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nzpoohbear40		Posted : Wednesday, 19 October 2011 7:27:39 PM(UTC)
Rank: Gold Ingot Groups: Registered Joined: 14/07/2011(UTC) Posts: 1,482 Location: Matura Thanks: 26 times Was thanked: 384 time(s) in 329 post(s)		Hi guys..i got these two things with a bunch of rocks i bought about a year ago..and since joining this forum i am now wondering if they are those gold sucker things you guys talk about..or if they could be used for that. nzpoohbear40 attached the following image(s):
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gavin		Posted : Wednesday, 19 October 2011 8:00:27 PM(UTC)
Rank: Gold Ingot Groups: Administrators, Registered Joined: 20/02/2010(UTC) Posts: 1,326 Location: Christchurch Thanks: 736 times Was thanked: 535 time(s) in 287 post(s)		Certainly looks like crevice suckers! Old skool - made of metal instead of PVC ;)
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simon		Posted : Wednesday, 19 October 2011 8:15:39 PM(UTC)
Rank: Gold Ingot Groups: Registered Joined: 7/01/2011(UTC) Posts: 789 Location: Central Otago Thanks: 33 times Was thanked: 239 time(s) in 150 post(s)		steam punk crevice suckers?
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Lammerlaw		Posted : Wednesday, 19 October 2011 9:49:07 PM(UTC)
Rank: Gold Ingot Groups: Registered Joined: 24/05/2011(UTC) Posts: 1,721 Thanks: 72 times Was thanked: 579 time(s) in 396 post(s)		The term for them when I first saw them was 'Snifter' and so you have a couple of older gold mining snifters for sucking up the gold. If you use them you will easy pass for an old hand as they are good old ones and a real find. We made them all from brass forty years and more ago - most were made out of old car tyre pumps and some from old spray pumps but they werent as good as they tended to be smaller and a bit flimsier than the larger older car tyre pumps. You hit the jackpot Chris - thats what they are

nzpoohbear40		Posted : Thursday, 20 October 2011 6:40:30 PM(UTC)
Rank: Gold Ingot Groups: Registered Joined: 14/07/2011(UTC) Posts: 1,482 Location: Matura Thanks: 26 times Was thanked: 384 time(s) in 329 post(s)		thanks for the confirmation guys...not sure why the scissors are attached to the one though..lol
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kiwisouth		Posted : Thursday, 20 October 2011 9:00:50 PM(UTC)
Rank: Gold Ingot Medals: Groups: Registered Joined: 3/04/2010(UTC) Posts: 326 Location: Blenheim (Renwick) Thanks: 39 times Was thanked: 105 time(s) in 83 post(s)		I'm picking that the forceps are for grabbing that nice looking nugget stuck in the crevice. You will find that the forceps have fine ridges to help grip FLESH so they will hold onto a nugget quite nicely. They are an important addition to your fossicking kit.
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Lammerlaw		Posted : Thursday, 20 October 2011 10:26:54 PM(UTC)
Rank: Gold Ingot Groups: Registered Joined: 24/05/2011(UTC) Posts: 1,721 Thanks: 72 times Was thanked: 579 time(s) in 396 post(s)		Originally Posted by: kiwisouth I'm picking that the forceps are for grabbing that nice looking nugget stuck in the crevice. You will find that the forceps have fine ridges to help grip FLESH so they will hold onto a nugget quite nicely. They are an important addition to your fossicking kit. I never thought twice when I saw the forceps but your comment made me think about them...after all I carry them all the time for picking up nuggets down in crevices and have left a trail of the blasted things all over the country side as I wouldnt mind a dollar for each one I have lost. Many years ago throughout the 1960s and 70s my uncle and his two partners took a bar with them every time they went to a different part of the river they were working in to lever large rocks aside - these bars were considered to heavy to lug all the way up the hill again and tended to get left leaning against a willow tree for the next time they were in the vicinity. When my uncle died the older of the other two dissolved the partnership and asked if he could come with me and thus I took him out until he was around 90 years of age - he gave me the last three bars - they were all new drive shafts or steering rods for vintage cars, some long and heavy and very solid. I guess that those who mine our old claims wonder what on Earth the vintage car drive shafts are doing lying up against trees and I daresay grab them to turn into crow bars!