Can you identify this tool?

[bitingmidge]

Last night while poking round in my sheddy place with St Michael, the patron saint of Journey Persons :wink:, I came across this tool which I bought in 1974, and wondered if anyone else has one.

Together we decided that I was the only person in the world who had ever bought one, and maybe seeing if anyone else can identify it would be a way of telling!

No Gumby, we all know that the black and green machine in the background is MY Domino, included by chance :rolleyes: , but it does add scale to the pic! :D :D :D

Cheers,

P
:D :D

[silentC]

It's for removing the write protection tab on Betamax cassettes.

[Cliff Rogers]

It is a chatter tool.... for creating chatter once the conversation has dried up.

[bitingmidge]

Nice try silent, but not even close! Was the betamax invented in 1974?

Cliff, it's use was vaguely connected to the conversation pit, but still no cigar!

P
:D

[Wongo]

Is it something for the cats?

[Cliff Rogers]

It is a paint tin lid remover with a built in torque gauge to allow you to judge just how old that tin of paint from the back of the cupboard really is.

[JackoH]

Sorby are good at tools that look like that.

Its an early Robert Sorby bowl gouge!:roll:

[bitingmidge]

Is it something for the cats?

Well no, but it's interesting watching their eyes while applying it to them! :oo:

P
:D

[Cliff Rogers]

It is a soldering iron with a bi-metallic temperature gauge.

[Cliff Rogers]

How about a screw driver with a depth gauge?

[Cliff Rogers]

Is it missing the little wheel with the painted spiral & the magnetic axle?

[johnc]

The pointy bit is designed for pain, and the brackety thing to stop it going to far. But just what you would jab with it is beyond me.:?

[bitingmidge]

Is it missing the little wheel with the painted spiral & the magnet axle?

No, but what a great flashback that's given me!

There is a fine wire loop that comes with it to help threading the shiny silver thing, and that's the only clue I'm going to give!

Cheers,

P
:D

[Cliff Rogers]

Ar-huh. I've got it, here is the clue from another thread....

I think you're scraping the bottom of the barrel now, Mr Wong :p

It is a barrel bottom scraper. :2tsup:

[johnc]

Looks far to complicated to be a bag or bale tier, but is that closer?

[johnc]

Ar-huh. I've got it, here is the clue from another thread....


It is a barrel bottom scraper. :2tsup:

If it was a bottom scraper that would explain the unused appearance, I reckon its a fake designed to annoy WWF members with nothing productive to do.

[Cliff Rogers]

...a fine wire loop that comes with it to help threading the shiny silver thing,...

...to complicated to be a bag or bale tier..
It is a treadle sowing machine without the treadle.

[silentC]

Was the betamax invented in 1974?
No, 1975 according to Wikipedia. But that doesn't mean someone hadn't anticipated the need for a device to remove the write-protection tab and you're just the guy to want one!

OK, it looks like it's meant to punch a hole in something when you slide that handle up. Juice container? Coconut?

[johnc]

Or maybe the patented treadless sewing machine, depends if its plants or cloth Mr Cliff.:;

[silentC]

Oh missed the bit about the wire loop thingy.

Umm, coconut necklace threader?

[Cliff Rogers]

Nope, got it now, it is for making the hole in the bottom of the can & threading the string through it at the same time to make 'Can on a string' telephones. :2tsup:

[johnc]

Or a birdwire stitcher, or for punching peepholes in corragated iron fences. Maybe its just multi purpose. Or is it a tool for the man with a tool fettish who just can't get no tool satisfaction (it was the 70's afterall).

[aussiecolector]

Its a washer cutter hole punch

[Andy Mac]

Its a marking tool for making the "X" (as in X marks the spot) except this ones different than standard X markers.:rolleyes: Its for marking the spot in a double hulled vessel before drilling a hole to scuttle it!


Cheers,

[macca2]

My old dad had one of those and he reckoned it was a wigwam for a gooses bridle

[Cliff Rogers]

...reckoned it was a wigwam for a gooses bridle
My uncle had lots of them, none of them looked like that... but then, none of them looked like any of the others either. :p

[bitingmidge]

Looks far to complicated to be a bag or bale tier, but is that closer?

That's much closer than anything else yet mentioned, but it's not for tying or for bags or bales.

Since it's had little use since the days of the conversation pit, there are a few ideas you blokes have suggested which may come to fruition in the near future.

I'll scan the instructions after lunch!

Cheers,

P
:D :D :D

[silentC]

a wigwam for a gooses bridle
My Mum used to make them out of icecream containers and bits of string...

[Cliff Rogers]

Some sort of upholstery tool? :?

[bitingmidge]

Hmmm... this is harder than I thought. Surely there's another old hippy poncho-weaver round here somewhere!


By the way, did I shoot any of you a red dot today? If so please accept my unreserved apology, I have no idea how that happened, and no, I haven't got a dose of the Zeds!

Cheers,

P

[Cliff Rogers]

A blanket stitching tool?

[silentC]

did I shoot any of you a red dot today?
Not me, but I probably deserved one for this:


and you're just the guy to want one!

:U

[bitingmidge]

NO ONE EVER deserves a red dot, except maybe Seppo Joe, but that was a long time ago, and maybe anyone wishing Gumby a HAPPY BIRTHDAY!

OK, after lunch I'll put you all out of your misery!

cheers,

P

[Cliff Rogers]

...and maybe anyone wishing Gumby a HAPPY BIRTHDAY! ...
He gave me a reddie 'cos I wished you a HB. :rolleyes:

[DakotaGurl]

It looks to me like you guys don't know anything about ice fishing. When I was little my dad would use one to scribe a circle on the ice to start chopping the whole, then use it to check that the hole was 90* to the surface. Also if the pointy part didn't make it to the water under the ice, it was too darn cold to be icefishing anyways.

Heather :doh:

[bitingmidge]

Hehehe, ICE FISHING!!!
:D :D :D :D :D :D :D


P

[silentC]

You guys keep your fish under ice? What a great idea, they must be really fresh when you catch 'em :)

[DakotaGurl]

You guys keep your fish under ice? What a great idea, they must be really fresh when you catch 'em :)

Where do you keep your fish?

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/ce/Ice_fishing_in_miljoonapilkki_fishing_competition.jpg/450px-Ice_fishing_in_miljoonapilkki_fishing_competition.jpg (http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/ce/Ice_fishing_in_miljoonapilkki_fishing_competition.jpg)

No luck today!!!!!!!!

:no:

[silentC]

Where do you keep your fish?
In the fridge!

[MICKYG]

It looks like a leprechaun tuner, just for tuning your leprechaun's with, thats if you have any in your garden, or perhaps your wood work shed. It would sure frighten the S*** out of them.

Regards Mike:wink: :wink:

[bitingmidge]

Where do you keep your fish?

Under the blue stuff!
http://atdw.tq.com.au/multimedia/TQ/502769_2.jpg

(from: http://www.queenslandholidays.com.au)

Cheers,

P

[silentC]

Just noticed the size of the hole in the ice. Not very optimistic! Or perhaps big enough for a stick of dynamite?

[johnc]

It would be just the thing for easing bloat in cattle. What is the thin wire for? some sort of guide thingy before you go for the big jab.:?

[DakotaGurl]

Just noticed the size of the hole in the ice. Not very optimistic! Or perhaps big enough for a stick of dynamite?


silentC,

When cold and wet they seem to be small, but tend to grow when they are brought to the surface and warm in the sun.
:B

Heather

[silentC]

Ahh, shrinkage. Yes we know about that :)

[Cliff Rogers]

...tend to grow when they are brought to the surface and warm in the sun. ....
Like certain 24" fish from a couple of weeks ago. :rolleyes:

[silentC]

That fish was easily 24". If he really strained hard and pouted his lips :p

[bitingmidge]

Look if you blokes (and sheilas) are going to do nothing but talk about fishing, I'm not going to tell you the answer till after tea time!

(I do like the fishing stories though!) :D

P

[silentC]

Is it a fish scaler/gutter?

[Cliff Rogers]

It is actually a fish stretcher for making them appear longer. (after a couple of beers.) :D

[silentC]

Yes you need one of them. The buggers always seem to shrink when you pull them out of the water...

I'm aware this contradicts an earlier post. So sue me :p

[Cliff Rogers]

It can also be used as a rack for drying fish.

[Gra]

It can also be used as a rack for drying fish.


Nice rack......:U :U

[Cliff Rogers]

Could also be used for mounting a stuffed fish for transport. :think:

[johnc]

Midge,

Might be a good idea to come clean so this thread doesn't end up being a defacto Friday thread, clearly we are all in the no idea category. We would also like to know what possessed you to buy the gizmo in the first place.


John

[bitingmidge]

John,

In an hour or two (more like two), I'll post the instructions. I have to get home to get them though!

P
:D

[Cliff Rogers]

..a defacto Friday thread,....
Ar-huh.... That is it, it is a Friday threader. :2tsup:

[bitingmidge]

OK Kiddies, as promised here is the evidence.

The tool is of course one of the extremely popular and wondrously successful Speedy Rug Tufting Tools, made by a wonderful company which went by the name of "By Hand".

Using the tool was simplicity itself, one put some open weave hessian on a frame, threaded the tool with the appropriate grade of coloured rug wool, set the depth of tuft, and pushed away through the long winter's night.

Once the hessian was completely covered in wool tufts to the depth of choice, and presumably in one of the inspiring patterns enclosed, (ours was a brilliant sunflower on a white background), one then coated the back of the thing with latex, fixing it for ever more.

If, like us, your tastes had grown beyond looped pile shag, one could then take to the looped tufts with a pair of nail scissors, or perhaps using Iain's techniques with the dustie and clippers, to create a lovely cut pile.

In the midst of our reminiscing about the good old days when we made our own shag, I enquired of my beloved as to the whereabouts of said rug, surely by now a family heirloom.

"Remember we couldn't stop the dogs peeing on it, so we burnt it..." :oo:

Must have been the ammonia in the latex!

cheers, and what was it Ralph used to say?

Respectfully,
P
:D :D :D

[echnidna]

When I was a little tacker I wanted a model aeroplane kit.

They got me one of those rotten things instead.
PHOOEY
I never made even 1 rug.

[bitingmidge]

I never made even 1 rug.

Well where did your dogs pee?

P
:D

[echnidna]

never had a dog either

[scooter]

Close to hitting the "transfer to drivel"button...

Good idea for a thread, please mind the dribble though.

[silentC]

I just knew it was going to be a let down. Rug tufter indeed!

Midge promises the next one will be a woodwork related item, don't you Midge?

:wink:

[johnc]

As a little tacker my brother and I completed a rug my mother had started years before, no doubt we had a fair bit of tuition. But that little rug tufting tool was just a little tube of brass, with what looked like a far smaller needle. You sure it wasn't for rope rather than wool midge?

[Skew ChiDAMN!!]

Didn't Warnie sell 'em? "Advanced Hair? Yeah, yeah!"

[AlexS]

In the midst of our reminiscing about the good old days when we made our own shag....


Ahh yes, them was the days:rolleyes:

[bitingmidge]

Close to hitting the "transfer to drivel"button...

Good idea for a thread, please mind the dribble though.

Ahhh Scoot, never mistake reparte for drivel!

cheers,

P
:D :D :D

[echnidna]

Ahhh Scoot, never mistake reparte for drivel!

cheers,

P
:D :D :D

:2tsup: :2tsup:

[lubbing5cherubs]

Is that for hunkerpunching rugs?
Toni

[bitingmidge]

Is that for hunkerpunching rugs?
Toni
Even google couldn't tell me what hunkerpunching is! :oo:

So I guess that's a yes! :D

P

[lubbing5cherubs]

here is one needle found bit different but not a lot

http://www.woolery.com/Pages/rughooking.html#punching

scroll down to nearly the bottom
bye
Toni

[bitingmidge]

yep, that's what it is: "punch hooking", well I'll be.... it still exists as a craft!

Thanks Toni,

P
:D

[lubbing5cherubs]

so does that mean you are going to get into rug making?
Toni

[Cliff Rogers]

so does that mean you are going to get into rug making?


'Was' is{was} the word... intentional... planning to.... nearly... almost... any second now.... (like a dusty)... some time, LAST century. :D

(Just making up for that red you gave me by mistake Midge. :p )

[Gumby]

In an effort to get back on topic here, I'm going to pose the same question which commenced this thread.

Can anyone identify this tool......:D

[Honorary Bloke]

In an effort to get back on topic here, I'm going to pose the same question which commenced this thread.

Can anyone identify this tool......:D

I think so . . . isn't that an old-fashioned rat's ring rabbetting ratchet? :?

[Cliff Rogers]

What can I say.... :cool:

[bitingmidge]

so does that mean you are going to get into rug making?
Toni
Hmmmm maybe....... I think I'll keep it for another thirty years before I make up my mind!

P
:D :D :D

[Glen]

Looks like what my wife keeps threating to insert into a part of my anatomy if I buy one more tool.:o