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Let's have a Whatziss, shall we?

By The Armorer on May 16, 2007 | | Comments (35)

Oh, sure, I could be mean. I could ask you to identify this. But I don't even want to *think* about the whining that would ensue.

And yeah, I could ask you whatziss? But you'd probably whine some more.


So, how 'bout this?


C'mon, put yer fevered imaginations to work and destroy corporate productivity the world over.


If you're a real, true, grognard - you'll get this. If you're a capital-G Grognard, one before whom other grognards grovel, you'll get it's true essence.

And if you're that Grognard, you'll know what that means.

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By Maggie on May 16, 2007 8:10 AM
I'm not a grog-anything, but the first linked pic is a peppermint lifesaver from the bottom of my mother's handbag.......'78 I think.
 
By John of Argghhh! on May 16, 2007 8:14 AM
Dang, that was fast... wrong, but fast!
 
By fdcol63 on May 16, 2007 8:29 AM
A Hershey bar mold? LOL
 
By Carrie on May 16, 2007 8:41 AM
The tinman's loofah shower scrubby?
 
By MajMike on May 16, 2007 8:47 AM
in sequence: 1. a breech block roller 2. a gnurled pokey stick 3. a field expedient Hibachi
 
By Brad on May 16, 2007 9:08 AM
The bottom of a Hungarian ammo can for 7.62x54R?
 
By John S. on May 16, 2007 9:25 AM
1- Looks like a gage- posssibly the gas piston gage for the M1 Garand? 2- Breech bore erosion gage for .50 BMG? 3- Grenade/booby trap of some sort?
 
By Sly2017 on May 16, 2007 9:56 AM
1. A plug nickle 2. The stick from Nancy Pelosi's arse 3. The soapbox that Hillary keeps all her faux accents in when she's touring the country.
 
By bad cat robot on May 16, 2007 11:28 AM
I was sick the week they covered grognards in class :-( Hmm. I see some very nicely and accurately machined groves in metal, with some thin metal crimped and possibly soldered around the edges in a much more slapdash way. Something like a ring or a flange is tacked on over the bottom edging, unclear if there is a hole involved. The crappy edging is crimped to match the grooves, hard to say if that was done deliberately as part of the edging process or the dents developed while the whatsis was being used. Some signs of rust in the groves but not the flat ungroved surface. No sign of dissimilar metal corrosion between the edging and the main body. The edging must serve some purpose, since they went to the bother of adding it under less than ideal conditions (did the original, more professional job come off?) It almost looks like a crude heat sink, but more likely some kind of positioning guide.
   
By MajMike on May 16, 2007 12:21 PM
oh. now that ya mention it, those ARE grooves going "in", and aren't stamped metal coming "out" of the screen. so it ain't a Hibachi. must be a grease trap, UNDER a Hibachi.
 
By Maggie on May 16, 2007 12:25 PM
Grognard - Napoleon Bonaparte's name for old veteran soldiers; specifically the Grenadiers of the Imperial Guard (Grenadiers à Pied de la Garde Impériale). Stop talking about hibachis, I'm getting hungry.
 
By AFSister on May 16, 2007 12:28 PM
Some sort of cooling or heating unit. I see a hole at the bottom edge, like you'd put a liquid in. Perhaps the grid is actually for heating or cooling the liquid.
 
By NevadaDailySteve on May 16, 2007 1:14 PM
Ok, here goes, it is either a really, really small waffle iron or some sort of fragmentation device that I, as a life-long civilian, am totally ignorant of.
 
By Trias on May 16, 2007 1:58 PM
It looks hastily and roughly made which suggests it was made during a war and possibly quite some time ago. The bumps are not groves for fragmentation but rather lend strength to the structure. Why I am not so sure of. Perhaps some kind of pressure inside. This unit doesn't appear to be sealed. ATM my stab in the dark is a smoke bomb.
 
By AW1 Tim on May 16, 2007 3:28 PM
John, I'm thinking that it's a field-expediant device you'd use over a fire or sterno stove to place your canteen cup on. The hole is probably where you could stick a cleaning rod in to move it while hot... Anyway, that's what I'D use it for. Respects,
 
By BloodSpite on May 16, 2007 3:56 PM
I'm with Tim. I figured it was an 18th Century Jiffy Pop, with iron instead of tinfoil.
 
By Toluca Nole on May 16, 2007 4:05 PM
Looks like something I found in my Happy Meal...
 
By Eric Wilner on May 16, 2007 4:07 PM
A prototype heavy-duty bug swatter with TEMPEST shielding?
 
By Karla (threadbndr) on May 16, 2007 4:17 PM
coming late to the party - due to corporate harrassment training (which caused me to remove pictures of Marines in various states of ... undress.... strike that.... UNSAT uniform - from my cubby walls). I certainly would be leery of using it around food due to the solder. I was thinking either some type of portioning or positioning device.
 
By jim b on May 16, 2007 4:42 PM
A thingie they carried smoltering ...burning coals from camp to camp with. Or not
 
By OlafTheTanker on May 16, 2007 5:27 PM
The last one.. A field expedient grid square mold, you just melt down unused contour lines over a Zippo™ and viola'!
 
By 1sg keith on May 16, 2007 7:51 PM
innards of a claymore...?
 
By Blackhawk on May 16, 2007 9:18 PM
Field expedient tic-tac-toe board (made by the lowest bidder, hence the 'disproportion')?
 
By Rod Thorsen on May 16, 2007 9:44 PM
block of lead with seperation lines to assist with how much to melt?
 
By Justthisguy on May 16, 2007 10:28 PM
The taper on the vertical features seems to imply some kind of casting. I can't see any cat hairs, dammit. That would give us some idea of the size of the thing, at least.
 
By Cricket on May 17, 2007 12:35 AM
A ravioli mold.
 
By Richard on May 17, 2007 12:41 AM
The flange would indicate attachment to a tubular heat source.. a jeep tailpipe will do. Now to heat the C-Rats or dry the boots without meltin the soles hence the copper grid spacer, at the very least. a device ment to create heat when it was very,very cold. Richard
 
By HomefrontSix on May 17, 2007 1:21 AM
The kind of flyswatter we had to use up in Alaska against those horrific mosquitoes. You know it's bad when they are listed as the state bird.
 
By ry on May 17, 2007 4:46 AM
Well, essence of the thing, seems like a hint. I know you do medieval, and that liquids are often called 'essences'. So, something along the lines of the Guttentag variant that sprayed Holy water maybe? Or maybe even just a medieval 'canteen'? There's nothing there for scale---you violated the JMH rule!
 
By Richard on May 17, 2007 11:25 AM
Since my wife found me asleep in front of this picture at O-dark-30 this morning, i'm gonna expand on jim B's take from May 16. From the top of the device, notice the copper grid and the openings in the two vertical elements which would seem to for air induction. The device when flipped over, stuffed with hot coals,mounted not TOOO near the powder on a horse drawn cassion(?) kept the fire ready for the way...way older artey pieces as the charged around the battle field. Now I'm really..REALLY done with this.
 
By Princess Crabby on May 17, 2007 4:50 PM
OK, how long does this wait go on? I don't usually pay attention to these. I'm not a patient woman........patience is a virtue, and....well....you know.
 
By J.M. Heinrichs on May 17, 2007 5:00 PM
It was intended to be part of a plasma display, but someone confused 'millimetre' with 'micrometre'. Cheers
 
By Richard on May 18, 2007 12:06 AM
COME ONNNN JOHN COUGH IT UP ALREADY...... Maybe they mounted this on the cannon, with punks stickin into the flange so to be ready to light the sucker off after the c-ball was shoved in... now will you please.....
 
By John of Argghhh! on May 18, 2007 8:33 AM
Richard - here you go, just click here.
 
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