What Is It? game 296 - Neatorama

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Place your guess in the comment section below. One guess per comment, please, though you can enter as many as you'd like. You might know the true answer, but we're going to select two winners who come up with the funniest, most outlandish guesses to win a T-shirt from the NeatoShop. However...

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Please note that the cut-away view is for instructional purposes, and the original object is as it appears in the top picture. Get more clues at the What Is It? Blog. Good luck!

Update: the pictured item is a fusible plug for a boiler. If the temperature gets too hot, the tin plug in the middle will melt and release pressure. There's a more detailed explanation at the What is It? blog, but we were looking for humorous answers this week. Ladybugs got a few hearts for her answer: "It's the loose screw of the U.S. Congress in dealing with the budget crises." Makes perfect sense! And Chris Stevens had good one, too: "The holidays are coming, and Iron Man has been known to spend a little too much time at the buffet. Sometimes the suit needs to be "let out" a little, and these babies are just the hardware to do it!" Those both win a t-shirt from the NeatoShop! Thanks to everyone who played, and thanks to the What Is It? blog.

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Frankensein’s Monster’s Headbolt?

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It's the next tortuous bookcase and bed assembly device devised by Ikea to make the lives of university students hell.

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It's a well for an industrial thermometer.

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The codpiece of Henry VIII.

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Drawing a blank on funny today...

Robin Jones may have it... it looks a lot like a thermometer well. But - it also looks a whole lot like an oil pan drain plug to me (the lighter colored core would be a magnet for gathering metal bits not caught by the filter)

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This is an empty explosive bolt used in rockets or in helicopters. The F Bomb T shirt

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It's the loose screw of the U.S. Congress in dealing with the budget crises.
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This is the kind of bolt they use to hold the Lazy Susans into the kitchen cabinet.

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This is the type of bolt that they use in health class for robots. The cross sections let the young robots understand their inner workings.

Beakerful of Science

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You use this kind of bolt when you're not really sure what size you need. Push in on the small end and the bolt gets wider. Push down on the inside and the bolt gets thinner.

Beakerful of Science

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It's a pipe cap that acts like you're holding your thumb over the end of a hose. Any water that comes through the pipe sprays all over everything nearby. These makes wonderful pranks and party favors.

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Due to company-wide budget cuts, screws will only be made 75% of the way. Although this will save millions in manufacturing costs, the law suits will be incredible. Talk about getting screwed...I apologize for that joke.

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Robocop's condom.

Keeps him from catching a computer virus.

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The holidays are coming, and Iron Man has been known to spend a little too much time at the buffet. Sometimes the suit needs to be "let out" a little, and these babies are just the hardware to do it!

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On a more realistic side, this is a "tap," which is used to cut or clean up the threads on a nut. A "die" is used to cut or clean up the threads on a bolt. Put them together, and you have a "tap and die" set, which has NOTHING to do with Oktoberfest!

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This is why the blonde got fired from the bolt factory. They told her to make 3/4 bolts and this is what they got!

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It's a fusible plug. The fill is calibrated to liquify at a specific temperature and drain out allowing whatever the plug is, well, plugging to drain as well.

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It's the one of the infamous $76 bolts bought by the Pentagon.

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The oilpan plug on my Ford Escort...So THAT's where my oil leak is coming from!

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It's a self sealing stem bolt naturally, If you need more I've got a hundred gross of them for sale. They're instrumental in producing reverse ratcheting routers, among other things. I could let them go for 10 bars of gold pressed latinum.

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I believe it is a sacrificial anode to prevent galvanic corrosion. It is the least noble thing a piece of metal can do.

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It's a screw in *ahem* exhaust port for a robot. The divergent nozzle helps maximize performance to keep internal pressure down to avoid a wreck.
Wrecked 'em? It darn near killed 'em.

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Fusible plug. It's common on water heaters. If the temperature gets too high, the special alloy filling the cavity melts and relieves pressure. The body is copper allow for maximum heat effect.

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It's a machine bolt that has been "aged." To determine the age of a machine bolt:
1) Cut the bolt lengthwise exposing its core.
2) Count the rings on the outside of the bolt.
3) Wonder why you had to cut the bolt.
4) Feel really foolish when you:
---- a) have a ruined machine bolt and
---- b) don't know how old it is
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The bolt would be used on a pressure vessel and if the temperature were to rise too high the inner metal would melt and allow pressure to escape.

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