1388 - Jib for motion picture or TV Camera.

1389 - Gang saw to cut fret slots on guitar fingerboard.

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1387. mold to make lead hammer put handle in hole, melt lead in ladle
and pour.
Last couple weeks are relly hard.
Karl

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Finally getting back to this after being away and/or busy for a few
weeks....

1387 -- Very strange cast object. Possibly used in a metal casting
operation? Molten lead or whatever could be scooped (or melted) in the
ladle portion, and scum and slag captured in the hollow cylindrical
hinged portion by tilting the works slightly, then the purer metal
poured into the mold.

1388 -- Googling "Brains and Pictures" reveals that it's an austrian
firm specializing in camera handling machinery for television and motion
picture use. It would therefore seem that this is some sort of a
motorized camera positioning system.

1389 -- Clearly a multiple saw of some manner, seemingly used to saw
grooves in or possibly strips of a sheet good of some sort. From the
substantial size of the arbor, I'm guessing maybe its used for metal
(Aluminum?). The sizes of the strips or groove spacing obviously vary;
it's not clear, to say the least, what possible construction they may be
used in.

1390 -- Spring compressor, maybe for valve springs on old engines?

1391 -- Early form of GPS navigator device, giving directions to the
operator of a motor vehicle. Maybe used by drivers on a bus line.
"Macadam and pike" would refer to paved roads or toll (turnpike) roads,
presumably the smoothest, fastest, and best-maintained of the day.

1392 -- Clueless, but with a nagging suspicion I should recognize this.
The cutout appears to be a bottle cap lifter shape, while the toothed
bit looks like it should engage a bit of belting, two functions that
generally don't go together.

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1387. For casting a lead or Babbit hammer head on a metal handle.
1388. Aerial Camera Dolly
1389. Gang Saw for slitting sheet materials into strips
1390. Specialised C-clamp Brake or spring compressor?
1391. Trip directions on roads from Cinci to Dayton, probably for
bus drivers or truckers. Directions could be used over and over.
probably handed to the driver at the terminal or station when they are
assigned the trip, second half of the roll gets the next driver back.
1392. Combination bottle opener and cork puller

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Without having looked at anybody else's guesses

1387. (West) Lafayette, Indiana is the home of Purdue University, whose
sports teams are named the Boilermakers. If there were a gauge on the
right-side part of the device, I might think it was a pressure
valve/indicator of some sort, which would be fitting on a boiler.
However, the closest thing it looks like is one of those pill dispensers
where all the pills go into a channel on one side of the device so they
can be put into the bottle one by one.

A google search on J. Horat reveals a Robert J Horat who was a paint
contractor -- and who was running an illegal distillery in his house
during Prohibition! http://tcha.ecn.purdue.edu:8080/?q=August (see
August 12, 1929) Boilers are used in distilling, aren't they?

1388. [something] Pictures. Mount for a dolly camera?

1389. The original bread slicer. Well, it looks like it's designed to
slice something, although it's most likely wood. However, the slices
don't appear to be of uniform width.

1390. It's a clamp. This one was easy.

Oh: you want to know specifically what it was designed to clamp....

1391. Mapquest on the ENIAC. :-)

1392. Looks like it combines a bottle-opener with something else, but
I'm not sure what that something else is.

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This looks very similar to a saw I saw once that was used to cut the slits
for the frets in the neck of a guitar.

What is not clear though is if there is enough room at the ends to allow the
two ends of the neck to clear the pillow blocks. Also, how does the neck
slide under the saw?

I suppose that this devise could be mounted on top and the stock slid
underneath it.

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Usual wild guesses:
1387: Signal lamp holder, minus lamp.
1388: Dolly for lighting or camera
1389: It's a saw. Don't know why it has that particular set of blades.
1390: A clamp which can be used to temporarily suspend piping from a beam
1391: It's a box containing a set of directions from Cincinatti, OH to
Dayton,OH. Google maps does not return the same set of
directions, even avoiding I-71, instead starting with a leg
north on Main, then right at 7th to Gilbert, left on Eden Park,
and only then to Reading.

I imagine it was mounted in a bus, or perhaps a delivery truck
or similar vehicle.
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Usual wild guesses:

1391: It's a box containing a set of directions from Cincinatti, OH to
Dayton,OH. Google maps does not return the same set of
directions, even avoiding I-71, instead starting with a leg
north on Main, then right at 7th to Gilbert, left on Eden Park,
and only then to Reading.

I imagine it was mounted in a bus, or perhaps a delivery truck
or similar vehicle.

Replying to myself because I missed the obvious clue:
Perhaps it's for a mail truck. The first directions start "From P.O."...
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On 2008-08-21, Lee Michaels wrote:

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This looks very similar to a saw I saw once that was used to cut the slits
for the frets in the neck of a guitar.

What is not clear though is if there is enough room at the ends to allow the
two ends of the neck to clear the pillow blocks. Also, how does the neck
slide under the saw?

The neck is not involved at all in this one. The fretbord is a
separate piece of wood (ebony or some other hardwood) which is slitted
for the frets, and cut to length by the larger diameter blades at one
end, and two blades from the other end.

I suppose that this devise could be mounted on top and the stock slid
underneath it.

Proably so -- or under a board with slots cut for each blade and
the board slid across the top of it.

Enjoy,
DoN.

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1387. Around 8" long: Probably used for casting lead mallets. I had a lead
mallet about that shape with a steel handle. Still do somewhere, but it
isn't that shape anymore.

1389. Approximately 30" long: Looks like one set of saws out of a cotton
gin stand.

1392. 5" long: Neat looking church key.

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Rob

"Matthew T. Russotto" wrote:

In article , Rob H. wrote:
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Usual wild guesses:
1387: Signal lamp holder, minus lamp.
1388: Dolly for lighting or camera
1389: It's a saw. Don't know why it has that particular set of blades.
1390: A clamp which can be used to temporarily suspend piping from a beam
1391: It's a box containing a set of directions from Cincinatti, OH to
Dayton,OH. Google maps does not return the same set of
directions, even avoiding I-71, instead starting with a leg
north on Main, then right at 7th to Gilbert, left on Eden Park,
and only then to Reading.


The directions look like they were from the '50s or '60s I used to
live betwen them, in Middletoewn, and would like to see the rest of the
directions. If it went up the western side, it would have passed through
wide spots in the road, like Blue Ball.


I would guess they used St Rt 25 or St Rt 4, since they were the main
roads before I-75 was built, and street names changed, or disappeared as
new highways were built. BTW, I-75 runs parallel to St Rt 25 most of the
way.


Also, I-71 goes to Columbus, not Dayton I-70 runs between Dayton &
Columbus.

I-75 was built to replace St Rt 25 for big trucks, and faster travel,
and all the stop signs and traffic lights, along with all the 30 MPH
zones. It was built in the mid '60s, so that has to be older.


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Heh! #1387 was sitting on the counter in the blacksmith's shop at the
old time threshing show I went to today. Several lead hammers to go with
it.

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The directions look like they were from the '50s or '60s I used to
live betwen them, in Middletoewn, and would like to see the rest of the
directions.


I took the picture at the flea market so I don't have access to the device,
but someone on Neatorama found a book that has routes for all over the
country for the same time period. They probably copied the directions for
the bus drivers from this book:

http://books.google.com/books?id=sNQ...#PRA1-PA755,M1



Rob