✅ 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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[trikikiwi]

Personally,
I think Frogwizard has a big future on TNet
Welcome from me Fw

Is there anybody out there?
who agrees with me, that

"it" only counts to 14

15 is blocked

Cheers, Mike

 

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[quaydj]

Traditional pinwheel calculators.
Facit "Standard"
Digits: 9 keyboard, 10 counter, 15 accumulator
Dimensions: 170W x 170D x 140H, overall width 310mm
Weight: 6.8 kg
Manufactured: Sweden, 1924-1931

The "Standard" was the second machine to carry the Facit brand, and the first to be built under Atvidaberg Industries.

This is an early machine from the 1920s, on an original wooden base. The base has been shortened on the right-hand side at some stage in its 80-year history, and the cover has been lost. The mounting for the the lock can be seen towards the right-hand front, at what would once have been the centre.

The rotor has 9 places, with a quick-clearing lever at the left-hand side. The 10-digit counter register is fixed in the body of the machine above the setting levers, with a 15-digit accumulator mounted in the moving carriage. The tens-carry on the accumulator extends to 13 places, with an overflow bell mounted externally on the left-hand end of the carriage. The counter and accumulator are cleared with just half a turn of the large wing nuts.

The counter register on this machine uses complementary red and white figures. Later versions (1928-31) provided a full tens-carry mechanism.

The carriage can be moved one step in either direction by pressing the two keys at the left front of the machine, or it can be moved continuously by turning the large knob on the left-hand side. One of the ten keys along the front is pressed down to raise an internal stop, and the knob is turned to bring the carriage rapidly to the required position. The stop keys are numbered on the metal escutcheon plate, and the active position is clearly shown through a peep-hole above the centre of the carriage. The positioning mechanism operates through a lead-screw, so that the carriage remains firmly in place with no ratchets or detents.


May be just maybe

 

[frogwizard]

Thank you all for the welcome. I don't own a detector but I want to. So, until then, I want to learn all I can about it. You people are so great to help others like you do. I haven't read all posts yet, but the ones I have read, you all are a great help and sooooooo good at id'ing the weirdest looking things. I am getting such a kick out of this site! Again, thank you all for welcoming me to your site.

 

[Dirt Fishin Dale]

I keep running into this post. My brain hurts. Now I won’t sleep AGAIN tonight

 

[BioProfessor]

If you don't sleep, you can't have nightmares about this wicked thing.

Daryl

 

[imafishingnutt]

early birth control guage.

 

[Arizona Bob]

Here's my observations and suggestions:

It doesn't appear to have any electrical contact points that distinguish number 1 from 2 from 3, etc.

It appears that the wheel can be easily moved from number 1 through number 15, probably by a right-handed person using their thumb.

There is a "stop" at number 15. It appears to be easy to reset back to number 1.

My guess would be that it is a 15 step manual production counter.

Perhaps it was used by employees (trained monkeys) in an early production line:
set-up step 1, do step 1, eat a banana / set-up step 2, do step 2, eat a banana, etc.

Perhaps it was used by farm workers to keep track of planting or watering cycles.

Perhaps it was used by gun/ammo reloaders in a 15 step reloading process.

/.02

 

[G.I.B.]

Okay, I gotta take my shot at this.

It's part of a baseball counter, the old ones the umpires had, similar to this:

 

[Skrimpy]

I hope I get this photo stuff right.
As for what this thing was----THE HELL IF I KNOW!!!!

Shortstack, you are onto it with your analysis I think, and I think the 15 is the key. Who the hell would have a counter that goes to 15 and not some other higher, more round number, if it's not counting a unit of time? It's a quarter of a minute, or quarter of an hour, or could be half a month. Angelo has a great idea with the horse quarentine thing.

 

[lucky1777]

Could it be off of an old gas pump?

 

[gmstreet]

It's a sex timer!!!


14 minute limit,when it hits 15..you're done, even if you weren't!!

Now all I have to do is figure out what to do with the rest of the fourteen minutes on the timer. LMAO!!

I can't believe this thing is still going. It's gotta be a record!!

 

[DANGLANGLEY]

I submitted a pic of it to a show that supposedly thrives on identifying oddities. Hopefully they will be able to identify this thorn in my side, lol...

DANGLANGLEY

Was it this site ?

Very cool learning site ,but they don't have the answer

http://pzphotosan168-zx.blogspot.com/

Cheers, Mike

Wow, sorry about not answering this question. Yes, it is the same site. I thought they would have e-mailed me with an answer or at least tell me if they had no idea. Have a great night.

DANGLANGLEY

 

[slingchine]

Don't mean to get you guys going again but I have been silently watching this for awhile now (months and months and months) I can't find any thing to support my theory .....but, could it be the dispenser wheel from a vintage gumball or peanut machine JM2....................awright then......ummm...hmmm

 

[BioProfessor]

Just had to bring it up again didn't you. Just had to make us think about it again didn't you. May a 1000 pull tabs & 1000 pop tops be in your future.

Daryl

 

[Montauk3]

You guys cracked me up.
Thanks for the giggles.

 

[imafishingnutt]

WE HAVE SIMALAR STUFF IN OUR PARKS THEY ARE ON SPRINKLER TIMERS
THIS MIGHT BE A PLACE WORTH LOOKING.

AND I COULD BE THE MAN.
WHO ID IT

LOL

 

[BioProfessor]

Sneak in and take a PICTURE.

Daryl

 

[Jagdpanther]

I'm sure this has been tossed out already but...

Depth or line counter for a downrigger or trolling reel. Each mark would be 10 ft.

A worm gear or a nob would engage the star wheel moving once for each rotation of the gear.

 

[jrlowe]

Don't look beyond the facts. A dial, with teeth, indicative of a TV tuner control.
In the VHF tuner 10, the channels are arranged in a low frequency band (channels 2-6) and a high frequency band (channels 7-13). The VHF tuner incorporates a resonant circuit having parallel inductances arranged so that a permanent inductance is operative to determine the low frequency band. A shunt high frequency inductance is switched into operation to act in conjunction with the permanent inductance in determining the high frequency band. In the UHF tuner 15, the channels are arranged in an ultra high frequency band .

Simply a tuner from a tv, or even a CB radio. No biggie. Case closed.

 

[BioProfessor]

Well..... The TV channel selector on my old set used to go all the way around and keep going. This thing won't. And who would be seeing the number in the window?

Logical yeah. Case closed. Not so sure.

Daryl