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Traut
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Location: Downtown Newcastle Joined: Sat Mar 5, 2016 Posts: 3447
Real Name: Traut
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catbird wrote: Here's one that's puzzling me. I found it in a gravel alley in a residential neighborhood near my house. It is very corroded steel with a hard uncorroded tip. The thin metal bushing thing rotates around the shaft. It looks like a jackhammer bit for breaking rocks, but it's really short. Maybe an insert for a larger tool? Similar to the tips of surveyor's tripods?
_________________ I always thought growing old would take a lot longer.....
So, when does that "Old enough to know better" shit kick in??? I've learned that pleasing everyone is impossible, but pissing everyone off is a piece of cake.
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Sat Sep 25, 2021 1:59 pm |
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1811GNR
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Location: East Renton Plateau Joined: Tue Jul 5, 2011 Posts: 914
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catbird wrote: Here's one that's puzzling me. I found it in a gravel alley in a residential neighborhood near my house. It is very corroded steel with a hard uncorroded tip. The thin metal bushing thing rotates around the shaft. It looks like a jackhammer bit for breaking rocks, but it's really short. Maybe an insert for a larger tool? Looks like a "tooth", for lack of a better term, that is used on an earth drilling auger. Drilling for pilings. Edit to add: yup, just search "piling auger bit". Carbide tipped for digging through the rocks. Sent from my SM-N986U using Tapatalk
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Sat Sep 25, 2021 2:04 pm |
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Arisaka
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Location: Tacoma Joined: Sat May 4, 2013 Posts: 6214
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Got this at a yard sale today. Owner had no idea what it was. Hint: it’s goes back to the horse and wagon era.
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Sat Aug 12, 2023 2:43 pm |
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usrifle
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Location: RENTON Joined: Fri Mar 25, 2011 Posts: 20771
Real Name: John
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Used to measure the circumference of a Wagon wheel??
_________________ Mr. Q wrote: so basically, if you have to smoke some asshole, make sure they become fertilizer and then Bounce? got it.
Guntrader wrote: Huh, maybe I was an asshole.
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Sat Aug 12, 2023 3:25 pm |
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jukk0u
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Location: Lynnwood and at large Joined: Wed May 1, 2013 Posts: 21268
Real Name: Vick Lagina
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odometer.
_________________ “Finding ‘common ground’ with the thinking of evil men is a fool’s errand” ~ Herschel Smith
"The said Constitution shall never be construed to authorize Congress to prevent the people of the United States who are peaceable citizens from keeping their own arms." ~ Samuel Adams
“A return to First Principles in a Republic is sometimes caused by simple virtues of a single man. His good example has such an influence that the good men strive to imitate him, and the wicked are ashamed to lead a life so contrary to his example. Before all else, be armed!” ~ Niccolo Machiavelli
Láodòng zhèng zhūwèi zìyóu
FJB
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Sat Aug 12, 2023 4:40 pm |
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Arisaka
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Location: Tacoma Joined: Sat May 4, 2013 Posts: 6214
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USRifle got it. It’s called a “travelller”. Start anywhere on the outside perimeter of a wooden wheel, roll the traveler around the perimeter, count your revolutions, and when you return to the start move the adjustable arm to point at the starting point. That gives you total rotations plus a partial rotation indicated by the adjustable arm. Then move to your steel “tire” which has been rolled into an open hoop,. Run the traveler around the inside diameter of the tire, the same number of rotations and then to the final portion of a rotation indicated by the adjustable arm. Cut the tire there and weld it together. Heat up the tire and drop it onto the wood wheel. Douse the tire with water to shrink it tightly onto the wood wheel. You are now a wheelwright, and have a purpose in life.
I will never use this tool, but it deserved the respect of a home, and to be appreciated for what it was. 200 years ago it was an indispensable tool.
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Sat Aug 12, 2023 5:26 pm |
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Arisaka
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Location: Tacoma Joined: Sat May 4, 2013 Posts: 6214
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This one is super tough. Good luck
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Tue Aug 22, 2023 6:36 pm |
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jukk0u
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Location: Lynnwood and at large Joined: Wed May 1, 2013 Posts: 21268
Real Name: Vick Lagina
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Spring compressor?
_________________ “Finding ‘common ground’ with the thinking of evil men is a fool’s errand” ~ Herschel Smith
"The said Constitution shall never be construed to authorize Congress to prevent the people of the United States who are peaceable citizens from keeping their own arms." ~ Samuel Adams
“A return to First Principles in a Republic is sometimes caused by simple virtues of a single man. His good example has such an influence that the good men strive to imitate him, and the wicked are ashamed to lead a life so contrary to his example. Before all else, be armed!” ~ Niccolo Machiavelli
Láodòng zhèng zhūwèi zìyóu
FJB
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Wed Aug 23, 2023 12:42 am |
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survivor
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Location: Kent Joined: Wed Mar 13, 2013 Posts: 1659
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It looks to me that spinning is more important than clamping. I’m going to guess a Valve Lapper
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Wed Aug 23, 2023 5:40 am |
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catbird
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Location: C@L Joined: Thu Jan 16, 2014 Posts: 337
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Looks like a wheel stud removal tool.
_________________ Don't trust a man who claims he has no vises, especially if his name is Wilton.
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Wed Aug 23, 2023 6:18 am |
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Arisaka
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Location: Tacoma Joined: Sat May 4, 2013 Posts: 6214
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Good guesses, but no.
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Wed Aug 23, 2023 7:07 am |
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RocketScott
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Location: Kentucky Joined: Fri Jan 16, 2015 Posts: 11088
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Nipple clamp?
_________________ You may be right, I may be crazy, but it just may be a lunatic you're looking for
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Wed Aug 23, 2023 8:01 am |
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Arisaka
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Location: Tacoma Joined: Sat May 4, 2013 Posts: 6214
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RocketScott wrote: Nipple clamp? As you would expect, this is a Model T tool. It dates back to the early 1900s. Not sure nipple clamps were invented back then. I’m sure somebody here would know.
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Wed Aug 23, 2023 8:21 am |
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usrifle
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Location: RENTON Joined: Fri Mar 25, 2011 Posts: 20771
Real Name: John
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Valve spring compressor?
_________________ Mr. Q wrote: so basically, if you have to smoke some asshole, make sure they become fertilizer and then Bounce? got it.
Guntrader wrote: Huh, maybe I was an asshole.
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Wed Aug 23, 2023 9:59 am |
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Arisaka
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Location: Tacoma Joined: Sat May 4, 2013 Posts: 6214
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Negatory
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Wed Aug 23, 2023 11:37 am |
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