Puzze Pic: What Is This Thing?

Could it be part of a flat belt splicer?

It is the stylus for a multi channel surround sound record player.

Does it have something to do with tattooing?

Business end of an inoculating machine? Can't really tell whether they're hollow needles, but there does seem to be a tube going to the part that holds them.

Ah! The wheel has fallen off. There's a complete one in the KrisDel^TM 2009 products catalogue.

It looks something like a piercing tool for rubber sheet with that ejecting arm.just a wild guess!!!!!!!!

I think it's part of a larger device used in sail-making.

It is sef evidenty a 'Puzze'
It says so in the question
De the Cat

It reminds me of a nasty little tool my father used in his upholstery shop.

Pneumatically powered nose picker; for people with 6 nostrils!

What do I win?

Finally, something that looks like a thistlewick! But I know it's not...

part of cotton gin!

Looks like it could be a braille print head.

canvas stretcher for painting

Could it be for fancy leatherwork as a shoe to prepunch the material to help the needle entry.? Certainly looks like the fork is spring loaded to protect something or person from the pin tips

Print head of a dot matrix printer with very large and spaced dots.

Acupunture machine (cnpower may confrim)

Tattoo maker

Something from the Roman Torture Chamber

punch end for a punch card

meat softening - punching is done with fork before marinading (what it is called )

Could it be a button stitcher?

The wedge shape fork gives the correct seperation of button from the fabric, and the needles do the stitching - maybe??

3 sets of 2 needles.....tines.... Is it for eating baby carrots ? It would also solve the eternal problem of balancing peas.

Somehow used in carpet weaving.

It's clear that the spring and tines are to aid in the retraction of the points, with the tines providing protection from the points when at rest. I've seen this before, but just can't place it.

I have seen similar (paper punching or even stapler but this is not it

Is it part of a machine for sewing or weaving, the part that moves/pushes the cloth along....?

What looks to be insulated needles with attached wire makes me think it's part of an electrical current testing gizmo. The needles puncture the insulation and make contact with the wire inside.

Hello Ducky,

Wheres ya bin?...............Long time no see.

Hope you haven't been working too hard???

Ahoy Mobi...good to hear from ye

At present I have the dubious distinction of discovering what a broken back feels like.

Doing maple syrup... stringing many miles of tubing between endless forest of trees while trudging in deep wet snow. Up at 3am making sure no tubes have become disconnected and then off to work....till the end of March and then pull it all down again till next year.

Were you anywhere near the fires?

Pardon my tardiness Ducky.........been a mite busy sorting some crap out for work, for our audit next month. In Australia all teaching organizations are audited every 5 years...........just to see if the are up to standard............this is the AQTF (Australian Quality Training Framework) standard............all state and private providers are subject to this grilling.

Onto more mundane things............hope you are traveling a bit better now Ducky............here, is this maple syrup your business.......or............hobby. If it is the latter, may I suggest that you go and see a shrink (chortle, chortle).

Thankfully, I was nowhere near the fires........the worst were in Victoria (they also had a few in New South Wales, but not as bad) and I live in South Australia.............we also had temperatures around 46⁰C..............bit bloody warm............but we were fortunate enough not to have any major fires this year........we haven't for a couple of years now, however, its only a matter time............the longer it goes the greater the fuel load........even though we have had drought conditions for 6+ years.............vegetation still grows in winter and in the days that we do get rain.

There is one thing that really gets up my nose with these fires............its people that do not have a decent sized clearing around their houses and adequate fire fighting protection (in quite a few cases this was immaterial because of the firestorms)...........it maybe nice to "live next to nature," so to speak..............but the consequences can be deadly. as clearly shown in many bushfire situations. With the recent fires in Victoria it was brought out that local council laws forbid the clearing of the bush and trees around houses, as it detracts from the aesthetic beauty of the place.............methinks that will change.........if it already hasn't.

The last figure that I heard concerning the fatalities in the Victorian bushfires was 210. Certainly a shocking loss of life.........I mean, property and stock losses were huge..................but, they can be replaced over time.

I heard a story about buyers from an abattoirs, offering to buy stock that had had their feet and legs burnt..............wait for it...........$0.50/kilo. That was from a work colleague whose brother lived in one of the areas.....he was one of the lucky ones, he only lost a couple of sheds and quite a bit of machinery and other gear.

Reminds me of a mole trap my Dad had in his garage, though this one would be way overengineered. The thing had a spring, and points that went into the ground. You placed it over thier underground " runway" and when they went past.....shishkebob!! I always wondered what those funny little things were that Mom cooked up from time to time.

RATS !

ahha!!!!.............now we know what you eat sb

How about a redneck marshmallow cooker that spring loads onto the exhaust pipe of your 4X4?

Now I know why hessian bags have all those holes in them...............its this wot did it.

I didn't know they still had you guys making mail bags

That's only the real bad bastards they get to do that.............anyhow they don't do that in the land down under...........check this out

Prisoners sewing mailbags in Strangeways Prison, Manchester..............hahahaha

Gotcha!!!

A little dated could be correct.............I was, but, a mere boy at the tender age of 8 years old...............1948...........bugga...............where have all those years gone???

I find I often ask myself a similar question, but it's more along the lines of hours in the day. Can't think where they possibly go

...........by your 8 000+ posts...........and the emotive figures.........you really do know where the hours go??????

It's a little known fact, but squirrels are cold blooded.....quite ruthless in their gathering of nuts. Tucked away, shared, distributed, processed into nutritional little wafers.

Did you know that Strangeways prison is right next door to the Strangeways Brewery? Home of Manchester Cream, otherwise known as Boddingtons?

The Bar Stewards....

Any way, no one is even close.

(Hehehe)

Anything to do with arcs 'n' sparks?

Can you give us the dimensions of this thing????

Wait a minute, I think I have it.......it's the working portion of one of those elctric hot dog cookers from the 70s. You stick a end of the dog on each prong, plug it in and watch your hot dogs sizzle and pop......maybe it's for those little smoky sausages they sell.

Piercing is an art for some people is to make 4 ear(or other body part) piercings at once?

Could it be a holder from a meat slicing machine, it is almost time to bear a little more of the beauty. Can't wait !

I'm (almost) sure that it's a "crawling-elephant-that-shouts-in-the-field-and-if-it-rains-it-gets-wet-but-just-for-laughing". You can find them in the capitol of Amazonia : Taj Mahal. Been there !!

Me thinks.............now that is strange..............something goes over the foot of the device and it has holes pierced it...........maybe that something is leather..............it would certainly make a good "killer conker"..............oops...........wrong post.........oh well just a thought.

Are the three "spike holders" changeable so that you can change the pattern?

The pattern is not changeable. No need! As to dimensions, quite small, about the size of a pair of medium pliers. The part you can't see consists of a pair of handles.

Sounds like these are real 'needle' nose pliers.

Any chance these are used for felting? I can't see any barbs on the needles.

How about a record groove cutting needle set.....maybe for stereo or even Quadrophonic sound ( yes,showing my age!)

Is it used for a type of "branding" of livestock: putting a fixed pattern of holes in say a sheep's ear.

Part of a punch card reader?

Upholstery tool for stretching webbing.

You know, it also looks like probes for a level control device we used to use in the dairy industry.

If its not Kris's mapping device for determining the centroid of CR4 membership it could well be a PVC hem fusing tool.

Whatever it is, it would be good to have a picture of something else next Friday. Pleeeeeeeeze?

OI PLBMAK...
you said you post more of it after a few days...c'mon give it up...you bas'
It's a small section of the item, if no-one has any good ideas after a few days, I'll post an image showing more of the...device.

Play the game old chap, else I'll have to resort to checking the PCB layout...and we all know how boring that is...oooh...is that .040 hole big enough for the pins on the connector?....arrrgh...save me please....I'm even loosing the will to die.....
Del

agreed! c'mon man! give another clue

Wot ? Is it for assembling/destroying circuit boards ?

I know what it is, but won't say because the tight bast he didn't offer a prize

OK! OK! I admit it, I can't gloat much longer....

It's about 12" long.

By the way, don't confuse 'the arts' with art....

Does it have something to do with eggs?? Perhaps incoluating or opening up the shell for study??

It looks like some kind of horrible surgeons tool Torquemada would have loved one !

Looks more like a torture device,

"i will say nothing! i have balls of steel"

let's test that.

I think Torquemade allready has the whole set

Some sort of golf ball imprinting or embossing device???

or any other ball?

Cor! What strange agricultural implements may be found around the carrot farms of Norfolk!

Deciphering from the visual clues:

Item is used to grip something, most likely something hot.

Item is adjustable. Notice the lockdown/set screw on the sliding grip.

Item is to be held in left hand, lockdown screw is tightened with right hand.

Object to be held by item is probably not metallic, unless it is a soft metal such as lead. The tines must be able to help the item grip the object.

Adjustment range rules out objects made of cloth.

Item is used in area of the arts, but not in art, as per statements by PlbMak.

Best guesses would be in glassblowing, jewelry, or theater.

I believe it is made for removing hot carbon rods from carbon arc spotlights.