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[Closed] What manner of devilry is this? (weird tool content)

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Hi all,

I've found this in my bike tool box, do any of you know what it is?
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It is entirely possible it has nothing to do with cycling but merely fell in that box - I should probably tidy my shed...

'Friends' have already suggested it's one of my wife's sex toys so that joke is bagsied 😀 !


 
Posted : 14/06/2016 1:38 pm
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Is it an invisible sex toy?


 
Posted : 14/06/2016 1:41 pm
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It's definitely an adjustable sight for a tenon saw


 
Posted : 14/06/2016 1:42 pm
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Wild guess: Flag clamp for a recumbent.


 
Posted : 14/06/2016 1:43 pm
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FTFY 😉

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Wild guess: Flange clamp for a recumbent.


 
Posted : 14/06/2016 1:44 pm
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At a guess, for comparing the diameter of rods or tubes? Based on the blunted point and the lockring.

It's definitely an adjustable sight for a tenon saw

Sight for something isn't a bad guess.

Archery?


 
Posted : 14/06/2016 1:45 pm
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Nipple clamp.


 
Posted : 14/06/2016 1:47 pm
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Never had a recumbent so that would be impressive!
Tenon saw you say.... hmmm


 
Posted : 14/06/2016 1:47 pm
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Part of a fishing rod rest?


 
Posted : 14/06/2016 1:47 pm
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It is a vague possibility that it was with a fletcher's kit, so maybe it was for measuring the diameter of an arrow shaft??? No toxophiles here?


 
Posted : 14/06/2016 1:49 pm
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could be a sight for a bow then?


 
Posted : 14/06/2016 1:51 pm
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I used to have a self bow (snapped and cut my face!) but no idea where that would have attached.


 
Posted : 14/06/2016 1:53 pm
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It is quite similar to a very basic bowsight but I've never seen an attachment anything like that and am 99% sure it's something else. It's deffo not for measuring arrows. Not for use with a surveying tool or anything like that?


 
Posted : 14/06/2016 1:53 pm
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It's not a bowsight that clamps onto a front stabiliser arm?

Definitely not for a recumbent 😉


 
Posted : 14/06/2016 1:56 pm
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an adjustable shaft guide for a fletching jig?


 
Posted : 14/06/2016 1:58 pm
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Might conceivably be a rear sight that clamps onto a compound bow string guide for Compound Unlimited class?


 
Posted : 14/06/2016 2:02 pm
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Only had a self bow so no new-fangled attachy bits. I did however buy a Leica dumpy level last year.... cross-contamination of kits?


 
Posted : 14/06/2016 2:03 pm
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It's the sight off a Barnett catapult...

I just got one recently!

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Posted : 14/06/2016 2:04 pm
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I was nearly right 🙂


 
Posted : 14/06/2016 2:06 pm
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indeed - good call.

And now I can do some work...


 
Posted : 14/06/2016 2:07 pm
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Completely useless by the way, which is why it probably ended up in the shed!


 
Posted : 14/06/2016 2:09 pm
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It's the sight off a Barnett catapult...

I knew that ,but I is too slow at posting 😉


 
Posted : 14/06/2016 2:09 pm
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THANK YOU CYCLINGWEAKLY! I do indeed have one of those catapults (most amusing :wink:). There we go, we can all go back to work now, thanks one and all!!!


 
Posted : 14/06/2016 2:10 pm
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Completely useless by the way, which is why it probably ended up in the shed!

Yup, the counter balance bits will be somewhere else in the shed 🙂


 
Posted : 14/06/2016 2:11 pm
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Things are never completely useless. I keep everything, and get great satisfaction from bodging a fix on something from a piece of something else that could have been thrown away

That's my excuse and I'm keeping it!


 
Posted : 14/06/2016 3:43 pm