To enter last week’s Toolsday giveaway, you had to identify a pair of long skinny half circles. Not too many people guessed what they were. Most guesses were curtain rods or drawer slides, a few of you also guessed tracks for moving a refrigerator. But they were all wrong. The mystery tool was a pair of upholstery channel tins. They are forms used to make old-fashion channel-back chairs (the backs are fluted). The tins hold the shape of the half circle while the upholster stuffs the chair.
We randomly picked one winner out of all the comments and that lucky person is Chris. Congrats Chris, you have one week to reply to our email before another winner is chosen.
Next Tuesday, we will be giving away a BenchtopPRO parts cleaner. This is a great tool for all homeowners, DIYers and mechanics. The BenchtopPRO is a parts-washing system that can clean years of gunk and grime off most anything from lawnmower blades to bicycle parts, and it works great on flea market treasures that you’re planning on repurposing. To get everything so clean, the BenchtopPRO combines the process of bioremediation with a revolutionary non-flammable degreasing solution engineered to work at room temperature.
Did you know you could paint upholstered chairs, curtains, floors and even carpeting? While you can! We’ve got instructions on how to paint low-pile carpets. Also, find out how to revive furniture with paint, or a staircase, ceiling and more.
To win the BenchtopPRO, post a comment (click “comment” above) and tell us what these two pieces belong to. You don’t have to answer correctly to win; we will randomly pick one winner.
On Tuesday, February 19, we will select the winner then start up a new giveaway for another tool, which will be given away the Tuesday after that.
You have until February 19, 2013 at 2:00pm (ET) to enter to win the BenchTop Pro.
Official Rules.
Push button covers.
plastic buttons
The lights from an old cop car…ha
I've already left a cooment guessing that they are the button cover from an old multi-line phone. Commenting again because I was not "signed-in," not sure if that is neccesary or not to "enter the drawing. so…
they look like they could be the buttons, or covers for the buttons, off of an old telephone. The button you had to press to switch lines or put on hold a call. The lit up if someone was connected tot the line.
Relay cover
lights to signal something
Push button covers.
bakelite strippers' pasties
end caps for wiring
Buttons on an office intercom telephone to indicate when lit that a call is on hold or a message was left.
Fuses
COVERS FOR LIGHTS THAT GLOW WHEN THE UNIT IS ON … WHATEVER THAT IS.
it's for a tool.
Philco Radio Pushbuttons, 1941
wine and brown
$2/piece
radiodaze.com
push buttons for ……?
buttons from an old phone
insulators ?
Hi-Tech thingamabobs for use on non-stelth gagets
fuses
Looks sorta like an electric thingy that goes in the fuse box. Thats my awesome two cents
Knobs for old electronics
Push buttons?
Look like toggle buttons from a old sound board maybe.
There are buttons for an old radio