✅ 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]

The Alaskan version:

No wait...cant be, or does it measure snow too?

 

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[Michelle]

dial from a metal detector

 

[cwdigger]

Its a vintage fertalizer speader adjustment? Bobby had said something about it may be that it makes sense, as I remember my dad used to have one, it has 15 adjustments just like modern ones have,looking for a pic now.

 

[Bigcypresshunter]

Cy....Get that huge gray book ...the one with the 1,000,000,000 pages "All about these kinda things" down and find this thing Will Ya?!!!!! lol

Its not in the book.

I think you could take all the "what is its" posted at TN and publish a neat pictorial reference book.

 

[72cheyenne]

Cy....Get that huge gray book ...the one with the 1,000,000,000 pages "All about these kinda things" down and find this thing Will Ya?!!!!! lol

Its not in the book.

I think you could take all the "what is its" posted at TN and publish a neat pictorial reference book.

I agree Bigcy, I've got a 1962 Belknap Hardware catalogue that has thousands of pages and I've looked at every single page looking for something like it. Not in there.....

 

[treasurefiend]

 

[intimer]

hey, that last picture has "NO ONE"!

and the alaska whatchamacallit dial thingamajiggie has "NO BODY"!

coincidence?

 

[JamesE]

I've been gone a year or so, can't believe this thing is still a wonderment. Everybody, print a picture of this thing and ask the oldest people/relatives you know what it is. I still think it's a fence counter or a shipping date counter. I have no problem being wrong. I'm pretty sure no one wants me sitting up in my casket and shouting, " Oh, that's what the Hell it is!!!"
OK, let's work on it.... jim

 

[Dirt Fishin Dale]

I am loading my gun.

 

[george7737]

a ribbon or belt advance,kind of like for a typewriter ribbon.A large gear with a pin on the side ,set "the device" for correct speed or time ,when it hits 15 it advances. Like a timer on a sardine convayor belt or a counter for twists on a loom before changeing colors. Do the numbers show in the window on the back side and do they say the number thats at the front outside edge.

 

[fireman7115]

I am really starting to hate this do-hickey. It has been driving me crazy every since I got on T-Net

 

[JamesE]

OK, It's been another year!!!!! HOLY CRAP!!!!!!
not everybody has lost interest!!!
Has this SOB been solved?
WOULD THE 'ADMINS' please tag and end this with the answer when one is proven?
Almost seems like a "PonyExpress" concept, something thought up as a complicated solution to a simple problem that was obsolete as soon as it started. Aluminum was too expensive before a certain (?) period for this to be very early. The stamping method and detail are refined enough to suggest early to mid 20th century.
I still wonder if it isn't a ship date counter or an altimeter recorder for early weather balloons, or a fence counter?
Seems like the kind of thing that might have been replaced by an assembly line /spool counter or a paper tag method.
All you people,,, ask your parents and grandparents!!!!
I'm still in the 'manual' machine gun belt tracer counter loader mode (WWII) ours or theirs.
Yet still.....
That it hasn't been "set" might indicate the 'setter' was too busy, to worry about being accurate, probably not RR live freight.
The area might suggest something from the Japanese balloon bombs, in english to prevent identity of the source, yet to be identified after the invasion.
Either way, it's an unset recorder for one-time use or a process counter to be set and reused for constant count.
That it is still unidentified leads me to believe it is foreign or a method of solution that was almost immediatlely obsolete.
Do da' word obsessive mean anything?
Attached to a board, a MG belt could be rolled over to the stop (bent tang) and a tracer inserted, under the KISS principle, the same could be accomplished by a board with nails to space the 'gap' between tracers. Inexperienced MG'ers use every third tracer, then 10, and every 30th for charted fire from concealed positions. All of which belts could have been gauged on a board with nails as spacers or by eye instead of contraption.
The tangs still look as if some kind of 'cage timer or counter', maybe thought to be an improvement on a written calendar that never caught on or became immediately obsolete.
As is obvious, I have no problem with ignorance over time. The 'Knowing' is the goal. james

 

[trikikiwi]

OK, It's been another year!!!!! HOLY CRAP!!!!!!
not everybody has lost interest!!!
Has this SOB been solved?
WOULD THE 'ADMINS' please tag and end this with the answer when one is proven?
Almost seems like a "PonyExpress" concept, something thought up as a complicated solution to a simple problem that was obsolete as soon as it started. Aluminum was too expensive before a certain (?) period for this to be very early. The stamping method and detail are refined enough to suggest early to mid 20th century.
I still wonder if it isn't a ship date counter or an altimeter recorder for early weather balloons, or a fence counter?
Seems like the kind of thing that might have been replaced by an assembly line /spool counter or a paper tag method.
All you people,,, ask your parents and grandparents!!!!
I'm still in the 'manual' machine gun belt tracer counter loader mode (WWII) ours or theirs.
Yet still.....
That it hasn't been "set" might indicate the 'setter' was too busy, to worry about being accurate, probably not RR live freight.
The area might suggest something from the Japanese balloon bombs, in english to prevent identity of the source, yet to be identified after the invasion.
Either way, it's an unset recorder for one-time use or a process counter to be set and reused for constant count.
That it is still unidentified leads me to believe it is foreign or a method of solution that was almost immediatlely obsolete.
Do da' word obsessive mean anything?
Attached to a board, a MG belt could be rolled over to the stop (bent tang) and a tracer inserted, under the KISS principle, the same could be accomplished by a board with nails to space the 'gap' between tracers. Inexperienced MG'ers use every third tracer, then 10, and every 30th for charted fire from concealed positions. All of which belts could have been gauged on a board with nails as spacers or by eye instead of contraption.
The tangs still look as if some kind of 'cage timer or counter', maybe thought to be an improvement on a written calendar that never caught on or became immediately obsolete.
As is obvious, I have no problem with ignorance over time. The 'Knowing' is the goal. james

So It hasn't lost it's power yet; another victim of THE COUNTER

 

[Goodyguy]

Update,

I haven't given up I still carry it every where I go and ask everyone I meet to take a look and see if they have any idea what it could be.

But still no luck on an ID.

Goodyguy~

 

[Felinepeachy]

I thinks it's a Tnet thread page counter.

 

[NGE]

Yep, that's what it is, a T-Net page counter. After 15 pages, it self destructs ....NGE

 

[JamesE]

Why not start manufacturing these things?
Then if you just say they're "ON SALE!!", women will buy them.
For the guys, just say it's a 30 pack beer counter, be sure to emphasize that it 's to prevent running out of beer, not count how many you've had.
Now that's marketing!

 

[Goodyguy]

Can anyone please ID this!

Maybe since there are so many new members this will finally be Identified.

 

[OKIE]

Not that I know what it is, but here is me 2 cents worth....
I haven't read all the posts on this item so this may have
already been suggested
It could an old golf stroke counter....
I carry a new version of it on my golf bag
Thanks and good luck
HH Ray

 

[N.J.THer]

It counts how many posts are on this thread by the hundreds. Please set it between 8 and 9.
Thanks