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PostSat Jul 08, 2023 5:17 pm 
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Found on tower service road
Found on tower service road
I found these two things on a tower service road, about two months apart. It's almost a 4wd-only road and is frequented by both hikers and MTBers for training/workout purposes. Are these parts from a bike? A pack? A trailer? Ideas? They appear to be stamped out of sheet metal that is soft and easy to bend.

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PostSun Jul 09, 2023 8:28 pm 
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That's a pair of hydrocoptic marzlevanes.

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PostSun Jul 09, 2023 8:36 pm 
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huron wrote:
That's a pair of hydrocoptic marzlevanes.
The original machine has a base-plate of prefabulated aluminite, surmounted by a malleable logarithmic casing in such a way that the two main spurving bearings were in a direct line with the pentametric fan. The latter consisted simply of six hydrocoptic marzlevanes, so fitted to the ambifacient lunar waneshaft that side fumbling was effectively prevented. The main winding was of the normal lotus-o-delta type placed in panendermic semi-bovoid slots in the stator, every seventh conductor being connected by a non-reversible tremie pipe to the differential girdlespring on the "up" end of the grammeters.

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PostSun Jul 09, 2023 9:03 pm 
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dizzy.gif yeah,what he said borank.gif

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PostMon Jul 10, 2023 7:10 am 
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This is a fun puzzle and I got nowhere using image search. It appears to be the sort of tool you would need to slot and latch into the safety interlock of a hatch to allow something to run while working on it's innards. It gets lost frequently, so maybe it gets dropped into snow?

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PostMon Jul 10, 2023 7:20 am 
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huron wrote:
This is a fun puzzle and I got nowhere using image search. It appears to be the sort of tool you would need to slot and latch into the safety interlock of a hatch to allow something to run while working on it's innards. It gets lost frequently, so maybe it gets dropped into snow?
Yeah, image search got me nowhere too. The safety interlock is a thought I hadn't thought. I doubt these were dropped in snow, given that I use this road for workout purposes a couple times per week year-round, and these showed up clean and on top of the sand/dirt/rocks, two months apart (May, July). The little bit of string on the second one is intriguing, but I'm still baffled.

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PostMon Jul 10, 2023 8:56 am 
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These are gutfunks used for workboot lacing.

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PostMon Jul 10, 2023 9:15 am 
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Those are enamel knucklers. Used to remove plaque between the left lower lateral incisor and the the left lower canine. Don't even TRY using them on the upper right molars.

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PostMon Jul 10, 2023 9:41 am 
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They are for water witching, my Mom was an expert!

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PostMon Jul 10, 2023 9:52 am 
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texasbb wrote:
The little bit of string on the second one is intriguing, but I'm still baffled.
Rock climbers have a tool vaguely like that for removing stuck protection, and carry it on a leash like that. What you found doesn't look like it would be a good makeshift.

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PostMon Jul 10, 2023 1:25 pm 
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Those are tire irons for some of the new hi-tech trail running shoes. I saw ‘em advertised in a runnng magazine.

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PostMon Jul 10, 2023 3:26 pm 
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I should've mentioned that those things are 5 inches long, not that that info would change the speculations here. smile.gif

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PostTue Jul 11, 2023 9:34 am 
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Home made tire chain tightener thingies?

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PostWed Jul 12, 2023 5:05 pm 
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Cyclopath wrote:
huron wrote:
That's a pair of hydrocoptic marzlevanes.
The original machine has a base-plate of prefabulated aluminite, surmounted by a malleable logarithmic casing in such a way that the two main spurving bearings were in a direct line with the pentametric fan. The latter consisted simply of six hydrocoptic marzlevanes, so fitted to the ambifacient lunar waneshaft that side fumbling was effectively prevented. The main winding was of the normal lotus-o-delta type placed in panendermic semi-bovoid slots in the stator, every seventh conductor being connected by a non-reversible tremie pipe to the differential girdlespring on the "up" end of the grammeters.
That was the retro version. This looks slightly more modern by a year or two.

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