✅ 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!

 

[ivan salis]

chagy 12 pics --- with a overrun of a bit

 

[Skrimpy]

Muscle,
Don't auction the item off! Auction off the thread!

 

[Discrimination Dave]

its mounted next to a rain gauge and used to keep up with seasonal rainfall totals.

 

[Bigcypresshunter]

Maybe this has been said before but could it be the thingy that counts the balls in a coin pool table (billiard).

I do like the camera theory but then that means that the camera it self was limited to 15 pics? See I'm not as old as some of you guys and all I remember from film cameras is that the roll determined the amount of pics 24 or 36

All the best,

Chagy........

I remember 12 but you often got 14 or 15. I still buy 12 exposure film today for my game cameras.

 

[ivan salis]

yep I too said 12 count film counter -- you often got 2 - 3 extras out of a roll

 

[Blacksheep]

Make it more interesting, ship it to a Tnet member, they take a pic with the "thing" and ship
it (and the pic) to another Tnet member who takes a pic and sends it to yet another member
and so on, once you get it back post it and the pics on ebay.

Start with Ivan, it would look great hanging off that chain.

 

[ivan salis]

uh it might get lost in the mail. PS and what bad thing did I do to you blacksheep that you would wish such evil upon me? on the other hand folks would pay good money to see it destoryed slowly bit by bit most likely -- sell it off snip by snip by the tin shears ---hummm could get a new detector outta the deal --

 

[Blacksheep]

Apologies, it was a lame attempt to put a positive spin on the object of much disdain, the
evil of this object knows no bounds!

 

[Discrimination Dave]

it`s a counter for a rain guage

 

[NGE]

I finally figured it out! It's been right under our noses and we never saw it! It's a depth gauge for a digging tool, you attach it to your digger, and as you plunge your digger into the ground the resistance of the soil moves the little fingers till you get down to your target. Maximum depth is 15 inches. Aluminum is non rusting, and this thing has apparently outlived its intended useful life. Kinda takes the guessing out of what your machine's depth gauge is telling you........NGE

 

[musclecar]

I have listed this item up for auction on Ebay. Thank you ALL for your input and suggestions. I still feel this item has not been identified, but maybe with Ebays' exposure, it will be finalized. Here is the link, I hope it is not in violation of Treasurenet policy to provide the link here. Thanks again everyone! Marc, Jeff, PBK, OK?

Derryl.

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&ssPageName=STRK:MESELX:IT&item=320324884019

 

[Bigcypresshunter]

I have listed this item up for auction on Ebay. Thank you ALL for your input and suggestions. I still feel this item has not been identified, but maybe with Ebays' exposure, it will be finalized. Here is the link, I hope it is not in violation of Treasurenet policy to provide the link here. Thanks again everyone!
Derryl.

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&ssPageName=STRK:MESELX:IT&item=320324884019

LOL free shipping to boot. Maybe someone will buy it and bury it. Starting bid US $0.99.

 

[BioProfessor]

I'm thinking about buying it and beating the %$#^%$ out of it.

Daryl

 

[NGE]

Great Idea, maybe someone from another country will buy it and drive them nuts, I would not be surprised to see this thang on Ebay in the near future again.......NGE

 

[DANGLANGLEY]

I was thinking a temperature adjuster or something for an old refridgerator or ice box. Remember how they use to be pretty much aluminum on the inside?

I and my wife have thought the same thing all along but I have tried in vain to find a schematic/blueprint/pic or anything else that would prove it. DANG IT!!!

DANGLANGLEY

 

[onamission]

Here is a pic of a counter that looks kinda similar....
Tom

 

[NGE]

How about a tractor governer?..... only 15mph max.........NGE

 

[pronghorn]

it`s a counter for a rain guage

This makes as much sense as any explanation I have seen posted here.

Any evidence to verify this David?

 

[Dirt Fishin Dale]

Re:

Oh crap, is thread going all the way to 2009?

(Test your skills on this one! Spent years trying to ID this.)
Guess so.

 

[pronghorn]

I have listed this item up for auction on Ebay. Thank you ALL for your input and suggestions. I still feel this item has not been identified, but maybe with Ebays' exposure, it will be finalized. Here is the link, I hope it is not in violation of Treasurenet policy to provide the link here. Thanks again everyone! Marc, Jeff, PBK, OK?

Derryl.

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&ssPageName=STRK:MESELX:IT&item=320324884019

Who's bidding against me