Please identify this metal object

[anonymous-user]

Found in neighbour’s garden. Any ideas?

Thanks.

[CourtAgain]

MJ85 said:

Found in neighbour’s garden. Any ideas?

Thanks.

Home made knuckle duster from 2011 London Riots?

[Stupeo]

Half of a pair of compasses?

[bongtom]

It’s a scribe of some sort. Maybe for a lathe?

[GAjon]

Looks a little like the tip of a home made carbon arc welding rig.

[Bollycerb]

Is it a trammel point?

[anonymous-user]

Like this?

[anonymous-user]

[crofty1984]

It's probably a sex thing.

[littleredrooster]

I had one years ago - it turns a blowtorch into a soldering iron. Give it a rub with a file - if I'm correct it should show itself to be copper.

[Big-Bo-Beep]

as my work computer doesn't like showing images but keen to take part in the fun I'm guessing it could
be a device for castrating horses ?

[some bloke]

littleredrooster said:

I had one years ago - it turns a blowtorch into a soldering iron. Give it a rub with a file - if I'm correct it should show itself to be copper.

What he said - dad had one that had a pointy end and a chisel end.

[anonymous-user]

Big-Bo-Beep said:

as my work computer doesn't like showing images but keen to take part in the fun I'm guessing it could
be a device for castrating horses ?

[eltawater]

It's part of an ancient PKE meter used for detecting ghosts.

[Riley Blue]

It's a lightning conductor. Don't, whatever you do, hold it outside as it's a really sensitive model that will attract a bolt from hundreds of miles away. You'll be crispy bacon before you can think, "Oh shi*!"

[CourtAgain]

Riley Blue said:

It's a lightning conductor. Don't, whatever you do, hold it outside as it's a really sensitive model that will attract a bolt from hundreds of miles away. You'll be crispy bacon before you can think, "Oh shi*!"

You stole my thunder...

[Dogwatch]

Riley Blue said:

It's a lightning conductor. Don't, whatever you do, hold it outside as it's a really sensitive model that will attract a bolt from hundreds of miles away. You'll be crispy bacon before you can think, "Oh shi*!"

The blow lamp/soldering iron suggestion seems more likely though!

[Riley Blue]

CourtAgain said:

Riley Blue said:

It's a lightning conductor. Don't, whatever you do, hold it outside as it's a really sensitive model that will attract a bolt from hundreds of miles away. You'll be crispy bacon before you can think, "Oh shi*!"

You stole my thunder...

Give this man a clap...

[Pothole]

Riley Blue said:

CourtAgain said:

Riley Blue said:

It's a lightning conductor. Don't, whatever you do, hold it outside as it's a really sensitive model that will attract a bolt from hundreds of miles away. You'll be crispy bacon before you can think, "Oh shi*!"

You stole my thunder...

Give this man a clap...

It was certainly a flask of inspiration...

[jet_noise]

Pothole said:

Riley Blue said:

CourtAgain said:

Riley Blue said:

It's a lightning conductor. Don't, whatever you do, hold it outside as it's a really sensitive model that will attract a bolt from hundreds of miles away. You'll be crispy bacon before you can think, "Oh shi*!"

You stole my thunder...

Give this man a clap...

It was certainly a flask of inspiration...

So close, but bottled it.