I saw this Fixed-it Friday dogging method recently, and I can’t for the life of me figure out what the original purpose of this part was. It looks so familiar! Can someone help me out??
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It’s a bar spoon
Looks like a dipstick from a car – some of them are twisted like this. https://www.amazon.com/Dorman-917-430-Engine-Oil-Dipstick/dp/B00Z7MLYCY
In the “tamper seal family”???
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Might be the metal shop teacher was asked to come up with something
So had some metal strips laying around. Put the strip on the hardware and added a plastic tip.
It looks a bit like the inner part of the spiral balances I have in my double hung windows.
Window, door…. close enough I guess? 😉
Looks like a swizzle stick to me. my grandparents had one’s just like that.
Looks suspiciously like the end of a bartenders spoon…
Looks like some version of a bar/coffee stirring stick.
Off of a child’s toy, the thing that is used to make a top spin.
https://www.amazon.com/STOBOK-Spinning-Music-Peg-top-Spinner/dp/B07P9V8SW4
This makes me think of a drill bit, but it’s flat and not round. I’m stumped.
It’s a long handled spoon barista’s use for making drinks
Lori,
How about a decorative piece on bottom half of the aluminum screen door on the house you grew up in before expanded metal was used. I found a picture of one here, Vintage Screen Door In Antique Doors for sale | eBay
https://images.app.goo.gl/gP83MJxdr3oWBbQN7
It does kind of look like that! 🙂
– Lori