What are these used for

[Milly SParticipant @millys]

[Milly SParticipant @millys]

Small brass tube

[Michael GilliganParticipant @michaelgilligan61133]

Sleeving the end of stranded wires [electrical] to help prevent them being damaged by screws.

Ken Whiston had them listed in his famous ‘Cat’

MichaelG.

[Milly SParticipant @millys]

Cheers sorry no description first picture I’ve poosted

bought them in job lot

thanks

[Ian PParticipant @ianp]

I think they are tubular rivets or eyelet sleeves (often set with rotary tooling)

Electrical ferrules have either a moulded-on plastic 'funnel' or the end is flared slightly to enable easier wire insertion

Ian P

[Ian PParticipant @ianp]

Posted by Milly S on 23/05/2023 14:34:23:

Cheers sorry no description first picture I’ve poosted

bought them in job lot

thanks

Full marks Milly, for getting through the picture posting maze!

[SillyOldDufferModerator @sillyoldduffer]

Look like leather-work rivets to me. Saddles and such.

Dave

[Michael GilliganParticipant @michaelgilligan61133]

The short dark ones may be eyelets for shoe lace-holes, but the long brass ones look exactly like what I bought [many years ago] from Ken Whiston.

MichaelG

[Speedy Builder5Participant @speedybuilder5]

Michael, KR Whiston – Stockport. What ever happen to that catalogue, thousands of items for not too much. I still use my ruberised air hose purchased 60 years ago and no sign of it perishing still.

Bob

Edited By Speedy Builder5 on 23/05/2023 18:27:30

[Michael GilliganParticipant @michaelgilligan61133]

Posted by Speedy Builder5 on 23/05/2023 18:26:22:

Michael, KR Whiston – Stockport. What ever happen to that catalogue, thousands of items for not too much. I still use my ruberised air hose purchased 60 years ago and no sign of it perishing still.

Bob

Edited By Speedy Builder5 on 23/05/2023 18:27:30

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Back in 1988 … We moved to a house within a couple of miles of Whiston’s store in New Mills, Derbyshire.

I was like a kid in a sweet-shop, but only for a while … Ken Whiston retired and the business closed.

MichaelG.

[Jon LawesParticipant @jonlawes51698]

For a second I thought they were tubular rivets, I need a load in T50!

[egaParticipant @ega]

The look like the "terminations" that fastidious cyclists fix to the ends of their brake and gear cables to prevent fraying.

I seem to remember that KRW tried to sell his marvellous business as a going concern.

[StueeeeParticipant @stueeee]

Posted by ega on 20/06/2023 11:02:09:

I seem to remember that KRW tried to sell his marvellous business as a going concern.

Ah, K R Whiston with the advertising strapline "have you seen my cat" the cat of course being the paper catalogue in those pre-internet days. I used to buy all sorts of bits and bobs, still have some of his brass lever operated valves which have found their way into all sorts of projects over the years.

According to a note that came with a catalogue, he did sell the business as a going concern to his staff. Unfortunately they then put a quite high minimum order in place, a short time later the business ceased trading.

Edited By Stueeee on 20/06/2023 11:18:38

[Bo’sunParticipant @bosun58570]

Might they be inserts for pneumatic tubing to prevent crushing by the olives/sleeves when tightening the compression fittings?

[Michael GilliganParticipant @michaelgilligan61133]

Posted by Bo'sun on 20/06/2023 12:00:50:

Might they be inserts for pneumatic tubing to prevent crushing by the olives/sleeves when tightening the compression fittings?

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If they are the ones that I thought I recognised … they are small

MichaelG.

[Ian PParticipant @ianp]

They could be used to stop Bowden cable fraying, fitted as ferrules on electrical wiring, inserts in compression fittings, eyelets for leather work… and for thousands of other purposes.

However at the end of the pictured items are generally known as tubular eyelets. (Google images gives plenty examples)

Ian P

[John McNamaraParticipant @johnmcnamara74883]

Frogs use them!

rivit rivit….rivit

Edited By John McNamara on 20/06/2023 14:26:04

[Ian PParticipant @ianp]

I don't get the frogs connection but 'Rivit Rivit' brings back memory of a BBC programme (which I have forgotten the title of) that came some time after 'The Great Egg Race'.

Teams of young contestants competed against each other in the studio with various practical craft and technology challenges, I'm sure I recall rivit rivit being the name one team gave their construction (whilst it climbed a rope?).

Ian P

[Martin King 2Participant @martinking2]

+1 for the shorter ones being for shoe laces.

Martin

[Bo’sunParticipant @bosun58570]

Posted by Martin King 2 on 20/06/2023 16:04:18:

+1 for the shorter ones being for shoe laces.

Martin

Aglets (shoe lace thingys) wouldn't have a head on them.

[Ian PParticipant @ianp]

I think Martin meant holes for shoe laces

Ian P

[Robert Atkinson 2Participant @robertatkinson2]

They are tubular rivets with a multitude of applications. Using the bare metal ons as ferrules on stranded electrical cables (as mentioned above) is one but they wer probably not designed for that. Different lengths or "grip" are to accomodate different material thicknesses.

[John McNamaraParticipant @johnmcnamara74883]

Ribbit
https://www.pond5.com/sound-effects/item/125216646-frog-ribbit

Edited By John McNamara on 21/06/2023 04:26:48

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