What is it thread

[phideaux]

OK, I have this thing. Came out of a pile of stuff that was used to maintain communications wires, primarily in manholes.
Any idea what it is?
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Betcha Ed Norton would know.
Sorry , I'd be afraid to even guess.

Jim

 

[Haertig]

I've never drank too much. Except back in high school, where it was pretty much obligatory. Our group of friends had a real bad experience with wine once. Being young and unsophisticated, we found some bottles of port wine that were kick-ass in the alcohol content department. So we bought that. (At the time, in Texas, the legal drinking age was 18, so still in high school. Not that the legal part would have mattered much.) We did not realize at the time that this port wine was cooking wine.

That was a real disaster of a party out at the lake that day...

 

[Pearl]

Betcha Ed Norton would know.
Sorry , I'd be afraid to even guess.

Jim

Looks like a bomb to me!

 

[Neb]

OK, I have this thing. Came out of a pile of stuff that was used to maintain communications wires, primarily in manholes.
Any idea what it is?
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Is there a wire connection on the bottom?
Is the wire a single conductor?

Could be a big honking resistor if yes.

Ben

 

[Neb]

I would agree. Yours looks like the previous owner sawed off the antlers, so you couldn't set it down. Maybe to make the drinking game go a little faster!

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I noticed these on the buffet.

I will have to ask The Princess.

Ben

 

[Pearl]

I looked at it again!! Definitely NOT alcohol related!

 

[Pearl]

I looked at it again!! Definitely NOT alcohol related!

Referring to zoomzoom's bomb, not Neb's fancy critters!

 

[SheepDog]

I think it appears to be a big grounding cable.

 

[Pearl]

Are there prizes for correct guesses??

 

[Neb]

Are there prizes for correct guesses??

A snarfblat award



Ben

 

[Pearl]

A snarfblat award



Ben

I was thinking alcohol or cash

 

[Caribou]

OK, I have this thing. Came out of a pile of stuff that was used to maintain communications wires, primarily in manholes.
Any idea what it is?
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That knock on your door is the ATF!

 

[Pearl]

I was thinking alcohol or cash

I'm not the only one

 

[Amish Heart]

No. That sounds good to me, too.
Maybe it's just a doorstop with a wire for a fashion statement.

 

[Neb]

I noticed these on the buffet.

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I will have to ask The Princess.

Ben

The smaller is a shot glass. Both are called jiggers used to measure while mixing drinks.

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Ben

 

[Terri9630]

Thats a chunk of concrete with some black goo and a wire sticking out of it! Now, what did I win?

 

[backlash]

OK, I have this thing. Came out of a pile of stuff that was used to maintain communications wires, primarily in manholes.
Any idea what it is?
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IED

 

[dademoss]

IED

It doesn't look like anything I have ... oops, nevermind

 

[Pearl]

No. That sounds good to me, too.
Maybe it's just a doorstop with a wire for a fashion statement.

You might win, good guess!!

 

[Supervisor42]

OK, I have this thing. Came out of a pile of stuff that was used to maintain communications wires, primarily in manholes.
Any idea what it is?
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I think it is a pavement strain gauge of some kind that they drop into a cutout to record how much pounding/movement the roadway is having.
This would explain it's trapezoid shape (so they can easily lift it back out).
The device inside it is pretty large going by the size of the hole in it that is potted with plastic.
It probably reports the movement of the roadway in all 3 six directions.
I bet it was expensive at one time.

 

[Pearl]

I think it is a pavement strain gauge of some kind that they drop into a cutout to record how much pounding/movement the roadway is having.
This would explain it's trapezoid shape (so they can easily lift it back out).
The device inside it is pretty large going by the size of the hole in it that is potted with plastic.
It probably reports the movement of the roadway in all 3 directions.
I bet it was expensive at one time.

Good try but Amish heart is probably right, DOORSTOP! It's kinda obvious!! Lol!

 

[Spikedriver]

OK, I have this thing. Came out of a pile of stuff that was used to maintain communications wires, primarily in manholes.
Any idea what it is?
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It is a large block of C4 with det cord, ready to be placed on a fire ant mound...

 

[zoomzoom]

The thing I posted has just one wire.
I don't know what it is myself so I can't say who the winner is.
I have 4 of them and they're now tire chocks for when we pull in the garages.

 

[Curmudgeon]

Some may know.............

 

[backlash]

Witching stick

 

[Curmudgeon]

Witching stick

Ya got the stick part right, lol.

EDIT: So I had to look that up as I had never heard it termed that.

I'm thinking a slightly different term. I have one on the house.

 

[Cabin Fever]

A bottle of Jagermiester before they put the new label on it:

You beat me to it. I was gonna say the same thing. Reminds me of the Vicks Formula 44 that my Mom gave me when I was a kid. I think mine did have Codeine in it, tho.

 

[dademoss]

Some may know.............
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If you aren't dowsing, it's a weather stick. You may having sunny weather.

 

[Neb]

The thing I posted has just one wire.
I don't know what it is myself so I can't say who the winner is.
I have 4 of them and they're now tire chocks for when we pull in the garages.

They didn't come out of a missile silo did they?

Try cutting a section of the wire and see if you can light it.

Ben

 

[Neb]

Ya got the stick part right, lol.

EDIT: So I had to look that up as I had never heard it termed that.

I'm thinking a slightly different term. I have one on the house.

Huh?

Is that a weather vane?

Ben