MYSTERY OBJECTS

[Steeplejerk]

Both answers correctRamsbottom paper mill 1938ish

[Stanley]

What is it?

[Steeplejerk]

Thread chaser

[Stanley]

Curses! Dead right Tom......



What is it?

[Gloria]

Insert holder for a wood turning lathe?

[Stanley]

Sorry no Gloria but you're right about it being a tool for use with a lathe. It was for a specialised job. You've seen it before.....

[Gloria]

Is it a special parting off tool?

[PanBiker]

Is it used for spring winding?

[Stanley]

Well done Ian, you remembered! Quite right and a very rare tool.
Next one?

[Gloria]

What is this

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[Stanley]

Is it for twisting individual strings into cord?

[Gloria]

That’ll do Stanley, it’s a rope making machine. See below.

[Stanley]

Thanks Gloria!
Now we need another.....

[Stanley]

What is it?

[Steeplejerk]

Light bulb??

[Stanley]

Sorry but no Tom. Stick with electrical though.......

[PanBiker]

It's a Leyden Jar if I remember my basic electrical training in Physics at secondary school.

[Stanley]

I think you're right Ian but this example has a different name.

[PanBiker]

I only have knowledge of standard accepted units.

If it looks like pig and grunts like pig, it probably is one!

[PanBiker]

Strange but this contradiction could warrant re posting Constitutional Peasants.

[Stanley]

It is described in the article I found it in as the Baghdad Battery.
(LINK)

[PanBiker]

Tenuous link there then with Constitutional Peasants as the King bloke was on his way to the Crusades.

Go on then, good enough excuse, I'm Dennis:

[Stanley]

What is it?

[Gloria]

A large set of feeler gauges?

[Stanley]

I can see why you thought that Gloria. No, not feeler gauges but a set of something!