✅ 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!

 

[thepoolguy]

hey thanx for the welcome jim.....i have another pic of the unit showing it closed. it even has the bigger window to show the "15" when it reaches it. and yes it is a hay bale counter used to let the customer know that the thresher/baler was not cheating them. this unit was made by j i case but im sure there were many other variations made by other thresher manufacturers such as rumely,hart parr,international harvester,nichols sheperd ect ect. and im sure some made a 1099 count unit like the one in question and some may well have made 1599 count unit like the ji case model. as far as the size of the item goes i would say it falls right in the perimeter. ill post the pic when i get in the shop as i dont have a scanner here.

 

[BioProfessor]

The problem I see with the bale counter and this thing is that a bale counter doesn't stop at a single revolution. I am sure it will reset but I can't see anything that would stop a counter wheel at "15."

Daryl

 

[Charlie P. (NY)]

What? No answer yet?

Set the Way-Back Machine controls for six months from now Sherman, we'll check back in then.

 

[KnuggetHead]

It looks to me that the "teeth" of the sprocket are different thicknesses ie like a measuring tool for spark plug gapping. The little tab at 15 is a handle so to speak that would be pushed down to unlock in order to turn the sprocket to whatever setting is needed!!!

KH

 

[BioProfessor]

So let's mike those teeth!!

Daryl

 

[ashleysflyr]

Anything further Hangin' by a thread here...

 

[BioProfessor]

You could be hung by THIS thread and think it was a good thing.

Daryl

 

[trikikiwi]

I think Daryl said it all - re the Mic'ing of the teeth ( there's no way those teeth were made to measure spark plug or points' gaps )
- although not quite sure about the hanging by a thread bit, this whole experience being painful enough

Mike, I've given up the Cheers

 

[emtrescue]

Instead of rats, and since some of us are on the animal cage thing, what's the timeframe for chickens, eggs, etc for incubation. I wonder if it could be that route if we're going with farm type stuff............

just my 2 pennies....(again)

 

[JamesE]

Hey Daryl, is that you calibrating your Heathkit color TV..

 

[MTPanner]

I would suggest that it is a portable calendar. Seeing as how most days have an average of 30 days and the accountants calendar always works off of 30 days, whether it is February (28 days or 29 on a leap year) or Jan, Mar, May, July, August, October, or December (31 days). I figure it is a way for a prospector to keep track of how many days he has been out in the field and therefore can keep track of the months he has been away. The reason it is hard to turn is so it won't turn voluntarily without force. Thereby ensuring that the proper day is kept and the count is correct.

My 2 cents.

 

[BioProfessor]

We got COLOR TV? When the heck did that happen and how come nobody told me?

Holy crap! I can get my monitor to show color. Cool.

Daryl

 

[dozer dan]

its a finger and toe counter for babys born in arkansas

 

[Michelle]

its a finger and toe counter for babys born in arkansas

 

[JamesE]

We had one of those plastic films that stuck on the screen, with blue at the top, green in the middle, and red at the bottom, but when a picture of a fire or a sunset was on, we had to take it off and turn the TV upside down.
Back when chicks were shipped in shallow wire crates these things were used as an indicator for 'days in transit". or was it for marking fence and wire rolls for how much left? Coulda been used to keep count of political lies in the old days, of course now we need computers.

 

[TN-Joe]

After reading 5 pages of guesses ..............................................
i simply don't know what it is.
Tenn. Joe

 

[G.I.B.]

I may have stumbled onto another part of the original thingy...

ModernMiner has a post with a find over at - http://forum.treasurenet.com/index.php/topic,137123.0.html

Here is the photo I stole off of the above thread showing the second piece...

 

[G.I.B.]

I may have stumbled onto another part of the original thingy...

ModernMiner has a post with a find over at - http://forum.treasurenet.com/index.php/topic,137123.0.html

Here is the photo I stole off of the above thread showing the second piece...

The item in this picture is part of a clock. I have found a few of them. None had the part we are trying to ID.

The original part (that started this topic) was found in Alaska. The picture above (ModernMiner's) was found in North Carolina.

I didn't really for truly honestly think that they were part of the original what-cha-ma-call-it... I was just making a phunny.

 

[siz3petite]

A part of a some kind of dial lock.

Interesting thingamabob.

 

[Michelle]

Mystery Box ......similairities......