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Stanley
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21/12/2004
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Here's a mystery for you. There isn't an answer yet because I don't know what it is. Here are two pics:
It's some sort of a gauge, made by A G Parker of 69 Icknield Street, Birmingham and on the front is engraved what I believe is the owner's name; Captain J H Square of Kingsbridge. I've put one or two enquiries out and am waiting to hear from them. I think it might be something to do with Guns because I have an idea that A G Parker was one of the founders of Parker-Hale, a company that specialised in gun sights and accessories. Has anyone ever seen anything like it?
Stanley Challenger Graham
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stanley at barnoldswick.freeserve.co.uk
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Posted - 24/11/2011 : 03:18
Well done Maz, exactly right. They worked as well!
Want more?
Stanley Challenger Graham
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Tizer
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Posted - 24/11/2011 : 20:00
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marilyn wrote:
Stoppers for the bottom of walking sticks? Or did you pluck them out of the bottom of someone's zimmer frame? Though they look rather like some I have for opened wine bottles...they came with an air evacuator thingy...)
Called Vacu Vin `wine savers'. We still use them but the design has changed slightly as shown on the company's web site. [LINK]
Edited by - Tizer on 24/11/2011 20:01:31
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Stanley
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Posted - 25/11/2011 : 04:35
Stanley Challenger Graham
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Tizer
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Posted - 25/11/2011 : 09:38
Either a light bulb, or you've got your chemistry set out and you're using a round-bottomed flask with a glass tube through the cork to prepare gases.
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Stanley
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Posted - 26/11/2011 : 04:35
Hard luck Tiz. I'll leave it 'til tomorrow to see if anyone gets it.
Stanley Challenger Graham
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wendyf
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Posted - 26/11/2011 : 07:53
An ancient hydrometer for beer making?
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belle
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Posted - 26/11/2011 : 10:39
oil dropper? I know it's far fetched!
Life is what you make it |
Bradders
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Posted - 26/11/2011 : 11:00
Fish tank heater ?
BRADDERS BLUESINGER |
catgate
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Posted - 26/11/2011 : 11:10
Static? You know.... stationary volts.
Every silver lining has a cloud.
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Tizer
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Posted - 26/11/2011 : 11:31
Give us a clue - do you hang it on your Christmas tree?
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Posted - 26/11/2011 : 23:32
is it a legal apparatus? I can imagine smoke coming out if it, even tho I wouldn't like to put my mouth around that top bit. Ugh
All thru the fields and meadows gay .... Enjoy
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Bradders
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Posted - 27/11/2011 : 00:10
Cathy..Shhhhhhhh .....
You may be correct ...( but don't tell everybody)....
and anyway the mouthpiece isn't present ...
(one has one's own , of course ) .....!
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Stanley
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Posted - 27/11/2011 : 05:01
Belle keeps protesting against technicalities but she's got it right. It's a shaft oiler. Filled with oil, inverted and mounted in a hole drilled in a bearing cap, the metal rod drops down and touches the shaft. As the shaft rotates it jiggles the rod and oil drips into the bearing. When the shaft is stationary no oil flows. Cheap, effective, reliable and you could see if it needed refilling simply by looking at it.
Stanley Challenger Graham
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Stanley
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Posted - 27/11/2011 : 05:30
All right, this one is definitely technical. Brand new, never been used and probably the only one in the world in this condition.
Stanley Challenger Graham
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belle
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Posted - 27/11/2011 : 11:31
I said Cam shaft.. Deadly says a cam shaft rockers??
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Mystery objects of all sorts.
