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  • natrix
    natrix Posts: 1,111
    Anything to do with musical instruments? Tool for making or tuning them??
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  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Posts: 79,667
    Does it measure thickness?
  • capt_slog
    capt_slog Posts: 3,965
    no and no.


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  • pinno
    pinno Posts: 52,091
    Is it to measure heat? i'e, the prongs move at a certain temp and touch?

    or

    To measure vibration?
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  • capt_slog
    capt_slog Posts: 3,965
    Nothing close.

    It's nothing very sophisticated, in fact this is my home-made version of a commercial one (tight as a duck's arse as usual).

    The centre 'prong' is a hollow tube.


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  • caad8
    caad8 Posts: 51
    I have an inclination as to what it is, but as I have no interesting object to share I will remain schtum incase I'm correct!
  • veronese68
    veronese68 Posts: 27,694
    caad8 wrote:
    I have an inclination as to what it is, but as I have no interesting object to share I will remain schtum incase I'm correct!
    Coward.
    I did panic after getting one right though.
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  • caad8
    caad8 Posts: 51
    Challenge accepted.

    Is it used to hold a string or thread reel whilst tying something like fishing flies? Or other arty-ness?
  • capt_slog
    capt_slog Posts: 3,965
    caad8 wrote:
    Challenge accepted.

    Is it used to hold a string or thread reel whilst tying something like fishing flies? Or other arty-ness?

    Yes.

    It's a bobbin holder and it's used for flytying.

    looks like this in practice....
    P7151356.jpg

    and the fine nozzle bit that the silk comes through allows you to get the thread in the right place on the hook, and keeps things under tension when you need to let go...

    2H5TSF10.jpg



    So, your turn :mrgreen:


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  • caad8
    caad8 Posts: 51
    Ok, try this -

    2013-09-03111732_zpsd99b4e6a.jpg

    The object in question is in the middle of the shot, ie the metal bit.
  • pinno
    pinno Posts: 52,091
    Nice work capt slog. Can you tie 4 midges, 4 spiders and 4 Mayfly's with a little white spot on their 4rses please?
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  • capt_slog
    capt_slog Posts: 3,965
    pinarello001 wrote:
    Nice work capt slog. Can you tie 4 midges, 4 spiders and 4 Mayfly's with a little white spot on their 4rses please?


    yes i could, but I'm not going to. :D anyway, it's a bit late for mayflys isn't it?

    I don't fish very much these days. At my previous job I used to work not too far from the river. I often used to fish at lunchtimes, driving there eating a sandwich, walk to the river bank whilst tying a fly on, spot of fishing then back to work. AND used to return in the evening somedays before i went home.

    It all had to stop when i changed jobs :( Not enough time to go and too far to to drive after being at work all day. But happy days.


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  • pinno
    pinno Posts: 52,091
    Capt Slog wrote:
    pinarello001 wrote:
    Nice work capt slog. Can you tie 4 midges, 4 spiders and 4 Mayfly's with a little white spot on their 4rses please?


    yes i could, but I'm not going to. :D anyway, it's a bit late for mayflys isn't it?

    I don't fish very much these days. At my previous job I used to work not too far from the river. I often used to fish at lunchtimes, driving there eating a sandwich, walk to the river bank whilst tying a fly on, spot of fishing then back to work. AND used to return in the evening somedays before i went home.

    It all had to stop when i changed jobs :( Not enough time to go and too far to to drive after being at work all day. But happy days.

    The Mayfly's were wishful thinking that I might have some time in spring. The midges are perennial and the spiders fall from the Rhododendrons at a loch I know. I have tied a few but when you go to the local sportshop and they start at 55p ea with some local knowledge...it's pie in the sky now I have 2 screaming girls. Some great fishing here too - no dank puddles under a motorway flyover fishing for Carp with curry balls. Coarse fishing and fixies have one thing in common; both heinous crimes.
    Oh, one fine day, the Sundridge, the Shakespeare and it's floating dry line will be re-united...

    Where tf is that picture...oh, yes I forgot.

    It's a sheep feeding trough.
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  • RideOnTime
    RideOnTime Posts: 4,712
    It looks like there might be farm / animal connection ? :?
  • natrix
    natrix Posts: 1,111
    A filter at a water treatment works???
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  • team47b
    team47b Posts: 6,425
    Is it upside down?
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  • caad8
    caad8 Posts: 51
    No it's not sheep related!
    RideOnTime wrote:
    It looks like there might be farm / animal connection ? :?

    Nope
    natrix wrote:
    A filter at a water treatment works???

    Close, its not at a works and it's not strictly 'water'..
    team47b wrote:
    Is it upside down?

    Nope
  • natrix
    natrix Posts: 1,111
    A sewage filter??
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  • caad8
    caad8 Posts: 51
    natrix wrote:
    A sewage filter??

    Close enough, we have a winner!

    It's a CSO (combined sewer overflow) screen, it screens storm flow before it spills to a watercourse or storm network. This one is quite small and static ie non powered but bigger powered screens exist for higher spill volumes. Quite boring for some folk though and not exactly dinner party chat.
  • jawooga
    jawooga Posts: 530
    Shit to some but your bread and butter?
  • caad8
    caad8 Posts: 51
    Yeah I'm a civil engineer in waste water, it pays the bills and keeps me in bikes!
  • natrix
    natrix Posts: 1,111
    I can smell the sewage from here..........

    Anyway, here you go (it's between 3 to 4 foot long).
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  • laurentian
    laurentian Posts: 2,505
    Is it nautical?
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  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Posts: 79,667
    Do those cones help it roll on tracks?
  • natrix
    natrix Posts: 1,111
    It is nautical but the cones do not help it run on tracks.
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  • tyred&weary
    tyred&weary Posts: 243
    Is it for driving a vehicle on marshland? I forget the name but they replace the wheels and increase the footprint inordinately.
  • natrix
    natrix Posts: 1,111
    Nothing to do with marshland - more nautical than that
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  • metronome
    metronome Posts: 670
    Early sea mine?
    tick - tick - tick
  • pinno
    pinno Posts: 52,091
    Har har landlubbers, would it be a barrel of rum?
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  • natrix
    natrix Posts: 1,111
    Metronome has got it! A confederate sea mine from the American Civil War..........
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