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.
DeleteMetric is for people that can only count by 10s
DeleteI'm in New Zealand where we went metic on December 14th, 1976.
DeleteI build houses, I work in metric
Meeting people my age (LXIX) who, for some idiotic reason, failed to accept metric into their lives (we already went to decimal currency in 1967 ... decimal currency ... decimal ... metric in other words) ... is like walking through some dense forest and coming upon a living breathing Cro-Magnon bloke wearing smelly animal skins and talking in uggs and oohs .. "like, seriously, you haven't heard about electricity yet "
The even worse thing is going into a shop, say, and the young assistant, maybe 20 years old, BORN into the metric system, probably their parents BORN into the metric system, will still talk in the measurements which were based on an English kings body parts ... they will say "Oh, me ? I am just under 6 feet tall"
6 FEET ? You measure yourself using someone else's actual FEET.
Bit like the American Indians facing up to modern armaments with bows and arrows ... if only they had accepted, and stocked up, on Thompson machine guns, Gatling guns, grenades and rocket launchers, there would be a lot more acceptance of the REAL American history.
Adds lol for softening.
Anonymous ? No, it is me, WilliamRocket !
DeleteGeneral Custer's men were armed with the latest in modern military weaponry - breech loading Springfield "Trapdoor" single-shot rifles.
DeleteCrazy Horse's warriors were armed with whatever they could get. At least two carried Evans 28-shot rifles and many of the others carried lever-action rifles. The Army wasn't much interested in repeaters, having the official policy that they would encourage wasting ammunition. The Lakota had the Seventh Army seriously out-gunned, plus they had the high ground. And Crazy Horse and his senior chiefs had, for all practical purposes, the same West Point tactical education that Custer had, courtesy of having fought the US Army for decades. They knew exactly what standard Army tactics Custer was supposed to follow, and led him into their trap as surely as if they had a ring in his nose.
Is 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.
DeleteI believe that it is a seizing tool-used to make a wrap of twine or wire around a rope or wire rope end, or mid strand prior to cutting. It keeps the lays from unwinding or fraying.
ReplyDeleteDefinitely 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?
ReplyDeleteIt looks like a log line for measuring boat speed. The line has knots spaced at set distances tied into it, a parachute or square of wood is dropped overboard and pulls the cord out of the reel. The ratchet arrangement "clicks" every time a knot passes. Time how many knots pass though in a given interval and the ship/yacht is going that many knots pr hour.
ReplyDeleteThe wear on the second picture seems to confirm this.
This picture shows the general principle but you'd need a time keeper to watch the clock. The "count the clicks" allows one person to operate the thing.
https://external-content.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=https%3A%2F%2Ftse1.mm.bing.net%2Fth%2Fid%2FOIP._a6NcQoWVI8tlDGzTgloCwHaI4%3Fpid%3DApi&f=1&ipt=0e08cb39167464399b5b34cf4199f69a04abc13757a9dc8e8322393c6c59ea2c&ipo=images
Phil B