Some of the “what is it” posts seem kinda obvious, bu;t maybe only for the old guys here. Here are 17 pix, answers next week, 1 milkbone each, I’d sure like to talk to anybody that can identify the make and model of the saws in the saw picture, if anybody could, it would be somebody here.
These are all about 100 K, jpg format off 640 setting off old coolpix 2500 camera.
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Lemme see...
"leftovers" looks like some old oakum pulled out of a cast iron drain pipe joint.
"mach 2" looks like the dog used on the pipe threader shown in "machine."
Kind of hard to tell what brands of handsaws you have in "mfgxtype" without closeup views of the handles or the blades, but some of them have been sharpened MANY times. Chances are some of them are Disston, Simmons or Simonds.
"misc bkxseats" has a couple bicycle spanner wrenches and a spoke wrench, an end nipper of some sort and maybe a hose clamp pliers?
"motor" looks like a big drill chuck on a quill, maybe out of a drill press or for use in a lathe.
"oldguyssyksd" is a pile of Yankee drivers.
"rope" looks like a new piece of oakum.
"upho" I think is a pliers used for stretching upholstery fabric before stapling it down.
I'm under 50, but not by much...
Edited to add: I looked at "rope" again and I'm changing my guess, although I think I was in the right general subject area. Combined with that clamp on the right side of the photo, is it that thing plumbers wrap around the pipe to funnel the molten lead into the oakumed joint?
Edited 12/25/2004 11:41 pm ET by Stuart
"holdfile" is a piece of plexiglas with the paper covering still on it.
~Peter
Martha Stewart needs 1728 bricks, a sleigh and eight donkeys with horns.
'holder' could be a handsaw vise.
Machine- pipe threading machine?
naval- an adze that's lost it's edge
plum- a chuck for a bit and brace, minus handle
upho- looks like tools for use in sheet metal duct fabrication
oldguysykd- yankees
Jon Blakemore
left to right,top to bottom
Dont know,saw jointer, jute rope for cast pipe,lathe dog,pipe threader/cutter,hand saws one looks to be Disston,some special application tools don't know the app. ,chuck,mason hammer,Yankee drivers,some kind of drill/pinvice, plumbing stoppers,Dam for pouring lead/or pipe cleaner , noclue,hand break /Pexto.
'naval' is used to drive caulking rope into large seams on a wooden ship. It combines the functions of the caulking iron and mallet into one...?
I believe that "holds_file" is a jig for jointing a saw (i.e. making all the teeth the same height prior to sharpening them). Could also be used to joint a scraper.
Phill Giles
The Unionville Woodwright
Unionville, Ontario
Meryy Christmas, Junkhound. 7 posts and most has been guessed correctly. I'll focus on ones that may be wrong in the other posts. "motor" looks like a tapping attachment for a drill press with Morse or Jacobs taper on the back. If not that, I'll guess hand-fed precision drill chuck for delicate work.
Naval is definitely a calking hammer, as previously noted. Plumb is a test ball and two test plugs. Holdsfile looks to be a jig for filing a true square edge on a card scraper, or saw before retoothing. Old guy's yankee screwdrivers is a gimme, since you labelled it! Rope is a lead dam for pouring horizontal joints in belled iron pipe - the bad old days.
The old bike tools take me back to racing in the 70's. Why no freewheel puller? Those are tough to guess if you haven't seen one before.
Mach2 and scrapeswhat are the two I have no clue about. I'm 46.
Bill
WAG
holder has something to do with processing animal skins?? Kind of a clamp for streching??
Rich Beckman
Another day, another tool.
Although I'm not quite the target audience, most of that stuff I had never seen before. A few I have. That 2 handed saw is cool! I'm kind of guessing though that you threw in the "Pipe Master" for some here that aren't the brightest bulbs... :-)
You dont want over 50 answering ?
Tim Mooney
Since most of the others are already answered, I'll go with one that's not.
Scrapewhat is a siding marking guage. You hold a clapboard in place, push the guage against the corner board, and run it up and down to scribe the clap. Then just cut the clap on the scribed line, and voila!, a perfect fit.
Thank goodness i'm over 50.
blue
Warning! Be cautious when taking any framing advice from me. Although I have a lifetime of framing experience, all of it is considered bottom of the barrel by Gabe. I am not to be counted amongst the worst of the worst. If you want real framing information...don't listen to me..just ask Gabe!
Those saws are Sandvik brand. Some of them look like model No. 270's. Crosscut I believe.
also the one named "oldguysysd" = Yankee Screwdrivers. Easy one.
Toolsguy
Edited 12/26/2004 4:43 pm ET by Toolsguy
"Leftovers" is some nasty old horse hair.
The awful thing is that beauty is mysterious as well as terrible. God and the devil are fighting there, and the battlefield is the heart of man.
- Fyodor Dostoyevski
I only had time to look at the first picture and it is obviously a picture of a Johnson Bar Holder with a Finegan pin attatchment
"... a Johnson Bar Holder with a Finegan pin attatchment"That doesn't tell the rest of us much more than we knew before.Rich BeckmanAnother day, another tool.
Bad joke with and old reference. I apologize!
I don't know nuttin and am dialup, but I had to open upho.
Lil disappointed, it just looks like a bender for tin knockers.