What is it? Game 32

Posted by Alex in What Is It on August 9, 2007 at 3:01 am


Today’s collaboration with What is it? blog brings us this strange looking device – can you guess what it is? More clues and another photo at What is it? blog.

Place your guess in the comment section, but please post no URLs – let others play! No prize this week, you’re playing for bragging rights only.

Update 8/10/07 – here’s the answer:

Intruder alarm, screwed into a door or window frame, a percussion cap is placed on the nipple and black powder goes into the barrel. When the device is triggered, the spring powered hammer hits the percussion cap, which fires the black powder, scaring away the unwanted visitor. It could also be attached to a tree and rigged to a tripwire for an outdoor alarm.

It was a stumper! No one got it right, though “Ye Olde Stapler” is an excellent guess!


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24 comments to "What is it? Game 32"

  1. Edward
    August 9th, 2007 at 4:13 am

    A stamp press

  2. Jordi Guzman
    August 9th, 2007 at 4:49 am

    A coin engraver

  3. Chris W
    August 9th, 2007 at 5:56 am

    A rivet setter

  4. Milkman
    August 9th, 2007 at 6:19 am

    A leather working tool - for forming shoes

  5. MrPumpernickel
    August 9th, 2007 at 6:28 am

    An old wood planer, for planing wood.

  6. Randall
    August 9th, 2007 at 7:23 am

    A Prockle wedge, used for calibrating shim-tuckers in the krestining phase of base lifting. I worked
    as a trable wacker in the Nova Scotia melding pits one summer and wore out three wedges until I learned how to do it right. Never clack-slat to the left of the shim break!

    The brass ones were the best, I had to use the malachite models because I was new and inexperienced.

  7. Tim Giachetti
    August 9th, 2007 at 7:55 am

    spot welder

  8. aj172
    August 9th, 2007 at 8:07 am

    A leather puncher, or something to do with leather.

  9. Carl Huber
    August 9th, 2007 at 8:17 am

    THe screw part means it's going to stop whatever you're trying to scrape when it butts up against that wood edge when it's screwed in. Odd. It looks like it's just supposed to plane a little off the edge of something, like flooring that's supposed to fit under the edge of a wall.

  10. Courtney
    August 9th, 2007 at 9:02 am

    It's a stapler. Specifically, Larry King's stapler.

  11. Melody
    August 9th, 2007 at 9:44 am

    A knife sharpener

  12. Alasdair
    August 9th, 2007 at 12:20 pm

    Torture device

  13. Dan
    August 9th, 2007 at 12:33 pm

    A manual drill

  14. Drew
    August 9th, 2007 at 2:13 pm

    a monkey

  15. Alex
    August 9th, 2007 at 3:07 pm

    14 guesses and not even one close one. Not even close! :)

  16. CheeseDuck
    August 9th, 2007 at 3:37 pm

    Awesome

  17. arthur
    August 9th, 2007 at 4:01 pm

    hmmmmmmmmmm.......is it a banana.............peeler?

  18. Miguel
    August 9th, 2007 at 5:32 pm

    It looks like some sort of smasher. The metal strip looks as though it gives a spring loaded action downwards. I wonder if the top is parallel to the bottom for a reason. The nut just on top of the metal strip looks as though it was made to turn.

    Hmmm, the size of the lag on the end, where it screws into something, suggests it could hold a bit of weight.

    Hmmmmm......

  19. luke
    August 9th, 2007 at 6:25 pm

    some type of clamp for something?

    maybe mounted vertically to hold a bike. (ole timey storage doo-higgy)

  20. Ali S.
    August 9th, 2007 at 8:28 pm

    Ye Olde Stapler

  21. Joann
    August 9th, 2007 at 10:15 pm

    stapler

  22. beast1994
    August 10th, 2007 at 7:17 am

    from my inexperience w/ this site im guessing a leather punch to punch holes for eylet for string

  23. neko
    August 10th, 2007 at 12:59 pm

    nutcracker made to look kind of like a stapler.

  24. Alex
    August 10th, 2007 at 10:05 pm

    Aw, no one got it! Answer: an intruder alarm, which uses a blank cap to scare away would-be thieves and alarm the occupants of the house.


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