trikerpete
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« on: November 16, 2013, 07:42:40 PM » |
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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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what do you mean, I cant do that !!  |
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trikerpete
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« Reply #1 on: November 16, 2013, 07:43:11 PM » |
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what do you mean, I cant do that !! |
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BikerGran
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« Reply #2 on: November 16, 2013, 08:15:41 PM » |
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Looks like sizing for something - except that 4, 5 and 6 are smaller than 3?  |
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« Reply #3 on: November 16, 2013, 08:25:28 PM » |
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AND 6 IS SMALLER THAN 5! |
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I never wanted to be normal anyways!
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« Reply #4 on: November 16, 2013, 09:50:15 PM » |
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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??
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« Reply #5 on: November 16, 2013, 10:38:36 PM » |
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Mendalot
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« Reply #6 on: November 16, 2013, 11:43:15 PM » |
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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  |
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kevsky
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« Reply #7 on: November 17, 2013, 07:08:44 AM » |
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It's a thingamy
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« Reply #8 on: November 17, 2013, 08:10:47 AM » |
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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 . |
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andyrennison
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« Reply #9 on: November 17, 2013, 08:26:38 AM » |
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Maybe the numbers refer to some sequence of assembly?
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« Reply #10 on: November 17, 2013, 09:58:17 AM » |
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Could it be a "u" bolt gauge ?
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« Reply #11 on: November 17, 2013, 01:24:58 PM » |
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It's a thingamy
Don't be daft kevsky, it's obviously not a thingamy. It's a whatchamacallit ! You're both wrong, it's clearly a doofa! |
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« Reply #12 on: November 17, 2013, 06:40:44 PM » |
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looks like it could be a ,bulldog clip gauge,,,  bulldog clips are the U, shaped bolts that you clamp wire ropes with ,, |
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« Reply #13 on: November 17, 2013, 07:27:25 PM » |
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it cant be a doofa cause we dont know what it will doofa
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« Reply #14 on: November 17, 2013, 07:47:38 PM » |
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looks like it could be a ,bulldog clip gauge,,, bulldog clips are the U, shaped bolts that you clamp wire ropes with ,, 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  |
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