MYSTERY OBJECTS

[Wendyf]

Is the bit of rusty iron for testing hay?

[Steeplejerk]

Wood gutter bracket !!

[Stanley]

I think you're pulling our legs Tom! Here's where I found it....

[Steeplejerk]

How big is Stanley,looks too big to be a dog thats been left in to strip the ladders off,seeing as you found it in Burnley it could be part of a horses saddle knocked into the chimney,hehe

[Stanley]

He's having us on! Yes, I should have put a ruler next to it. It's a very old ladder dog off Newtown Mill chimney in Burnley. I found it when English Heritage asked me to recommend a jack to inspect the chimney as I got Keith Batley in to ladder it. He was walking round on the cap as I was taking pics of daylight shining through from the opposite side, it was like bad dry-stone walling! Did anyone ever do anything? Is the stack still there?



Why would Johnny Pickles make a 4tpi square thread tap? One for Bodge I suspect......

[Bodger]

cross or compound nuts, or "height", too small for leadscrew ?

[Stanley]

I think you're right Bodge. Mind you he did make 'difficult' parts for amateurs who had hit a problem and it could be a lead screw nut for a small lathe. 4TPI is a bit quick for a cross feed but who knows, perhaps someone wanted 250thou on the index of their cross feed. Just struck me that if it had been a cross feed nut it would be left hand thread so it can't be that....

[Stanley]

[Stanley]

Well, that one went down like a lead balloon! It's a cast iron pattern I got out of the pattern shop at John Kirkham's when they closed down. They were brass founders and it looks like a fancy finial, for a staircase perhaps? Notice the projection at each end to allow work-holding. One for Bodge I think....

[StoneRoad]

I had a feeling that the previous one was a pattern (although most pattern I see are timber, not cast iron!), I just couldn't work out what the finished item would be.

As for the current one......I'll have to have a think.

"Strain gauge" ?

[Stanley]

Sorry, not a strain gauge. Wooden patterns were usually only for one offs or small production runs. Cast iron patterns were more durable and if you had a big demand for an item the patterns had to stand up to being used over and over again.

[jgb7573]

It's a dial test indicator (DTI). The bit with the dial is the gubbins (as you might have guessed). At it's left hand end is a 'feeler', movement of which makes the needle on the dial whizz round depending on how much the feeler is moved. Stanley's one has (as they usually do) all sorts of clamps and so on for mounting the indicator in a suitable location.

[Stanley]

Dead right. It's a Verdict Dial Test Indicator given to me by my old mate Arthur Entwistle who used it for many years in the tool room. Still made with jewelled pivots and a similar one would cost you £100 today.

Try this one...

[jgb7573]

That's an edge finder. Used on a milling machine to locate the edges of an object so that you can adjust the object's position under the spindle accordingly.

[Stanley]

That's right, also known as a wiggler. Have a look at this LINK. Bugger! Now I'll have to think of another one!

[Bodger]

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[Stanley]

Without looking it up it looks like a broach to me.....

[Stanley]

That's right. It's a model. But what is it?

[PanBiker]

Its some kind of steam hammer, maybe for embossing something or punching out.

[Stanley]

You're getting too good at this. Stuart version of a steam hammer based on the Rigsby design. Very sililar to a Massey.

[PanBiker]

I got one right!

[Stanley]

Try this one.... exact description please. (It's an oldie!)

[PanBiker]

With the adjustable section in the middle, it looks like a tap and die holder.

[Stanley]

Getting close but not quite accurate enough. Sorry to be hard but the mystery element is in the precise definition. Remember, it's an oldie. (Finding the objects is getting harder hence the insistence on the detail....)

[Bodger]

are we looking for the word "stocks" ?