Old Koreelah Posted January 4, 2020 Share Posted January 4, 2020 While doing a big cleanup of our kitchen we found a strange little bit of equipment. As shown in the pix, it's 32x 17x 7mm and seems to be folded up from stainless steel. Can any of you technical people identify it? [ATTACH]50555._xfImport[/ATTACH] [ATTACH]50556._xfImport[/ATTACH] [ATTACH]50557._xfImport[/ATTACH] [ATTACH]50558._xfImport[/ATTACH] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
onetrack Posted January 4, 2020 Share Posted January 4, 2020 It's a wigwam for a gooses bridle - specifically, a MK. IV model. No need to thank me, I'm happy to help out, any time it's required. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
old man emu Posted January 4, 2020 Share Posted January 4, 2020 No the Mk IV had a left handed Whitworth thread at 27 TPI. That one looks like a post-ECU Metric M4.75 thread. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
red750 Posted January 4, 2020 Share Posted January 4, 2020 It's a wigwam for a gooses bridle - specifically, a MK. IV model. No need to thank me, I'm happy to help out, any time it's required. That's an expression my mother used, rest her soul. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
onetrack Posted January 4, 2020 Share Posted January 4, 2020 OME, you haven't got a clue, have you? There's nary a thread to be seen on it! I can see where the countersunk-head screws went, though. I searched Google for the image and Google told me it was a belt buckle. Good try, but no cigar, I reckon. Red - Yes, it must have been a common saying for inquisitive youngsters in our day, it seems it comes from our parents era - my Dad always used it on me, when I got too inquisitive. First recorded use in Australia, in 1917. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
old man emu Posted January 5, 2020 Share Posted January 5, 2020 There's nary a thread to be seen on it! I was looking at it on my iPhone, with poor eyesight. With such a small screen, I thought it was a teepee. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nomadpete Posted January 5, 2020 Share Posted January 5, 2020 It looks important. Best you put it away in a safe place. One day you're sure to be needing it. If ever you find that goose's bridle that grandad wanted to fix..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
old man emu Posted January 5, 2020 Share Posted January 5, 2020 Too right! You'll be looking for something like that one day and remember that you once had one. I'd put it where all the important "might need it one day" stuff goes - the third drawer in the kitchen. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
willedoo Posted January 5, 2020 Share Posted January 5, 2020 It looks small, unless you have really big biros of course. The only other observation is that the half oval section has a beveled cutting or scraping edge, and the counter sunk screw holes might attach it all to a handle. My best bet is a thingamebob. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Litespeed Posted January 5, 2020 Share Posted January 5, 2020 A food tool to core a fruit or vegetable or remove a section of it. Has a sharp blade so must be to cut stuff. Probably from a tool that has changeable heads. Used in torture of food. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Koreelah Posted January 5, 2020 Author Share Posted January 5, 2020 ...the half oval section has a beveled cutting or scraping edge, and the counter sunk screw holes might attach it all to a handle... Well spotted, Willedoo! I hadn't noticed that detail, but that greatly narrows down it likely function. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
red750 Posted January 5, 2020 Share Posted January 5, 2020 I don't think they are countersunk holes, I think it is a two-piece unit, with indentations in the outer part, which slip into holes in the inner part when put together. I think it is intended to separate into the two parts. [ATTACH]50564._xfImport[/ATTACH] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
willedoo Posted January 6, 2020 Share Posted January 6, 2020 I don't think they are countersunk holes, I think it is a two-piece unit, with indentations in the outer part, which slip into holes in the inner part when put together. I think it is intended to separate into the two parts. That could be right, Peter. If they were countersunk screw holes, the hole diameter of the inner cutting edge section would be the size of the screw shank and not so big like it is. It's hard to visualise what the cutting edge would do. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
onetrack Posted January 6, 2020 Share Posted January 6, 2020 An Avocado scooper? For cutting the flesh out of Avocadoes after they've been cut in half? (beats a spoon?) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spacesailor Posted January 6, 2020 Share Posted January 6, 2020 "An Avocado scooper?" OR A Mango scooper. spacesailor Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
facthunter Posted January 7, 2020 Share Posted January 7, 2020 Can't we just forget you ever found it.? It's just a bracket for some fitting or something or other you didn't need at the time. IF it WAS important you would have known about it long ago. My brain cells are in short supply so I have to use them on important things.. Critical allocation of scarce resources to priority tasks sort of thing. Nev. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
onetrack Posted January 7, 2020 Share Posted January 7, 2020 It's actually something he wanted desperately about 5 years ago. Despite a major search, he couldn't find it, so he went out and bought another one. Then he's found the item, well after he needed it, and it's been that long, he's even forgotten what it was actually for. That's what happens every time I need an item, and I know I've got it somewhere. I spend hours looking for it, can't find it, and go and buy another one at great cost. This then makes the gremlins put the item back where you thought it was, and you find it again, long after you needed it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pmccarthy Posted January 7, 2020 Share Posted January 7, 2020 Throw it out. Within a week you will realise what is is and why you need it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nomadpete Posted January 7, 2020 Share Posted January 7, 2020 Hide it. Tell your wife you've thrown to out. She will be happy to hear that ( brownie points!) Wait a week. (This depend on how bad your short term memory is). Suddenly you will need it! (Basic rule of the shed.... You never think you'll need something until a week after you throw it out) Problem solved. Then Tell us! We're dying to know. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
willedoo Posted January 7, 2020 Share Posted January 7, 2020 Basic rule of the shed.... You never think you'll need something until a week after you throw it out That's very true and also very weird. It must be some cosmic force of nature or something. I've been cleaning up to put the place on the market and stuff that hasn't been used for twenty years or more suddenly has a use and is missed within a week or two of throwing it out. Why is it so? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yenn Posted January 8, 2020 Share Posted January 8, 2020 It is either a super dooper pooper scooper, or a device for taking boy scouts out of horses hooves. But then again it could be a cover for a padlock. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Koreelah Posted January 12, 2020 Author Share Posted January 12, 2020 A food tool to core a fruit or vegetable or remove a section of it. Has a sharp blade so must be to cut stuff. Probably from a tool that has changeable heads. Used in torture of food. Litey you get the prize. My kid sent these pix of a long-forgotten device that cores, peels and makes spirals out of apples: [ATTACH]50587._xfImport[/ATTACH] [ATTACH]50588._xfImport[/ATTACH] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pmccarthy Posted January 12, 2020 Share Posted January 12, 2020 Well done! Wish I had picked it, we have one on the bench. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nomadpete Posted January 12, 2020 Share Posted January 12, 2020 That device looks a lot like a cat carrier to me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
willedoo Posted January 12, 2020 Share Posted January 12, 2020 That device looks a lot like a cat carrier to me. Or some 19th. Century medical device. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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