2005. These three items are all slightly less than 1/8" diameter:
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2006. Someone is looking to find the purpose for this device, the upper part is hinged and can be opened.
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The piece in the center is threaded and rotates when the handle is turned:
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The other half of the top:
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2007. 16" long:
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2008. 12" tall:
Turning the knob at the lower right rotates each of the six sides to reveal a compartment behind each one:
2009. 14" long:
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2010. 6-1/4" diameter, take a look at Neatorama for more guesses on this one and a chance to win a T-shirt:
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Answers:
2005. These are all security pins from the inside of a lock, they make the lock more difficult to pick. By comparison regular pins are just a straight cylinder. This first one is a Medeco top mushroom pin:
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A serrated top pin:
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An Abus spool top pin:
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2006. This is probably a mold for a conduit bushing:
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Two pieces were cast from the mold, one in solder and the other in wax:
2007. A WWI German model 1908/15 machine gun double drum magazine:
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2008. An 1870s condiment holder:
2009. This was marked "primitive wool stretcher", but it might actually be an apple picker that has had its long handle cut off, it also looks similar to this rake:
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2010. A Helter Skelter Drink Cooler with an internal ice block, once the the chiller is frozen it is placed at the edge of a table, a drink is poured onto the top and by the time it reaches the glass at the bottom of the ramp the liquid will be cooled.
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2007 looks like a film canister. Maybe from one of those aerial reconnaissance cameras.
ReplyDeleteItems 2005 are lock pins - in fact anti pick pins
ReplyDeleteItem 2007 is a "snail" drum magazine for a German MG42 (WWII) Machine Gun - MAY, if I remember right, also fit the MG34
'07 is definitely some kinda Beta C-mag
ReplyDelete2006 looks like something you'd use to cast a a part with a threaded hole in it. You cast it and then turn the crank to unscrew the part you just cast from the mold.
ReplyDelete2006. Agree with mold. Perhaps for something like a plastic gas cap. Knowing a size would have helped.
ReplyDelete2006 - a mold of some sort, it would help to see the other side of the mold to determine what it is. It looks like the knob for a hose bib to me.
ReplyDelete>...it would help to see the other side of the mold to determine what it is.
ReplyDeleteThe other side can be seen in the third photo, it's just a piece of flat metal.