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Digging in the garden and this turned up. Most stuff I unearth is typical metal stuff, nails and the like, and is all rusted solid. This is different though, I'm assuming brass, and has withstood the ravages of time.
Being a curious sort, I'd quite like to know what it is/was. The knurled part twists and move the pulley wheel up and down. There appears to be cutouts for a cord that would have looped round the pulley, and the whole thing is maybe a tensioner of some kind...?
Not sure if it's from the house (old sash window?) or from some kind of old agricultural implement. The house is approx 1860, but built on the site of a much older one.
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The fact that I can’t see any pics makes it even more intriguing - I’m going with Time Machine...😀
Bugger, bear with...
^ the link to the private Instagram account works. Says ‘this account is private’
Top marks for the stealth ‘new followers‘ campaign 😉
Ok, how do I upload the images?
Can I guess at thrunge/flange cadingler?
Ok, how do I upload the images?
You’ll need to park them somewhere and then link them. I use imgbox, it’s free.
Hmm I wonder why the internet is trying so hard to cover up these photos?
Any luck here?
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What if it’s like the doll in Planet Of the Apes? Yet instead of a doll it’s a data key from an as yet undiscovered (yet hugely advanced) prehistoric Pangaean civilisation? A technocracy which wiped itself out via something called ‘ultranet’, itself a co-virtual reality which solved the problem of time-travel before the asteroid hit. A pocket of survivors managed to save the ultranet and then buried a corrosion-resistant hardware key for future civilisations to discover. Somewhere on Earth in the living rock is the ‘keyhole’ to their databank. Possibly at the back of Nationwide
My guess would be part of a window opening mechanism.
My guess would be part of a window opening mechanism.
What I said!
@MalvernRider
Have you just had a very strong coffee?
Or are you Isaac Asimov...?
thrunge/flange cadingler
Now we can see the pics you can clearly ascertain it's been recompatanated with several subnereal self-flanging nodes.
subnereal self-flanging nodes.
If you look closely you'll notice the nodes are not self-flanging. I think this even pre-dates the early self-flangers, possibly late-Cremulean/early Orthogonian.
Probably...
Ignore them - it's a left handed gangle pin from a dosset overrider. Whitworth by the look of it.
Ringpull, tizer, 78
Whitworth only ever produced 4 dosset overriders and none with a left-handed gangle pin so I have no idea what you're talking about. Probably confused by the spinations along the thrutch.
And as for the preposterous idea that the nodes aren't self-flanging.... You can clearly see flavuloid protrusions.
Probably confused by the spinations along the thrutch.
Ah could be - I thought they were reverse tramulated pinions, but I've clearly made a schoolboy error by confusing stibules with spinations.
My guess would be part of a window opening mechanism.
Possibly. I don't think it's intended to be operated under load, as it's a coarse pitch, twin start thread with only a narrow, small diameter wheel to turn it. Maybe something like altering the angle of louvres?
My guess would be a mechanism for blackout blinds from ww2
Mornington Crescent !
That is the gusset riser off the piano used by lieutenant pigeon on their 1971 song mouldy old dough which eventually reached number one 8 months after being released.
Given it was in the garden and looks like it could operate via a cord it could have been for ventilation in an old greenhouse.
Ringpull, tizer, 78
Sure it isn’t a BOAT?
it mine.
you can tell it’s mine because the knurled part twists and moves the pulley wheel up and down and there are cutouts for a cord that would have looped round the pulley.
All my ones do that. so it’s definitely mine
can I have it back please
can I have it back please
No.
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You can't!
I'm going to melt it down and turn it into a franglion thrust reverser.
Been after one of those since the early Pangaean days...
Might then offer it up on fleabay.
Stating the obvious, but its a DCM (Door Creak Muffler), I am sure you will find a use for it 😉
It's a Cummings orifice enlarger.
Oil it up and keep it handy.
It’s a Cummings orifice enlarger.
I think Cummings has his eye on an Oval Orifice😳
Definitely a bit of a window. Here is one in situ:
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Not a great photo and it is covered in paint but it is the same with the coarse thread and pulley.
Not 100% sure of the purpose but I think it is for holding the sash open a little bit for ventilation
Funnily enough this was also built in 1860.
It’s a Cummings orifice enlarger.
Oil it up and keep it handy.
Seems like a waste of oil. Why be so generous to Scummings?
Mouldy Auld Dough was mentioned on Countdown earlier and now I've read it on this thread. Damn spooky...What can it mean?
Seems like a waste of oil.
It's £7.45 a bottle but it'd be worth every penny.
@nickjb
Question probably answered, thanks fella.
Aside from the Cummings (that man's a ****), Lieutenant Pigeon and sci-fi-ish answers, has anybody anything else to chip in before I put the thread to bed?
Just that with The Key comes great responsibility.
As per avdave2, I'd say it's some sort of screwjack for a greenhouse - possibly a Preston one a bit like those you can still get:
