Set 428

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2479. 3-1/2" long:











































2480. 10" long, sent in by someone who is looking to identify this tool:

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2481. 25" tall:































2482. 8-1/2" long:


































2483. 12" long, take a look at Neatorama for more guesses and a chance to win a T-shirt:

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2484. 5-1/4" long:





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Answers:



2479. A fishing alarm for use at night, the light is powered on when the line is taken by a fish:











































2480. This tool has a gimlet but we still don't know why it has what appears to be an electrical contact:

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2481. A tire bead breaker, it's used in a similar manner to the one in this video:


































2482. A punch and cold chisel holder, "a cold chisel is a tool made of tempered steel used for cutting 'cold' metals, meaning that they are not used in conjunction with heating torches, forges, etc."


































2483. A slater's axe, it's also called a sax, saxe, slate cleaver, slate cutters' trimmer, slate trimmer, and zax, according to the Dictionary of American Hand Tools it was used to trim and punch holes in roofing slate.

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2484. This is a grain sampler, it was used to extract samples from sacks of grain:





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