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418 Spikes: used to ensure that record players get as little feedback
as possible from the speakers. Placed under the record players
legs.

419

420 Hole making thing (with a drill).

422 Chinese navigation instrument

423 Sheep wool scissors

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418 ?
419 ?
420 Pipe reamer, used with a brace to smooth out inside of black or
galvanized pipe after being cut with a pipe cutter.
421 ?
422 Early model pocket watch? Looks like a small portable sundial with a
built in compass and sticks to adjust tilt of tables for time of year.
423 Hand sheep shears(w/broken blade)

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420 Counter Sink bit for a Brace
422 Some sort of Navigation or Surveying device of asian origin
423 Sheep Shears with one of the points broken off.

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418 woodworkers "transfer centers" for doweling?

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418. CDC approved points for contemporary "bed of nails".

Must be taken off and sterilized before being used by next fakir, to
avoid transmission of blood borne diseases.

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Anti-zerk fittings.

Looks like felt, some kind of patch or insignia?

Pipe reamer.

Pencil breaker.

I like this one, it's very cool. I'll say it's a Chinese astrologer's
tool, but it could be some sort of navigation device too. I think..

Sheep shear with a broken blade.

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422 Early model pocket watch? Looks like a small portable sundial
with a built in compass and sticks to adjust tilt of tables for time
of year.

This one is very interesting. At first I thought it was perhaps
for navigation (align it N-S using the compass, and then somehow
use the tilting sundials for determining latitude). But I think
it's probably not for serious navigation. I beleive it's used
somehow in Feng Shui to determine the proper alignment of things.

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418...... replacement spikes for loggers boots (thread into sole.) ?

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418...... replacement spikes for loggers boots (thread into sole.) ?

Or maybe the studs for winter tires in Northern Ontario. I don't
recall ever seeing it done, but I understand that they "screw" in, and
are replaceable.

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418. Indoor target points for arrows
419.
420. Countersink/reamer for use with a brace.
421. Adjustable wire/cable stripper
422.
423. Sheep Shears

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418 Car door edge protectors. You drill and tap holes near the corners of
your car doors, then screw them in. They protect the edges of your car door
whenever you open the door in a parking lot. Creates cool "bullet holes" in
the neighboring car's fender when they don't park within their space.

419 This is the standard diagram for showing where to put an "out of order"
sign above a doorbell.

420 An accessory from the All-Metal Mary Poppins play set.

421 Tongue piercing tool. Makes up to four holes at once.

422 A sundial with both hour and minute hands. It is also a do-it-yourself
acupuncture kit. You align it to magnetic north using the compass (for
maximum Qi) and sit on it carefully.

423 Shears, apparently used to cut steel wool off of steel sheep.

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Shoe spikes - golf maybe, or running

#420
Pipe reamer, for big soft lead pipes (lots of cutting edges).

#422
Portable sundial. Compass to align it and variable inclination for
lattitude.

#423
Shears, probably for trimming livestock. They've obviously had their
sharp points removed, so they may be for cosmetic grooming in less than
experienced hands. The sheep shearers I've seen avoided any premature
kebabing of their charges by just being skillful instead.

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#422 is plainly a sundial/compass combination. The compass
would be used to align the gnomen to due south.

But what is the function of the second gnomen/dial on the
opposite side of the compass? A moondial?

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418. Layout transfer points for tapped holes
419. ?
420. Deburring reamer
421. Hand punch, but don't know the specific
422. Chinese navigational device
423. Sheet shears, broken

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422. Chinese (or Japanese?) portable sundial. Remove from pocket; unfold,
set the elevation angle of the pointer (gnomon) to the latitude of the user
(by city, perhaps), use the compass to rotate so North is correctly
oriented, then tell the time of day if the Sun is shining. I haven't quite
worked out why there are two foldups; perhaps one side is for summer and the
other side is for winter, when the shadow on the other side is not seen?

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422. Chinese (or Japanese?) portable sundial. Remove from pocket; unfold,
set the elevation angle of the pointer (gnomon) to the latitude of the user
(by city, perhaps), use the compass to rotate so North is correctly
oriented, then tell the time of day if the Sun is shining. I haven't quite
worked out why there are two foldups; perhaps one side is for summer and the
other side is for winter, when the shadow on the other side is not seen?



Paw Quaw (spelling?) for chinese feng shui.

At least that's my guess

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419: Ipod?

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418: Centering point.

419: "Do not look into laser with remaining eye"

420: Reaming head

421: World's most difficult to use hole punch

422: A local US highway, not fun to commute on. Or perhaps a Chinese
navigation tool (I'm guessing the center part is a compass, the others
are used for measuring the sun angle)

423: Dunno, maybe horse-related?
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422. Chinese (or Japanese?) portable sundial. Remove from pocket; unfold,
set the elevation angle of the pointer (gnomon) to the latitude of the user
(by city, perhaps), use the compass to rotate so North is correctly
oriented, then tell the time of day if the Sun is shining. I haven't quite
worked out why there are two foldups; perhaps one side is for summer and the
other side is for winter, when the shadow on the other side is not seen?

Silly, the other side is for daylight saving time :-)





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418) I saw a mention of this as being spikes for logger's boots
when I entered this thread at the wrong point, so I can't claim
a guess on this one.

419) Perhaps part of a cell phone? Where would I have seen it? I
don't watch much TV, and I don't read popular magazines, so if
those were possible places, I would not have seen it.

420) Pipe ID deburing reamer -- held in standard old drill brace
(hand-cranked drill with a shape like this;

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(view with a fixed pitch font like Courier to avoid image distortion)

421) The function of these is to punch one to four equally spaced
holes across the width of something.

If the spikes were not metal connected to the metal frame of the
pliers, I could see it as being used to probe a flat cable of
some sort.

As it is, I think that it is for punching holes across a leather
belt to allow lacing it to another similar belt (probably the
other end of the same belt) to produce a continuous drive belt.
The smallest such drive belt that I have seen was 1" wide (used
to drive lathes or milling machines), but I could imagine one
which was smaller -- perhaps in something like a tape recorder,
(except that the variations that the lacing would produce would
introduce speed errors into a recorder).

422) This looks to me to be a traveler's portable sundial. The
compass is to properly orient it, and the two angled boards
(whose angles are set according to the traveler's current
latitude) are to read the time -- one for the Northern
hemisphere, and the other for the Southern hemisphere.

It would help to be able to read Chinese, which I can't, so I
can find no confirmation for my guesses.

423) Old-fashioned sheep shears -- with broken blade tips. These
look to me like what would have been used in a shearing shed in
Australia.

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#422 is plainly a sundial/compass combination. The compass
would be used to align the gnomen to due south.

But what is the function of the second gnomen/dial on the
opposite side of the compass? A moondial?

My guess is that it is for the southern hemisphere. The shadow
would rotate the opposite direction, so having a second one calibrated
for that would save applying corrections.

Enjoy,
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I think Carl has it - but I think it is a shoe / leather piecing tool
for threads to lock on soles...

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418 Car door edge protectors. You drill and tap holes near the corners of
your car doors, then screw them in. They protect the edges of your car door
whenever you open the door in a parking lot. Creates cool "bullet holes" in
the neighboring car's fender when they don't park within their space.

419 This is the standard diagram for showing where to put an "out of order"
sign above a doorbell.

420 An accessory from the All-Metal Mary Poppins play set.

421 Tongue piercing tool. Makes up to four holes at once.

422 A sundial with both hour and minute hands. It is also a do-it-yourself
acupuncture kit. You align it to magnetic north using the compass (for
maximum Qi) and sit on it carefully.

423 Shears, apparently used to cut steel wool off of steel sheep.

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421 Ticket collector's punch - adjustable for different routes.

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Posting from rec.crafts.metalworking...

My answers for most of them have been offered by others but I think 419 is a
small section of an etched circuit board. The rough edges imply chemical
etching behind a mask but it looks to be gold clad instead of copper so I'm
guessing they're connector contacts for something.

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#422 is plainly a sundial/compass combination. The compass
would be used to align the gnomen to due south.

But what is the function of the second gnomen/dial on the
opposite side of the compass? A moondial?

My guess is that it is for the southern hemisphere. The shadow
would rotate the opposite direction, so having a second one calibrated
for that would save applying corrections.

I was going to facetiously suggest that, but facetiously suggested a
moondial instead.

ISTM it would be much simpler to put a second set of characters
on the dial for Southern hemisphere use, as opposed to another
entire dial. Besides, it looks like the scale is different on
the two dials.


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Four of the six have been answered correctly here, and the image close-up
has been answered in the comments section on my site. If you haven't seen
the solution and would like to see a little more of the image, a second
photo of it can be found he

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I've got a busy weekend coming up so I'll go ahead and post all the answers
below.













418. Track shoe spikes

419. The image is the "free parking" block on a Monopoly game board.

420. Pipe reamer

421. Watchmaker's mainspring punch

422. Feng shui compass/sundial

423. Sheep shears

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422. Feng shui compass/sundial

O.K. I already thought that Feng Shui was weird, but now I
consider it *very* weird. :-)

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