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  • natrix
    natrix Posts: 1,111
    Looks just like my nose hair trimmer :lol:
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  • pinno
    pinno Posts: 52,301
    Is it for cutting a leather discs vis-a-vis for a piston of some description, like in the use of a pump?
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  • Sciencemike
    Sciencemike Posts: 28
    Sharpener for cork/bung borers?
  • laurentian
    laurentian Posts: 2,548
    Sciencemike wrote:
    Sharpener for cork/bung borers?

    Correct and Top Marks to The New Boy!!!

    https://www.thelabwarehouse.com/catalog ... &x=54&y=10

    Well done Sciencemike and welcome . . . trouble is you've now got to find and post an object . . . be quick or they'll start singing . . .
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  • capt_slog
    capt_slog Posts: 3,973
    laurentian wrote:

    https://www.thelabwarehouse.com/catalog ... &x=54&y=10

    Gosh, I've never seen a new one! In fact, I never imagined anyone selling them, I thought they grew spontaneously in the cork drawer.


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  • laurentian
    laurentian Posts: 2,548
    I spent 20 years working in and running laboratories and never ever came across one of these. One sat behind the bar in our local for years with us all trying to guess what it was until I accidentally came across one in a laboratory supply catalogue
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  • Sciencemike
    Sciencemike Posts: 28
    :oops:
  • Pituophis
    Pituophis Posts: 1,025
    Is it an early toilet seat?
  • capt_slog
    capt_slog Posts: 3,973
    Looks like a large coil which can be spun, and there are 'brushes' to make connections to the windings.

    Do you spin it and look for the current generated using the earth's magnetic field as the magnet?


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  • Sciencemike
    Sciencemike Posts: 28
    That was quick!
    Very good Capt Slog.
    It's an Earth Inductor, for measuring the strength/angle of the Earth's magnetic field.

    http://www.schoolphysics.co.uk/age16-19 ... index.html
  • capt_slog
    capt_slog Posts: 3,973
    Sciencemike wrote:
    That was quick!
    Very good Capt Slog.
    It's an Earth Inductor, for measuring the strength/angle of the Earth's magnetic field.

    http://www.schoolphysics.co.uk/age16-19 ... index.html

    hmmm, I think it's quite possible that we share a 'trade' :lol:

    Picture to follow

    Why are we waiting etc.


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  • pinno
    pinno Posts: 52,301
    Time for one of those interlude's (with a bicycle theme):

    coloured-sheep.jpg

    Can't find any vid's of sheep singing 'Why are we waiting' but i'll keep looking.
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  • chris_bass
    chris_bass Posts: 4,913
    How many sheep are there? Everytime I try counting them I get to 6 and fall asleep.

    I'll try again, 1, 2, 3, 4....zzzzzzzz
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  • natrix
    natrix Posts: 1,111
    Come on capt Slog..............
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  • capt_slog
    capt_slog Posts: 3,973
    Drat, I thought you'd all forgotten. :lol:

    Ok, try this..
    DSC_9473.jpg


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  • natrix
    natrix Posts: 1,111
    Part of a musical instrument..............
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  • capt_slog
    capt_slog Posts: 3,973
    natrix wrote:
    Part of a musical instrument..............

    no


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  • pinno
    pinno Posts: 52,301
    is it something to do with woodwork? It is a blade of some description.
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  • natrix
    natrix Posts: 1,111
    Is it part of a scientific instrument??
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  • natrix
    natrix Posts: 1,111
    pinarello001 wrote:
    is it something to do with woodwork? It is a blade of some description.

    Could it be some sort of plane blade??
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  • slowmart
    slowmart Posts: 4,516
    Is it a tool to quickly measure a manufactured item?
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  • pinno
    pinno Posts: 52,301
    natrix wrote:
    pinarello001 wrote:
    is it something to do with woodwork? It is a blade of some description.

    Could it be some sort of plane blade??

    Oi, I was building up to that.

    Is it for trimming sheep hooves (sheep's hooves ?)
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  • capt_slog
    capt_slog Posts: 3,973
    Nothing yet, apart from correctly recognising a "blade" at one end. It isn't that sharp by the way, and doesn't need to be.


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  • natrix
    natrix Posts: 1,111
    Is it a blank of some sort? i.e. does it get machined??
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  • capt_slog
    capt_slog Posts: 3,973
    No, that is a finished item, that's exactly how it's sold and used.


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  • pinno
    pinno Posts: 52,301
    Is it one of multiple one's/set or are they sold in single form?
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  • graham.
    graham. Posts: 862
    When you say "Blade". Does it scrape rather than cut?
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  • capt_slog
    capt_slog Posts: 3,973
    Graham. wrote:
    When you say "Blade". Does it scrape rather than cut?

    yup, tis a scraper.

    and they are sold singly.


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  • pinno
    pinno Posts: 52,301
    For use with leather?
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  • Ber Nard
    Ber Nard Posts: 827
    Capt Slog wrote:
    Nothing yet, apart from correctly recognising a "blade" at one end. It isn't that sharp by the way, and doesn't need to be.

    So do you use both ends of it? If yes, during a single process or does it have multiple uses?

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