✅ 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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[Bigcypresshunter]

All joking aside, texastea, the chick timer theory has already been presented but I dont want to go back and search for it. It has even been suggested to see if it clamps to a chicken wire fence. Its only a theory until someone can produce a picture. I do however feel that it may be worthwhile to search further in this direction.

 

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[Bigcypresshunter]

I hope you can solve it, I really do.

 

[Michelle]

Thank you, thank you, It took me three posts but call this one solved!!! I know I've had one in my hand when I was a kid and turning all those eggs every day. I just couldn't recall....rabbit...chick...chicks...rabbit....definitely chicks

Hold the congratulations. You are not the first person to suggest about the chickens and you are not the first person to say they remember having one. Members have sworn its a chick counter, camera part, refrigerator control,TV tuner, and part of the enigma code breaker!!

Im sorry but you need to produce a picture.

Cy

 

[Michelle]

I think we all just took the da&M thing for granted...I've looked high and low for one. I'm waiting for the old gentleman that works at the feedstore to get better so I can see if he has one in his collections of everything from A-Z and would like to put this one to rest....I couldn't find the one for someone calling it a incubator egg gestation counter....must have missed it...my eyes hurt... now I know why people call this thing cursed.

What if you forget to turn the thing one day...or two? My chicken aint gonna hatch yet! Im not sure the peeps are gonna be happy...but this makes no sense now!

 

[allen]

I got it, its a piece of metal that is unidentified...

 

[Michelle]

Thank you, thank you, It took me three posts but call this one solved!!! I know I've had one in my hand when I was a kid and turning all those eggs every day. I just couldn't recall....rabbit...chick...chicks...rabbit....definitely chicks

Hold the congratulations. You are not the first person to suggest about the chickens and you are not the first person to say they remember having one. Members have sworn its a chick counter, camera part, refrigerator control,TV tuner, and part of the enigma code breaker!!

Im sorry but you need to produce a picture.

 

[Michelle]

I got it, its a piece of metal that is unidentified...

GREAT WE ALL WIN THIS ONE

 

[Bigcypresshunter]

....I couldn't find the one for someone calling it a incubator egg gestation counter....must have missed it...my eyes hurt... now I know why people call this thing cursed.

We need a search option on this thing but here is one mention of it, I dont know if its the first and I remember it was talked about in more detail but Im tired of looking. ... keep researching.


Reply To This Topic #396 Posted Jan 26, 2008, 09:36:58 AM Quote
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............

 

[Michelle]

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there it is!!!!!

 

[Bigcypresshunter]

look bottom right

 

[Michelle]

look bottom right

okay im looking

 

[Bigcypresshunter]

What if you forget to turn the thing one day...or two? My chicken aint gonna hatch yet! Im not sure the peeps are gonna be happy...but this makes no sense now!

Why you have to ruin it? I guess marking 15 days on a calender would be easier.

 

[Goodyguy]

This thing is starting to get to me and I want it to be over with as soon as possible. I don't know why it maters so much to me or anyone else what the stupid thing is to/for anyway. But since it has gone on so long I just cant give up.
So I am going to try harder than ever to get this thing solved once and for all so I can get back to a normal life.

I'm not sure how this will work out but I have sent pictures of the mystery wheel to several so called experts in the field of identifying what is it's. And see if they have any ideas or clues to it's purpose.

I have also spent hours doing searches on any lead or suggestion gathered from everyones posts, with no luck so far. but I am getting good research practice.

 

[ivan salis]

15 day counter --could be used for rats -- rabbits -- chicken eggs --or any other 15 day count type animal breeder type use where you would attach it to a cage . think that covers a lot of ground at all at once.

it was made (rather flimsy I might add) of cheap, light aluminum -- given today's cheaper modern plastics --it might not have been made for quite some time or it might be made of plastic these days .

 

[Bigcypresshunter]

Im leaning toward part of the enigma machine code breaker.

 

[Copperhead]

Anyone mention or have any thoughts on the raised ribbing in the metal on the back?

Is it just to strengthen the piece?....The design and angling of the ribs seems to suggest something more....

 

[Michelle]

Anyone mention or have any thoughts on the raised ribbing in the metal on the back?

Is it just to strengthen the piece?....The design and angling of the ribs seems to suggest something more....

Also it having been FOUND in Alaska ...would it have been found or be something we would find here too?

 

[Bigcypresshunter]

Anyone mention or have any thoughts on the raised ribbing in the metal on the back?

Is it just to strengthen the piece?....The design and angling of the ribs seems to suggest something more....

Yes I mentioned it. It suggested to me that the ribs would hold the wheel rivet enough off of a flat surface so as to turn freely. It suggests to me that it attached to a flat surface.

 

[cwdigger]

OMG not this thing again why dont we just bring back the pig nuts to lol

 

[Michelle]

OMG not this thing again why dont we just bring back the pig nuts to lol

relax....

Did you say Pig Nuts