✅ 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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[Michelle]

a shutter.........hmmm rather big

 

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[Dirt Fishin Dale]

Yep frame counter.

 

[Montana Jim]

Yep frame counter.

Could be... but... can you prove it?

Please?

 

[Dirt Fishin Dale]

If I find the right camera.

 

[Montana Jim]

http://members.aol.com/dcolucci/

Write these folks... Maybe they know?

 

[Michelle]

http://members.aol.com/dcolucci/

Write these folks... Maybe they know?

Aluminum hmmm
Most shutters had multiple pieces

 

[Skrimpy]

Haha! I just saw the picture of Ol William Sherman up there holding the thing. Very funny stuff!

 

[DanB]

looks like part of an enigma coding machine the Germans used in WWII nice find..

db

 

[Michelle]

looks like part of an enigma coding machine the Germans used in WWII nice find..

db

nice try...close butt no cigar...

 

[TallTomSr]

looks like part of an enigma coding machine the Germans used in WWII nice find..

db

nice try...close butt no cigar...

I just got on this topic. I would belive it is a grandchild counter for a half blackfoot male married to a blond califoria lady. I used on for many year's and just turned it to fifteen since my fifth daughter gave birth to twin boy's a week ago. Now i have given it to my oldest son to use to count his times in jail on an annuel cycle. We injun's needed these counter's cause we loose count after two. lol

 

[Michelle]

looks like part of an enigma coding machine the Germans used in WWII nice find..

db

nice try...close butt no cigar...

I just got on this topic. I would belive it is a grandchild counter for a half blackfoot male married to a blond califoria lady. I used on for many year's and just turned it to fifteen since my fifth daughter gave birth to twin boy's a week ago. Now i have given it to my oldest son to use to count his times in jail on an annuel cycle. We injun's needed these counter's cause we loose count after two. lol

 

[Skrimpy]

We still haven't decided what the hell this thing is yet!?!?!?! Somebody has to recognize this thing at some point.

 

[BioProfessor]

You would think so. Between this thing and the Pigg Nutz, one could go crazy.

They are both evil. EVIL I tell you.

Daryl

 

[Skrimpy]

I would think that we would have some kind of patent attorney/agent or enigineer that knew what the hell this thing is.

 

[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

Har de har har.........T'was me a while back that did CPR on this rotting corpse.....

Now I can tell ye that........ "IT'S ALIVE"

Oh, I still haven't had any luck. Nobody I contacted has even dared to take a guess as to what it is. Now we can get back to the original only unanswered mystery in the universe.........Woman!


DANGLANGLEY

 

[Montana Jim]

Hey kids!

Sorry about this post... nobody hates thing thing more than I do...

I'm only posting because I found this picture of an "Industrial Timer Corporation 15 second series TDAF time delay timer" for use with the photography field (darkroom equipment).

 

[BuckleBoy]

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[DeepSeaB]

I did not read all 5 pages, so this might have been suggested already. Maybe it is some sort of live stock herding counter: placed on the hip of a "cow boy" and as the cattle is led into a holding or loading place it is cycled by hand. Once it's stops at 15 the "cow boy" then seperates or forms a new line of cattle and then resetting the counter. Just a guess though

 

[trikikiwi]

Join the Club, DeepSeaB, your guess is as good as my owwwnn threeee orrrr foourr, aaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

So, it's too late Mate, you're Hooked.

I will remind other potential "succeeders to the Crown of ID'ing the Counterthingy"
of my promise of a fine bottle of New Zealand wine.

Cool idea from Montana Jim too.

Happy Independence everyone

 

[desertmoons]

i notice by the arrow shaped pointer there are some indentations. This could be where a wire spring lay to push the disc up slightly, so that the bump om the disk would cause it to stop. yet you could rotate it as needed. i like that idea of it being temp gauge on a fridge, or boiler.