Pozzle Pic.

Since it appears to have a edged pice of metal on there, it is used for trimming something, and since the part is hinged and seems to be hollow inside, the object would go into there. Long and thin, maybe to put something to exactly the correct length. Would it be a dowel rod trimmer for a specific purpose?

Carrot topping tool?

Pencil sharpener

looks very much like it. only thing is the swivelling mechanism seems to indicate there is no cavity in the handle.

A cavity can be seen in the end view partially exposed behind the metal clip. The clip may have been put on to prevent use of a broken handle.

To make a sholder in dowel or other "soft" material

That's easy! AWG #2 wire striper. At the right length. Purpose? To measure the voltage between two any wires. After measurement one has to trim the wire back to have the copper (aluminium) flush with the isolation!!!

I must echo this usage, but I would have to believe it is good for a range of wires.

circumcision tool? OUCH!!!

The original design for the rampant rabbit....

Oooops did I really say that??

If anybody else wants one of these I can do them mail-order....<cough, splutter>

Does Long John Silver know you've posted this ?

Looks similar to a tool used to "rip" the skin on a mineral insulated copper cable such as "Pyrotenax".

'"rip" the skin'

Like not so smart said it's for circumcision, but for females!

OMG,

CLEARLY you all know nothing .

It's the first protytype made by Gillette.

Unfortunately, the first 18 volunteers "checked in, but they never checked out".

Sick

If it wasn't for the swing out section I'd say someone tried to make a new type of hog scraper.

A broken handle, the tool tang being bent at the end would be locked in by the slide out piece; notice the exposed notch.

Its definitely not animal or vegetable..............therefore.............it must be mineral. But where to from there??? Its one of those errr.........ahhh...........ummm..........things that..........I dunno!!!!

But there is one big question (unfortunately this editor does not allow font change or does it to make the big big ?

Why Plbmak can not give a proper puzzle

First time it was puzze , now it is pozzle next ?

Gremlin, are you correcting someone's grammar????

Shall we visit some of your posts?

Hahahahaha.................I like it.

Tell sb it is PlbMak...............not Plbmak.............please let us spell fellow members names correctly if nothing else.............."let he who is without sin cast the first stone"..............I used to be conceited once...........now I am perfect!!!!!!!!

Wick trimmer? Wicked trimmer? Trim wicker? Thistlewick? Wedgit? Rope stop? Knob knocker? Lentil picker? Doomaphladgit?

Errrrm...NO!

A twine trimmer?

Does Stinky Pete use one to get food scraped out of his beard ? The 'key' part is for ear-wax.

Any mountaineers ?

Wot, like some sort of pully-uppy device ? Put rope in handle, then pull up on handle, or insert handle in crack and climb up rope ? A Mallory type thing. He lost his Brownie (Box) type one.

Maybe it's a sort of adjustable skipping rope. Cut the rope to length, then wedge it into the handles with the flat bit.

I GOT IT!

Everybody knows that an official document must be signed and sealed. Well, after a certain number of years, the documents are no longer "official", and to show that, the seal must be removed. The standard method of removal of the seal was to scratch the embossed side. One young and smart engineer came with this SEAL REMOVER. One apply the seal remover over the document's seal, twist it CW and, voila, the seal is removed.

The only problem is that the inventor used for his prototype, a seal device. The manufacturer didn't change the design so now, it is not so easy to tell which is the seal and which is the seal remover. The poster of the puzzle wants us to give him ideas of how to recognize each of them. Is that fair?

Is this metric or SAE?

Looks old enough to be BSW.

In the late '80's I worked on a piece of field deployed radar gear for the US Army. The ring that held the radome in place had a Whitworth thread. It drove the molder nuts. Still don't know how it got spec'd on a US Govt job.

First and last time I ever heard of it, till today.

You haven't lived, my friend, we used to have BSF, BSW, UNC, UNF, Metric, fine and coarse (not SI), BSP, NPT, BA, also Acme, Square and Buttress threads and probably more depending on where the gear came from..............but you could bet that on any ship you would have the works.

The biggest problem used to be the change gears for the lathes..........you could almost bet that one of the change gears you wanted, could not be found..........bloody gremlins...........I have cut a thread to the closest I could get to the one the one I wanted (usually to within half a thread) to half depth and then used a hand thread chaser to full depth.............improvisation was the name of the game at sea.

I grew up on a 120 acre farm in Arkansas. We had NO money. If it broke you fixed it with what you had, or it didn't get fixed. At least the farm stayed in one place.

Yep...........certainly another area where improvisation is the mother of necessity.

I haven't actually lived on a farm as such, but, a friend of mine owned a farm and I used to go and fix his machinery............you couldn't really let him anywhere near a spanner let alone a machine................but he knew cattle and sheep husbandry.

He had had some quotes to repair the tractor, plough, a couple pumps at the dams, etc.................they didn't see him coming............they sent a taxi for him..........in the end it only cost him a couple of hundred bucks in oils, spare parts (minimal) and materials.

I think my biggest challenge was fixing a cracked carby on his portable fire pump.............Devcon F and the others are pretty good when it comes to fixing things like that.

Well done, 100% correct!

Finally! Someone has screwed the mighty intellect down to my level.

I'll see if I can find something else for next Friday....

Oh, lucky guess i guess

was the only thing i could think that would fit in there

All that I can say Epke, is that you must have had a misspent youth.

Can you post a pic. with a cue in the contraption?

If you look at the wear pattern on the face, you will see it doesn't go "in" but "on".

It is used for squaring the end of the cue.

Squaring the end so that a new tip can be glued on?

Do you think that the blade has been fitted upside down for this picture then?

I can just about believe that if you stuck the cue tip in one side of the "handle" you could use it to "graze" mushroom tips, and, if you stuck it in the other side you could use it to shape/re-shape tips.

I suppose another possibility (with the blade as shown) would be using it to put a tenon on the end of a cue for fitting a new ferrule type tip.

PlbMak, If you're not sure exactly how it's used, can you give us a better idea of the exact size?

Ahaaa you were right edignan,

Except that the cue does go in from the "the back end":-

http://www.freepatentsonline.com/0555730.pdf

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PlbMak's source of pictures has been rumbled:-

http://pzphotosan86w.blogspot.com/

I'll see if I can find something else for next Friday....

No really, that's fine, don't put yourself out on our account
Del ()

care to rate him, PlbMak? it's a GA, after all!

Right! Good point....

39 = sankyuu = Japlish for Thank you! (for the GA's)

Looks like it could be a small tennoning tool for dowels, like to use when making tennons for slats or dowels used in chair backs.

It is an energy saving skipping rope handle. (the rope is cut after 7 hops)

Like it!

You earn a good answer star!

I said skipping-rope thing earlier, you spawny git !

Guests have feelings too :(

Kris

How about the brilliant answer #36? That guy is a modest but a visionary Engineer who determined a possible use of that gizmo!

So what it is not the right answer?!?!

A very impartial observer.

I...l

That's quite a good observation - that a 'thing' is whatever it's used for. I also concur that a good engineer will see all sorts of uses for a 'thing'. Being a stickler for the rules, I can't give you a GA (). I nearly scored a GA as Guest somewhere, but nobody will ever know for sure if it was me. I'm delighted that a fellow souls shares my sense of modesty, impartiality, and anonymity. Please, I...l, accept the acknowledgement below ;

GA !

Kris

(with a dignified attitude):

Thank you, I'll treasure it!

BTW, we Guest are a very powerful "entity". Besides having the most postings, I think that there are a lot of GA's granted to me (well, OK....us). I wonder how would look a thread opened by a Guest and with some 300 answers from Guest.

I wonder how would look a thread opened by a Guest and with some 300 answers from Guest.

Good question......I'm not sure, but the readership would probably be about 5, 4 of them being people taking an astonished glance ! _{Scurries off to check existence of such thread......}