Drag link end cap

[Duncan Grimmond]

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...?

[Bob Olive]

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?

[Tony Press]

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'.

[Charles P]

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

[Tony Press]

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