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282. The end of a photonic crystal fiber?

Carl G.


This answer is correct, also know as holey optical or microstructured fiber.

"Darren J. Paul" wrote in message
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#283 looks like a bird spike from a chicken rotisserie.


Nope, it's not a bird spike.

"R.H." writes:

"Rich Grise" wrote in message
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282: 125 _microns_????? That's not a close-up, that's a micrograph!
I'll be chomping at the bit for that hint!

I don't know if this is much of a hint, but what you see in the photo is not
the whole object, you are looking at a cross-section of something. I'll try
to come up with another hint in a day or two if no one gets it.

How about a cigarette filter cross-section?

scott

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"R.H." writes:

"Rich Grise" wrote in message
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282: 125 _microns_????? That's not a close-up, that's a micrograph!
I'll be chomping at the bit for that hint!

I don't know if this is much of a hint, but what you see in the photo is
not
the whole object, you are looking at a cross-section of something. I'll
try
to come up with another hint in a day or two if no one gets it.

How about a cigarette filter cross-section?

scott



Nope, this object is no thicker than a single hair.

It was somewhere outside Barstow when "R.H."
wrote:

Nope, this object is no thicker than a single hair.

High magnetic flux superconductor ?

276 - Leaf shutter?
275 - looks somewhat like a glass blowers gripper. Could be for
torturing animals though.
274 looks like a dispenser for Bromine - or one of the other
photo-sensitive gases.
273 - looks like an oar-lock or similar - holds a wooden shaft anyway...
272 - Window lock - sliding window
277 - Keeper for a bolt - drill a hole in the wood then you bang it into
the wood so a bolt can be fed in and through the hole - either as a
faster or a "stand off".


R.H. wrote:
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"R.H." wrote:

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Rob
272 sliding window/door lock
273 lathe dog with fixed stud on face plate
274 ink, oil, or glue dispenser
276 camera iris or variable orifice
283 the open end may be for a different size of can.
it would follow the inside or outside of the raised lip.

"Andy Dingley" wrote in message
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It was somewhere outside Barstow when "R.H."
wrote:

Nope, this object is no thicker than a single hair.

High magnetic flux superconductor ?


No, but it does belong in the high tech category.

Hi Gerard,
In Australia they are called mashers - I had one like this when I was first
married but with overuse it eventually fell apart.
Di

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"gerard46" wrote in message
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| Maloney Empire wrote:
| Hi Rob,
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| Love your "What is it?"
| I think 282 is the bottom of a potato masher

Rob, you are thinking of a potato ricer, not a masher.
__________________________________________________ __Gerard S.

Gerard,
I was wrong in any case but it was fun to have a guess.

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"gerard46" wrote in message
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| Maloney Empire wrote:
| Hi Rob,
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| Love your "What is it?"
| I think 282 is the bottom of a potato masher

Rob, you are thinking of a potato ricer, not a masher.
__________________________________________________ __Gerard S.

"Will" wrote in message
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276 - Leaf shutter?
275 - looks somewhat like a glass blowers gripper. Could be for
torturing animals though.
274 looks like a dispenser for Bromine - or one of the other
photo-sensitive gases.
273 - looks like an oar-lock or similar - holds a wooden shaft anyway...
272 - Window lock - sliding window
277 - Keeper for a bolt - drill a hole in the wood then you bang it into
the wood so a bolt can be fed in and through the hole - either as a
faster or a "stand off".

This is from last week's post, you've got two of them correct, 272 and 277.
There is an answer link at the bottom of the set, just after photo 277.





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278. Iron or iron-nickel meteorite?
279. Tool for removing/tightening bicycle wheel nuts, and doing other
maintenance on bicycles.
280. Electronic metronome for musicians (my son uses one for guitar
practice).
281. ?
282. Part of an earpiece?
283. ?

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R.H. wrote:

282: 125 _microns_????? That's not a close-up, that's a micrograph!
I'll be chomping at the bit for that hint!


I don't know if this is much of a hint, but what you see in the photo is not
the whole object, you are looking at a cross-section of something. I'll try
to come up with another hint in a day or two if no one gets it.

Btw, thanks to Badger for sending this photo to me.


Rob
A pleasure.

Badger.

281. I have one of these so I took it to work and asked there. They
used to have a boot factory here and a guy said they used the end to
pry out tacks in the boots, apparently the tacks were temporary until
the boots were sewn up. He said the sawblade part was to pry out tacks
also.He told me more than I need to know about making boots,and he
mentioned glueing and vulcanizing, so my guess would be the sawblade
like part was for roughing up parts for glueing or vulcanizing. My
guess is it's a tack puller/scarificator.

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281. I have one of these so I took it to work and asked there. They
used to have a boot factory here and a guy said they used the end to
pry out tacks in the boots, apparently the tacks were temporary until
the boots were sewn up. He said the sawblade part was to pry out tacks
also.He told me more than I need to know about making boots,and he
mentioned glueing and vulcanizing, so my guess would be the sawblade
like part was for roughing up parts for glueing or vulcanizing. My
guess is it's a tack puller/scarificator.


Tack puller is correct, scarificator sounds like a good secondary use for
the saw blades.


Rob