What Is It? Game 105 - Neatorama

This week's collaboration with the What is it? Blog brings us this strange tool above - can you guess what it is for? Place your guess in the comment section. No prize this week, so you're playing for fame and glory.

For more clues, check out the What is it? Blog. Good luck!

Update 7/19/09 - the answer is: A transmission spring compressor and holder for Model T Fords, according to a patent for a similar tool: ...for compressing and holding transmission band springs, which band springs are carried by bolts disposed in a removable section of a transmission casing. From patent number 1,433,944. Nobody got it this time around ...

Hmmm, a tricky one this week, maybe for moving burning logs around in a fire?

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It's a spreading tool of some sort.

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Hmm... I would guess that it's used to move something very hot, but it doesn't have any kind of lip at the end that would really give it a more secure grip.
I have no idea what it is lol.

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It is a mouse sexer. Despite the rough look of this object, it is in fact a precision scientific instrument. Unsexed immature mice are sorted by passing through the adjustable gates at the base. THese gates are slightly offset, and by spreading the gates mice of various age can pass through them. Fully closing the gates allows only male mice to pass, as they have narrower hips than females. opening the gates slightly allows for immature female mice to pass and opening the gates completely allows for mature females to pass. In the 1930's, when this device saw widespread use in behavioral labs, the phrase 'open door policy' drew snickers even from aged professors.

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It is a toaster for the fireplace. My best guess.

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Poop grabber.

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Poop Scooper :)

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Brick tongs - for picking up hot bricks after firing.

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Looks like a tool you use when working with hot glass.

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It is a test tube holder for alchemists. They would place the lead filled test tubes in the slots, place it in the fire, and hope for gold.

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It's an instrument of torture.

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Iron Man's left arm.

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A railroad spike holder/puller.

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Halvor...It spreads va jay jays.

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Either an antique pooper scooper or tongs for pulling hot stones/bricks from a fireplace

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Something to toss 3 hot rivets at a the same time.

(Good luck for the catcher...)

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you guys are effing retarded, you're taking your 'game' question from a year old episode of True Blood?

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Toaster tongs. Just don't get it too close to the electrically charged heating elements.

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Giant metal substitute hands for clapping.

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a coconut extractor for people who "accidentally fell" on them and they "got stuck."

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it's a spreader or hand held jack/lift.

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could also be used to remove bearings or something of the like.

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A fetishist's dream?

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