Manky Monkey Motors

Came across this little item in one of "those tins that have useful things in"  ::)
Its brass and approx 35mm x 50mm, holes range from around 3mm to 6mm dia. One side is stamped with numbers 1 to 6 and there is a little "U" shaped pattern stamped into the reverse side.

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Looks like sizing for something - except that 4, 5 and 6 are smaller than 3????

AND 6 IS SMALLER THAN 5! ???

Remember I was a radiographer? Well my last clinical post I ran the acute / vascular unit at Tameside. We did a lot of investigating blood vessels by putting a fine tube into the vessel through the skin and injecting a "dye" that would show up on an x-ray. To get to the point, these tubes (catheters) were measured by their diameter in a unit called French or F. French 7 or 6 was the older size, and was so big after poking one into someone's groin they needed to stay in overnight in case they bled. We were one of the first units to go to a french 4 gauge, it was really thin. we could do that cos we used computers to show only the difference between the picture without and with the dye, so needed much less dye. That could be done as a day case. So, sometimes small is better!

Doesn't wire gauge work in reverse, ie 22swg is smaller than 18swg??

Its obviously a double handed knuckle duster for a six fingered man, (... or woman, in the interest of PC!!)............ ??? ??? ??? ???

Thattle be one of those useful, one off tools made for a specific job, by an old fashioned tool maker. Then thrown into the depths of the special tools box, never to be used again. ( the old engineers all had a set of number stamps and liked to engrave their monica on a tool)
I got a box full of em  ;D 

It's a thingamy

Don't be daft kevsky, it's obviously not a thingamy. It's a whatchamacallit !
Think Mendalot is correct and you may never find out what it was made for. The marking on the back seems very familiar somehow  ???.

Maybe the numbers refer to some sequence of assembly?

   Could it be a "u" bolt gauge ?

You're both wrong, it's clearly a doofa!

looks like it could be a ,bulldog clip gauge,,, ;)


bulldog clips are the U, shaped bolts that you clamp wire ropes with ,,

it cant be a doofa  cause we dont know what it will doofa

No, No, No ....... a bulldog clip is what you use to clip together all of the outstanding bills, that you don't want to pay each month and then hang it  on a nail out of sight    :D :D :D

I reckon we're looking at the wrong thing here ,the hole's are not the most important here , the symbols on the back are ,whats needed is an Egyptologist cos the holes are clearly plans for 2 pyramids and we need to decipher the symbols to establish where these are and to whom they belong to ,unless of course it's a curse then I for one want nothing at all to with this

We need to look at the hole aspect .
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It is used to size the nuts on brass monkeys in extreme cold weather ?
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Nonsense, unpaid bills go behind the clock........

correct, for rope they are bulldog grips, and when fitting "never saddle a dead horse" :D :D :D :D :D

What if the 6 turned out to be a 9  ;) :)

wire fence staple gauge,,,

"Now if 6 turned out to be 9,
 I don't mind, I don't mind,"

(from a certain JH)

and if the mountains.....

..."Fell in the sea,
let it be, let it be"

 :) whooops getting side tracked here.

shall i tell you what it is?

YES please

its off an anigma machine

Come on TP ...... spill the beans  :)

That's what it is.................... A baked bean gauge.

No its a tuit gauge, as it has holes it must be for measuring round ones.

summat to do with eyes ?

Mine are always square, I never get a round tuit.

I had a couple of square ones, but got rid of them when the wheels fell off.

If only I knew what is was, I'd tell you  ::) :D