What is it?

[AlamoVampire]

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Edited September 15, 2023 by AlamoVampire

[AlamoVampire]

Ok. This is a side scan sonar image. Our next what is it:

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[Deddly]

Hmmmmm some kind of water knock prevention device? 

[AlamoVampire]

It is for water and designed to prevent something but knock isnt it.

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[LHACK4142]

Some kind of super fire hydrant?

[AlamoVampire]

Nope

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Edited October 7, 2023 by AlamoVampire

[AlamoVampire]

The image is a water-main backflow preventor.

our next image: 

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[AstroWolfie]

Redwood seeds.

[AlamoVampire]

@AstroWolfie correct! Now you pick our next image!

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[AstroWolfie]

what is it?

[AlamoVampire]

Looks like artificial firewood made from molded and blended particulates.

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[DeadJohn]

Fiber bricks made from coconut or peat. Primary use for gardening.

[AlamoVampire]

Given its been since march and no confirmation, im resetting with a new image.

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[LHACK4142]

Book label in a library, right?

[AlamoVampire]

Absolutely correct! Bonus points if you can name of the system it uses. But @LHACK4142 you get to choose our next image  

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[AlamoVampire]

Ok, it seems our prior image guesser has abdicated his choice of new image. I will get us underway again with:

what is it? Remember if the object is correctly guessed and that player is confirmed by myself or another player who knows the mystery object, the first player who correctly identified it gets to place our next mystery item.

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[AlamoVampire]

Since no guess has come in, I will reveal. Its a power pole cutout. Its essentially a fuse. When you hear a bang just prior to a power failure you likely say a transformer blew up. In all likelihood it was this object doing its job.

our next item:

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[Poppa Wheelie]

Looks like a wood planer.

[AlamoVampire]

@Poppa Wheelie its in that family. Do you know what kind?

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[Poppa Wheelie]

No. I don't know what answer you're looking for with "what kind".  It's old, it's a manual planer.  Not a woodworker myself.

[AlamoVampire]

Fair enough. Its a rabbet plane. Meant to create a rabbet type joint. This is why I started this game. We get to learn fun new things. That said @Poppa Wheelie since you did get close calling it out as an older plane you get the honor of giving us our next image of an item with no clues for us to guess at. Happy picking!

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[Poppa Wheelie]

What is it?

[AlamoVampire]

At first I was going to say a musical type writer head. But looking closely i see regular letters. Im going to say an older print head for like airlines to print boarding passes and tickets either at the gate or at a ticket agents counter where you check in prior to security.

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[Poppa Wheelie]

13 hours ago, AlamoVampire said:

Im going to say an older print head

It is an older print head.  Printers that used this type of printer head had a specific name, just as modern printers are called "laser printers" .  Do you know the name?

[RKunze]

It's the type wheel from a type wheel printer.

And I'm actually old enough to have used that kind of printer. And its close cousin, the type tape printer, which was much faster because it could print multiple types on a line at the same time. And much louder - especially if you fed it finely crafted input that caused it to fire all the types on the line at the same time (and no, the university compute center sysadmins where definitely not amused when we did that).