Challenge 7

Photo 1? Um, er........

Photo 2 could be the sole of a sports shoe or the surface of a table-tennis bat, depending on dimensions, though the surface of a table tennis bat is more regularly-patterned, so probably not.

Very entertaining, these picture quizzes! Keep 'em coming!

Photo #1 looks like some form of paddle, as it looks like its made of sterilisable metal I wonder if its used to make food substance?

Maybe for making butter from milk? But what is the lever poking out of the stem doing? does it move the paddle up and down?

Photo #2 Not sure about.... but it maybe some form of anti-slip mat or sole or sommit?

John.

Is photo 2 a close up of a basketball or netball or other sports ball?

Al

#2 is almost certainly a basketball.

#1 is very interesting indeed. PlbMak, do I understand that you're saying that even you don't know what it is? If so, this really does make for a good challenge then!

I may know...but I'll have to delve deeeeep into the archives to see if I'm right.

Until then, I don't suppose anyone has suggested that it's a really super-efficient rotary spatula? You can flip significantly more burgers per second with it.

Arrggghh. Number 1 is driving me crazy. Even more so than usual than usual. It seems so familiar.

I keep thinking it's a wire or rope bundling tool. Does the toggle-lever looking thing midway up the shaft actually toggle? Would you wrap to the toggle with it in the "toward handle" position and then flick it down for the wire/rope to slide off?

Still...what would the other 3 tines do?

Silly me. The number of tines you wrap around would control the finished diameter of the coiled wire/rope/yarn/string/pasta. More trips around more tines = bigger diameter. Along the wind you taughtly go from tines to toggle (in the up position). Then when you're done you flip the toggle down and that bit slides off, releasing the tension. Ta-da...you have your neat coil.

A possible side application would be to wrap, say, yarn around it then dip the whole lot into a dye.

Heck, if this ain't what this tool is for then I'm building a factory to make a coiling tool just like it! Who wants to invest?

Ya, #1 is one of those things my x-wife used to throw at me.

yup, that's what it's for.

It's a branding iron for illiterate cowboys, duh.

Number 1 is obviously one of those weather mapping tools where the forecaster would aim this at a map, push that little trigger thingy on the side, then the X blade is ejected by spring action to mark an X on the map.

Number 2 looks like a water membrane used to seal concrete foundations just below the grade line. You can buy this in rolls from Home Depot.

Still thinking about photo #1.... could it be a hydrophone?

You know a microphone is in the head the side toggle is where its towed and the rear inbetween the fins there is a hole for a wire??

#1 i now think is a close up of a basket ball or other ball with the mottled finish...

John.

Ooooo. Very excellent guess with hydrophone. That would never have crossed my mind and is just as if not more plausible than my goofy winder idea.

#1 my guesses are, 1. a tile spacing installation tool, 2. a heater for a bucket like roof tar or something like that, or 3. some sort of paddle mixer for hand use.

#2 I'm with everyone else, either a basket ball, or a Nerf ball of some sort.

#1 is a paint stirrer, possibly battery powered and motor dirven. The lever on the side is a toggle switch lever.

#2 is an American football.

I ask????????

How could it be an American football...............Americans don't play foofball!!!!!

"Americans don't play foofball!!!!!"

Right. Australians do. Heh, heh, heh.

My apologies............I did not see it before........fooTball.

I'd say #1 is the actuator for a wind direction sensor, except that those don't usually have fins for vertical velocity. Maybe this one is for use in a wind tunnel.

The irregularity of #2 tells me it (or the original) was made by hand in China. I have to agree with the others that is is the surface of some sport object like a football or basketball...

#1 - kiss me if I know.

It may be something that Del uses to separate the left, right ,up & down swerving arrows from each other.

#2 - Thanks to the clue - It is the inside / back view of a hair brush.

Government legal issue of a hot cross bun marker. Thous not to the required standard will have their licence revoked. Size is every thing.

Regards JD.

The closest answer yet! (well, at least in the right industry!)

Is it a device for twisting dough, possibly for making bread?

OK, I think theres a few people who asked their kids!

What about this?

The moral of all this is that there's some really strange junk out there in the wilds of East Anglia.....

I guess that makes my answer about it being used for making butter a contender then??

I can't be certain owing to my vantage point at the time, but judging by the shape of the silver object I'm fairly suspicious that a similar implement was employed with what I still feel was chillingly careless abandon during my last visit to the proctologist.

OMG: this is spooky. In the dimple on the right is what looks like a reflection of your AVATAR.

Good eye! And good analysis - that is past spooky... Could it be the reflection of a...

???

top of a walking cane

This device was patented in 1987 by Dr. A. Nal, an avid skydiver and practicing proctologist, who had difficulty staying on course during free-fall. The function of the device was to add aerodynamic stability via the projecting fins. In application, the device was ... ur ... ah ... inserted ... and the trigger release was tethered to the rip (pun intended) cord so the device would be automatically removed at the correct moment.

Unfortunately, during its first test, the release mechanism did not function as planned, and Dr. Nal, making a perfect 3-point landing, did not survive.

Subsequent to Dr. Nal's demise, the patent was purchased from his estate by an adult toy company in Brooklyn, NY.

Film at 11 ...

Top: Mixer blade of some sort.

Bottom: Basketball.

#1 doesn't much resemble any theory I've ever had, but if you say that's what it is, I'm game to take your word on it.

#2 appears to be an extreme close-up of a synthetic basketball.

#3 is, without doubt, a metal (possibly German silver, but could be pewter or zinc) finial.

#1 looks like a flanged mace (weapon), but because of the little nub sticking off in the middle there...maybe it is some new-fangled and ugly weather vane.

#2 looks like the texture of a NERF football

The first one is a 4-dimensional pancake turner.

A thought just flashed across my mind...........oh! no another migraine............not at all.

#1 is a device for putting holes in large doughnuts.

#3 looks like the Tin Man from the Wizard of Oz lost a piece.........probably blew his stack

#3 a door handle thats fallen on the floor, handles that fall off are better than Vaseline and key hole covers.

Regards JD.

#3 is something that all of us have had a hand on!

(or you have led a very sheltered life!)

Is it a knob from a cabinet or desk door or drawer?

Yes very sheltered, is it a ding a ling you pull? to ring the door bell.

Regards JD.

Is it a knob off a bed post

Al

That's a flush knob from one of those silly toilets you run across throughout the UK.

"...those silly toilets..."

WC's - water closets - they calls 'em! So as not to offend anyone's tender sensibilities, I presume. Phooey! I say, call a spade a trump and be done with it!

"...those silly toilets..."

If you've ever used one.....you have to be part hydraulics engineer/artist, with patience, to get everything "flushed".

Not like our "flush it and forget it".

Well, that definitely eliminates thistlewick and alien arrowhead!

Is this a cheaper version of #1? if so what do I win?

That's looking favorite at the moment, it's stamped Henckel, a good quality cooking utensil brand.

As to the 'knob', I'm surprised no-ones got that yet...

About the only (likely) thing nobody has yet guessed is a bumbershoot end-cap. Is that off yer Aunt Minnie's parasol perchance?

The second is a basketball, and the first one is much like me, an enigma wrapped in a question mark.

So to guesstimate, it at first glance looks like a possibly electric powered stinger or heat dipped "cattle pronged" instrument. I can't tell if that is a lever, switch, or release switch.

If I was to be spacing vertical sheets or panels to a wall for instance, and that was a sliding lever, then I could fasten four sheets against a wall tightly together, and use the sliding lever to pull or snap the tool out of such close tolerances.

I see that the handle is insulated (heat ? elec ?) so perhaps it is used to either handle, push/pull, or carry hot trays or something just heated or hot in general.

#3 looks familiar? may be a handle on a lid, such as on tea pot or coffee pot or some thing like that?

Regards JD.

No, completely wrong, apart from the size....

I think this has been covered in other posts, but, maybe not quite accurately enough for you. #1: is it the paddle out of a bread making machine?

I seem to remember, that what I am going to say, featured in another thread not that long ago:-

It's something beloga Genghis Khan..............or Kublai Khan.

or

Maybe from the Genghis Khan Barbeque Restraunt in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia.

Hello PlbMak

Item 1 is easy.

What everyone assumes is a handle, is not.

So the article is a part from an automatic leek transplanting machine.

The supposed "handle" is the part which is rapidly plunged into the ground, then withdrawn to allow the leek plant to be dropped into the hole.

The square fins or vanes, are to allow for correct orientation of the hole.

Kind Regards....

If you didn't say #3 'the knob' is around the size of a handle from a tea pot my guess would of been a button on a pair of jeans or something around that size.

My second guess would be the thingy that holds the shade on a lamp, but I would't expect that to have the dimples as it would be threaded.

With the tea pot handle size in mind, I'm going to guess its the fancy end part of a towel or curtain rod, and that's my final answer...for now.

OK, Friday Morning, I've not had an answer! (To the knob, anyway) The best idea's for #1 are a drinks stirrer or potato masher! As to the mystery knob...

(Music in background - pinball wizard)

More next week!

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If you want the background music, here it is!

Wow haven't seen a Real Pin Ball game in Ages. Do they still have Pin Ball games in Arcades these days? Thought they all got replaced by the electronic video games.

Even the hole in the wall bars that I hang out at only have electronic games.

Was that music???????

I thought it was more like noise.........one would need ear protection to align with OHS&W Regulations.............it's like the noise that emanates from many of our young ones heads.

Is No. 1 photo a new style of cheese slicer?

Isn't it about time that we are informed what that really is? Or have I just missed out for some reason?

Follow the "this" link in post #49 - I think that's one of what it is - altho' nobody has 'fessed up yet...

See this post, but dont forget, I'm not 100% sure...

I've searched through a lot of listings for Henckel's products, and didn't see this item. It probably is some kind of stirrer, but I doubt those rounded edges could chop much. Maybe it's an item Henckel doesn't make anymore, or they sell it only in the UK.

I have been out of the loop for a wee while, so have missed the entertainment.

Is Tea Break Challenge #7 the latest one. If so, what a shame...hurry up with more... ;-))

No, not at all, just busy, busy, busy! And haven't found anything suitable!