Romak
Aluminum
- Joined
- Nov 2, 2011
- Location
- Surrey, BC
Dear engineers, tools, and machinery enthusiasts.
This is probably the most unusual mystery tool of the year. It was made somewhere in the 1700s and nobody knows so far what it was used for. Any ideas accepted! I took some photographs. The knobs rotate and move L-shaped brackets with slots on the ends. The horizontal lever secures the shafts with knobs. I can move it up and by lifting the knobs, I can move the brackets on any steps. One step is one notch on a shaft. I can move the brackets sideways also and one shaft has a different stopper on a side. So, all this contraption is about positioning those L-shaped brackets with slots. What goes inside those slots? By finding that, I believe it will be possible to figure out what this tool is for. The slots have interesting shapes. It is not a heavy tool. What a puzzle!
This is probably the most unusual mystery tool of the year. It was made somewhere in the 1700s and nobody knows so far what it was used for. Any ideas accepted! I took some photographs. The knobs rotate and move L-shaped brackets with slots on the ends. The horizontal lever secures the shafts with knobs. I can move it up and by lifting the knobs, I can move the brackets on any steps. One step is one notch on a shaft. I can move the brackets sideways also and one shaft has a different stopper on a side. So, all this contraption is about positioning those L-shaped brackets with slots. What goes inside those slots? By finding that, I believe it will be possible to figure out what this tool is for. The slots have interesting shapes. It is not a heavy tool. What a puzzle!