Here is a better version of the links:

http://wdynamic.com/galoots/4images/details.php?image_id=3D1791
http://wdynamic.com/galoots/4images/details.php?image_id=3D1792
http://wdynamic.com/galoots/4images/details.php?image_id=3D1793

cheers,

Jim  (your friend GIC host...)

On 7/13/05, Ren Tescher  wrote:
> Single Grain Guzzling Galoots et al,
> 
> I've posted 3 whatsits to GIC, I kept seeing these at my local
> rusteteria and finally bought 'em because I didn't want them
> to slip away- hey, they might be valuable someday...to somebody...
> 
> http://wdynamic.com/galoots/4images/index.php?action=3Daddtolightbox&id 
=3D1791
> http://wdynamic.com/galoots/4images/index.php?action=3Daddtolightbox&id 
=3D1792
> http://wdynamic.com/galoots/4images/index.php?action=3Daddtolightbox&id 
=3D1793
> 
> Thanks and feel free to leave comments if yor purty shore ya know what
> they are!
> 
> Ren Tescher
> Pine Island, Minnesota, USA
> dona nobis pacem
> 
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Single Grain Guzzling Galoots et al,

I've posted 3 whatsits to GIC, I kept seeing these at my local
rusteteria and finally bought 'em because I didn't want them
to slip away- hey, they might be valuable someday...to somebody...

http://wdynamic.com/galoots/4images/index.php?action=addtolightbox&id 
http://wdynamic.com/galoots/4images/index.php?action=addtolightbox&id 
http://wdynamic.com/galoots/4images/index.php?action=addtolightbox&id 

Thanks and feel free to leave comments if yor purty shore ya know what
they are!

Ren Tescher
Pine Island, Minnesota, USA
dona nobis pacem

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(Ren Tescher) wrote:

> I've posted 3 whatsits to GIC, I kept seeing these at my local

> http://wdynamic.com/galoots/4images/index.php?action=addtolightbox&id 

I'm not sure about the others, but these are level sights.  They were
attached to a level then someone would "sight" through them to check
elevations, heights whatever.  At least that's what the books say.  I've
never seen any.

Best,

Jerry
In wet Griffin, GA

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Bugbear posted:

> It's a tool for holding a spoke (providing a handle)
> while you twist it into a hole in the hub.

...what us cycling geeks commonly call a "spoke wrench".

Steve, in Hot Hazy Humid Howell, NJ

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Ren Tescher wrote:
> Single Grain Guzzling Galoots et al,
> 
> I've posted 3 whatsits to GIC, I kept seeing these at my local
> rusteteria and finally bought 'em because I didn't want them
> to slip away- hey, they might be valuable someday...to somebody...
> 
> http://wdynamic.com/galoots/4images/index.php?action=addtolightbox&id 
> 
> Thanks and feel free to leave comments if yor purty shore ya know what
> they are!

I emailed Ren privately and told him I had
an identical tool, bought purely because I didn't
know what it was (and it was cheap ;-)

Mine is a little cleaner than Ren's, so I
had a very close look at it last night.

You can too, courtesy of GIC:
http://www.wdynamic.com/galoots/4images/details.php?image_id=1818

I figured that it's a clamp of some kind; and it's not
made to sit on a bench, so it's not a vice, even a jeweller's.

Looking really closely at the logo (and cleaning
it out with a brass suede brush), I figured that
the logo was a dog, but I couldn't read the name.

Looking even closer with a magnifying glass (40mm lens
reclaimed from a defunct 50p camera - old camera lenses
are color corrected and rather fine) I saw the last letter
was a 'K'. At this point my memory/brain fed me "King Dick", a maker
best known for spanners.

Here's the best photo I could manage quickly.
http://www.wdynamic.com/galoots/4images/details.php?image_id=1819

Here's King Dick:
http://www.kingdicktools.co.uk/frm/frm_hist.htm

Now, it's not a spanner; but I happen to know that King Dick
also made bicycle tools; I have a spoke key in this brand.

So, this morning I went to see my friend who runs
the local bike shop - he's third generation, and knows
about bicycles from their first days to recumbents.
http://www.madgettscycles.co.uk/

I took the tool in and asked him if *he* recgonised it.
He did, and he's got one, although more worn than mine.

It's a tool for holding a spoke (providing a handle)
while you twist it into a hole in the hub.

Of an "ordinary"!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penny-farthing

    BugBear (impressed)

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