Thread: Can you identify this tool?

Originally Posted by bitingmidge

...a fine wire loop that comes with it to help threading the shiny silver thing,...

Originally Posted by johnc

...to complicated to be a bag or bale tier..

It is a treadle sowing machine without the treadle.

Was the betamax invented in 1974?

No, 1975 according to Wikipedia. But that doesn't mean someone hadn't anticipated the need for a device to remove the write-protection tab and you're just the guy to want one!

OK, it looks like it's meant to punch a hole in something when you slide that handle up. Juice container? Coconut?

Or maybe the patented treadless sewing machine, depends if its plants or cloth Mr Cliff.

Oh missed the bit about the wire loop thingy.

Umm, coconut necklace threader?

Nope, got it now, it is for making the hole in the bottom of the can & threading the string through it at the same time to make 'Can on a string' telephones.

Or a birdwire stitcher, or for punching peepholes in corragated iron fences. Maybe its just multi purpose. Or is it a tool for the man with a tool fettish who just can't get no tool satisfaction (it was the 70's afterall).

Its a washer cutter hole punch

Its a marking tool for making the "X" (as in X marks the spot) except this ones different than standard X markers. Its for marking the spot in a double hulled vessel before drilling a hole to scuttle it!


Cheers,

My old dad had one of those and he reckoned it was a wigwam for a gooses bridle

Originally Posted by macca2

...reckoned it was a wigwam for a gooses bridle

My uncle had lots of them, none of them looked like that... but then, none of them looked like any of the others either.

Originally Posted by johnc

Looks far to complicated to be a bag or bale tier, but is that closer?

That's much closer than anything else yet mentioned, but it's not for tying or for bags or bales.

Since it's had little use since the days of the conversation pit, there are a few ideas you blokes have suggested which may come to fruition in the near future.

I'll scan the instructions after lunch!

Cheers,

P

a wigwam for a gooses bridle

My Mum used to make them out of icecream containers and bits of string...

Some sort of upholstery tool?

Hmmm... this is harder than I thought. Surely there's another old hippy poncho-weaver round here somewhere!


By the way, did I shoot any of you a red dot today? If so please accept my unreserved apology, I have no idea how that happened, and no, I haven't got a dose of the Zeds!

Cheers,

P