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  • What is it?
  • Stoner
    Free Member

    We all have a “stuff drawer” or “bowl of crap”.

    I was rummaging around in mine the other day and picked out a few things that on their own are not so easily identified for what they are.

    So here they are. L to R,  1st and 2nd have their own purpose, 3rd and 4th are both part of a larger item.

    I wouldn’t presume that this thread might match the might of the “Last thing I made” thread but if you have something interesting in your tat repository post a photo up and challenge the forum to identify it.

    Use [forumname] and post links to ask questions or make claims.

    mikewsmith
    Free Member

    well the second one is a mini torx drive, maybe with some sort of ratchet?

    3 is for poking stuff somewhere and the last one is the universe from Men In Black

    CountZero
    Full Member

    That’s not a Torx driver, it has too many splines.

    mulacs
    Full Member

    1 is a fence wire twister tool for finishing off knots.

    3 some sort of rivet remover type punch/pin?

    No idea 2, intrigued…

    Stoner
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    mulacs wins with No. 1. It is a tornado wire twisting tool for fencing. Bravo.

    The rest, your’e all miles away which is the idea…

    chrisdw
    Free Member

    Number 2 is a manual nose hair trimmer!

    Stoner
    Free Member

    oh, commendable chris, yes. Correct.

    RustySpanner
    Full Member

    2 is a trepanning drill.

    3 is some sort of pressure release valve. Probably from a Land Rover.

    4 is either two bits of Lego, a foot from a toaster you threw out two house moves ago or quite a nice valve cap.

    Cougar
    Full Member

    Is #4 either a lens out of a mini torch, or some sort of spacer which pushes an internal LED out through a panel?

    Stoner
    Free Member

    Cougar is close. It is a lens. But from where?

    Rusty  No. 3 yes land rover tat, but not that.

    RustySpanner
    Full Member

    Brake light switch?

    somafunk
    Full Member

    #3 looks like part of a solenoid, perhaps a fuel cut-off solenoid or suchlike and #4 is the lens from a peephole door viewer

    Cougar
    Full Member

     #4 is the lens from a peephole door viewer

    Oooh!  Good shout.

    Cougar
    Full Member

    What’s the bottom end of #3 look like?  Is it flat or recessed?  Ie, does it slot on the end of some sort of tool or other?

    Cougar
    Full Member

    (I like this thread, good work)

    parkesie
    Free Member

    No3 looks like an injector tip

    genesiscore502011
    Free Member

    Cats eye?

    bikebouy
    Free Member

    #3 looks like it’s a mechanical Diesel engine injector to me.

    #4 I too would say it’s a cats eye with the metal covering case removed.

    Stoner
    Free Member

    well done parkesie, genesis and bikebouy.

    Yes No.3 an diesel injector nozzle and No.4 is a cateye lens.

    No one else got anything to share from their shit pile?

    bikebouy
    Free Member

    Yeah, good thread.

    When I’m home, I’ll play.

    sands
    Free Member

    bikebouy Subscriber
    Yeah, good thread.

    ^^^plus one

    I don’t know what either of these are.

    The black item is 16” wide, plastic fabric on one side, squashy rubber cubes on the other.

    The metal clamp is 8” across and made of unfinished oiled steel. It has three wingnuts and is stamped ‘Footprint’ (Footprint tools Sheffield I believe).

    perchypanther
    Free Member

    Kneeling pad for changing a tyre without getting your knees dirty.

    perchypanther
    Free Member

    The other thing is a pipe soldering clamp

    ballsofcottonwool
    Free Member

    3 and 4 are the punch and lens from an optical centre punch

    Stoner
    Free Member

    The other thing is a pipe soldering clamp

    aka “Plumber’s third hand”

    sands
    Free Member

    perchypanther
    Kneeling pad…

    That makes sense – I was going to use to protect photo kit in a Pelican case, but I won’t cut it up now.

    perchypanther
    pipe soldering clamp… Brilliant

    Stoner Member
    aka “Plumber’s third hand”

    Thanks guys – You win the internet

    maccruiskeen
    Full Member

    Ok…

    Whats this? This is a small, lose-able thing that I decided I should tuck in my wallet so that I didn’t lose it as I’d regret it if I did.

    I haven’t lost it – but I’m buggered if I can remember what its an important part of. The green bit of tape is models own and the train ticket is for scale

    Whatever its an important part of hasn’t burst into flames or crashed as a result of this important bit not being present…. yet. I think its been in my wallet for a couple of years now.

    EDIT – its actually two quite thin things

    Drac
    Full Member

    Oh it was a cat’s eye lens. The lack of metal through me.

    joshvegas
    Free Member

    Maccruisken.

    Its I shit Dominoes set.

    dangeourbrain
    Free Member

    Looks like the 20mm or 15mm spacer plates from a set of pinch bolt axle fox 36s, 2015s i think.

    singlespeedstu
    Full Member

    Think they’re 20mm spacer plates.

    The 15mm ones have an extension off the top of them.

    maccruiskeen
    Full Member

    Think they’re 20mm spacer plates.

    riiiiiight

    In that case they are from some White Bros Loops and they’ve been in my wallet since 2013 🙂

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