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I Don't Know What This Is? Do You?

02/27/2012 10:59 AM

I found this little piece of metal at the edge of the road.

Nobody has been able to tell me what it could be?

I've passed it around to people of various trades with no luck whatsoever.

No.. I'm not asking about the quarter.

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02/27/2012 11:09 AM

Drilling jig for making buttons?

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02/27/2012 11:11 AM

Is the connecting piece a rod or tube?

Is it brass?
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02/27/2012 11:19 AM

It's mild steel.. a solid little chunk with a black paint job that has mostly flaked away.

No corrosion resistance whatsoever. no residue..

I'm guessing it bounced out of a scrap metal truck?

I guess that would make it alien in origin.

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02/27/2012 11:56 AM

Looks like an internal part of a muffler.

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02/27/2012 12:36 PM

Looks like an arm that used to support ball joints with plastic anti-friction material at it's ends (balls and "sleeves" of course are gone). Something like that could be used on a car transmission levering assembly, etc. S.M.

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02/28/2012 4:45 AM

I would agree with SimpleMind. It looks like an anti-roll bar link with the ball joints missing.

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02/28/2012 9:52 AM

It is an Anti-Roll Bar Link

http://mazda-rx8.sgpetch.co.uk/pages/parts/detail/category=chassis/engine=36/part=580

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02/28/2012 10:04 AM

Ahem!! JavaHead

It was me who specifically mentioned the anti roll bar link in response to SimpleMinds post.

Not that I am bitter in any way but this could have been my first GA!!!!!

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02/28/2012 10:06 AM

LOL... I noticed that after I posted the reply... I was probably in edit mode while you were typing your response adding your name and a GA vote to you. Sorry about the mixup.

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02/28/2012 10:27 AM

Your a good man ( or woman ) thanks!!!
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02/28/2012 10:50 AM

You just got one!
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02/28/2012 11:41 AM

It is an Anti-Roll Bar Link

http://mazda-rx8.sgpetch.co.uk/pages/partsdetail/category=chassis/engine=36/part=580
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02/28/2012 2:33 PM

Hey, wait... a bandwagon! I wanna jump on!

It's an Anti-Roll Bar Link.

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02/28/2012 2:54 PM

I agree! Where's my GA?
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03/14/2012 1:16 PM

Nice one.. I can put the mystery to rest.. I wonder how the doner car us doing? Odd little piece.. slightly different Angeles.. I'm a little surprised an answer didn't come sooner? I tried to vote ga... What gives? Is someone out to get you?

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02/28/2012 11:43 AM

Don't worry. You'll have many more opportunities to gain, and then lose, GA 's if you hang around.

You want a GA for agreeing with someone else????
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02/27/2012 6:48 PM

I have been stuck on this damn planet all this time and YOU! have the piece that fell off!!!
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02/27/2012 6:59 PM

So, what's it do?
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02/27/2012 7:29 PM

It guides the drill-bit so that the button is correctly pierced . Alien space-ships can't fly properly if their flies aren't done up.

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02/27/2012 9:33 PM

I think it fell off this....

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02/28/2012 6:10 AM

Hey this kind of looks like my bike, except no gas engine only human power.

And no its not missing any parts.

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02/28/2012 1:52 AM

It's a sugar coating pattern maker.

Attaches to a piping bag. It is used for decorating wedding cakes and such stuff, you know, the frilly bits that cost extra.

That's what I would do with it anyway . Polish it and it would be a perfect present for the missus. Just make sure it fits the nozzle, looks the right size from here.

Hope this helps, Ky.

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02/28/2012 1:57 AM

Looks like they could be used bidet nozzles. Have you smelled them?

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02/28/2012 4:04 AM

My first thought was some sort of sprinkler system.

I don't see why a button jig would be offset by approx 90°

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02/28/2012 4:30 AM

Maybe it was made to see how many curios people there are
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02/28/2012 5:53 AM

eems an oak table. WP
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02/28/2012 6:30 AM

I think its a tool used to check the correct consistency of paint before its put into a spray gun.....that would explain the deposits on it as well....

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02/28/2012 7:05 AM

In Arkansas, they use this to recycle chewing tobacco.

Insert used,soggy tobacco plug in one end,press out the excess juices, and rotate 90 degrees.

Extract the previous batch for reuse, and aim the open end of the fresh wet batch towards the stove or fire for drying.

This provides a continuous supply of fresh dry chew at minimal cost.

When all flavor has been extracted, the remainder is used a wound dressing to prevent infection and absorb venom from snake bites.(Treats the snake, not the victim.)

It is also used as wadding for their flintlock rifles.

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02/28/2012 7:41 AM

Where's Arkansas...and is that pronounced R-Kansas?

Do I ruby slippers?

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02/28/2012 9:54 AM

It is a state in the USA.It is usually pronounced ARK IN SAW(all together in one word, 3 syllables).

Home of "Lil Abner" of comic book fame(Dogpatch, Arkansas), and the infamous Bill Clinton.(aka: Slick Willie,Horn Dog, the Monica Humidor, etc.)

They are famous for inventing the toothbrush..anywhere else they would have called it a teeth brush.

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02/28/2012 10:51 AM

Teehee...I was teasing...but have learnt something as well!

I think of this when I hear the name Arkansas.

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02/28/2012 11:35 AM

Arkansas also produces more rice than any other state in the USA, and has both bauxite and diamond mines.
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02/28/2012 8:13 AM

Looks like a part of a carburator? or some part of the intake manifold. If it came out o fan old car.
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02/28/2012 8:22 AM

Hide it! Before the Cops find out!

Looks like a Pipe of some kind....LOL
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02/28/2012 8:33 AM

Buy some soap with the quarter and blow some bubbles.

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02/28/2012 8:44 AM

Do both "cups" have four holes, or, has one got four and the other just two?

Apart from the above are the two cups identical (size and shape)?

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02/28/2012 8:48 AM

Could one half of it have possibly rotated? I'm just wondering if both ends were originally facing the same direction.
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02/28/2012 10:00 AM

Seriously, it looks like an extruder nozzle for licorice sticks.The streams come out at 90 degree angle to facilitate twisting, or to output to a conveyor in both directions.

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02/28/2012 10:28 AM

This is obviously the rocker cap assembley for the torque screw on a quad-modulator from a 1943 Huntley-Creech Land Yacht..........I spotted it in a heart-beat!!

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