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The Whatziss, day 2.

By The Armorer on August 30, 2007 | | Comments (17)

Well, I had a decent night's sleep, after spending $181 on a new mask. But, we're still gonna play this out.

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By Tim on August 30, 2007 8:29 AM
Ooohh, Checkers! What fun!
 
By AFSister on August 30, 2007 8:37 AM
OOOHHH OOOHHH OOOHHHH! It's an Acme Instant-Hole!
 
By NevadaDailySteve on August 30, 2007 8:49 AM
It's an Acme Instant-Hole!
Acme--Producers of fine cartoon equipment since 1921.
 
By MajMike on August 30, 2007 8:59 AM
so the glass roundie thing breaks, and the black metal roundie thing then does something?
 
By BloodSpite on August 30, 2007 9:10 AM
Appears to be a pulley of some sort. I see that it's got the groove for a belt, but I don't see any way to retain the unit I can't read the stamp very well, so it could be a weight for a old measuring device like a bail weigh unit. The dust suggests it's used outside as does the paint scrapes. I got no clue beyond that
 
By Eric Wilner on August 30, 2007 10:26 AM
This one's a clay pigeon of the style used in Hungary between 1894 and 1947. Yesterday's must be a stealth clay pigeon!
 
By KCSteve on August 30, 2007 1:07 PM
Hmmm... Small (probably) glass disk + presumably same sized disk with a wavy surface. Put those two together and you can get a valve. Tieing back to the ill fated CPAP masks leads one to speculate that these are components from an old gas mask, probably WWII or WWI.
 
By rikkochet on August 30, 2007 1:27 PM
German. 1943. I think MINE in the first answer.
 
By NevadaDailySteve on August 30, 2007 4:31 PM
BTW I realize you were in a hurry but where did you go that they hit you for $180 for a CPAP mask? I've replaced mine a couple of times now and the most I've been bitten was a dollar or two over the century mark. The last time I bought one, a few months back, it was $80. Admittedly I didn't by the headband and swivelly thingie with it. The pharmacy I bought my last mask at suggested I get a prescription from my doctor so the insurance would pay for part of it. I did. The doctor visit cost me $30. The insurance saved me nine dollars and change. You do the math. Needless to say I'll just go buy one outright next time.
 
By BillT on August 30, 2007 5:23 PM
Lessee -- 1. metal disc with a rubber plug in the center and 2. a rubber O-ring on the outer edge to insure an airtight seal, and it probably covers the 3. clear celluloid discs with offset holes which would probably be contained within 4. some sort of cylindrical jobadoo which will undoubtedly appear tomorrow, along with 5. some suitably snide remarks.
 
By John of Argghhh! on August 30, 2007 6:38 PM
Well, about the *only* thing you got right Bill was... 5. some suitably snide remarks. NDS - I could have gotten it cheaper, mail-order, but that would have meant waiting *another* day. That was why I had... two. Recruit Private (bucking for Permanent) Gunner destroyed the harness, ate the seal, uncoiled the small hose, and broke the nosepiece and forehead rest. In other words, very little was usable. The little bugger is a WWI-era Gunner. Pulverize everything in sight. Since the use of the CPAP is actually service-related, I can voucher the cost to the VA. I am reluctant to levy the taxpayer just because I can when it was my fargin' dog that did the damage. Just like I haven't applied to the US Taxpayer to pay me to not grow crops I have no intention of growing, but could apply and get paid to not grow them. I'm a conservative, not a Republican or a Democrat. I'll pick your pocket for what I earned, but as far as I can, I'll pay for my own mistakes and not ask you to pay me to not do something I wasn't doing in the first place. I know you weren't really suggesting otherwise - I'm just being preachy because I can. 8^ )
 
By jim b on August 30, 2007 8:17 PM
no no no Bill, it's an amorized diaphram for rather large ladies.
 
By BillT on August 30, 2007 9:44 PM
Amorized or anodized? I'll grant that you could snuggle diaphragm pretty well with amor-ous, though...
 
By BillT on August 30, 2007 9:46 PM
I cheated on number 5. Around John, *snide* is a given...
 
By htom on August 30, 2007 9:50 PM
In the center it says "40". My instinct is that it's a hubcap. That's probably wrong, though, as my first guesses here usually are. So second (also usually wrong) is that it's a plug for a 40 mm barrel, to keep weather out.
 
By Old Fat Sailor on August 31, 2007 5:02 AM
Lid to the Mk III wire bail combat canning jar.
 
By heath on August 31, 2007 2:06 PM
Road wheel of something, I'm guessing M113? Heath
 
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