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  • lemuppet
    lemuppet Posts: 77
    No, it's not for testing surface hardness.
  • gingaman
    gingaman Posts: 576
    Does the ball slide on the shift?

    No sniggering at the back
  • Ber Nard
    Ber Nard Posts: 827
    The lanyard suggests you wouldn't want to drop it so something used by rope access technicians?
  • sandyballs
    sandyballs Posts: 577
    Used for Putting the holes in polo mints?
  • lemuppet
    lemuppet Posts: 77
    gingaman wrote:
    Does the ball slide on the shift?

    Nope, the ball and shaft are rigid.
  • lemuppet
    lemuppet Posts: 77
    Ber Nard wrote:
    The lanyard suggests you wouldn't want to drop it so something used by rope access technicians?
    Yes, the lanyard is to prevent dropping it and if you were at height you may well use ropes, but you can equally use it from ground level.
  • lemuppet
    lemuppet Posts: 77
    Sandyballs wrote:
    Used for Putting the holes in polo mints?
    Nope, but I like the idea!
  • sandyballs
    sandyballs Posts: 577
    Depth gauge for obese people's belly buttons? Hence the lanyard to prevent loss.
  • pinno
    pinno Posts: 52,089
    It's for testing marble authenticity prior to competitions.
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  • lemuppet
    lemuppet Posts: 77
    Sorry, it has nothing to do with belly buttons or marbles I'm afraid.
  • capt_slog
    capt_slog Posts: 3,965
    Is it a type of torque wrench?


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  • gingaman
    gingaman Posts: 576
    is it for extreme button to shirt attachment?
  • gingaman
    gingaman Posts: 576
    is it for tattooing elephants?
  • gingaman
    gingaman Posts: 576
    lemuppet wrote:
    gingaman wrote:
    Does the ball slide on the shift?

    Nope, the ball and shaft are rigid.

    That suggests to me that the ball is a weight at the end, so perhaps a 'swinging' tool. the plunger type thing, does that poke something out of the open end, or rotate in, like a screw?

    perhaps it is Mary Berry's new hardcore cake icing pipette
  • stu-bim
    stu-bim Posts: 384
    Is it used in measuring dampness on the surface of concrete or mud?

    Looks like the ball is rested and the pointy part absorbs liquid and is measured on scale on shaft
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  • stu-bim
    stu-bim Posts: 384
    Can I go again?

    It's for measuring 'gas' pressure of some sort, football maybe
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  • lemuppet
    lemuppet Posts: 77
    It's not a torque wrench, nor is it used for buttons, elephants, icing, concrete, mud, gas pressure or footballs.

    However, the pointy bit is hollow and the plunger is for pushing something out of it, but what??...
  • shockedsoshocked
    shockedsoshocked Posts: 4,021
    lemuppet wrote:
    It's not a torque wrench, nor is it used for buttons, elephants, icing, concrete, mud, gas pressure or footballs.

    However, the pointy bit is hollow and the plunger is for pushing something out of it, but what??...

    Says made in Sweden on it, so possibly something used in Scandinavia? Taking ice bores? Suppose there's plenty of that :lol:
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  • lemuppet
    lemuppet Posts: 77
    Not ice, but something else you might find a lot of in Scandanavia....

    And no, it's nothing to do with porn...

    Or marbles...
  • keef66
    keef66 Posts: 13,123
    Saabs? Herrings? Trees? Elk?
  • gingaman
    gingaman Posts: 576
    is it for opening a hole in a tree to remove sap/ syrup?
  • lemuppet
    lemuppet Posts: 77
    It is tree related, but not for removing sap or syrup.
  • ben@31
    ben@31 Posts: 2,327
    Is it in case you get lost on a bike ride and end up in the Mojave desert, you use the tool to bore a small hole in a cactus so that you can extract some cool refreshing cactus juice to keep you hydrated. Place tool in back of cycling jersey and cycle onwards to next cactus 100km further down the road? I think i'm onto a winner here.
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  • lemuppet
    lemuppet Posts: 77
    ben@31 wrote:
    Is it in case you get lost on a bike ride and end up in the Mojave desert, you use the tool to bore a small hole in a cactus so that you can extract some cool refreshing cactus juice to keep you hydrated. Place tool in back of cycling jersey and cycle onwards to next cactus 100km further down the road? I think i'm onto a winner here.

    That is an excellent idea and for sheer creativity it ought to win, but sadly it is not what it is used for.
  • natrix
    natrix Posts: 1,111
    Is it for making corks for miniature wine bottles????

    You swing it at a cork tree, the hollow pointy bit goes in, you then pull the hammer away from the tree and push the plunger which pushes out a perfect little wine bottle cork from the hollow pointy bit. 8)

    Wine is so expensive in Scandinavia that they can't afford full size bottles with full size corks :D:D
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  • capt_slog
    capt_slog Posts: 3,965
    Is it for taking samples of wood from the tree for analysis?


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  • lemuppet
    lemuppet Posts: 77
    Yay, Capt Slog has it!

    It is for taking core samples from trees so you can see what growth there has been year by year. You wang it in the tree, yank it out and poke the core out with the plunger.

    Over to you Capt Slog....
  • capt_slog
    capt_slog Posts: 3,965
    Oh dear. This might take a while.



    Just to forestall the usual, I'll indulge in a little DIY....

    Why are we waiting
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    Why are we waiting etc. :mrgreen:


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  • capt_slog
    capt_slog Posts: 3,965
    Not as long as i thought. I remembered an unused cupboard, and there was this.....

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    Sorry, not the best of pics, the metal bits are mainly bright, shiny chrome. If I'm not around to take the answers, can we trust the 'winner' please? It's something that will be very obvious to someone.


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  • lancew
    lancew Posts: 680
    Is it electricity based?

    Looks like it tests for some type of current?
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