Thursday, April 24, 2014

Set 542

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3163. Take a look at Neatorama for more guesses and a chance to win a T-shirt.

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3164. 9-1/4" long:

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3165. 4" long:




























3166. Sent in by a visitor who would like to find the purpose of this tool, 6-1/4" long, 9-1/2" long when extended:

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3167. Another unidentified device that was submitted by a visitor:

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3168. 16" long:

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Answers:




3163. This is a gunner's quadrant or artillery inclinometer, Italian text on it says “avanti” (forward), “distanza” (distance), “bersaglio” (target), and “sull’arma" (on the weapon).

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3164. A wire rope vibration isolator for large machinery, these are made in many sizes and configurations.

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3165. This is a device for communicating with a blind and deaf person:


























3166. No answer yet for this tool:

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3167. This is a piston groove cleaner, seen in use in figure 6 on this page:

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3168. A Presto log cutter, for cutting the pressed fireplace logs that can be bought in stores:

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7 comments:

  1. 3164 is a vibration damping mount for some sort of equipment.

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  2. 3167 is a piston ring-groove scraper. It cleans the old oil and carbon deposits from the ring grooves.

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  3. 3165 - Brail writer
    3166 - Some sort of military wepons combination tool.
    3168 - Pres-to-log cutter

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  4. 3165..for training one in the use of a braille keyboard, I think. It doesn't seem to have a way of holding the paper in place or advancing it like an actual braille writer would need.
    3166: I suspect that it's made of brass for it's non-sparking qualities, so I'm guessing that it's for use with explosives and or in explosive atmospheres

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  5. 3163 looks like some sort of adjustable level. It looks like there is a spirit-level in a holder that can be adjusted around a graduated quarter-circle. By placing the outside squared edges against the work, you can verify it's at the proper set angle to the horizontal/vertical.

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  6. 3163 is an inclinometer for a cannon. The writing on it looks Italian to this country boy!

    3167 is a tool for cleaning the gunk out of piston ring grooves when rebuilding an engine

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