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world famous bobski mystery thing, pic #143

bobski
the blocks slide up and down on the shaft. one has a hole in it and one doesnt.
any clue?
it was found in dads wood shop near a planer and table saw.
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  • zipperzap
    Unfinished towel rack???[;)]
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  • iwannausername
    Serious clamp of some sort?
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  • HappyNanoq
    It's a musical instrument.

    It for playing two different styles in one....


    It's for JAZZ... and FUNK...


    It's called.... JUNK !!
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  • The Tinman
    Scaffolding base piece?
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  • bobski
    scafolding?
    explain how it would work on a base? this item is only 14" approx long.
    but dad did have scafolding at one time.
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  • scubabobf
    Could be an adjustable scaffold component. The flange with the hole has the marking of a nut on it. I would expect the solid flange to have some wear on it but could not tell from the photo. This suggest it may be a top piece rather than a bottom piece. Please post the actual name of it if it is positively ID. Regards and smooth triggers.
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  • Odawgp
    quote:Originally posted by bobski
    the blocks slide up and down on the shaft. one has a hole in it and one doesnt.
    any clue?
    it was found in dads wood shop near a planer and table saw.
    136-3673_IMG.jpg


    is it just me or does the one with the hole in it look like it could be held in place buy a locking collar on both side's?

    i havent a clue
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  • Odawgp
    due the blocks fit in the grooves on the table saw?
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  • Sig220_Ruger77
    My first guess was some sort of clamp, but I haven't a clue.

    Jon
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  • select-fire
    Nice towel
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  • 47studebaker
    It looks similar to the setup on my miter saw, sort of as a "stop block"
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  • hoosier
    Fixture for polishing barrels with a sationary buffer. Looks like a crude version of the one I got from Brownells. Or a towel rack.
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  • bobski
    the block with the hole is held in place by 2 round rings that can be loosened and tightened to stay put with allen screws.
    or, one ofthe rings is slid over to the other block but might belong next to the other one.
    hmmm, mider saw. dad had one of those too.
    how would it work on a mider saw?
    doesnt fit in a table saw.
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  • phillip
    I just showed it to my dad ,who bye the way is a patern maker,and he said it does not go on any sort of wood working equipment that he knows of.He said it looked like some sort of JIG that your pops made to make something.I would concur having been brought up around my uncle,brother and dad.They all did that sort of thing.
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  • Hangfire
    It's a clamp that holds the head of a left-handed shooter against the stock of a model 12...keeps them from flinching because of the blown-out residue from the ejection port when learning to shoot doubles...
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  • ripley16
    Rosie Odonnell's speculum?
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  • 1911a1-fan
    homemade whatever it is, that is an old weight bar, {notice the black plastic end cap}, with older weight clamps, i may even have a couple of those clamps, the bolt is ether 3/8, or 7/16, i cant remember, but i bet there may be some old concrete weights around
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  • Queen of Swords
    Mike sez a wood clamp.
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  • bobski
    im getting some great answers, but we need to prove them. can anyone show it in use?
    can the fellow who might have some laying around show me how its used?
    i tried to use it to keep my head on the stock of my M12, but it kept falling off. my head isnt that big yet.[8D][:p]
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  • bobski
    notice how the tip of one of the blocks is red.
    hmmm? does that help any?
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  • phillip
    yep...red to the right.DAMN STAIGHT
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  • 1911a1-fan
    this is from a weight bar from around the mid 80's, if you notice the clamp has a taper, and a key to turn it, up until that time they where sold with identical clamps in the picture, i remember it because it was a pain to use a wrench each time you wanted to change weights

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    also notice the black plastic end cap, i would guess he made a 1 time use wood clamp the hole in the steel may or may not even have had a use
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  • drsck
    It looks like a home-made version of a guage that was once commercially available to help install the blades on a joiner and then check the relation between the infeed and outfeed tables. You simply put one of the blocks on the outfeed table and the other with one half on the edge of the outfeed table and one half on the blade. Then you put a level across the top of the blocks. That way you know if you have installed the blade parallel with the table or have it canted or pitched. Next you put one of the blocks on the outfeed table and then the other on the infeed table. Then put a level across the top between them. If they are level then the blades of the joiner shouldn't be exposed. You then can calibrate the adjustment of the outfeed table by cranking it up higher than the infeed table. The level won't be level anymore but when you raise the lower (infeed) end, you can measure the height necessary to make it level again and that's how much wood you will be removing with one pass through the joiner. Hope this helps -- Steve
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  • bobski
    yes it does. i except that AS THE ANSWER.
    dad was a GOOD carpenter and jointing was one of specialties.
    THANK YOU![:D][:)][^]
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