The latest set has just been posted:

http://puzzlephotos.blogspot.com/

A few weeks ago I posted links to three photos that were not included on my
site, I have added one of them to this week's set for the benefit of those
who do not follow the discussions here in the newsgroups.


Rob

some silly guesses:

854 pasta maker, to cut the dough (? paste ? which is the right word? in
german: Teig) to spaghetti
857 micrometer, to measure the height, with a accuracy within the range of a
thousandth millimeter or better
859 some early type of electrical relay

greetings from germany
chris

On Thu, 21 Dec 2006 04:36:06 -0500, "R.H."
wrote:

The latest set has just been posted:

http://puzzlephotos.blogspot.com/

A few weeks ago I posted links to three photos that were not included on my
site, I have added one of them to this week's set for the benefit of those
who do not follow the discussions here in the newsgroups.


Rob


I believe #856 is an ice scraper, the plastic kind one carries in the
car.

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I think it was Barbara Bailey who stated:

I believe #856 is an ice scraper, the plastic kind one carries in the
car.

I believe you're right! I'm surprised I didn't notice that, as I'm
here at home waiting for the weather to warm so that the glare ice on
the driveway will melt some so I can drive to work. Fortunately the
car is in a garage so I won't have to scrape before leaving.

I was thinking it looked like some kind of splined miter joint -- but
in plastic?? Nah . . . .
--
"Ladies and gentlemen take my advice.
Pull down your pants and slide on the ice."

-- Sidney Freedman

853 Firing pin for a Hilti gun?

855 Corker. For putting the cork in a bottle?

859 OLD doorbell relay?

R.H. wrote:
853. Firing pin or striker from something

855. some kind of swaging tool with multiple dies.

858. Bobbin for mechanical loom.

859. Relay, possibly from telegraph system.

Henry Winkler?

According to R.H. :
The latest set has just been posted:

http://puzzlephotos.blogspot.com/

O.K. Posting from rec.crafts.metalworking as usual.

853) Interesting. Looks sort of like a key, except that
when it is turned counterclockwise (from the spring end), it
will cam in and press the screwdriver tip harder into the slot
in which it is (presumably) engaged.

Not really sure why the spring around the rest of it.

854) for guiding a set of lines (ropes) parallel. Perhaps
for winding a rope evenly on a drum -- though I would expect a
mounting instead of a handle for that.

855) Looks like a tool for nipping a nail or a rivet to length.

Not sure what the plates below it are for. Perhaps jaws for
*pulling* nails?

856) No clue -- and it is way too late to take more time trying
to guess.

857) A device for measuring thickness of materials -- 0 to 1/4"
(0.250"), in both 0.001" increments, and in fractional inch
increments of 1/64th of an inch.

858) Another version of a "cork socker" -- a tool for re-installing
a cork in a wine bottle. It looks closer to the one which I
have had since about 1970 or so, except that mine is dark wood.
This is the second of these in the past month or two, IIRC.

859) A relay for interrupting current through an inductive load, or
for fairly high voltage. (This because the double set of
contacts in the current path doubles the opening that the arc
needs to jump to keep the current flowing.

Now to see what others have answered, and then go to sleep. :-)

Enjoy,
DoN.
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"R.H." wrote in message
...
The latest set has just been posted:

http://puzzlephotos.blogspot.com/

853. Firing pin

854. For shaping and cutting dough or pasta into strings.

855. Metal shears for notching and cutting plate.

856. No idea. Looks a bit like the side of a heatsink.

857. 0"- 0.250" stand mounted dial gauge for thickness testing. The flat
anvils indicate it would be ideal for measuring wire rather than sheet.

858. Bottle corker

859. Electromagnetic relay or bell.
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On Fri, 22 Dec 2006 09:23:29 -0000, "Dave Baker"
wrote:


"R.H." wrote in message
...
The latest set has just been posted:

http://puzzlephotos.blogspot.com/

853. Firing pin

My first thought was for a firing pin too (as several others
have suggested), but...

The business end looks like one used for a rimfire, but
wouldn't a rimfire pin be offset to hit the rim? This one
looks to be centered.

Most firing pins I have seen are longer in the narrow
striking area. There wouldn't be a whole lot of room behind
this one for the bolt to contain pressure.

Just some thoughts, I don't have a better answer...

The answer page has been posted though I'm still not sure about the first
two for this week, also I have included an update on the scriber from a few
months ago:

http://pzphotosan149-t.blogspot.com/


Rob

"R.H." wrote in message
...
The answer page has been posted though I'm still not sure about the first
two for this week, also I have included an update on the scriber from a
few
months ago:

http://pzphotosan149-t.blogspot.com/

I'd like to point out that 857 is NOT a micrometer. As I said in my post
it's a stand mounted thickness testing dial gauge. A micrometer is this.

http://www.upscale.utoronto.ca/PVB/H...icrometer.html
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Dave Baker
Puma Race Engines
www.pumaracing.co.uk
Camp USA engineer minces about for high performance specialist (4,4,7)

"Dave Baker" wrote in message
...
I'd like to point out that 857 is NOT a micrometer. As I said in my post
it's a stand mounted thickness testing dial gauge. A micrometer is this.

http://www.upscale.utoronto.ca/PVB/H...icrometer.html


Actually, by definition 857 IS a micrometer. So is your example. So is an
instrument
that measures small increments of ANGLE. Lots of things qualify as
"micrometer"

http://www.answers.com/topic/micrometer

Bill

"Bill Marrs" wrote in message
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"Dave Baker" wrote in message
...
I'd like to point out that 857 is NOT a micrometer. As I said in my post
it's a stand mounted thickness testing dial gauge. A micrometer is this.

http://www.upscale.utoronto.ca/PVB/H...icrometer.html


Actually, by definition 857 IS a micrometer. So is your example. So is
an
instrument
that measures small increments of ANGLE. Lots of things qualify as
"micrometer"

http://www.answers.com/topic/micrometer

.... which says "especially one based on the rotation of a finely threaded
screw". That's the only definition of micrometer that an engineer would
understand. Dictionary definitions are all well and good but many of them
are either too new to be in common usage or too old and no longer in common
usage. To an engineer a micrometer has a thimble and anvil and a dial gauge
has ummm... a dial.
--
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Puma Race Engines
www.pumaracing.co.uk
Camp USA engineer minces about for high performance specialist (4,4,7)

According to R.H. :
The answer page has been posted though I'm still not sure about the first
two for this week,

O.K. I have no experience with disassembling a Krag (which I
thought used a centerfire cartridge, and this is for rimfire from the
shape), but I do know that at least it is *not* the firing pin for the
HILTI model DX-350, which I have, and which I just disassembled to
refresh my memory. I don't know how many other models of nailset guns
HILTI may have made.

I do agree that it is probably a firing pin for some flavor of
rimfire weapon.

also I have included an update on the scriber from a few
months ago:

O.K. Thanks,
DoN.

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According to Dave Baker :

"Bill Marrs" wrote in message
news:U2bjh.1747$dw6.629@trndny02...

"Dave Baker" wrote in message
...
I'd like to point out that 857 is NOT a micrometer. As I said in my post
it's a stand mounted thickness testing dial gauge. A micrometer is this.

http://www.upscale.utoronto.ca/PVB/H...icrometer.html


Actually, by definition 857 IS a micrometer. So is your example. So is
an
instrument
that measures small increments of ANGLE. Lots of things qualify as
"micrometer"

http://www.answers.com/topic/micrometer

... which says "especially one based on the rotation of a finely threaded
screw". That's the only definition of micrometer that an engineer would
understand. Dictionary definitions are all well and good but many of them
are either too new to be in common usage or too old and no longer in common
usage. To an engineer a micrometer has a thimble and anvil and a dial gauge
has ummm... a dial.

I agree. In the field in which that instrument was used, it
would not be called a "micrometer". "dial thickness gauge" would be the
most likely term. It has a lower range, and requires less skill to read
than a micrometer would. That covers 1/4th of the range of the typical
micrometer.

Enjoy,
DoN.
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Actually, by definition 857 IS a micrometer. So is your example. So
is
an
instrument
that measures small increments of ANGLE. Lots of things qualify as
"micrometer"

http://www.answers.com/topic/micrometer

... which says "especially one based on the rotation of a finely threaded
screw". That's the only definition of micrometer that an engineer would
understand. Dictionary definitions are all well and good but many of them
are either too new to be in common usage or too old and no longer in
common
usage. To an engineer a micrometer has a thimble and anvil and a dial
gauge
has ummm... a dial.


Early yesterday morning I changed my answer to "thickness gauge", I agree
that micrometer wasn't the best description for it, though some tools go by
several different names depending on where you live, so I tend to be more
concerned about the use for a tool than what it's called.

I also modified my answer for the firing pin, and added the link below that
explains rimfire ammunition:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rimfire



Rob

853. I think it's a firing pin for a Gatling gun. Have not found a
picture of the exact part,
but Gatlings original patent (36,836) shows the pin for a percussion
version. It is NOT
the firing pin for a Krag.

"Bill Marrs" wrote in message
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853. I think it's a firing pin for a Gatling gun. Have not found a
picture of the exact part,
but Gatlings original patent (36,836) shows the pin for a percussion
version. It is NOT
the firing pin for a Krag.




Thanks, I took the Krag reference off of the answer page.

Update on number 854: thanks to Leon for finding the patent number for it,
meat tenderizer was the correct answer:

http://www.google.com/patents?vid=USPAT1577036


Rob