If it was a bottom scraper that would explain the unused appearance, I reckon its a fake designed to annoy WWF members with nothing productive to do.Quote:
Originally Posted by Cliff Rogers
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If it was a bottom scraper that would explain the unused appearance, I reckon its a fake designed to annoy WWF members with nothing productive to do.Quote:
Originally Posted by Cliff Rogers
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Originally Posted by bitingmidge
It is a treadle sowing machine without the treadle.Quote:
Originally Posted by johnc
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!Quote:
Was the betamax invented in 1974?
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. :2tsup:
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.:rolleyes: 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
My uncle had lots of them, none of them looked like that... but then, none of them looked like any of the others either. :pQuote:
Originally Posted by macca2
That's much closer than anything else yet mentioned, but it's not for tying or for bags or bales.Quote:
Originally Posted by johnc
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
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My Mum used to make them out of icecream containers and bits of string...Quote:
a wigwam for a gooses bridle
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