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From: <Banjopikr1@aol.com>
To: <mgr@zocalo.net>
Subject: Geared%20Thing!%20(include%20my%20name%20and%20email%20please)
Date: Tuesday, February 13, 2001 4:37 AM

sewing machine bobbin winder

From: "Brian MacBride" <macbride@ix.netcom.com>
To: <mgr@zocalo.net>
Subject: Geared Thing! (include my name and email please)
Date: Tuesday, February 13, 2001 5:46 AM

Q: What's the difference 'tween a sewing machine and a buxom woman.
A: A sewing machine only has one bobbin!

My guess... An old time sewing machine bobbin holder??

Regards

Brian

From: D. I.
Date: Tuesday, February 13, 2001 7:40 AM

It looks to be a machine to wind thread onto a bobbin or spool.

The thread would go in the slotted holes at the top and bottom of
the arm thing and the gear with the cam moves it from side to side
while the knob on the upper right turns it.

From: "Tom Collins" <tcollins@america.net>
To: <mgr@zocalo.net>
Subject: Geared Thing! (include my name and email please)
Date: Tuesday, February 13, 2001 9:10 AM

It looks like something to make your own bullets with.

- Tom

From: "octripper" <myronbuck@yahoo.com>
To: <mgr@zocalo.net>
Subject: Geared Thing! (include my name and email please)
Date: Tuesday, February 13, 2001 10:18 AM

Looks like a rope coiling guide.

riverman
myronbuck@yahoo.com

From: "Robert E. Williams" <mytbob@home.com>
To: <mgr@zocalo.net>
Subject: Geared Thing! (include my name and email please)
Date: Tuesday, February 13, 2001 11:31 AM

It is a nut cracker.....Bob Williams

From: S. B.
Subject: Geared Thing! (no name or email please)
Date: Tuesday, February 13, 2001 3:38 PM

apple peeler?

From: "David S" <cmonkey@ix.netcom.com>
To: "Mike Russell" <mgr@zocalo.net>
Subject: Geared Thing! (include my name and email please)
Date: Wednesday, February 14, 2001 5:10 AM

Looks like it's missing the handle and a screw in fitting at the end of the
swivel arm... My guess is it's probably some sort of turn of the century
rivet or eyelet applicator.

David S

From: "tlager" <tlager@ptelco.com>
To: <mgr@zocalo.net>
Subject: Geared Thing! (include my name and email please)
Date: Friday, February 16, 2001 1:50 PM

It's some sort of a bobbin winder.

It's some sort of a bobbin winder.
From: "BetsyB" <woodenigloo4u@earthlink.net>
To: <mgr@zocalo.net>
Subject: Geared Thing! (include my name and email please)
Date: Sunday, February 18, 2001 7:44 AM

It looks like something used for making bullets.

From: "Momma {@}v{@} Nightowl" <Lady-Chat-A-Lot@webtv.net>
To: <mgr@zocalo.net>
Subject: GearedThing!(includemynameandemailplease)
Date: Monday, February 19, 2001 4:43 PM

a flintlock from an old rifle

From: "John Bonham" <kycoonass@webtv.net>
To: <mgr@zocalo.net>
Subject: Geared Thing! (include my name and email please)
Date: Tuesday, February 20, 2001 1:07 AM

a cutter

From: "Peter van der Linden" <Peter.Vanderlinden@eng.sun.com>
To: <mgr@zocalo.net>
Subject: Geared Thing! 
Date: Wednesday, February 21, 2001 12:33 PM

That's a 1983 liberty quarter coin (25 cents).

Strictly speaking the edge of the quarter is "milled" not "geared"
though I understand that they could appear similar to a layperson.

The object that you have put with the quarter for size comparison is
called a reloader. It squeezes lead bullets on the end of cartridges.

Please send my share of the fortune and glory to:

Peter van der Linden pvdl@afu.com

From: O.
Subject: Geared Thing! (no name or email please)
Date: Thursday, February 22, 2001 1:08 PM

It looks like something for spooling thread. 

riverman

rbp #2
"I think, therefore I thwim"

From: J. P.
Subject: Geared Thing! (no name or email please)
Date: Thursday, February 22, 2001 1:36 PM

nutcracker.

-- 
the end of the project is like the "whack-a-mole" game.
john.prickett@amd.com

From: "Matt Stried" <mcstried@ticon.net>
To: <mgr@zocalo.net>
Subject: Geared Thing! (include my name and email please)
Date: Friday, February 23, 2001 6:39 PM

My best guess is a nut cracker.

Chantel S.