I'm not even sure it's to do with firearms.

[QUOTE]Originally posted by richj:
I'm not even sure it's to do with firearms.




That, is obviously a model 70, brass enigma !

Good shape too.

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I'm not even sure it's to do with firearms

Neither do I.

Something from a beam scale?

What’s the provenance? Just laying at the bottom of a drawer or??? Is it bronze?

Possibly a clock pendulum.

I've seen them before, it is a muffler bearing from a Model A

It was just among the stuff. Beside gun stuff I wound up with a bunch of hand tools.

I posted it on:
- Timezone
- Tools in action
- ASSR
- American period furniture

Something to do with a stringed instrument? Or has someone finally found a roundtoit?

Steve........

That is a Dillenhammer. Jim was close.

It does sort of look like something you might find on a luthier or pianoforte technicians bench bench. But who knows. Brass is generally associated with no marr and no spark environments.

German tool used to tune a fisch.

Any special interests/hobbies?

Looks like some sort of test weight to me.

It's in the best condition of any I have ever seen!

Well, duh! It's a whatsyoumaycallit! On second thought, it's a thingamajig!

That is an ossinfinger that regulates the oil pressure in the knobulator that moves the arm used to wipe the marks off the windshield of a flying goose transporter, at least it does look like one I was sure Rod would know

Kobe got it half right, but it is an oscillating muffler bearing, unlike a fixed muffler bearing.

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Originally posted by Rolland:
That is an ossinfinger that regulates the oil pressure in the knobulator that moves the arm used to wipe the marks off the windshield of a flying goose transporter, at least it does look like one I was sure Rod would know

Well I do know what it is. I toldja what it was straight off. First reply I might add. It's a model 70, brass enigma! "What do you do with an enigma" you ask? Well you try to figure it out what the hell it is! "What has everyone been doing with it" I ask? Well, trying to figure out what the hell it is! So it's an enigma and it's obviously in good shape and it's working just fine because everyone has been trying to figure it out. LOL

Bestestest damned enigma I've seen in months if I have to say so myself!

It's a cure for Erectile Dysfunction! You just whack the wiener with it and it BLOWS RIGHT UP !!!

Hip

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Originally posted by Hipshoot:
It's a cure for Erectile Dysfunction! You just whack the wiener with it and it BLOWS RIGHT UP !!!

Hip

Might just try strapping it to your wiener with zip ties or some kitchen cord. Probably will hurt way less and you'll do better marketing it. LOL

Obviously a kaniblingpin adjuster.

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Originally posted by Steve E.:
Something to do with a stringed instrument? Or has someone finally found a roundtoit ?

Steve........

No they look nothing like that!

http://kalecoauto.com/index.ph...XCWQoTMqrG2h8KxBBrT1

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Originally posted by The Dane:
[QUOTE]Originally posted by Steve E.:
Something to do with a stringed instrument? Or has someone finally found a roundtoit ?

Steve........

No they look nothing like that!


Leave it to a fellow herring muncher to come up with that ! LOL

round tuit tool by Rod Henrickson, on Flickr

Well whodathoughtit.

Hey Rod, I like smoked Herring myself.

Steve.......

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Originally posted by The Dane:
Something from a beam scale?

That would be my guess...

With the help of others it looks like it could be some kind of 'marking gauge'? Does the round brass part look like it slid back and forth at one time?

Steve.......

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Originally posted by Hipshoot:
It's a cure for Erectile Dysfunction! You just whack the wiener with it and it BLOWS RIGHT UP !!!

Hip

Didn't work H,it did bring a tear to my glass eye though when I tried it.

Electricity switch box lever maybe.jc

this is what it keeps reminding me of -- a scribe or depth gauge

Looks like there is a hint of what could be lime residue from concrete or cement.

It’s got that look like it belongs on a theodolite - somewhere. Was the guy a surveyor?

On the Model B, there was a strut that went from the muffler bearing to the donofonalator tube. Some of them were similar to the one in the picture.

Perhaps it would help, Rich, if you told us where you found it and what makes you even think it could be something to do with firearms. The round bit has the appearance of a key or button on a musical instrument.

I've spent WAY to much time googling brass tools......

Its called a Chingadera where I come from..

Ray got it right. They are known a chingaderas around here too and are quite common.