Skip sends this, asking "What Is It?"
Correct answers only please 😀
After some google-fu, I found this one, below.
It was listed on this AUCTION SITE in Sweden
Skip sends this, asking "What Is It?"
Correct answers only please 😀
After some google-fu, I found this one, below.
It was listed on this AUCTION SITE in Sweden
Shotgun shell crimper. Size appears to be a 12 ga
ReplyDeleteThat, Good Sir, is the elusive tool, the lack of which causes so many projects to remain undone and unaccomplished; the extremely rare 'RoundToIt'. Congratulations! Now you get to finish all of them :-)
ReplyDeletestrings telegraph wire .
ReplyDeleteNah, that's a thing-a-ma-bob, distinguished by the spool apparatus on the right. Looks like the Swedish one is meant for nautical use, being made of brass to resist the rust that seems to have affected the top one.
ReplyDeleteObviously this is an antique hand held toilet paper dispenser. It is the missing link between toilet use of sears and roebuck catalogues and wall mounted TP dispensers.
ReplyDeleteRight answer Europe is fine with USA using Gauge. But still ticked off we don't use the metric system except for some guns and 10mm sockets. A southern recipe with pinch or dab would probably cause a heart attack
ReplyDeleteAnd those 10mm sockets go missing all the time so what was really gained? 1/2" sockets won't do that to you.
DeleteIs it for laying or spooling out telephone or telegraph wire ?
ReplyDeleteNo, it’s the, WOPR. I figurred that from your header.
ReplyDeleteBassmaster model #2 (#1 is non-collapsible)
ReplyDeleteSorry, but I'm going to guess at it's purpose, based on it's structure:
ReplyDeleteIt appears to be designed to wrap a cord or wire tightly around a rod or rope of known diameter. There are tension adjustments on the spool, on both examples.
Portable toilet paper roll holder.
ReplyDeleteHeltau
The spool appears to be removable or replaceable. The spur on the spool also seems to allow for a crank. Both examples look to have adjustable braking mechanisms. If the hole on the frame were to be posted over a fixed rod, the handle could control the lay of a wire being wound upon the spool. Maybe a telegraph line repair tool.
ReplyDeleteIt appears to hold yarn for some vintage automated knitting machine. With the handle and clamp for changing out the colored yarns
ReplyDeletePart of a spinning wheel
ReplyDeleteI don't know what it is but I've always wanted one.
ReplyDeletea surveyors measuring chain spool
ReplyDeleteThe marks on the entrance to the hole indicate that it was used on some hard, rough material such as steel cable. The handle is clearly designed for wrapping whatever was on the spool onto whatever went through the hole. The fact that it is all brass indicates that it was either exposed to harsh environments or was designed to be spark proof. Could be a tool for whipping the ends of cables or splices on ships.
ReplyDeleteIt definitely has nothing to do with telegraph or other communications cables.
It’s the tool used to wrap those threads around a fishing pole; the ones that hold the hook keeper and the ferrules on which then get several coats of varnish.
ReplyDeleteI still have my Grampa’s when he wrapped rods. It’s was more like a vice setup and did not look like this.
DeleteCorrect Chris. An old guy down the street taught me to build rods when I was a kid and he had that kind of vice. I still have a fly rod he helped me build when I was about 13 that I re-wrapped it years ago using a couple of heavy books. Not ideal but they'll work in a pinch. You used to be able to get all that stuff, vices and ferrels and guides and thread, from Herter's. I dunno where to get that stuff now.
DeleteI'm thinking it is a micro penis holder with the added butt wipe attachment
ReplyDeleteThe exact name could be "damnedifiknow". But I THINK it's a tool used for the process called "whipping" or applying continuous outer wrapping to some other long thin thing... perhaps large multi strand fishing rods, ropes, small cable eye splices, etc. Most likely used in a marine setting. Just a long shot and I have several other damnedifiknows.
ReplyDeleteAfter reading the first dozen or so responses, I have concluded that no one has a clue what that thing is.
ReplyDeleteHand held tool for wrapping packages with cord. Before cling film and adhesive tape were invented parcels were wrapped in oilcloth or butcher paper which was then tied on with cord, perhaps waxed linen.
ReplyDeleteAl_in_Ottawa
Toilet paper holder en route.....made of brass to not ignite pubic hairs or the forest while excreting a week old BM.
ReplyDeleteFor best results, use near creek!
MangyC
looks like the original popeil pocket fisherman
ReplyDeleteThat it a Fleener Valve alignment tool for the Turbo Encabulator, which can be found on youtube.
ReplyDelete1st post got it right.
ReplyDeleteIt's a left handed pecker stretcher. I bet Filthy has one in the reclusium.
ReplyDeletemaxx
Nautical? Tool for netting fish orca knot meter?
ReplyDeleteMay be a belt tensioner pulley for the early overhead shaft belt drivers in factories
ReplyDeleteI believe it is a "seizing tool" used for seizing, or making a wire wrap on a rope or wire rope end. Also used mid-strand to keep the lays together prior to cutting.
ReplyDeleteCould also be used to wrap guides onto fishing rods.
DeleteDefinitely something for paying out wire. Judging by the tensioners on the spool, I'd guess it would be for tightly wrapping wire around whatever is put through the hole on the side. You can actually see the wear in the hole in the second photo from rotating the tool in a clockwise fashion around whatever was in the hole itself.
ReplyDeleteAnd the correct answer is rope whipper, for whipping the ends of rope to keep them from unfurling.
ReplyDeleteIt's an RDA, ruder for a duck's ass.
ReplyDeleteIt's for running out det-cord.
ReplyDeletelooks like a lefthanded bacon stretcher. Hey, go over to that next campsite and see if they have a baconstretcher.
ReplyDeleteGoogle "lens" feature is an amazing tool. I just used this feature yesterday first time. It identifies just about everything you encounter. A bug in the forest, a hard to read signature under a ceramic bowl, just click the item and the search will come up with a dozen similar results and written description. I snapped the above photo and was told it's a shotgun shell reloader, and the first description here is correct.
ReplyDeleteYou know what's frustrating? I think I remember seeing one or seeing one used but for the life of me I can't remember where or when. Given that context, I'd have to guess its something I saw my grandfather use or in his shop at the farm. Getting old sucks. My guess is something to do with fence wire..
ReplyDeleteRead my comment just above yours, Mike. Problem solved.
DeleteFirst comment or cheated also Tom but it’s no big deal and that was from decades ago has nothing to do with today’s methods.
DeleteAfter the surveyor comments I started leaning that direction buts it’s good to know what it really is. I love antique tools but was young and dumb and grampas stuff disappeared over time when I was young.
google lens is wrong
ReplyDeleteAnyone that believes those are shotgun shell crimpers knows nothing of shotguns, their shells, relaoding, or mechanisms.
ReplyDeleteAbsolutely right.
Deleteagree -- reloaded for years; old reloaders very similar to current
DeleteSomething to do with winding motor armatures?
ReplyDeletetool for parcelling and serving standing rigging on old sailing boats?
ReplyDelete