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Drag link end cap
#41
Steve wrote
"Definitely Podger in Yorkshire. Used, among other things, for lining up the holes at the joints in railway lines."
I have come across podgers in scaffolding work etc. but for some reason our family name for an alignment tool is "broggler"
Possibly something derived from a broach or brooch pin...?
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#42
Sounds fishy to me - to broggle is to fish for eels using a brog.(1781 OED). A brog was originally a bradawl, or similar instrument used for pricking or boring - is that what I am doing here?
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#43
(30-11-2020, 08:29 PM)Bob Olive Wrote: Sounds fishy to me - to broggle is to fish for eels using a brog.(1781 OED). A brog was originally a bradawl, or similar instrument used for pricking or boring - is that what I am doing here?
Another of my grandfather's tools - a bradawl,  which could be used as a podger for small holes  - in Meccano this was incorrectly named a 'drift'.
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#44
(29-11-2020, 12:47 PM)Mick Hanna Wrote: I made some up from the Dorset link and they have worked brilliantly.

I modified one of Tony Betts' excellent value brand new draglink sets by silver soldering a 3/8 disc onto the end, turning it flush, tapping and painting.

   

   

Charles
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#45
A Meccano friend has corrected me- a Meccano 'drift' is a in fact a 'podger'  Sorry Meccano Ltd  Binns Road Sad  
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