✅ SOLVED Test your skills on this one! Spent years trying to ID this.

[musclecar]

I found this in Alaska about 10 years ago, and have never been able to ID it. It is an aluminum piece, about 3 inches square. It has 15 teeth and is numbered 1-15. There is a stop preventing it from spinning freely. The back has two tabs that may have been used to mount it. ANY GUESSES?

Thanks,

MC

PS The quarter used for size was found yesterday! 1935S Yeah!

 

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[BioProfessor]

Or a Piggman nutz counter.

Daryl

 

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[stoney56]

I gave up on this one a long time ago. I searched till my fingers are sore.

 

[Jim West Pa]

It's a prototype two week birth control pill counter.It was attatched to the inside of a tin and the pills were loaded into it and dispenced one at a time with each turn of the wheel.
Glad my moma lost it.

 

[trikikiwi]

I think Daryl says it all,
"it turns all the nuts simultaneously in the same direction and they open"

Call me stupid - I'm used to it
but I still reckon, it only counts 14 whatevers, the 15 is the stop

Cheers, Mike

 

[BioProfessor]

Ah, but the 15th nut is the special one. It is turned by the other 14 nuts on the device. If it is not there, turning the other 14 won't do anything. The one without the basketball logo may just be the special 15th nut.

Daryl

 

[Bridge End Farm]

It's pretty cool make a neat belt buckle from it, It is some type of counter I would say I will have to hunt some and see it I can find it, who says treasure hunting ends when the detector is shut off.

 

[Carolina Gold]

Think I have seen this on a old singer sewing machine before as an attachment accessory. beats me what it did but you can divide 360 degrees evenly by 15

 

[Skifisher]

I could use it to count my golf swings and help speed up the game, you know, hit 15 then pick up and move to the next hole, the guys playing behind me would be happy too.


It seems to attach to a wire cage or crate of some kind, the holes are prolly alignment holes for manufacturing, so no permanent attachment. I swear I've seen something like this on my Grampas farm when I was little.

I can't believe I just read this whole post.

 

[BioProfessor]

Now you should read the Pigg nutz post.

Daryl

 

[dg39]

OK, here is a fresh idea. I know the automatic pill counter was invented in my home town many years ago. The man's name was Pearson if I remember correctly...Maybe this is from an early automated pill counter bin. Counts 15 at a time??
Hey its just as good a guess as anyone else.
DG

 

[Monty]

I forgot about this post and just ran across it again. I guess I can tell you what it is now. It's one of those , no wait, they are bigger and made of steel aren't they? And besides it wouldn't fit on the one I'm thinking about. Sorry but never mind. Monty

 

[RELICDUDE07]

elevator switch for old style 15 story building?

 

[Shortstack]

I hope I get this photo stuff right.









As for what this thing was----THE HELL IF I KNOW!!!!

 

[DANGLANGLEY]

Braving the risk of having hot tar poured over me and covered in feathers for bringing this back to the top of the page I just wanted to say I haven't given up on this yet. I still have only theories as to what it might be. I've sent it to everyone I know and still no answer.

DANGLANGLEY

 

[nhbenz]

Over 16,629 posts and STILL we don't know.

B

Well, 308 posts... Over 16,629 views... but it is frustrating that none of us know for sure, with our diverse backgrounds. Update: MrsO, I didn't mean to be nit-picky on the numbers... I'm re-trying to quit smoking, and things aren't coming out of my "mouth" quite right. Sorry.

 

[wedjlok]

I would have to agree along the lines of some sort of spring timer counter deal. Think of 15 hour clocks (rewind every 15 hours). My grandmother had one and it had a similar dial to that one, not exact, but similar. You would wind it and it would allow you to see how many hours you had left until it needed to be rewound again.

That's just my thought, though. All these guesses and no one knows yet. Wow.

Aeryck

 

[Montana Jim]

I still hate this thing... I hate it...


I freakin' hate it.

 

[Old Dog]

I don't know which is worse,

This thing or the pig nuts

OD

 

[musclecar]

As the original poster of this abomination, I appologize for causing so much grief. If 10 fine treasure hunters say "delete",, I will! But, someday, someone will recognize it and solve the mystery item. I would like to know, and I am sure all of you who have posted here would like to know as well. I spent hours trying to find something out about this thing, and I know a lot of you have too. THANK you to all who have spent time researching, and posting ideas

MC

 

[trikikiwi]

Hi MC,
If I'm allowed to vote, I say it's got to stay. Someone will ID it for us all, one day.

I can imagine a lot of people have put in quite a bit of research on the little 'bleep' bleep bleep' bleep'

Personally, when someone previously suggested it clipped to an animal cage, I tracked down a veterinarian clinic in Soldotna, and e-mailed them the pics. The lovely people there replied, they had shown the pics all round, but only had all the usual 'counter' type answers.

Also, I'm still waiting on a friend to show the 'bleep bleep' to someone he knows, who flew as a pilot for 5 years in Alaska.

Plus, there's always my promise of a bottle of NZ wine to the 'answer provider with proof'.

Let's keep it alive.

Cheers, Mike