended to take something like this, but I'd never seen the actual device before.

Basically the mirror (which is quite heavy) has a wooden back with a round hole partially covered at the top by a metal strap, making a D-shaped opening to a round hole. It's hanging now by an L-shaped-hook, but if the hook were to rotate....

Hi, #248 looks like the filament of a light bulb of some sort.

Thanks for the fun Roger

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There are various names for it here in the USA. The most common (at least in the Washington DC vicinity) is "drywall", though I first learned "sheetrock" down in South Texas. (It may have been a brand name -- I was just a kid at the time.)

Ouch! A standard CRT, or one of the flat-panel LCD ones? If the former, it will be cantilevering a pull on the upper ones. These things are stronger in sheer than in tension.

If it is a true CRT, I would suggest that the support be of the form:

Use a fixed-pitch font to avoid distortion of the image. Courier should work well.

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Correct, it's an old 750 watt GE projection bulb. Not sure if it still works, the glass is just a little loose in the base so I'm not sure if I want to give it a try.

The weight that unscrewed into two pieces was #244, I haven't been able to confirm what it was used with, I'm guessing some type of scale.

The one in my photo is different than the type you have in mind, there is no second screw for this one. If you haven't already seen the link that I posted previously, have a look at this site for instructions for this one:

Looks like a good plan...

Yes, they're for pipe.

If you haven't already seen the link that explains this one, here it is again: