✅ SOLVED Test your skills on this one! Spent years trying to ID this.

[musclecar]

I found this in Alaska about 10 years ago, and have never been able to ID it. It is an aluminum piece, about 3 inches square. It has 15 teeth and is numbered 1-15. There is a stop preventing it from spinning freely. The back has two tabs that may have been used to mount it. ANY GUESSES?

Thanks,

MC

PS The quarter used for size was found yesterday! 1935S Yeah!

 

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[trikikiwi]

It's a angle set indicator for setting saw teeth,
After hand filing the teeth to sharpen them you have to set the teeth, that is move them out of the line of the rest of the blade so the teeth will bite.
The rest of the plier type tool clamped on the blade with a C clamp type attachment.

Any pics?

I found this one

http://cgi.ebay.com.au/7%22-SAW-BLADE-TEETH-ADJUSTMENT-PLIERS-(NEW)_W0QQitemZ350292327712QQcmdZViewItemQQimsxZ20091213?IMSfp=TL0912130110001r32820

Mike

 

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[SgtSki in MI]

Holy Crap! This whatzit is STILL on here? That's gotta be some kind of record!

 

[Bigcypresshunter]

It's a angle set indicator for setting saw teeth,
After hand filing the teeth to sharpen them you have to set the teeth, that is move them out of the line of the rest of the blade so the teeth will bite.
The rest of the plier type tool clamped on the blade with a C clamp type attachment.

Ive revised my original post. You need to explain how this works and if any parts are missing.
Im familiar with the pliers and the clamp but not the indicator. Please post back (or tell us you were just guessing).
http://www.fs.fed.us/t-d/pubs/htmlpubs/htm02232324/index.htm

I just realized that I have the saw tooth tool in the bottom right hand corner and never knew what it was. Cant find anything like this Alaskan version.

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[lastleg]

Not to intrude BC but wonder about the date of the catalogue. The Morrill
saw set pictured is identical to one I found at a NM ghost town.

 

[Breezie]

I've changed my guess to: Mechanical Tally/Counter for a game such as Golf, Billiards, or 'like' Whist.
Here are some websites with similar ones:
http://www.freepatentsonline.com/7628315.pdf
http://www.sportingcollectibles.com/gambling.html

Breezie

 

[Bigcypresshunter]

Not to intrude BC but wonder about the date of the catalogue. The Morrill
saw set pictured is identical to one I found at a NM ghost town.

Sorry I dont know the date. Found pic online in images.
I was searching for a saw set indicator but cannot find any that looks like this.
My Dad used these on hand saws as a carpenter in the 50's until electric tools took over.

 

[SODABOTTLEBOB]

Breezie ~

I was intrigued by your post regarding the word "Whist," and until I looked it up on Wikipedia, I thought it was a misspelling of the word Wrist. Here's the link to what I found.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whist

SODABOB

 

[Bigcypresshunter]

I've changed my guess to: Mechanical Tally/Counter for a game such as Golf, Billiards, or 'like' Whist.
Here are some websites with similar ones:
http://www.freepatentsonline.com/7628315.pdf
http://www.sportingcollectibles.com/gambling.html

Breezie

Thanks Bob.
While I agree that it appears to be a counter, there is nothing to hold the wheel on a specific number.
We were told it would spin freely if not for the stop.This is a tough one.

Im waiting for Arid-Zone's explanation.
He didnt sound like he was guessing but Im not holding my breath either.
I sent an e-mail.

 

[SODABOTTLEBOB]

Breezie ~

I'm still intrigued by the "Whist" thing, and I hope you don't mind my kidding you that it opened up a whole new "Pandora's Box" for me. Check out the photo below that I found on eBay. It's a 1875 postcard of a group of people playing Whist. I don't think I even want to know what the reference to "Psycho" is all about.

But I wholeheartedly agree with you that it's some kind of "counter."

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[SODABOTTLEBOB]

And ...

... I especially like the board game idea.

The more I look at it, the more the item looks "toy-like" in appearence.

The only problem is, there are about a jillion different board games.



Here's a (copy and pasted) quote pertaining to the game of cribbage.

"Points are scored for combinations of cards totalling fifteen."

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[Bigcypresshunter]

And ...

... I especially like the board game idea.

The more I look at it, the more the item looks "toy-like" in appearence.

The only problem is, there are about a jillion different board games.



SBB

Being found in wilderness Alaska, I like the saw tool or camera ideas better than game piece,
but Arid-Zone-A-Seeker has yet to respond with an explanation.

 

[Bigcypresshunter]

Thoughts:

1- The piece is aluminum and I think aluminum was very expensive when it was first processed,
but by 1914 it was no longer considered a precious metal. So its post TOC.

2- The numbers do not look like a very old font.

 

[Bigcypresshunter]

I got a reply from Arid and he was just guessing like everyone else.
In his own words "just food for thought." So back to square one.


Ive been looking at pigeon clocks but they all seem to go to 12.

 

[elemerica]

First let me apologize if this has been mentioned, as I didn't have time to read through all the posts here at work, but I did not see this mentioned.

I don't know what it is, but it looks like the two longer "tabs" are also for mounting, and I don't think they were bent/folded over as previously mentioned, but inserted into or under corresponding holes in a mounting board/wall.

I also don't think the tab at the side where the device is turned is broken, it just looks like it's been hit or worn down. I believe the two small triangular tabs along with the larger rectangular tab are also for mounting; the rectangular tab for more support once it's been pushed all the way into whatever it mounted to.

I quickly (and crudely) edited a picture someone else posted above (hope you don't mind) to try and illustrate what I'm getting at. The black areas would be a wall or mounting board/plate.

Again, I haven't got a clue as to what it may be used for, other then counting something by hand, but this is my idea as to how it was/is mounted and what the tabs are for. My apologies again if this was mentioned already and decided upon as incorrect.

 

[SODABOTTLEBOB]

elemerica ~

Let me be the first to say welcome to TreasureNet!

You may have noticed that this thread originated in November of 2006!

Your post is #985, with a current total of 61,415 views!

Your information is not necessarily new, but is as good as any posted in my opinion, and I for one agree with you that the "item" was mounted to "something." But to what? And for what purpose?

SODABOTTLEBOB

P.S. I'm sure we are all wondering about the elongated page. It seems to have started with page number 6, (of 10 pages) and is most likely related to a posted image. Any suggestions on how to fix it? Or is it just page specific, and will eventually correct itself with scrutinized posting of certain "images?"

Thanks.

SBB

 

[Bigcypresshunter]

P.S. I'm sure we are all wondering about the elongated page. It seems to have started with page number 6, (of 10 pages) and is most likely related to a posted image. Any suggestions on how to fix it? Or is it just page specific, and will eventually correct itself with scrutinized posting of certain "images?"

Thanks.

SBB

Its caused by someone posting an elongated link usually of the search cache type with highlighted key words.
For instance this page was elomgated unknowingly on post #928, a long patent url.

The new page will correct itself and be normal until someone posts an elongated link again.
Note that page 6 is elongated but page 7 is normal.

The only way I know to fix it would be to ask the posters of these elongated links to shorten them.
They can take half of the long link and put it underneath on the next line.
I tried it, it works. Also Breezie has a link for shortening these long urls.

 

[Bigcypresshunter]

Heres the link that caused the problem on this page. http://www.google.com/patents/about...inm_is=0&as_miny_is=&as_maxm_is=0&as_maxy_is=


If I post it on 2 lines it still works like this.
http://www.google.com/patents/about?id=pYZFAAAAEBAJ&dq=knitting+machine&as
_drrb_ap=q&as_minm_ap=0&as_miny_ap=&as_maxm_ap=0&as_maxy_ap=&as_drrb_is=q&as_minm_is=0&as_miny_is=&as_maxm_is=0&as_maxy_is=

Now try explaining that to every member lol.

 

[SODABOTTLEBOB]

Thanks BigCy ~

I don't know what's more irritating ... the elongated pages, or most of my replies?

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[elemerica]

elemerica ~
Let me be the first to say welcome to TreasureNet!
You may have noticed that this thread originated in November of 2006!
Your post is #985, with a current total of 61,415 views!

Your information is not necessarily new, but is as good as any posted in my opinion, and I for one agree with you that the "item" was mounted to "something." But to what? And for what purpose?

SODABOTTLEBOB

P.S. I'm sure we are all wondering about the elongated page. It seems to have started with page number 6, (of 10 pages) and is most likely related to a posted image. Any suggestions on how to fix it? Or is it just page specific, and will eventually correct itself with scrutinized posting of certain "images?"

Thanks.

SBB

Thanks for the welcome, and yes I am aware that this is a 3+ year old thread with lots of replies and LOTS of views, but it looks like the original question still remains as to what the heck this is and what it was used for. I'll do a little more pondering on this, but I'm pretty stumped as to what it's original purpose was...

As for the extra-wide page, an easy way to remedy that is have the forum administrator add a function to the forum to truncate links longer than x characters. For instance, a link with 100 characters could automatically be put between the url tags and the text truncated by 75% or something similar. I've never personally dealt with SMF forums, so I'm not sure how exactly it's set up. The same can be done for images larger then a given resolution, they can be resized into something more like a thumbnail by the forum.

 

[yellow1053]

Ok, Perhaps everyone is assuming too much here. Everyone is thinking that the triangle notch is a "pointer". What if it's simply a way to keep that wheel rotating evenly, and as a stop to the wheel going all the way around? I'm a Locksmith, and that wheel reminds me of the inner workings of a safe lock. The raised notch (at 15) would catch the next wheel laying flat on top of it, to turn it as well. So, I'm going to go out on a limb here and say we only have a "partial" device here, which is why it's so hard to id. I do realize of course that by supplying this alternate theory, I've probably just prolonged this thread at least another year! LOL what do you think?