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RE: Drag link end cap - Duncan Grimmond - 30-11-2020
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...?
RE: Drag link end cap - Bob Olive - 30-11-2020
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?
RE: Drag link end cap - Tony Press - 01-12-2020
(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'.
RE: Drag link end cap - Charles P - 02-12-2020
(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
RE: Drag link end cap - Tony Press - 02-12-2020
A Meccano friend has corrected me- a Meccano 'drift' is a in fact a 'podger' Sorry Meccano Ltd Binns Road
