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Any Ideas?

Posted: Thu Feb 12, 2009 8:05 pm
by manipou
found this in the loft and have no idea what it is. Any ideas?

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Posted: Thu Feb 12, 2009 8:12 pm
by Helen
looks like some sort of survaying or ordenance equipment.

Posted: Thu Feb 12, 2009 8:44 pm
by jamie
Is it a special tool for extracting water from 5-cylinder turbo diesel engines?

I thought so.

Posted: Thu Feb 12, 2009 8:45 pm
by mycar
Does part A appear to attach to part B in anyway?

Mike

Posted: Thu Feb 12, 2009 8:46 pm
by Bertroex
A early twentieth century guillotine for fingers. Any employees caught stealing, lost a bit of.... :?:

;)


Bert

Posted: Thu Feb 12, 2009 8:47 pm
by manipou
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!!

Posted: Thu Feb 12, 2009 8:48 pm
by manipou
mycar wrote:Does part A appear to attach to part B in anyway?

Mike
Not that I can see..

Posted: Thu Feb 12, 2009 9:24 pm
by Nige
Something to mark centres on something cylindrical. Jewellery or watch makers?

Posted: Thu Feb 12, 2009 10:30 pm
by mycar
Is that glass disc on the main thingummyjig?

Mike

Posted: Thu Feb 12, 2009 10:37 pm
by butzsi
I WANT IT !

Posted: Fri Feb 13, 2009 10:27 am
by Derek
S&M equipment :)

Derek

Posted: Fri Feb 13, 2009 12:46 pm
by impmad2000
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

Posted: Fri Feb 13, 2009 12:51 pm
by jamie
Mani, I guess it might be something that needs to be level, given the tripod-section and the floating disc on the other bit...

Posted: Fri Feb 13, 2009 1:09 pm
by Helen
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 :?

Posted: Fri Feb 13, 2009 1:34 pm
by tim78
To me, it looks like an early flux capacitor