Name that Thingumibob?

[Scrit]

I have said that I was running out of machines for the world renowed NTM, but alog the way I have picked up various illustrations of what were everyday woodworking accessories and ephemera. So I though I'd stimulate a few grey cells here by seeing if the rest of you know what they are. There are four "Thingumibobs" to identify and here they are:

No. 1 (above) should be easy, but I wonder how many will have ever seen No. 2 (below)?

Moving on a little we have a machine which I've personally never seen, at least not like this:

No. 3 (above) may be less of a mystery than machine No. 4 (below). Two photos of this machine which is very low to the floor indeed:

Scrit

 

[Argus]

No 1 is a cutter head of some kind, and the Wadkin device looks very much like a band-saw-blade-joiner-upper.

Dunno about the rest, though.

 

[allan w]

No 1 a trenching head
No 2 is used to connect wide leather belts and make a nice soothing click click when running
No 3 bandsaw brazer
No4 ? help

Allan

 

[Anonymous]

No3 looks like a brander
no2 could be some medievil clamp
no4 stab in the dark "mobile heating plate"

 

[Alf]

My only guess was no.2 being the connecting wotsit for leather belts, and Allan beat me to it. Although is no.4 some sort of heated plate for veneering or something? :-k (Blast, Senior's beaten me to that too)

Cheers, Alf

 

[Shultzy]

No. 4 is definitely a "bum warmer" for those cold mornings

 

[Scrit]

No 1 a trenching head
No 2 is used to connect wide leather belts and make a nice soothing click click when running
No 3 bandsaw brazer

Hells teeth! Well 3 out of 4 ain't bad at all. Here's the 1931 catalogue pages for "expanding trenching heads" (or as some of you guys might say, dado heads):

I've used the upper type on both pull-over crosscuts and table saws, although a long time ago, and they were always tools you approached with a degree of trepidation because they were potentially vicious. That said you couldn't fault the quality of the cut.

Alan, you must be a bit long in the tooth to recognize the wide belt joiners, but they were common in small shops until the late 1960s and even later. This one had the snappy name of "Klincha". Actually I though JFC would get it, after all his "tea stirrer" (sorry, old spindle moulder) must have had one of these on its' flat drive belt:

The band saw brazer used a benzine lamp, "making the apparatus self-contained and doing away with any awkward gas pipe connection". The thought of having to have a gas fitter in to plumb-in your brazer really intrigues me! The modern electric ones are much easier.

No. 4 might prove a bit more difficult. It's not a one-off, though, and was really made in small numbers. Absolutely nothing to do with heating, though.

Scrit

 

[Argus]

Whatever No 4 is it may be a table top model, rather than floor mounting. Why has it got a foreign plug?

What goes on in the receptacle?

 

[Scrit]

Whatever No 4 is it may be a table top model, rather than floor mounting.

Nope, it's definitely a floor sitter - note the two back legs with wheels for moving it round

Why has it got a foreign plug?

Because these photos are from "foreignland". I have seen a very similar machine used here in the UK, though

What goes on in the receptacle?

The "recepticle" is actually a guard

Scrit

 

[jasonB]

Could No 4 be some form of underpinner, certainly seems to be for doing something to the corner of a panel/frame.

Edit does it cut a slot for keyed mitre joints?

Jason

 

[Scrit]

Edit does it cut a slot for keyed mitre joints?

No, but you are going in the righht direction there. At least in terms of tooling

Scrit

 

[Lord Nibbo]

No 4 a mobile hot plate for cooking pancakes, or maybe sometimes used for keeping smelly glue made from bones warm.

 

[Woodmagnet]

no4, a pie warmer upper or even a pile warmer upper for cold mornings :lol:

 

[Scrit]

no4..... ..... or even a pile warmer upper for cold mornings :lol:

My car has one of those - hold on, no, it says "heated drivers'seat" in the manual

Well you still haven't got it, so I'll post another photo of this machine:

Oh, yes - and BTW Mel, it has nothing to do with railways :wink: It has lots to do with furniture, though.

And just to add a bit to the trenching heads earlier on, heres a couple of illustrations showing how they were used:

Scrit

 

[Inspector]

Scrit
Just a long shot guess, but is #4 a sander or saw to trim the bottom of chair/furniture legs to level them? Three sitting on the flat with the fourth being stuffed in the hole in the edge of the dome over the motor.

 

[dedee]

Oh great one of Scit's comps has not finished before I log in on Monday morning.
Shame I haven't a clue what #4 is though.

Andy

 

[Scrit]

.....is #4 a sander or saw to trim the bottom of chair/furniture legs to level them? Three sitting on the flat with the fourth being stuffed in the hole in the edge of the dome over the motor.

Spot on! No. 4 is indeed a Mcknight Chair Leg Leveller Saw and is used in the manner you describe to level the legs on a chair

Scrit

 

[Inspector]

My father used to level antique chairs that he repaired with a fixed platen/platform using the top side of his stroke sander in a similar manor. The leap to your pictures wasn't far from it.

Until next weekend. 8)

 

[Anonymous]

Ahem Scrit,

You were supposed to be at my place at 7.30 this morning with some of that beech! 8.13 and you're still at home playing on your computer!

No doubt you'll turn up at 10.00 & blame the traffic! :lol:

Cheers
Brad

 

[Alf]

No. 4 is indeed a Mcknight Chair Leg Leveller Saw and is used in the manner you describe to level the legs on a chair

Oh lor, that's just so Norm it's not true - d'you think he's got one? :lol: