"Found this metal object in Auckland, New Zealand. Banana, Hot Wheels car and fruit pie for scale! Metal (brass?) with screw thread at the bottom and coloured plastic rings around shaft, some opaque, some transparent. Found on the shoreline at the Ōtuataua Stonefields reserve, near the airport."
A: "I’m sure this is the handle to a machinists hammer. It’s the common item to make when learning how to turn on a lathe. I made one nearly identical when I first started."
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Rhyna 3 year s ago
The top of 16 is an air and/or vacuum release valve.
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Zeke 3 year s ago
Rhyna,Yes, I agree. Probably a vacuum release valve. And there is also a non-return valve over the gate valve.
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Zeke 3 year s ago
Zeke,There is no testing for water here. The whole thingy is air/vacuum release.
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Will 3 year s ago
#15 - I don't get the explanation. Anybody add to this?
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Derrick 3 year s ago
Will,
We used to make these as kids by taping a cut off balloon to a broad piece of pvc pipe. They can shoot things away really hard. Funny to see a commercially made one. I bet you can easily take someone's eye out with those metal balls.
We used to make these as kids by taping a cut off balloon to a broad piece of pvc pipe. They can shoot things away really hard. Funny to see a commercially made one. I bet you can easily take someone's eye out with those metal balls.
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Prescott 3 year s ago
Will, use it like a slingshot.
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Jimmy 3 year s ago
@will. It works like a sling shot. Put ball in rubber hold ring pull rubber back when you let go of rubber shoots ball
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Odo 3 year s ago
#35 - probably dustfilter for vacuum cleaner
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Cintha 3 year s ago
#34 how f@#king lucky that he left you something (luckily) let alone thought of you, mine left me sh#t even though they knew i was all alone but 
at least i haven’t gone that crazy yet sooo
at least i haven’t gone that crazy yet sooo
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Gus 3 year s ago
#26...Don't know what it is, but you do have a book with it? Oh my, read the book. 
We used to make these as kids by taping a cut off balloon to a broad piece of pvc pipe. They can shoot things away really hard. Funny to see a commercially made one. I bet you can easily take someone's eye out with those metal balls.