What is It? Game 15 - Neatorama

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!

Comments (42)

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

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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

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No idea what it is but it looks cool!

Can I have one?

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A trivet?

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you already know what i think it looks like ......

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

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

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It's that thingy from Krull

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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.

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Its obviously an instrument of torture.

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I was totally going to guess a gynecological instrument.

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It looks like a tool for repairing fishing nets

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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.

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a funky cross a hook a anchor

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Randall made me LOL.

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

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I second the trivet vote.

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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

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

--TwoDragons

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i dont know... ask a ninja

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Polynesian fishing hook.

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

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

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The world's most dangerous IUD.

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

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A window pane

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

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

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or a banana

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

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

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

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

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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!

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or a banana

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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.

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grappling hook

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

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

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A glaive.

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

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

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