MYSTERY OBJECTS

[Marilyn]

For peeling or segmenting fruit?

[Stanley]

For scoring something like a pizza or orange peel before serving?

[chinatyke]

No but you are both in the right area. It has a very specific use.

There is a clue in the picture.

[plaques]

A chestnut skin splitter prior roasting.

[chinatyke]

A chestnut skin splitter prior roasting.

No.

[Stanley]

Is it for cleaning the groove out on the nut?

[plaques]

It would be handy for pressing keypads when shopping to avoid the virus. Could be a stone age plastic arrow head. Scraping excess makeup off after a night out, I give in.

[Gloria]

Chestnut peeler? Does it clip on the thumb?

[chinatyke]

I've got to give it to Gloria. It is spoon shaped and is for scooping out the chestnuts, but the other side has a small serrated edge that I'm guessing is for removing the skins. It came with the chestnuts. We get free skin peelers/cutters, like Maz and Stanley suggested, but they are different.

Actually Gloria may be right, it could be spoon-shaped to accommodate the thumb and just a skin peeler and not a scoop.

[Big Kev]

It would be handy for pressing keypads when shopping to avoid the virus.

I have a widget just for that, also useful for pulling open doors

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Now, just for fun, what's the '2000' for that's also on my key ring?

[plaques]

A crown cork bottle opener in the days before cans. Or a thingy for taking stones out of horses hoofs?

[Wendyf]

Is it a Millenium Bug keyring?

[Big Kev]

Plaques got it

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[Stanley]

If you carry that in your trouser pocket I'll bet it wears them out quickly!

[Cathy]

And I wouldn’t want to meet him down a dark alley. Hehe

[Stanley]

What is it?

[Big Kev]

Looks like a plumber's mat for protecting surrounding stuff when soldering pipe joints.

[Cathy]

I think we have had this before.

[chinatyke]

I think we have had this before.

I know we've had it before but the trouble is I can't remember what it was for.

[plaques]

Cathy wrote: ↑19 Nov 2020, 14:46
I think we have had this before.
I know we've had it before but the trouble is I can't remember what it was for.

And it was you that finally got it.

[PanBiker]

Plumbers soldered joint wipe.

[Wendyf]

An oil lamp wick?

[PanBiker]

Gas lamp mantle

[Stanley]

Hee hee. All good responses but Wendy sneaked up on all of you , it's a new wick for a brooder lamp with a big burner. I once bought a fist-full for the Ellenroad Engine.



Here's the crosshead. If you follow the pipe from the lubricator you'll see it goes to a circular object hanging in the track of the crosshead. This is a piece of thick wick like our mystery object. The hole for the lubrication of the crosshead bearing had a cup with a flat plate mounted on the top which brushed the wick each time it passed it. As it did it picked up a drop of oil which drained into the cup below and from there into the crosshead pin. You needed to know that!
Next object please....

[chinatyke]

Cathy wrote: ↑19 Nov 2020, 14:46
I think we have had this before.
I know we've had it before but the trouble is I can't remember what it was for.

And it was you that finally got it.

Was it really? That's the beauty of Alzheimer's, I experience new things every day.