Tool Talk
What's-It Forum => What's-It Forum => Topic started by: amertrac on February 04, 2013, 01:55:34 PM
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found this under my desk no threads on either end a hole through the end with the 1/2 in nut the other end is a triangle hole
(http://i57.photobucket.com/albums/g208/amertrac/GEDC1824_zpsb19e6b6d.jpg)
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Fire Hydrant wrench?
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I forgot to mention. It is only 2 1/2 in long sorry bob w.g
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Does stuff reproduce under your desk, or is it just a safe place for unknown objects to shelter? And, do you leave the door unlocked for them, and cookies and milk out?
NO idea what that is, but it's sure a good example of whatever it is.
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..... it's sure a good example of whatever it is.
And, it looks to be the much scarcer bronze variation.
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The hex looks to be tapered, maybe to press into wooden part. First thing I thought of was a type of "easy-out" to remove broken pipe nipple, but too soft for that, I guess. Does look like someone had a pipe wrench or vise grips on the round end.
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I have not seen one that shape before, but it could be a radiator or gas key.
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Glow plug wrench for model airplane engines? Or boat/car/whatever model engine.
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I have not seen one that shape before, but it could be a radiator or gas key.
I THINK YOU ARE ON TO SOMETHING IT COULD BR COMMERCIAL TO PREVENT TAMPERING OF RADIATORS
bob w.
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Does stuff reproduce under your desk, or is it just a safe place for unknown objects to shelter? And, do you leave the door unlocked for them, and cookies and milk out?
NO idea what that is, but it's sure a good example of whatever it is.
I always complained that there is a black hole in my office where things disappear . I do believe I have found it bob w.
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This sounds like the work of the G.F.M (Garage Floor Monster)
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In the UK gas and electricity meter boxes have a triangular spigot on the lock - meter readers all have a key to suit... Also in works and public toilets the soap and towel dispensers have odd shaped keys for the janitor to use...
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Only in the UK could an electric box have a spigot....LOL
I love this language ;P
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see: http://www.keys-cut.com/index.php?route=product/product&product_id=230
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Only in the UK could an electric box have a spigot....LOL
hey, u gotta bleed the lines somehow when u have a extended power outage.
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see: http://www.keys-cut.com/index.php?route=product/product&product_id=230
sure looks like one end is right bob w.
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MMMMM Spigot..... I guess the following link may help to explain the some of the differences between US and UK Englsih
http://separatedbyacommonlanguage.blogspot.co.uk/2012/04/tidbits-and-titbits.html
In the UK spigot can mean a tap (or faucet) as well as the wooden peg that fits in the spile hole of a barrel - but it can also mean any part of something that fits into a socket of something else, e.g the spigot of a pipe....
What word would you use in the US for the part of a lock that fits into the key????
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>the wooden peg that fits in the spile hole of a barrel
Oddly, the part of something that something else fits into is often the barrel....
So, the key goes in a cylinder, the cylinder goes in a barrel....
(More commonly tho, it goes in a housing, but you can't live in there...)
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We are at cross purposes - for barrel read cask (for liquids such as beer)
Many old padlock keys have a hole in the centre that fits around the 'spigot' in the centre of the lock aperature....
What would you call this???
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KEYHOLE HERE LOL BOB W.
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I'd call that the pin for a barrel-key lock.
In common usage here, at least, a spigot has to have something come out of it. This would be definition 2 in the Oxford English Dictionary: "A hollow wooden peg or tube used in drawing off a liquor; a faucet."
Earlier American dictionaries retain the understanding of a peg driven into a cask or barrel. The online American Heritage Dictionary defines spigot as:
1 A faucet.
2 A wooden faucet placed in the bunghole of a cask.
3 The vent plug of a cask.
In common usage, however, the meaning of a plug, spike, or pin has been lost on this side of the pond.