Thursday, October 18, 2012

Set 463

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2689. 15" long, take a look at Neatorama for more guesses and a chance to win a T-shirt:

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2690. Someone is looking to find out the purpose of these tools:

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2691. 11" long:

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2693. 14" long:

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2694.

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Answers:


2689. This is a woodworker's compass, a pencil or scribe placed into one of the holes would make a circle of the appropriate size when the compass was rotated around the spike.

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2690. These tools could be used for two different purposes, the first is for retrieving nuts or bolts that have been dropped into inaccessible areas, and the second is for holding small parts when repairing electronics:

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2691. This is a wrench that was made for use on carriages but it could have been used on any nut that would fit into the jaws, patent number 145,710:




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2692. The six sided rifling of the inside of a .38 caliber gun barrel:


































2693. A coupler for use with threshing machines or cars, patent number 752,300:




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2694. A machine for wrapping hay bales, this protects it from the elements so it can be sold as livestock feed, the video below shows it in use:


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6 comments:

  1. 2690 pliers for handling SMD components?

    2692 Intro song of a 007 Movie: the inside of a barrel with:

    2694 for applying a plastic wrap to a hay bale

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  2. 2689 is a compass, the holes are staggered to be different distances from the pivot point, 2692, inside of James bond's pistol barrel from opening credits of his movies. 2694 hay roll handler

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  3. 2691 looks like an adjustable nut driver...place the jaws over the nut, hammer down on the little welded metal plate to draw them up tight, and turn like a wheel brace

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  4. 2691 Wrench for installing/removing barrel plugs.

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  5. 2693 looks similar to a modern gate latch (a bar would swing in from the left and be captured), but has a differently oriented mounting point and an extra moving part in the slot.

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