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Re: Does anybody know what this is?
« Reply #30 on: May 19, 2013, 05:47:35 pm »
It almost looks to me like it could be for fishing..?
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Re: Does anybody know what this is?
« Reply #31 on: May 20, 2013, 11:17:13 am »
Here are a couple of slightly better pictures of the metal part and a lightbulb.
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Re: Does anybody know what this is?
« Reply #32 on: May 20, 2013, 12:17:53 pm »
Does it roll well?  I am thinking it is a game piece and the lights would flicker when it rotates!

I would have had it in pieces long, long ago!!!
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« Reply #33 on: May 20, 2013, 12:27:17 pm »
Like you KC...and Mart,I too would have had it in pieces, long ago,......but,having said that,...all we would have ended up with,was an in pieces..."what is it"....its in situations like this,where our primitive, inquisitive nature comes to the fore,...."we don,t know what it is, therefore we have to take it apart and see what makes it tick,.....i,m now of the opinion that it is a key of some sort.....
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Re: Does anybody know what this is?
« Reply #34 on: May 20, 2013, 12:33:19 pm »
Why would a key have lights?
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Re: Does anybody know what this is?
« Reply #35 on: May 20, 2013, 12:53:54 pm »
Also, what kind of a thing would have an oversized eightball as a key?
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Re: Does anybody know what this is?
« Reply #36 on: May 20, 2013, 01:11:14 pm »
Thousands of google images later, I still have not found anything like it.

My best guess would be a control knob to an billiards arcade game. Maybe???
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Re: Does anybody know what this is?
« Reply #37 on: May 20, 2013, 01:26:48 pm »
Think about it logically,...on the underside it has that cruciform shape,...now if there was a corresponding female shape on a large "board game cum mechanical ratchetty like sprikng thingy wheel,..then you could fit the control knob cum oversized 8 ball key in the slot and ..hey presto...  ;D
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Re: Does anybody know what this is?
« Reply #38 on: May 20, 2013, 01:37:12 pm »
Hmm... if it were an arcade game knob, it would have some way of connecting to the game. The board game thingy... not quite buying it, yet. It seems like it would come up on a google search, even if it is a quite old game. I would say that it is probably a one-of-a-kind homemade thing, but the cutting and smoothness of the paint just look too perfect for that. It really looks factory made. Another curious detail is that the "8" is not exactly in the center of the black side...
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Re: Does anybody know what this is?
« Reply #39 on: May 20, 2013, 02:13:07 pm »
Ask the Chinese...they,ll know....
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Re: Does anybody know what this is?
« Reply #40 on: May 20, 2013, 02:55:18 pm »
Maybe the whole 8ball thing is throwing us off. The paint looks to be chipping in places. Is the 8ball theme original or painted at a later date.
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Re: Does anybody know what this is?
« Reply #41 on: May 20, 2013, 03:23:35 pm »
It is hard to tell if the eight ball paint is original or not. The fact that it is off-center would seem to suggest that it is not, but the seam where it meets the red paint is flawless, and the "8" itself looks perfect as well.
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Re: Does anybody know what this is?
« Reply #42 on: May 20, 2013, 03:38:16 pm »
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Re: Does anybody know what this is?
« Reply #43 on: May 20, 2013, 03:55:36 pm »
I'm really starting to think that the "8" was added on, and that it has nothing to do with it's real purpose...
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Re: Does anybody know what this is?
« Reply #44 on: May 20, 2013, 04:00:49 pm »
Maybe someone used it in conjunction with a bowl/mortar as a cocaine 'grinder' .....
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