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Posted: 11/8/2022 9:07:06 AM EDT
I was tasked with re-threading the cap, milling off damaged hammer marks and fixing that thread and fixing the damaged tip.
It has an inner level with a cap and feels like some sort of liquid inside or weight with spring. Judging by the damage it had I assume some type of punch but I have no idea.  Attached File Attached File |
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Posted: 11/8/2022 9:09:08 AM EDT
[#1]
Looks like a plumb bob to me
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Posted: 11/8/2022 9:10:18 AM EDT
[#2]
Plumb bob?
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Posted: 11/8/2022 9:11:35 AM EDT
[#3]
plumb bob
And it's pointy so it can accurately pinpoint an exact mark you are looking for. |
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Posted: 11/8/2022 9:12:40 AM EDT
[#4]
Plumpblob repurposed as a field-expedient punch?
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Posted: 11/8/2022 9:13:01 AM EDT
[#5]
Hangy straight down gravity straight line checker thing
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Posted: 11/8/2022 9:13:18 AM EDT
[#6]
Quote HistoryQuoted: plumbob Definitely a plumb-bob. |
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Posted: 11/8/2022 9:13:20 AM EDT
[#7]
Whoever Bob is, he must be brave.
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Posted: 11/8/2022 9:13:32 AM EDT
[#8]
Dildo
The fuck you guys are slacking |
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Posted: 11/8/2022 9:13:59 AM EDT
[#9]
Quote HistoryQuoted: Whoever Bob is, he must be brave. Well it is ribbed so.................... |
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Posted: 11/8/2022 9:15:34 AM EDT
[#10]
Quote HistoryQuoted: Well it is ribbed so.................... Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: Whoever Bob is, he must be brave. Well it is ribbed so.................... Plum Bob indapants? |
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Posted: 11/8/2022 9:15:46 AM EDT
[#11]
People don’t know what a plumb bob is?
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Posted: 11/8/2022 9:16:04 AM EDT
[#12]
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Posted: 11/8/2022 9:16:42 AM EDT
[#13]
Quote HistoryQuoted: People don’t know what a plumb bob is? A large number of people don't even know what a payphone is. Or even a corded telephone. 
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Posted: 11/8/2022 9:17:12 AM EDT
[#14]
The liquid inside could be mercury
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Posted: 11/8/2022 9:17:22 AM EDT
[#15]
I think maybe it started life as a plumbob but the knurling suggests it needs to be gripped tightly and the mushroomed lip and damaged tip show it was used to hammer something and the inertia type weight inside that shakes has me baffled.
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Posted: 11/8/2022 9:17:58 AM EDT
[#16]
Its the bullet from Wanted.
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Posted: 11/8/2022 9:27:19 AM EDT
[#17]
Quote HistoryQuoted: Looks like a plumbob to me Is that similar to an apple bob? |
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Posted: 11/8/2022 9:36:40 AM EDT
[#18]
Quote HistoryQuoted: I think maybe it started life as a plumbob but the knurling suggests it needs to be gripped tightly and the mushroomed lip and damaged tip show it was used to hammer something and the inertia type weight inside that shakes has me baffled. Unscrew the brass color part and run the line through the center is how it's set up. There was probably a little ball on the end of the line that goes in there, or just a knot maybe. The hole in the top is to center the line. It looks like about .61 cal, maybe you should buy a black powder musket to shoot it. |
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Posted: 11/8/2022 9:40:36 AM EDT
[#19]
Fun fact: Don’t rely on a plumb bob near the Himalayas. The mass of the mountains will give an inaccurate reading.
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Posted: 11/8/2022 9:43:01 AM EDT
[#20]
Quote HistoryQuoted: Looks like a plumbob to me It is. |
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Posted: 11/8/2022 9:44:30 AM EDT
[#21]
Quote HistoryQuoted: Dildo The fuck you guys are slacking I know right? But since FP gave it away, why not. |
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Posted: 11/8/2022 9:45:41 AM EDT
[#22]
Quote HistoryQuoted: I know right? But since FP gave it away, why not. Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: Dildo The fuck you guys are slacking I know right? But since FP gave it away, why not. To the gulag with him |
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Posted: 11/8/2022 9:46:20 AM EDT
[#23]
If it is still used as a plumbbob I will ask the guy, I did not try and make the tip perfect, just used a hand file on the lathe instead of setting up on the angle or would that matter?
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Posted: 11/8/2022 9:48:27 AM EDT
[#24]
Its a plumb bob. Whatever you charged is more than the thing is worth. lol
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Posted: 11/8/2022 9:48:30 AM EDT
[#25]
Quote HistoryQuoted: The liquid inside could be mercury The heavy liquid helps it stop swinging around sooner |
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Posted: 11/8/2022 9:50:09 AM EDT
[#26]
Fuck is wrong with y’all? Right answer immediately?
This place is slipping…. 
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Posted: 11/8/2022 9:51:02 AM EDT
[#27]
Quote HistoryQuoted: Fun fact: Don’t rely on a plumb bob near the Himalayas. The mass of the mountains will give an inaccurate reading. 
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Posted: 11/8/2022 9:53:46 AM EDT
[#28]
The Wu Xian Dynasty of early China (1430's or so) was known to have the world's most advanced metalurgy, which they springboarded into advanced firearms manufacture, thus cementing their dynasty for hundreds of years. I think what you have is some sort of advanced, high-caliber prototype. Note the ingenuity practiced in the fine rifling, and the precision of the stainless (???) ogive. The brass endcap was changable for range and fine load development, which shows a serious understanding of aerodynamics. Maybe it was an anti-cavalry artillery piece, but I have seen studies that show palace decorations illustrating that a respected warrior samurai would use this as a sniper weapon to clear castle battlements of defenders before the siege engines and ladders and whatnot was brought up.
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Posted: 11/8/2022 9:56:15 AM EDT
[#29]
Quote HistoryQuoted: People don’t know what a plumb bob is? Guys used to take shop class in Jr High and High School. Several years ago, I learned there is (or was) a trendy title used on social media for a type of person - "Maker", which is somebody that makes something, often some pointless thing like a fidget spinner. Must be something similar to 'in a world of blind people, an individual with one eye, near-sighted, and with cataracts, is a king'. |
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Posted: 11/8/2022 9:56:46 AM EDT
[#30]
It is a staple puller. For very specialized spherical staples. I think they were only ever used by NASA, Pratt Whitney, and Earl Scheib.
Very rare to see one in the wild. |
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Posted: 11/8/2022 10:02:07 AM EDT
[#31]
Quote HistoryQuoted: People don’t know what a plumb bob is? Well, they don’t know about the page one rule, so probably not. |
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Posted: 11/8/2022 10:13:47 AM EDT
[#32]
Quote HistoryQuoted: Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: Fun fact: Don’t rely on a plumb bob near the Himalayas. The mass of the mountains will give an inaccurate reading. lol. It’s true. https://xue-lin.com/2-14-do-mountains-have-roots-surveying-the-himalayas-of-india-with-a-plumb-bob https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rspl.1857.0096 |
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Posted: 11/8/2022 10:14:27 AM EDT
[#33]
Quote HistoryQuoted: Is that similar to an apple bob? Man, I have no idea why my phone auto corrected to that. I dont even know what a plumbob would be. |
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Posted: 11/8/2022 10:15:59 AM EDT
[#34]
Quote HistoryQuoted: I think maybe it started life as a plumbob but the knurling suggests it needs to be gripped tightly and the mushroomed lip and damaged tip show it was used to hammer something and the inertia type weight inside that shakes has me baffled. Mercury inside increases the overall density of the plumb bob and adds damping to stop the motion quicker. |
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Posted: 11/8/2022 10:16:09 AM EDT
[#35]
Quote HistoryQuoted: People don’t know what a plumb bob is? In this Idiocracy-bound country? I’d guess 1-2% know. I still remember a moment in math class when the teacher used one for some experiment or demonstration. He asked, “Anyone know what this is called?” I answered, and everyone else in the class looked at me like I’d made it up. The teacher was very proud of me. I’d learned what it was from an episode of Mr. Wizard’s World. |
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Posted: 11/8/2022 10:19:13 AM EDT
[#36]
Quote HistoryQuoted: Show us the inner assembly. The innards might be a spring loaded hammer for center punching a mark with the plumb bob. Maybe it didn't work well enough, so a hammer was applied. |
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Posted: 11/8/2022 10:20:26 AM EDT
[#37]
It's the plumb bob from Heat.
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Posted: 11/8/2022 10:21:05 AM EDT
[#38]
Quote HistoryQuoted: Well, they don’t know about the page one rule, so probably not. Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: People don’t know what a plumb bob is? Well, they don’t know about the page one rule, so probably not. Well, gay rules are gay. |
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Posted: 11/8/2022 10:21:47 AM EDT
[#39]
Machinist buttplug
The knurling gives you traction to prevent losing it in the butt |
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Posted: 11/8/2022 10:24:11 AM EDT
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Posted: 11/8/2022 10:26:33 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: To the gulag with him yes, yes, I considered that but was feeling froggy. |
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Posted: 11/8/2022 10:41:19 AM EDT
[#42]
Strang hanger.
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Posted: 11/8/2022 10:41:55 AM EDT
[#43]
Quote HistoryQuoted: It has a flat head or slotted screw in it on top of chamber with something inside and would not come out, I tried out of curiosity and was not sure spinning it up in the lathe. It feels like one of those 80's shake exercise things that Chrissy on Three's Company advertised. You’re thinking of the “shake weight”.  Chrissy was a spokeswoman for the thighmaster… 
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Posted: 11/8/2022 10:52:19 AM EDT
[#44]
If the thing inside is hard, it may be a bead to tie the string onto after you thread it through the cap.
I doubt the fluid inside is Mercury, but it might be. I kinda remember Mercury not getting along too well with brass. |
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Posted: 11/8/2022 10:53:35 AM EDT
[#45]
Quote HistoryQuoted: Fuck is wrong with y’all? Right answer immediately? This place is slipping…. Apparently some have graduated from 8th grade. |
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Posted: 11/8/2022 10:55:45 AM EDT
[#46]
If you took Doc Brown's DeLorean back to Egypt 6000 years ago, even they would recognize it as a plumb bob.
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Posted: 11/8/2022 10:56:37 AM EDT
[#47]
Quote HistoryQuoted: Plumb bob? Yup it sure plumbed Bob quite often |
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Posted: 11/8/2022 10:58:30 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Apparently some have graduated from 8th grade. Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: Fuck is wrong with y’all? Right answer immediately? This place is slipping…. Apparently some have graduated from 8th grade. Wack |
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Posted: 11/8/2022 11:01:13 AM EDT
[#49]
Plumb Fred
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Posted: 11/8/2022 11:03:22 AM EDT
[#50]
Quote HistoryQuoted: Yup it sure plumbed Bob quite often Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: Plumb bob? Yup it sure plumbed Bob quite often  Attached File |
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