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Rob

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#561 is a post-hole borer

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#561 is a post-hole borer



Looks more like an earth anchor than a hole digger.

There isn't enough screw to carry the loose dirt out of the hole, but
the blades will cut their way into the ground and allow the hole to
close back around the shaft, making it difficult to pull it loose
without unscrewing it. The eye at the top of the shaft would allow a
rope or chain to be fastened there, tethering whatever is attached to
the other end of the rope.

The Barbara Bailey entity posted thusly:

On Thu, 12 Jan 2006 09:44:15 +0000 (UTC), "Norman Billingham"
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#561 is a post-hole borer

Looks more like an earth anchor than a hole digger.

Yup.. they are common at horse events like trail rides, etc. for
tethering horses.

On Thu, 12 Jan 2006 14:19:00 -0600, Barbara Bailey wrote:
On Thu, 12 Jan 2006 09:44:15 +0000 (UTC), "Norman Billingham"
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Rob

#561 is a post-hole borer

Looks more like an earth anchor than a hole digger.

There isn't enough screw to carry the loose dirt out of the hole, but
the blades will cut their way into the ground and allow the hole to
close back around the shaft, making it difficult to pull it loose
without unscrewing it. The eye at the top of the shaft would allow a
rope or chain to be fastened there, tethering whatever is attached to
the other end of the rope.

Not to mention the stick that you use to twirl it. :-)

I've seen these used for mobile home tie-downs in tornado country,
which, of course, brings to mind an image of a trailer floor with
these four or five steel straps arched over it...

Cheers!
Rich

564 is a saw set. 567 is a cartridge belt
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On Thu, 12 Jan 2006 14:19:00 -0600, Barbara Bailey wrote:
On Thu, 12 Jan 2006 09:44:15 +0000 (UTC), "Norman Billingham"
wrote:
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Rob

#561 is a post-hole borer

Looks more like an earth anchor than a hole digger.

There isn't enough screw to carry the loose dirt out of the hole, but
the blades will cut their way into the ground and allow the hole to
close back around the shaft, making it difficult to pull it loose
without unscrewing it. The eye at the top of the shaft would allow a
rope or chain to be fastened there, tethering whatever is attached to
the other end of the rope.

Not to mention the stick that you use to twirl it. :-)

I've seen these used for mobile home tie-downs in tornado country,
which, of course, brings to mind an image of a trailer floor with
these four or five steel straps arched over it...

Cheers!
Rich

557. Hoof gage used by farriers to measure hoof angle and determines
the levelness of the foot.
561. Ground anchor for guy wires.
562. Maybe a pedometer?

"557. Hoof gage used by farriers to measure hoof angle and determines
the levelness of the foot. "
The shape of it made me think it was a farrier's tool but I couldn't
figure out what it did.

Sure seems like 558 is also a farrier's tool, for digging stuff out of
the hoof, prepping it for the new shoe.

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560. Well, its a wooden sand casting pattern, but what of? The colour code
is all mixed up, too. I though red was "to be machined", and the core print
isn't yellow... (?)

On Thu, 12 Jan 2006 23:14:33 +1100, Jeff R wrote:
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560. Well, its a wooden sand casting pattern, but what of? The colour code
is all mixed up, too. I though red was "to be machined", and the core print
isn't yellow... (?)

It looks like a negative for a vane pump rotor, or maybe a magnetron
anode.

Thanks!
Rich

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"R.H." wrote in message

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560. Well, its a wooden sand casting pattern, but what of? The colour
code
is all mixed up, too. I though red was "to be machined", and the core
print
isn't yellow... (?)


I've got about 15 different types of sand casting patterns, and only a
couple of them are yellow on the inside, I guess different companies had
different color standards. Also, some of them are red and black, and others
are brown and black.

It looks like a negative for a vane pump rotor, or maybe a magnetron
anode.

I couldn't find any photos on the web of any of these that look like mine, I
was thinking that the red colored area was removed in the finished piece,
leaving the middle hollow.


Rob

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559: poker chip holder

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The email address in the header is fake.

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Rob


..
#561 is an anchor used by augering into the soil for whatever anchoring
purpose one might need. The eye is used for tying off and for slipping
a cross handle into to screw it into the ground.

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562 Battery ammeter used to check batteries in early radios.


Carl G.

According to R.H. :
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O.K. Posting from rec.crafts.metalworking again.

557) It sort of looks like a tool for measuring the angle of a
horse's hoof -- perhaps to allow for installing a tapered
horseshoe to adapt to a problem with the ankle?

I wouldn't think that they would need the full 90 degrees for
that, however.

558) Some special form of hammer -- for striking on a rather narrow
area.

559) Poker chip holder.

560) This looks like a pattern for a metal casting mold. The halves
are placed in "green sand" (in two halves -- the "cope" and the
"drag" , and it is rammed to firm up the mold. Then the halves
of the pattern are removed, the cope and drag are joined (in
special frames to retain the registration), and the metal is
poured. (I've skipped over details such as forming vents and
the path through which the metal flows into the mold.

I'm not sure why the separate colors, however. Most that I have
seen are just plain wood -- perhaps with varnish to keep the
sand from sticking to the pattern.

561) A post-hole auger -- for drilling holes in the earth into which
to place fenceposts and the like. A wood shaft is placed
through the eye at the top end, and two people walk around the
point as it drills in.

The trick is getting the dirt out from the drilled hole. :-)

562) Hmm ... the two side knobs look like binding post terminals,
and the one on the left appears to be insulated from the case,
so I would suggest that this is either a voltmeter or an
ammeter.

I've never seen one with a gear train, but this one looks quite
old. Is that date in the upper right 1898? 1896?

Now to see what others have guessed.

Enjoy,
DoN.



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#559 is a bakelite poker chip lazy susan.

scott

| Scott Lurndal wrote:
| #559 is a bakelite poker chip lazy susan.

How in heck can you tell it has a lazy susan base ? _____Gerard S.

"Gerard 46" writes:
| Scott Lurndal wrote:
| #559 is a bakelite poker chip lazy susan.

How in heck can you tell it has a lazy susan base ? _____Gerard S.





guess based on former posession of a similar item.

scott

On Thu, 12 Jan 2006 14:21:41 -0800, Gerard 46 wrote:

| Scott Lurndal wrote:
| #559 is a bakelite poker chip lazy susan.

How in heck can you tell it has a lazy susan base ? _____Gerard S.

I wonder why he says it's bakelite - ours was polystyrene. ;-)

Cheers!
Rich

561. I would have guessed an ice auger, for ice fishing, not much in the
way of flutes though...

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Rob

557 - a device to measure the angle of a hoof on a horse

558. a really dull knife

559. a chip holder for a poker game

560. a split pattern for a casting.

561. an ice auger for ice fishing

562. an electric meter ... but I dont know if for volts, amps, or ohms.

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557 - a device to measure the angle of a hoof on a horse

558. a really dull knife

559. a chip holder for a poker game

560. a split pattern for a casting.

561. an ice auger for ice fishing

562. an electric meter ... but I dont know if for volts, amps, or ohms.



558 For swaging over a rivet in a narrow space? Looks like the "blade"
edge has been beat on quite a bit.

561 I go with the ground anchor or "deadman"

--
Nahmie
Stupidity is not considered a handicap, park elsewhere.

This may have been asked/answered before, but does anyone know or remember a
TV Game show LONG time ago that would have unusual objects and 2 wrong and 1
correct answer were given? If you do remember the name of the show I would
appreciate you sharing it with me :-)

Susan

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Yeah, I do remember that. I think Soupy Sales was one of the
celebrities. Three celebs would provide ideas for what the object was,
and the contestant had to guess which celeb was telling the truth. I
think the show was about the same time as "Whats my Line" and "to tell
the truth"..

Hmmm...

--riverman

"Take A Guess"?

--riverman

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This may have been asked/answered before, but does anyone know or remember
a
TV Game show LONG time ago that would have unusual objects and 2 wrong and
1
correct answer were given? If you do remember the name of the show I
would
appreciate you sharing it with me :-)

Susan

Your description is similar to that of a game show called "Liar's Club",
except that in "Liar's Club" three of four celebrities provided incorrect
answers. Also, it wasn't produced a LONG time ago. It was produced in
1969, 1976, 1977, 1978, and 1988. The host in 1969 was Rod Serling. Other
hosts were Bill Armstrong (1976-1977), Allen Ludden (1977-1978), and Eric
Boardman (1988-1989).

Carl G.

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wrote:

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,;"Susan" wrote in message
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,; This may have been asked/answered before, but does anyone know or remember
,;a
,; TV Game show LONG time ago that would have unusual objects and 2 wrong and
,;1
,; correct answer were given? If you do remember the name of the show I
,;would
,; appreciate you sharing it with me :-)
,;
,; Susan

Try this URL...

http://www.geocities.com/TelevisionC...liars_club.htm

Thats it - was a good show. I only remember the original, and 1969 was a
long time ago - at least in terms of how I look today v the 60s :-)

Thanks for the help.

Susan


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"Susan" wrote in message
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This may have been asked/answered before, but does anyone know or
remember
a
TV Game show LONG time ago that would have unusual objects and 2 wrong
and
1
correct answer were given? If you do remember the name of the show I
would
appreciate you sharing it with me :-)

Susan

Your description is similar to that of a game show called "Liar's Club",
except that in "Liar's Club" three of four celebrities provided incorrect
answers. Also, it wasn't produced a LONG time ago. It was produced in
1969, 1976, 1977, 1978, and 1988. The host in 1969 was Rod Serling.
Other
hosts were Bill Armstrong (1976-1977), Allen Ludden (1977-1978), and Eric
Boardman (1988-1989).

Carl G.

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"Susan" wrote in message
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This may have been asked/answered before, but does anyone know or remember
a
TV Game show LONG time ago that would have unusual objects and 2 wrong and
1
correct answer were given? If you do remember the name of the show I
would
appreciate you sharing it with me :-)

Susan

Your description is similar to that of a game show called "Liar's Club",
except that in "Liar's Club" three of four celebrities provided incorrect
answers. Also, it wasn't produced a LONG time ago. It was produced in
1969, 1976, 1977, 1978, and 1988. The host in 1969 was Rod Serling. Other
hosts were Bill Armstrong (1976-1977), Allen Ludden (1977-1978), and Eric
Boardman (1988-1989).

Carl G.

To these kids, that's a _very_ long time ago. Some of them weren't even
born yet then!

[Uh-oh - was that the sound of my bones creaking? ;-) ]

Cheers!
Rich

On Thu, 12 Jan 2006 19:39:58 -0600, "Susan"
wrote:

This may have been asked/answered before, but does anyone know or remember a
TV Game show LONG time ago that would have unusual objects and 2 wrong and 1
correct answer were given? If you do remember the name of the show I would
appreciate you sharing it with me :-)

Susan


"Liar's Club" As I recall, Larry Hovis was one of the regulars on the
panel and was quite good at coming up with plausible (but false)
identifications.

Five have been answered correctly so far:





557. Hoof leveler

558. No correct answers yet but partial credit to DoN for guessing that's a
hammer. It's used for making something with thatch type material.

559. Poker chip holder

560. Sand casting pattern

561. This was marked "ice auger", which I think is probably correct. It
has two cutting edges whereas most of the earth anchors that I've seen on
the web have just one, and look a little more similar to a drill, as seen
he

http://www.rackattack.com/product/62...06258&utm_id=3

562. Battery volt meter


More photos and several links have been posted on the answer page:

http://pzphotans99v.blogspot.com/


Rob

The R.H. entity posted thusly:

561. This was marked "ice auger", which I think is probably correct. It
has two cutting edges whereas most of the earth anchors that I've seen on
the web have just one, and look a little more similar to a drill, as seen
he

http://www.rackattack.com/product/62...06258&utm_id=3

That's most definitely not an ice auger, or at least it's not even
close to any ice auger I have ever seen, and I've seen quite a number
of them.

A search for "ice auger" in Google Images will show you what an ice
auger looks like... the main feature being 'threads' that go most of
the way up the shaft.

"Oleg Lego" wrote in message
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The R.H. entity posted thusly:

561. This was marked "ice auger", which I think is probably correct. It
has two cutting edges whereas most of the earth anchors that I've seen on
the web have just one, and look a little more similar to a drill, as seen
he


http://www.rackattack.com/product/62....htm?gad=CM2F2
P8BEghkEKJdN-87sRi4lIn_AyD94dcP&gkw=306258&utm_id=3

That's most definitely not an ice auger, or at least it's not even
close to any ice auger I have ever seen, and I've seen quite a number
of them.

A search for "ice auger" in Google Images will show you what an ice
auger looks like... the main feature being 'threads' that go most of
the way up the shaft.


Could there be a distinction between an ice auger which drills a hole, and
an ice anchor auger, which provides an anchor in the ice?

The Jeff R entity posted thusly:


"Oleg Lego" wrote in message
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The R.H. entity posted thusly:

561. This was marked "ice auger", which I think is probably correct. It
has two cutting edges whereas most of the earth anchors that I've seen on
the web have just one, and look a little more similar to a drill, as seen
he


http://www.rackattack.com/product/62....htm?gad=CM2F2
P8BEghkEKJdN-87sRi4lIn_AyD94dcP&gkw=306258&utm_id=3

That's most definitely not an ice auger, or at least it's not even
close to any ice auger I have ever seen, and I've seen quite a number
of them.

A search for "ice auger" in Google Images will show you what an ice
auger looks like... the main feature being 'threads' that go most of
the way up the shaft.


Could there be a distinction between an ice auger which drills a hole, and
an ice anchor auger, which provides an anchor in the ice?

I suppose there could be, though a Google Images search doesn't show
anything like that for "ice anchor".

I'll have to see if I can find my earth anchors in the barn. I haven't
used them for a long time, and I'm not sure if they are single or
double flute. Nor do I know if it makes a difference in what they are
called.

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wrote:

The Jeff R entity posted thusly:


"Oleg Lego" wrote in message
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The R.H. entity posted thusly:

561. This was marked "ice auger", which I think is probably correct. It
has two cutting edges whereas most of the earth anchors that I've seen on
the web have just one, and look a little more similar to a drill, as seen
he


http://www.rackattack.com/product/62....htm?gad=CM2F2
P8BEghkEKJdN-87sRi4lIn_AyD94dcP&gkw=306258&utm_id=3

That's most definitely not an ice auger, or at least it's not even
close to any ice auger I have ever seen, and I've seen quite a number
of them.

A search for "ice auger" in Google Images will show you what an ice
auger looks like... the main feature being 'threads' that go most of
the way up the shaft.


Could there be a distinction between an ice auger which drills a hole, and
an ice anchor auger, which provides an anchor in the ice?

I suppose there could be, though a Google Images search doesn't show
anything like that for "ice anchor".

I'll have to see if I can find my earth anchors in the barn. I haven't
used them for a long time, and I'm not sure if they are single or
double flute. Nor do I know if it makes a difference in what they are
called.


I've got two in my hand that I just grabbed out of our camping gear.
One's single blade, with the blade forming one single full twist; the
other is a double blade, with each blade forming about a 4/7th twist.

Barb

"Jeff R" wrote


Could there be a distinction between an ice auger which drills a hole, and
an ice anchor auger, which provides an anchor in the ice?


I wouldn't think an ice anchor auger would be able to screw itself into ice.
They would just use an ice auger to drill out the hole, put in the anchor,
fill the hole with water and let it refreeze.

On Sat, 14 Jan 2006 16:16:15 +1100, Jeff R wrote:
"Oleg Lego" wrote in message
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The R.H. entity posted thusly:

561. This was marked "ice auger", which I think is probably correct. It
has two cutting edges whereas most of the earth anchors that I've seen on
the web have just one, and look a little more similar to a drill, as seen
he

http://www.rackattack.com/product/62....htm?gad=CM2F2
P8BEghkEKJdN-87sRi4lIn_AyD94dcP&gkw=306258&utm_id=3

That's most definitely not an ice auger, or at least it's not even
close to any ice auger I have ever seen, and I've seen quite a number
of them.

A search for "ice auger" in Google Images will show you what an ice
auger looks like... the main feature being 'threads' that go most of
the way up the shaft.

Could there be a distinction between an ice auger which drills a hole, and
an ice anchor auger, which provides an anchor in the ice?

Definitely. To provide an anchor in the ice, you lay a chain on the
ice, and pour a few gallons of boiling water over it, and wait for
the ice to refreeze.

I'ts a _sand_ anchor - they use them a dozen at a time to tie down mobile
homes on sandy dirt in tornado alley. :-)

I guess it could be used for guy wires, but they're usually poured
concrete - this unit is either for a temporary installation or used on
mobile homes because they're cheap. (i.e., you can afford to buy a dozen
of them. ;-) )

Cheers!
Rich

"Oleg Lego" wrote in message
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The R.H. entity posted thusly:

561. This was marked "ice auger", which I think is probably correct. It
has two cutting edges whereas most of the earth anchors that I've seen on
the web have just one, and look a little more similar to a drill, as seen
he


http://www.rackattack.com/product/62....htm?gad=CM2F2
P8BEghkEKJdN-87sRi4lIn_AyD94dcP&gkw=306258&utm_id=3

That's most definitely not an ice auger, or at least it's not even
close to any ice auger I have ever seen, and I've seen quite a number
of them.

A search for "ice auger" in Google Images will show you what an ice
auger looks like... the main feature being 'threads' that go most of
the way up the shaft.

I agree that it doesn't look like a modern ice auger, but this tool appears
to be quite old and I figured that they were made much simpler years ago.
Have you seen many of them as old as this one?

It looks like it could be used for either purpose, but I'm leaning towards
ice auger mostly because of the angle of the blades, the fact that there are
two of them, and it seems to me that it would would work well for shaving
ice.

I haven't been able to find any other tools yet that look like this one, but
I'll do a little more research this weekend.

Rob

The shaft doesn't appear robust enough to transmit the torque
required for an ice auger. I'm inclined to agree with the earth
auger hypothesis.

Art


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It looks like it could be used for either purpose, but I'm leaning towards
ice auger mostly because of the angle of the blades, the fact that there are
two of them, and it seems to me that it would would work well for shaving
ice.

According to Wood Butcher :
"R.H." wrote in message
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[ ... ]

It looks like it could be used for either purpose, but I'm leaning towards
ice auger mostly because of the angle of the blades, the fact that there are
two of them, and it seems to me that it would would work well for shaving
ice.

The shaft doesn't appear robust enough to transmit the torque
required for an ice auger. I'm inclined to agree with the earth
auger hypothesis.

And the ring at the top does not look either strong enough, or
shaped properly to allow use as an anchor. It is too sharp-edged to not
cut through the rope attached to it.

I believe that shape is correct for a wooden T-handle fitted
through it to allow two people to march around the hole which is being
drilled.

Enjoy,
DoN.

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