Help needed...Mystery tool.

2/26/04, 9:54 PM #1

Rob Lee
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Help needed...Mystery tool.

Rob Lee

>Hi -

Ok this one has us stumped...

Someone's emailed us a picture of a tool we can't identify....

The letter we got says...

"Attached is a picture of a tool. I have no idea what it is or is used for and I am hoping someone at Lee Valley Tools will know what it is or be able to point me in a better direction of where to inquire. Having already been to a bakery, local restaurants, hardware stores, Home Depot, and two kitchen shops, in addition to inquiring at Martha Stewart Living. Com and Harrow Smith.com, I am running out of ideas. Any assistance is very much appreciated."

To sweeten the pot - first correct answer (with a reference!) gets a mystery prize. Don't get too excited though - we're cheap when it comes to prizes...

Cheers -

Rob

(I thought it looked like some sort of float...)

Re: Help needed...Mystery tool.

2/26/04, 10:38 PM #2

Paul Barnard
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Paul Barnard

>Can't help but it looks quite modern. Are those ejector pin marks between the 'fins'. If they are in implies a volume application.

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2/27/04, 11:00 AM #3

Andrew F
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Posted here to help the search *LINK*

Andrew F in Australia

>Rob,

Looks alot like the kitchen utensils I grew up with (made in the 50's).

Agree that it's a diecast zinc watchamacallit.

Looks like something used with ice is my guess.

But, we'll see what turns up.

Cheers,

Andrew

http://forums.prospero.com/tp-cookstalk/messages?msg=18199.1

Re: Help needed...Mystery tool.

2/27/04, 10:43 PM #4

Scott in Eastern Iowa
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Wow...You guys identify tools there ?

Scott in Eastern Iowa

>Rob...I'm really quite surprised no-one in construction biz has picked up on this.

Every concrete guy has one or two of these in their bucket o tools.

It's a cable trowel.

Say you want to lay some thin cable on a slab and have it flush with the top surface. You would use this tools to *seat* the concrete and make a shallow channel for the cable to lay in.

Either that or its a groover for allowing water to be channeled away to the nearest basin.

Should I continue ?

Thats what I thought....

Scott

Re: Help needed...Mystery tool.

2/27/04, 10:50 PM #5

Scott Burr in Ben Lomond CA
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I think it's...

Scott Burr in Ben Lomond CA

>A kitchen tool also. It's for making Ravioli (never could spell Itailan, see what I mean) I think.

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2/28/04, 10:55 AM #6

Mark Harrison -- in Sydney, Australia
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It's nothing to do with Ravioli.

Mark Harrison -- in Sydney, Australia

>Hand made Ravioli is either made with moulds (see photo). Alternatively, you just flat sheets of pasta with filling at various intervals and cut and press seal the edges. There is also a widget to cut regular sizes of pasta for this purpose that came with my (hand powered) pasta machine, not that I've ever used it. I just use the machine to make pasta. That is more than enough trouble.

Help needed...Mystery tool.

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