Strange items

[fausto copy]

...what these few bits are for please?

Top ones are hexagonal profile, bottom ones are square.

Thanks for looking,
fausto.

[iandusud]

The graduated white thing is a ruler. As for the other bits I can't help

[Jdsk]

For the set at the top:

Are they all hollow through the middle?

Do they screw together?

The thin bit of the one on the L looks like a barbed hose connector.

Jonathan

[fausto copy]

Yes the piece marked HC1 obviously looks like a hose connector.
The pieces do not screw together, but mysteriously they are all have a thread set well down inside each of them.


And I'm glad someone's on the ball with the white object.

[PH]

Top ones look like the hydraulic hose connectors you see in fork lift trucks, maybe also on other hydraulic applications but FLTs are the only ones I've spent hours looking at. No idea about the others, is there some context?

[Foghat]

They are adapters that come with Topeak Smarthead Upgrade Kits for floor pumps.

Topeak Smarthead Upgrade Kit

[Norman H]

The hexagonal section items look like some sort of pipe fittings, perhaps for an air line or hydraulic pipe. HC1 is designed for a hose to be crimped to it, A&B have O rings attached and are designed for screw fitting.

The spiked fittings attached to the two square section items are threaded bushes designed to be fitted in timber, the idea is that the spikes bite into the timber and prevent the bush from turning as the thread is tightened. I've no idea what they might be used for.

How did you come by them?

[Jdsk]

They are adapters that come with Topeak Smarthead Upgrade Kits for floor pumps.

Well done.

Jonathan

[Foghat]

Well done.

Actually, I've only identified the ones in the top photo. As for the ones in the bottom photo, I've no idea!

[Jdsk]

And in the lower photo:

The tangs are turned "up" to engage with something.

Do the green blocks swivel freely on the protruding round bit or are they fixed or threaded?

(I suspect that they're keys that slide and lock in a keyway or channel.)

Jonathan

[Mick F]

The top ones look familiar.
They are connectors and adaptors from a kit that connect hoses to something. The kit has all the variously different permutations.

[Foghat]

The top ones look familiar.

How 'bout that!

[cycleruk]

The top ones look familiar.

How 'bout that!

[531colin]

I think the 2 jobbies in the bottom picture are a home-made solution, for some purpose yet to be discovered. (a latch to stop panniers flapping like birds' wings, perhaps?)
They comprise an Allen head bolt (M6? or M5?) and the disc things are "pronged Tee nuts" (Oh yes they are!). Is the big bit metal or wood?
The T nuts are made (& sold) for stuff like self-assembly furniture; its an easy/cheap way to get a screwthread for a bolt into a piece of wood, just drill a clearance hole and the "prongs" on the disc bike into the wood and stop the thing turning as the bolt is tightened.

[Jdsk]

I think the 2 jobbies in the bottom picture are a home-made solution, for some purpose yet to be discovered. (a latch to stop panniers flapping like birds' wings, perhaps?)

Yes, the length of the tangs/ prongs and the gap would work well for a pannier stiffening board.

Jonathan