What are these used for

Sleeving the end of stranded wires [electrical] to help prevent them being damaged by screws.

Ken Whiston had them listed in his famous ‘Cat’

MichaelG.

Cheers sorry no description first picture I’ve poosted

bought them in job lot

thanks

I think they are tubular rivets or eyelet sleeves (often set with rotary tooling)

Electrical ferrules have either a moulded-on plastic 'funnel' or the end is flared slightly to enable easier wire insertion

Ian P

Full marks Milly, for getting through the picture posting maze!

Look like leather-work rivets to me. Saddles and such.

Dave

The short dark ones may be eyelets for shoe lace-holes, but the long brass ones look exactly like what I bought [many years ago] from Ken Whiston.

MichaelG

Michael, KR Whiston - Stockport. What ever happen to that catalogue, thousands of items for not too much. I still use my ruberised air hose purchased 60 years ago and no sign of it perishing still.

Bob

Edited By Speedy Builder5 on 23/05/2023 18:27:30

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Back in 1988 … We moved to a house within a couple of miles of Whiston’s store in New Mills, Derbyshire.

I was like a kid in a sweet-shop, but only for a while … Ken Whiston retired and the business closed.

MichaelG.

For a second I thought they were tubular rivets, I need a load in T50!

The look like the "terminations" that fastidious cyclists fix to the ends of their brake and gear cables to prevent fraying.

I seem to remember that KRW tried to sell his marvellous business as a going concern.

Ah, K R Whiston with the advertising strapline "have you seen my cat" the cat of course being the paper catalogue in those pre-internet days. I used to buy all sorts of bits and bobs, still have some of his brass lever operated valves which have found their way into all sorts of projects over the years.

According to a note that came with a catalogue, he did sell the business as a going concern to his staff. Unfortunately they then put a quite high minimum order in place, a short time later the business ceased trading.

Edited By Stueeee on 20/06/2023 11:18:38

Might they be inserts for pneumatic tubing to prevent crushing by the olives/sleeves when tightening the compression fittings?

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If they are the ones that I thought I recognised … they are small

MichaelG.

They could be used to stop Bowden cable fraying, fitted as ferrules on electrical wiring, inserts in compression fittings, eyelets for leather work... and for thousands of other purposes.

However at the end of the pictured items are generally known as tubular eyelets. (Google images gives plenty examples)

Ian P

Frogs use them!

rivit rivit....rivit

Edited By John McNamara on 20/06/2023 14:26:04

I don't get the frogs connection but 'Rivit Rivit' brings back memory of a BBC programme (which I have forgotten the title of) that came some time after 'The Great Egg Race'.

Teams of young contestants competed against each other in the studio with various practical craft and technology challenges, I'm sure I recall rivit rivit being the name one team gave their construction (whilst it climbed a rope?).

Ian P

+1 for the shorter ones being for shoe laces.

Martin

I think Martin meant holes for shoe laces

Ian P