2653. 8" long, sent in by someone from Tasmania, Australia who would like to find the purpose of this tool:
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2654. Around 1-1/2" long:
2655. Approximately 24" diameter:
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2656. The object here is to explain the purpose of the holes:
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2657. 14" long, take a look at Neatorama for more guesses and a chance to win a T-shirt:
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2658. About 72" long:
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Answers:
2653. No answer yet for this tool, suggestions for it include:
-for applying tags to livestock
-a crimping tool for electrical work
-for tightening a fence by crimping the wires
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2654. This is the porcelain part of a spark plug:
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2655. A horse powered sweep mill for grinding corn or other kinds of grain, similar to this one in an old Sears catalog, another one with some of the missing parts can be seen here.
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2656. This is a machinist's valve stick for use when working on an engine, the valves can be kept in the right order by placing them in the holes, if a valve in not placed back in its original location it might not be a proper fit.
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2657. A steak branding iron, used when grilling for marking steaks Well done, Medium, or Rare, the fourth side had a John Deere buck logo.
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2658. These are all revolving hay rakes, patent number 255,291:
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2656 used by automotive machine shops to keep track of placement of motor valves when grinding them.
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Delete2655. Some sort of burr grinder. With that tooth placement, the original items were 1 to 4 inches in diameter.
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I think grinder is right but I don't know what it was for exactly.
Delete2658. Revolving hayrake - Modeled after one patented by Edward Huber of Marion c.1865 - The rake was pulled by horses with the teeth gathering the mown hay - When it was filled, it could simply be flipped over (without stopping the horses) to drop the hay into a windrow for further drying or gathering onto a wagon
ReplyDeleteYes, they are hay rakes, thanks for the patent information.
Delete2654 - ceramic spark plug insulators ? , although one of them looks to have a closed 'top' :o
ReplyDeleteGood answer, this is correct.
DeleteThe end does look closed but that's just because of the angle, there is actually a hole.
Deletevery good post
ReplyDelete2654 - Old 'knob & tube' house wiring insulators?
ReplyDelete2657 Used to brand steaks Well, Medium, Rare and Moo
ReplyDelete2656 -- for drawing circles?
ReplyDelete2656 - ruler made to fit multiple configurations of ring binders; as a promotion for piston ring work.
ReplyDeleteRings, you see. Any size.
"A pune, or play on words."
2653, a tool to apply metallic serial number tags into the ears of livestock. The complicated mechanism ensure straight pressure, rather than an arc plier type tools usually do.
ReplyDelete2653 sure looks like a ceramic tile snapper -- score the tile along the desired cutting line, place the cut in the jaws, and *snap* you've got a clean cut.
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