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Title: Name that tool Post by: Manky Monkey on May 12, 2014, 08:44:36 PM So how many can identify this then? For sale, (55 quid), on an autojumble stall at the Basingstoke festival of transport at the weekend.
1920s or 30s. Anyone here ever used one? I had to ask the stall owner what it was for & he only knew cos someone had told him. Title: Re: Name that tool Post by: triker_Chewie on May 12, 2014, 09:24:16 PM is it a round touit?
Title: Re: Name that tool Post by: Olds on May 12, 2014, 09:27:27 PM That is a thatcher's needle.
I'm a country boy. :D Title: Re: Name that tool Post by: morrag on May 12, 2014, 10:03:20 PM Nah, its a tool for getting stones out of a horses hoof! or is that a "Bull Staber", :-\ :-\I feel one of my headaches coming on.............................. ::) ::) ::) ::) ::) ::) ::) ::)
Title: Re: Name that tool Post by: kapri on May 12, 2014, 10:03:41 PM Now if you'd have asked me to identify the lorry brake shoes in the other pic you took, THAT I'd know !
Title: Re: Name that tool Post by: twisted on May 12, 2014, 10:37:58 PM Its for cutting just the right sized peice of cake ;)
Title: Re: Name that tool Post by: Manky Monkey on May 12, 2014, 10:52:24 PM Prize goes to Mr Newbie. ;D
G'wan then Kev, what model are they from? Title: Re: Name that tool Post by: kapri on May 13, 2014, 09:02:39 AM Look very much like Bedford TK or KM to me :) . To be truthful early lorry brakes are fairly generic and interchangeable ,far far more than car brakes.
Title: Re: Name that tool Post by: Manky Monkey on May 13, 2014, 03:14:11 PM Janie thought it said M/Benz on them, but could be wrong. They were hooge.
Title: Re: Name that tool Post by: kapri on May 13, 2014, 04:44:34 PM Nope, wouldn't surprise me if down as Merc, like I said pretty generic ,even more so on trailer brakes .Used to sell by width and length rather than make.Air actuators are the same as well...when i was selling them anyway.
Title: Re: Name that tool Post by: spanners on May 13, 2014, 09:27:42 PM Nope, wouldn't surprise me if down as Merc, like I said pretty generic ,even more so on trailer brakes .Used to sell by width and length rather than make.Air actuators are the same as well...when i was selling them anyway. 800 series merc bus ,, the funny shaped steel bodied bus/coach with the arse end v8 .. Title: Re: Name that tool Post by: kapri on May 13, 2014, 09:46:16 PM I bow to the master :)
Title: Re: Name that tool Post by: Mendalot on June 23, 2014, 11:46:44 AM Here's one for you all ( its not used for measuring of any kind )
(http://i390.photobucket.com/albums/oo343/PDSheridan/Photo23-06-2014115702Copy_zpscdf4c526.jpg) (http://s390.photobucket.com/user/PDSheridan/media/Photo23-06-2014115702Copy_zpscdf4c526.jpg.html) (http://i390.photobucket.com/albums/oo343/PDSheridan/Photo23-06-2014121735Copy_zps36226a52.jpg) (http://s390.photobucket.com/user/PDSheridan/media/Photo23-06-2014121735Copy_zps36226a52.jpg.html) (http://i390.photobucket.com/albums/oo343/PDSheridan/Photo23-06-2014121800Copy_zpse95e3bba.jpg) (http://s390.photobucket.com/user/PDSheridan/media/Photo23-06-2014121800Copy_zpse95e3bba.jpg.html) Title: Re: Name that tool Post by: BikerGran on June 23, 2014, 11:50:09 AM An earlier version of the engineers stethoscope? For listening to what's happening inside engine/box etc.
Title: Re: Name that tool Post by: Mendalot on June 23, 2014, 12:12:13 PM Awwww, no pulling the wool over your eyes Bobby! Yes indeed, its called an ‘acoustic probe’ and was originally part of a nice wooden boxed kit, which also contained a stethoscope with different length probes, passed down to me from my late father, But this one is designed to rest just in front of the earole.
When I moved workshops a few years ago, the set got misplaced somewhere along the line :'( Seeing Mr Kapri with his scope reminded me that I had it somewhere. Title: Re: Name that tool Post by: BikerGran on June 23, 2014, 06:45:55 PM When I worked at a sand and gravel quarry, the workshop manager used to use an outsize screwdriver for this very purpose! - he was pretty well infallible with it!
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