What is it?

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  1. red55

    red55 curmudgeon Staff Member

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    OK, the thing has three hammering surfaces on the striking side and a rounded indentation on the bottom. It's some kind of a tool to round off a protrusion by hammering it down and if either side sticks up you can hammer it down too.
     
    red55, Apr 11, 2012
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  2. KyleK

    KyleK Who, me? Staff Member

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    Not made for rounding off a protrusion. Think back to the discussion we had about counterweights and some of their applications. This tool is used in one of those applications.
     
    KyleK, Apr 11, 2012
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  3. b_leblanc

    b_leblanc That's just my game...

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    So it's got to be related to the horse tethers.
     
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  4. martin

    martin Banned Forever

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    its a counterweight that holds and tethers a horse to a fixed point
     
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  5. KyleK

    KyleK Who, me? Staff Member

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    Nope and nope. This object t is about 4 or 5 inches tall, maybe 4" wide.
     
    KyleK, Apr 12, 2012
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  6. KyleK

    KyleK Who, me? Staff Member

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    Alright, another clue. Martin had a guess in the counterweights discussion that has something to do with this tool.
     
    KyleK, Apr 13, 2012
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  7. shane0911

    shane0911 Helping lost idiots find their village

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    It is used with a pulley, used to force them into the doohickey so they work right.
     
    shane0911, Apr 13, 2012
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  8. KyleK

    KyleK Who, me? Staff Member

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    Finally! You are absolutely right.
    It is a pulley driver for the old windows that had ropes, pulleys and weights ​
    in the sash, the pulleys were driven into the mortise with this tool.​


    From martin's post #500 in this thread:

     
    KyleK, Apr 13, 2012
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  9. red55

    red55 curmudgeon Staff Member

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    How can anybody be right who uses the technical term "doohickey".

    The answer is counterweight doohickey? Seriously?
     
    red55, Apr 13, 2012
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  10. b_leblanc

    b_leblanc That's just my game...

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    Doesn't the doohickey hook up to the thingamabobber?
     
    b_leblanc, Apr 13, 2012
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