This week’s collaboration with What is it? blog brings us these two strange springs (6" tall). Leave a guess in the comment section (no URL, please – let others play). First correct guess will win a Free Neatorama T-Shirt!
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Update 3/1/07: The answer is …
Springs for making a regular chair into a rocking chair, they mount onto the bottom of the front legs.
Arnau
¡¡It is a holder for a Soldering Iron!! My uncle still uses them. You put the soldering iron in the hole so the hot metal doesn’t touch anything.
flares
It looks like the hood closing/locking mechanism from an old Mini, so it might be something along those lines.
Kct
It is a spring that acts with the shock absorbers of a car. It makes part of the suspension of a vehicle.
TheGoodReverend
They are for mounting signs outside a business on a sidewalk, flexible so the wind won’t blow the sign over.
Calcul8r
They attach to the end of a pole and are used to unscrew light bulbs
scott johnson
those are auger tips from a drain clearing machine, commonly known as a “snake”
beajerry
They go on each end of a curtain rod and are used for mounting ornate curtain decorations.
Gregg
Springs you put under each bedpost to give you a more cushie (vibration free) sleep?
James
Kinda obvious to me though likely incorrect: Antique artistic candle holders.
Buzz
Looks like an old-fashioned spring for a door stop (the kind that attaches to the wall to prevent the door from hitting the wall).
Brennan
Something for planting seeds with a hollow rod attached to the top for dropping said seeds?
Chauss513
I have a pair but I am not certain what they do, I have however used them for a project which you can see if you go to Flickr Chauss513 and look in the “My Art” set.
Ali
Now that I think about it…they may actually be those springs used for those playground springy horse rides.
The ones that are insanely crazy to be riding on when drunk at night and it’s raining. >_>
Alex
Ah, this is a good one – no one got it. The answer is: Springs for making a regular chair into a rocking chair, they mount onto the bottom of the front legs.
jonno
once again, obviously no one can see the obvious …………. banana …. LOOK!!
jonno
yes i know i wrote obvious twice there, my bad, i was watching tv at the time and im gonna say obvious another obviously obvious time, just to make it obvious.
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