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Scalded Dog · 05-30-2015, 06:32 PM

I'm not really a buyin' junk kinda guy, but I saw this pair of WTF items at an estate sale... paid $1.50 for the pair, a price I was willing to pay just to be able to try to figure out what they are.

They are metal, steel, I presume... very heavy. They seem well machined, possibly aircraft grade. One is tarnished and chipped, the other is really nice condition, so I don't think that these have always been a pair.

Anybody?

(the measuring stick in the pics is in inches)

Scalded Dog · 05-30-2015, 06:35 PM

... more pics...

Angrybird 12 · 05-30-2015, 06:43 PM

Are they magnetic? Or a non magnetic metal like stainless steel?

Steve Dallas · 05-30-2015, 06:45 PM

Parts for a gun?

Scalded Dog · 05-30-2015, 06:50 PM

They do not appear to have any magnetic qualities...

Upon your suggestion, in fact, I just now tested them with a refrigerator magnet. It seems that the magnet will not adhere to these... although there is POSSIBLY a slight (I mean REALLY slight) attraction.... certainly not enough to say that it positively exists.

Angrybird 12 · 05-30-2015, 06:57 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Scalded Dog

They do not appear to have any magnetic qualities...

Upon your suggestion, in fact, I just now tested them with a refrigerator magnet. It seems that the magnet will not adhere to these... although there is POSSIBLY a slight (I mean REALLY slight) attraction.... certainly not enough to say that it positively exists.

Sounds like stainless steel.... Depending of the grade of stainless it could have a slight magnetic attraction.
I am trying to find something similar. Do you happen to know what the person did for a living?

Apex Motorsports · 05-30-2015, 06:59 PM

I feel like I have seen that before but I can't place it.

Angrybird 12 · 05-30-2015, 07:01 PM

Kind of hard to tell their size since they are not lined up well with the ruler.

rd beast · 05-30-2015, 07:01 PM

Look like paper weights to me

CamAnon · 05-30-2015, 07:11 PM

Fredericia Motor Klub?

But I don't know what they are. What other things were at the sale? Maybe a hint to what to original owner did for work/hobbies?

Angrybird 12 · 05-30-2015, 07:22 PM

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Originally Posted by CamAnon

Fredericia Motor Klub

But I don't know what they are. What other things were at the sale? Maybe a hint to what to original owner did for work/hobbies?

Unfortunately FMK is used for a lot of things in Denmark.

SquawkVFR · 05-30-2015, 07:55 PM

SUB scribed!

Firefighter · 05-30-2015, 08:02 PM

Got me, I want to know though...

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CFD · 05-30-2015, 08:15 PM

They may be a pair of small fixtures or jigs for machining a specific component, what that may be I have no idea,

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Scalded Dog Drives: 2011 1LT Join Date: Mar 2012 Location: Crestline, CA Posts: 3,029	They do not appear to have any magnetic qualities... Upon your suggestion, in fact, I just now tested them with a refrigerator magnet. It seems that the magnet will not adhere to these... although there is POSSIBLY a slight (I mean REALLY slight) attraction.... certainly not enough to say that it positively exists.

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CamAnon Drives: 2015 1LT Join Date: Mar 2015 Location: Central New York State Posts: 91	Fredericia Motor Klub? But I don't know what they are. What other things were at the sale? Maybe a hint to what to original owner did for work/hobbies? Last edited by CamAnon; 05-30-2015 at 08:16 PM.

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