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551. An Edison cylinder for playback of pre-recorded music
552. Is that a pasta cutter/crimper?
553. Digital liquid thermometer
554. not sure
555. butter churner?
556. no clue

--julie

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554 Calibration wheel for thermostat
555 Flintstones well windlass?
556 Log dog

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556. no clue

556. is a log-dog, used in building log houses (think very large
temporary staple).

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554. Fan on an electric motor
555. A well reel to wind rope and bucket up and down into the well.

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554. Fan on an electric motor
555. A well reel to wind rope and bucket up and down into the well.

No, I think 554 is the business end of a fire sprinkler.

Paul K. Dickman

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554- Close up of a fire suppression sprinkler head.

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555- archeological evidence that the Puritans played bingo.

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I got one! I got one!

555: This unit is incomplete. It's the rotor for a wind sound FX machine
for live theater. It sits in a box, that it just fits into - the metal
sleeve (there's another on the other end) fits into a notch at the end
of the box. A piece of silk is fastened along one edge of the box so that
it can be draped over the drum, covering the whole top
hemisph^H^Hcylinder? - well, you know what I mean. Anyway, when the crank
is turned, it goes, Whooosh! WhooOOOoooosh! and so on.

At least, that's how the one I saw worked. :-)

Cheers!
Rich

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554. not sure

This one is the deflector for a fire protection sprinkler.

553; I use one of these everyday. It is a Ph meter with temp. compinsation
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O.K. -- posting from rec.crafts.metalworking again.

551) Easy -- an Edison cylinder recording.

552) Hmm ... despite first appearances, the first one is
*not* a gear, as the teeth are square.

I'm not sure of the material of the wheel in the first one. It
sort of looks like asbestos.

The second appears to be brass.

So -- I will guess that they are for guiding something hot, and
the "teeth" in the first are to minimize heat transfer. Hmm ...
perhaps for use with a glass-blowing lathe?

553) At a guess -- a non-contact infrared temperature sensor, with
pins for plugging it in to recharge the batteries between use?

554) Cooling fan on a small electric motor -- perhaps one found in
an inexpensive phonograph?

555) For tumbling something -- either clothes, or more likely
something which needs polishing -- in sand or rocks.

It looks large enough to be used for tumbling a chain mail
shirt in sand, to remove the rust.

556) A double-ended prybar, with the prys oriented differently
on each end?

Now to see what others have guessed.

Enjoy,
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#551 Novelty scene toy
#552 Leather marking/impression tool
#553 Water quality measurement system, measures temperature and total
dissolved solids
#554 Fire sprinkler valve
#555 Butter churn
#556 Not even a wild guess



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551. Edison phonograph wax cylinder recording of "At the Gate of the
Palace of Dreams" (but I thought it was patented in 1906 and earlier,
not 1911, the Amberola player was around 1911 though).

556) Log woodworking dog. Used to hold logs from rolling away while
fitting log home walls.

553 PH Meter.

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554, Fire Sprinkler head.

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Would

http://www.feeldoe.com/page5.html

be of interest to the What Is It? crowd? There are some pics at the
site which might baffle and amuse. (It's a dildo manufacturer's site,
and I hope I haven't offended anybody at your email address) I
particuarly like the picture labeled "Pony, Saddle, Horse", not on the
page given here.

Doug

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Would

http://www.feeldoe.com/page5.html

be of interest to the What Is It? crowd? There are some pics at
the site which might baffle and amuse. (It's a dildo
manufacturer's site, and I hope I haven't offended anybody at your
email address) I particuarly like the picture labeled "Pony,
Saddle, Horse", not on the page given here.


Actually, all of us "I know how to please a damn woman" he-men out
here might want to take a look at some of those female pleasure tools
that women use. Maybe a thing or two to learn from them. I learned my
giant horse dick ain't all that ;-)

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551. Edison Blue Amberol Record

552. No correct guesses yet, it's used to emboss something particular.

553. TDS & temp meter

554. Fire sprinkler

555. Windlass from a water well

556. Logging dog


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Oh, 552 is a bookbinders gold tooling roll. I assumed someone must have
already got it.

Adam Smith
Midland, ON

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551. Edison Blue Amberol Record

552. No correct guesses yet, it's used to emboss something particular.

553. TDS & temp meter

554. Fire sprinkler

555. Windlass from a water well

556. Logging dog


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I learned my giant horse dick ain't all that ;-)


You have to replace the batteries once in a while

Gary

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552. No correct guesses yet, it's used to emboss something particular.

Sheets of pasta for ravioli?

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Oh, 552 is a bookbinders gold tooling roll. I assumed someone must have
already got it.

This answer is correct, otherwise know as an embossing roll, back tool,
blank roll or gilding roll; it's used to apply gold leaf to the leather
cover of a book.

While we're on the subject, I was surfing the web the other day and came
across a site (see below) that shows books that have fore-edge painting,
with the edge of the pages gilded with gold. It got me wondering how they
gild the edges without having the pages stick together. Anyone know the
answer to this?

http://www.grand-illusions.com/artic...edge_painting/


Rob

R.H. wrote:
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Oh, 552 is a bookbinders gold tooling roll. I assumed someone must have
already got it.

This answer is correct, otherwise know as an embossing roll, back tool,
blank roll or gilding roll; it's used to apply gold leaf to the leather
cover of a book.

While we're on the subject, I was surfing the web the other day and came
across a site (see below) that shows books that have fore-edge painting,
with the edge of the pages gilded with gold. It got me wondering how they
gild the edges without having the pages stick together. Anyone know the
answer to this?

http://www.grand-illusions.com/artic...edge_painting/


Here is your answer:
http://palimpsest.stanford.edu/don/d...dt/dt1528.html

Oops. Not suppposed to go to the group!

Doug

Here is your answer:

http://palimpsest.stanford.edu/don/d...dt/dt1528.html


Thanks for the link.

Rob