Any Ideas?

manipou · Post by **manipou** » Thu Feb 12, 2009 8:05 pm

found this in the loft and have no idea what it is. Any ideas?

Helen · Post by **Helen** » Thu Feb 12, 2009 8:12 pm

looks like some sort of survaying or ordenance equipment.

jamie · Post by **jamie** » Thu Feb 12, 2009 8:44 pm

Is it a special tool for extracting water from 5-cylinder turbo diesel engines?

I thought so.

mycar · Post by **mycar** » Thu Feb 12, 2009 8:45 pm

Does part A appear to attach to part B in anyway?

Mike

Bertroex · Post by **Bertroex** » Thu Feb 12, 2009 8:46 pm

A early twentieth century guillotine for fingers. Any employees caught stealing, lost a bit of....

Bert

manipou · Post by **manipou** » Thu Feb 12, 2009 8:47 pm

jamie wrote:Is it a special tool for extracting water from 5-cylinder turbo diesel engines?

I thought so.

Could be, although I dont think it will fix bent conrods!!

manipou · Post by **manipou** » Thu Feb 12, 2009 8:48 pm

mycar wrote:Does part A appear to attach to part B in anyway?

Mike

Not that I can see..

Nige · Post by **Nige** » Thu Feb 12, 2009 9:24 pm

Something to mark centres on something cylindrical. Jewellery or watch makers?

mycar · Post by **mycar** » Thu Feb 12, 2009 10:30 pm

Is that glass disc on the main thingummyjig?

Mike

butzsi · Post by **butzsi** » Thu Feb 12, 2009 10:37 pm

I WANT IT !

Derek · Post by **Derek** » Fri Feb 13, 2009 10:27 am

S&M equipment

Derek

impmad2000 · Post by **impmad2000** » Fri Feb 13, 2009 12:46 pm

My dad was a watchmaker, and i have some of his old kit.
Weird and wanderful items in similar wooden boxes, but I've not seen anything like this amongst what I have.
Tim

jamie · Post by **jamie** » Fri Feb 13, 2009 12:51 pm

Mani, I guess it might be something that needs to be level, given the tripod-section and the floating disc on the other bit...

Helen · Post by **Helen** » Fri Feb 13, 2009 1:09 pm

navigation equipment.

my father used to have equipment that looked like this (from my terrable memory) for map making and plotting.

But all his equipent has numbers/measurments markings

tim78 · Post by **tim78** » Fri Feb 13, 2009 1:34 pm

To me, it looks like an early flux capacitor