Anyone dialed in on this old tool?
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Ah! That's for grinding your false teeth.
For sharpening some kinda pegs or posts?
Nah, it's used for sending yer laundry to the girl in the tenement building across the street.
sleeps till noon but before it's dark...
I think that you are close.If the flanges move with the handle then it is some type of windlass.
Ok, it's used for stringing the tincan line to the girl in the tenement building across the street so you can talk to her.
be listening to a hollow sound
sleeps till noon but before it's dark...
The irritating thing is that that looks awfully familiar. I'm pretty sure I've seen it somewhere, but can't remember where.
It was on yer buddies boat.
be a fishhead
sleeps till noon but before it's dark...
I must confess, I do not own this item.
It is actually a "paint grinder," a 19th century device used to grind pigments for making paint on the jobsite.
I never cease to admire the effort of our ancestral crafstsmen to ply their trade in an often tedious, but masterful way.
This item, and a lot of other cool stuff can be viewed, and in some cases purchased, from http://www.americanartifacts.com, a website devoted to collectible tools, instruments, farm implements, medical equipment, etc.
its for pullin in yer lobstant pots
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I thought it looked like either a grinder with missing parts or a wheel from the davit on the boat with a crank handle added
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