What is It? Game 15

By Alex in What Is It on Mar 15, 2007 at 3:01 am

This week’s collaboration with What is it? Blog brings us this strange object – can you guess what it is? For more fun guessing game (and for dimensions clue on this object), check out What is It? blog.

[No prize this week - congrats to Kent who won last week's game]

Update 3/16/07: The answer is:

Aerial spacer cable insulator, allows the running of a three phase line in a minimum amount of space. The hook on the bottom left is hung on a steel messenger cable and the conductors are placed in the large inner grooves, with the small outer grooves being used for tie wires.

Congratulations to Chris who got it right!


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  1. ReDCaine
    Mar 15th, 2007 at 3:24 am

    It’s a funky coat hanger w/belt hook @ the bottom.

  2. Ali
    Mar 15th, 2007 at 4:10 am

    Gothic Hanger! With the potential added ability to be used as a shuriken incase Ninjas appear to attack said Goth with a coat…trench coat that is.

    :p

  3. Bob Robinson
    Mar 15th, 2007 at 4:12 am

    No idea what it is but it looks cool!

    Can I have one?

  4. jonno
    Mar 15th, 2007 at 5:00 am

    you already know what i think it looks like ……

  5. Chris
    Mar 15th, 2007 at 5:10 am

    A wire hanger/spacer/insulator used for low voltage three phase power.

  6. George
    Mar 15th, 2007 at 6:34 am

    I think it is a tool to untie knots in rope.

  7. Bryan
    Mar 15th, 2007 at 6:36 am

    It’s that thingy from Krull

  8. kons0uL
    Mar 15th, 2007 at 6:40 am

    I think it’s the ceramic separator they put between different high tension wires to insure they don’t touch one another as they travel from pole to pole.

  9. Miss Cellania
    Mar 15th, 2007 at 6:49 am

    Its obviously an instrument of torture.

  10. Addison
    Mar 15th, 2007 at 7:52 am

    I was totally going to guess a gynecological instrument.

  11. SarahS
    Mar 15th, 2007 at 7:54 am

    It looks like a tool for repairing fishing nets

  12. Randall
    Mar 15th, 2007 at 7:55 am

    Its a spline devolator. Its used to creumbulate dipole volitads. Its no longer used because the volitads come precreumbulated. You can buy these by the boxful at any flea market.

  13. Heather
    Mar 15th, 2007 at 8:28 am

    a funky cross a hook a anchor

  14. Ian
    Mar 15th, 2007 at 9:58 am

    A rather elaborate can opener. The top bit certainly looks like one of those ring-pull assists

  15. liz
    Mar 15th, 2007 at 10:25 am

    I second the trivet vote.

  16. Denita TwoDragons
    Mar 15th, 2007 at 10:54 am

    You use it to pull out racks in a hot oven when you’re needing to check on what you’re baking. The little notch in the curve is used to push the rack back in. Perhaps this one is meant for something hotter than your average oven? Like maybe an industrial kiln, perhaps…?

    –TwoDragons

  17. Denita TwoDragons
    Mar 15th, 2007 at 10:55 am

    Either that, or it’s a Klingon weapon. :-)

    –TwoDragons

  18. idiot
    Mar 15th, 2007 at 11:23 am

    i dont know… ask a ninja

  19. Tram
    Mar 15th, 2007 at 11:26 am

    Polynesian fishing hook.

  20. Jim
    Mar 15th, 2007 at 11:41 am

    I’m with Chris and cons0ul, it’s a wire separator.

  21. Chris
    Mar 15th, 2007 at 12:01 pm

    Here’s a link to a glass version.
    http://www.nia.org/general/g_seper.htm
    Keep those imaginative guesses coming.

  22. Mr. Mann
    Mar 15th, 2007 at 12:05 pm

    The world’s most dangerous IUD.

  23. beajerry
    Mar 15th, 2007 at 12:07 pm

    It’s not an insulator, but it is used by an electrician to install wiring.

  24. Brian
    Mar 15th, 2007 at 12:57 pm

    A window pane

  25. Vexorg
    Mar 15th, 2007 at 1:12 pm

    That must be the skyhook those guys down at the factory told me to find for them on my first day…

  26. Drew
    Mar 15th, 2007 at 1:16 pm

    It’s one of those new-fangled japanese automobiles.

  27. aware
    Mar 15th, 2007 at 1:22 pm

    Klingon batlith necklace charm worn by B’Elanna Torres (half klingon, half catholic)

  28. jonno
    Mar 15th, 2007 at 1:27 pm

    you could be on to something there drew …… on a second look, it does somewhat look familiar ….

  29. Kent
    Mar 15th, 2007 at 1:58 pm

    It’s probably a wire seperator, but who cares. Looks cool enough to hang in my Guy Room.

  30. Paul
    Mar 15th, 2007 at 2:13 pm

    Definitely for spacing powerlines, you know , keeping them apart between the poles.

  31. Arthur
    Mar 15th, 2007 at 2:34 pm

    It is actually a “Turborang” A turbo-boomerang manufactured in the early eighties by Hasbro Industries. This toy, along with their “Lawn Darts” were removed from toy stores’ shelves by court order.
    I was nearly blinded by a neighbors’ errant Turborang flight in 1983. Oh the frightful whirring that those blades cause, just seeing it posted gives me the willies!

  32. Arthur
    Mar 15th, 2007 at 2:34 pm

    or a banana

  33. jen
    Mar 15th, 2007 at 4:57 pm

    You know, most of these things have looked like bananas to me, but for some reasonn I’m thinking this object looks more like a kiwifruit.

  34. Lily
    Mar 15th, 2007 at 5:36 pm

    grappling hook

  35. eskimo
    Mar 15th, 2007 at 6:04 pm

    It’s a wire seperator… the link Chris posted says so. http://www.nia.org/general/g_seper.htm

  36. jonno
    Mar 15th, 2007 at 7:37 pm

    jen ……. are you nuts? can you not see the banana like qualities?

  37. HapaD
    Mar 16th, 2007 at 4:52 pm

    a piece to hang potted plants from something, like a branch.

  38. yayo
    Mar 17th, 2007 at 6:32 am

    Could it be the handle to tie the rope for a kite?


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