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Offline DobroDan

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Whatsit Used For ?
« on: August 27, 2014, 09:46:44 PM »
The main body is brass, the pointed end that screws in and out is steel, the blunt end is light colored, nonmagnetic metal with a hole thru the center. It looks old, has no marks and I have no idea how I got it.
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Offline oldgoaly

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Re: Whatsit Used For ?
« Reply #1 on: August 28, 2014, 10:32:21 AM »
well to me it looks like it may have come off a machine or it's a set up tool for a machine. It looks like it could clamp the a shaft , maybe hold that shaft so another part could be attached or changed.
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Offline Chillylulu

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Re: Whatsit Used For ?
« Reply #2 on: August 28, 2014, 10:12:49 PM »
I think it is a small press. Or it could be a holder, but that square drive.......

Whatever it may be exactly notwithstanding, it definitely is very cool.  I have lots of little things I think are cool.  Eventually I find out what they are used for.

Chilly
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Offline DobroDan

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Re: Whatsit Used For ?
« Reply #3 on: September 10, 2014, 11:19:48 PM »
Quote from: Chillylulu on August 28, 2014, 10:12:49 PM
I think it is a small press. Or it could be a holder, but that square drive.......

Whatever it may be exactly notwithstanding, it definitely is very cool.  I have lots of little things I think are cool.  Eventually I find out what they are used for.

Chilly
Thanks Chilly. This has reached the end of page 1 and will go on my wall as ??? cool but unidentified.   Dan
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Offline JoeCB

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Re: Whatsit Used For ?
« Reply #4 on: September 16, 2014, 10:04:45 PM »
OK here is a guess... I have a dim recollection such a fitting attached to some sort of pressure vessel like a gas cylinder. The non-metallic end seals the joint, the screw clamps the fitting tight to the cylinder neck... maybe ???

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Offline pritch

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Re: Whatsit Used For ?
« Reply #5 on: September 18, 2014, 10:25:33 PM »
Quote from: JoeCB on September 16, 2014, 10:04:45 PM
OK here is a guess... I have a dim recollection such a fitting attached to some sort of pressure vessel like a gas cylinder. The non-metallic end seals the joint, the screw clamps the fitting tight to the cylinder neck... maybe ???

Joe B

In that case, it would be somewhat similar to the way the modern regs are attached to the oxy tanks that people use to breathe.
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Offline Helleri

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Re: Whatsit Used For ?
« Reply #6 on: October 05, 2014, 01:46:04 PM »
I seen something similar looking on the guy-wire used to correct some telephone poles alignment. Might be something like that? For putting tension into cable?
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Offline rusty

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Re: Whatsit Used For ?
« Reply #7 on: October 05, 2014, 05:09:25 PM »
I think you are thinking turnbuckle...
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Offline Charles Garrett

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Re: Whatsit Used For ?
« Reply #8 on: October 05, 2014, 05:44:40 PM »
It is like one said a attachment for hooking to a pressure source as in hooking a regulator to a breathing O2 cyl.
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