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The wheel bit seems to be a flint and the rope could've been where the wick went previously so I'm guessing part of a lamp of sorts.. but I can't find any pictures of something similar.
Any ideas from the hive mind?
Looks like a Nigel to me.
Yep. Nigel. Call it Nigel.
I am sure I've seen something similar, it's not a lamp though, it's a taper IIRC.
[quote=CaptainFlashheart]Looks like a Nigel to me.
Yep. Nigel. Call it Nigel.
Is it 'a Nigel', or is it [i]called[/i] Nigel? Or is it a nigel called Nigel? ❓
Sumerian Scrote Turgler.
It's a Steam Punk nasal hair remover.
its a pizza cutter.
[quote=Mr Woppit]Sumerian Scrote Turgler.
[quote=organic355]its a pizza cutter.
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Its the gangle pin from a dosset overrider.
Its the gangle pin from a dosset overrider.
Metric, rather than imperial, though.
Metric, rather than imperial, though.
Obviously - you can tell by the marks on the spurling cowl.
it's a taper IIRC
Isn't that a sort of wild pig with a long nose?
Never knowingly overidden...
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It's a rubber chicken gone all rigamortis like innit. 😀
It"s from the Karcher 'Exclusive' range of steam cleaner attachments.
Specifically, it's for unblocking constipated spaniels and under gardeners.
Is the wheel sharpened? Could be a Victorian battle skipping rope.
Friday: I will call it Robinson
Is it some sort of doofer for lighting gas lamps? You'd feed a wick in from the bottom (left in the pic) and out through a hold in the top (is there one?), use the flint like a cigarette lighter to ignite the wick which is no doubt soaked in kerosene or whale blubber or something unpleasant, then just keep feeding the wick through as you go round lighting all the lamps.
Maybe. I've just made that up.
So it's not an adapter to let you inflate Woods valves from a track pump then?
... or, thinking about it, the rope's a red herring and there should be a pole inserted there.
Perhaps.
I reckon it's a lighter and the wick would just continue out of the bottom like so
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the rope just looks like someone's later addition, is it a modern nylon rope?
I think we have a winner.. well done Pictonroad! If you lift the cap (at the opposite end to the rope the end of the rope is indeed burnt!
Have a mince pie!
A Nigella?
Beaten to it..Damn
Had a mince-pie anyway..:-)
Made a few lighters like that in prison. The prisoners could buy fags but they couldn't buy matches so lighters were made from a piece of mop handle with two holes drilled, one to hold the flint and wheel from a clipper lighter and the other a wick made by twisting the mop strings together. You'd shower the wick with sparks till it smouldered blow on it to get it hotter then light the cig off it. Then you'd pull the wick down inside the handle and it would extinguish. Sometimes, sometimes people's pockets would catch fire a wee while later.
Meanwhile all the cleaners had very short, nearly bald mops.
Seemingly (according to lag legend) they're at ww1 trench warfare innovation for reanimmating petrol lighters when you run out of fuel