From 2024 Issues
What’s Its From the September 2024 Issue
196-1 These are both tennis racquet stringing tools.
196-2 This is a Newhouse zipper repair tool, it can perform eight different repair operations. For anyone who has this device but is lacking the instructions on how to use it, if you send me an email I will reply with a copy of them.
196-3 This device is a Stanley wire rope and thimble cable eye clamp. The wire cable is wrapped around the thimble and placed in the clamp and tightened. A seal is then placed on the two pieces of wire rope and sealed to make an eye. This device was standard equipment for Bell Telephone and probably other utility companies during the 1930’s and 1940’s.
An example of a wire rope cable eye can be seen here:
196-4 A cobbler’s lasting tool, it was used to draw and hold leather over a last (a solid form around which a shoe is molded) when making boots and shoes:
What’s Its From the June 2024 Issue
“The nature of this invention relates to improvements in punches for punching the holes in belts for lacing them together, and for punching other articles.”
What’s Its From the March 2024 Issue
194-1 A cotton sampler, for pulling out a sample from a bale of cotton.
194-2 These are Stanley No.6 Machinists Adjustable Trammel Points, they came with a roller marker and four special curved points for use as outside or inside calipers.
194-3 A quack medical device, in use the ball was squeezed to produce puffs of air which were meant to gently massage the eyes. The metal parts are original but the rubber ball has been replaced with a new one.
194-4 This is a birthing tool for use on a farm.
