MYSTERY OBJECTS
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I look upon it more suspiciously now and with a certain distaste.
Please tell me it wasn't used for "the unkindest cut of all" ( circumcision)
Please tell me it wasn't used for "the unkindest cut of all" ( circumcision)
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I think you may be getting warm Maz! I hadn't thought of that.
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Stanley's got it! It's a scarifier, or scarificator, used for `safely' bleeding patients instead of using a scalpel in the days when bleeding was seen as a `cure all'. Apply the device to the patients skin. One lever cocks the spring ready to fire; the other releases the spring which causes the blade to flick out and pierce the skin. More information here: LINK
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The shape of the blade triggered me. Very similar to the fleam used by vets.....
Try this related object......
Try this related object......
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Never known that used on horses, but, maybe on cows?
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You've all got it. It's a trocar and cannula used mainly for releasing trapped gases in the paunch or rumen of a cow. Usually caused by early growth grass and can be fatal. The vet's name for the condition is Tympanites of the Paunch or Rumen......
Next for shaving?
Next for shaving?
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Try this, another oldie!
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Oh how dinky is that? No idea what it is but I like it. Love the box.
Just having a stab, are they made of cork or wood?
Just having a stab, are they made of cork or wood?
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They are tiny cylindrical wooden containers Gloria with tight fitting lids. Question is, what's in them?
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Don't really know. Weights or packing of some sort?
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No Gloria, clue, the numbers on the lids denote size in thousandths of an inch.
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Last attempt......... For gauging internal diameter of a tube?
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Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS
Do they contain standard samples of thread of some kind?
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Sorry Tiz, no. They could be used for that Gloria. They are watchmaker's drills. The set is ex-WD and I got them at that wonderful shop in Oldham, I always forget the name. Dirt cheap and I have never used them!
Next one?
Next one?
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Interesting, but what would the little cap attached to the drill spindle be used as?
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Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS
Was it Williams in Hollins Road, Oldham? I've a feeling there was another place I've also used in Oldham.
Just had another thought, was it Williamson? And yet another memory, was it Mumps Mill or Mumps Cross or something like that?
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Mumps bridge,they sold a lot of ex military gear aswell ,tools etc...remember it well !
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That's the place.
Gloria, if you mean the brass pulley, it was for driving the spindle.
Next one?
Gloria, if you mean the brass pulley, it was for driving the spindle.
Next one?
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The floggings will continue until morale improves!
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I once bought an ex-WD truss, officers for the use of there. The lads hung it on the wall in the site hut at Ellenroad and labelled it 'The Ellenroad Truss. For emergency use only!"
Try this one.....
Try this one.....
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The floggings will continue until morale improves!
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"Beware of certitude" (Jimmy Reid)
The floggings will continue until morale improves!
Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS
Found in Michael Gove's desk with `Boris' written on it?
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