✅ 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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[Deftone]

Noooo! Just when I thought it was erased from my brain.

Are you Crazy? It will never be...

I continue to reiterate my offer of a bottle of Fine New Zealand Wine to the Winner.
Rules determined by the Masses.
For example, another one.
While I'm here, I wish everyone a brilliant start to the New Year and an even Better Finish
Mike et al

Back atcha! Just a heads up for when I crack this baby..I prefer red!

 

[SkyPirate]

Maybe it's the inside of some type of combination lock?

Maybe a book marker that keeps track of pages?

 

[SODABOTTLEBOB]

Hey SkyPirate -

Did you notice that your post was #950 ?

Good Luck ... all 949 others of us will be waiting patiently for this one to get solved!

I gave up weeks ago!

Respectfully,

SODABOTTLEBOB

 

[Carolina Gold]

While building the alaska pipeline, you'd need a pipe threader, and a thing to count threads, it fits in a guide and you roll that down the threads and the teeth fit the threads and you stop the threader when you get to the right count.
thats todays guess.

 

[Carolina Gold]

it wouldnt have anything to do with film or cutting film would it? any camera or motion picture buffs out there/>?
I think Im going to post a picture at work.

 

[SODABOTTLEBOB]

Carolina Gold -

Welcome to Tnet!

If you come up with a photo of that "thread counting critter," then UB the man of this thread!

Here's mine!

(Well, actually it's not mine. But I paid my two cents worth for it!)

SDBB

 

[S IL THer]

Well, I was a young mechanical (maniacal) engineer just out of college, and had just moved to Alaska. I needed to raise some much needed cash;
so I designed this device and explained to the people of Alaska that this would become a necessity in the very near future. Well, they bought quite an
amount of these gadgets; enough so I could import some nice refrigerators to sell to the Eskimos. At least the Eskimos had a use for what I sold to them! Ha ha ha
so, I don't know what it is either!! I just thought this might put an end to the sleepless nights!

 

[Kevo_DFX]

Soda Bottle mentioned applying Ockham's razor. I agree. I know this has been suggested before, but:

While buying chicken wire for a sifter yesterday, Lowe's had me in the outdoor section (brr!)

I look to my left and see these thingers:
http://www.lifeandlawns.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/04/spreader-setting.jpg

It is a dial which goes to fifteen. ALL of the broadcast spreaders I have seen have dials that go to fifteen. It is a product that has been and will be made for a long time, so I'm sure there are many different versions out there, this is just from a lesser known model.

That's my guess, I'm sticking to it.

 

[TiredIron]

When one is making Wine or Champagne....don't the filled and sealed bottles have to be turned or rotated. (I don't know how many times but maybe its 15?)
This is an inexpensive register to keep track of how many times the home brewer has turned his stock......yep.
Thats my wag today.

TiredIron

 

[traderoftreasures]

maybe thats how many birthdays a kintuckyin has to go through before gettin' married (no disrespect to my kentucky friends)

 

[SODABOTTLEBOB]

I was just passing by and heard someone mention my name ...



And every time I hear my name mentioned my ear hairs tingle!

In fact ... that's my guess for today!

"It's an ear hair counter!"

SDBB



"Run, Forrest ... run!"

 

[Bigcypresshunter]

Soda Bottle mentioned applying Ockham's razor. I agree. I know this has been suggested before, but:

While buying chicken wire for a sifter yesterday, Lowe's had me in the outdoor section (brr!)

I look to my left and see these thingers:
http://www.lifeandlawns.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/04/spreader-setting.jpg

It is a dial which goes to fifteen. ALL of the broadcast spreaders I have seen have dials that go to fifteen. It is a product that has been and will be made for a long time, so I'm sure there are many different versions out there, this is just from a lesser known model.

That's my guess, I'm sticking to it.

And it would connect how?

 

[samuel_schumaker]

It is a highschool volleyball score counter that the referees used to use years ago before scoreboards to keep track of each teams score, one ref keeps one teams score and the other ref keeps the other teams, high school plays to 15 unlike the pro's. The cover is missing however and they were usually attaached to the refs side usually on a belt or the top of a glove, kind of like the counters baseball umpires use to keep track of pitches

 

[Skrimpy]

I just heard about this interesting application for smartphones that is due out in the next year or so. It searches pictures on the internet and gives back the best matches....because we don't know what the hell this thing is called, it makes iternet searching troublesome. Once one of you has this app, you know what to do with this God aweful thing. If I can find a link that has the app, I'll post it. A friend of mine saw it on MSNBC and didn't know what the app was called or where I could find a link to it.

 

[stasys]

posible this thing in Aleska was hang on fence to say naibours! dont worry I will be back in 1or15 days

 

[IronSpike]

posible this thing in Aleska was hang on fence to say naibours! dont worry I will be back in 1or15 days

Don't stay away longer than 1-15 days

I just heard about this interesting application for smartphones that is due out in the next year or so. It searches pictures on the internet and gives back the best matches....because we don't know what the hell this thing is called, it makes iternet searching troublesome. Once one of you has this app, you know what to do with this God aweful thing. If I can find a link that has the app, I'll post it. A friend of mine saw it on MSNBC and didn't know what the app was called or where I could find a link to it.

Good thinking, Skrimpy.

One reason why we don't know what it called...is because it is broken off of a larger piece. I am sure the piece, in a whole, has a name. That's why it is so hard IDing broken pieces of junk

Something is missing Two holes on left hooked on to small pins and likewise right side attached to a larger object

 

[IronSpike]

I'm now thinking scale for weight of sorts rather than decoder

Is a spring missing?

 

[mrs.oroblanco]

The biggest thing that is missing is an identification!!!

Most people seem to recognize it, or think they have seen one before, but we just cannot pin the sucker down!!

B


60870 reads - no identification!!

 

[Arid-Zone-A-seeker]

It's a angle set indicator for setting saw teeth,
After hand filing the teeth to sharpen them you have to set the teeth, that is move them out of the line of the rest of the blade so the teeth will bite.
The rest of the plier type tool clamped on the blade with a C clamp type attachment.