Assignment #18: Guesswork

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  • eL eSs VeeeL eSs Vee Registered Users Posts: 1,243 Major grins
    edited April 4, 2009
    This antique isn't common enough to be an everyday item, even though they have been used in many forms for centuries and newer versions are still in use today, but everybody has heard of them. Most current models are made of orange plastic.

    If you'd like to keep guessing, here's another image.
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    If you'd rather see what it is, click here.
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  • DrinDrin Registered Users Posts: 139 Major grins
    edited April 4, 2009
    This is fun. Is it an antique flare gun?
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  • DonRicklinDonRicklin Registered Users Posts: 5,551 Major grins
    edited April 4, 2009
    A leveling scope for surveying.

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  • MooreDrivenMooreDriven Registered Users Posts: 260 Major grins
    edited April 4, 2009
    Door hinge ne_nau.gif

    Edit: My guess was based on the first photo. The second clearly shows its not a hinge! Nice challenge.
  • eL eSs VeeeL eSs Vee Registered Users Posts: 1,243 Major grins
    edited April 5, 2009
    Drin got it exactly! wings.gif

    Mr. Ricklin. Except for the "small" part, you were closer than you know with your first guess. :cry

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    It's a WWI Van Karner VK-M12 flare pistol, and it's HUGE! It's full length is 13-3/4 inches, and the beast weighs about five pounds. Bore is 37mm, so trying to load a 12 gauge shell into it would be like throwing a hot dog down a hallway. From what I've read, adapters for loading 12 gauge shells were available at one time. Don't ask me what they look like or how they work, though, because I have no clue.

    Good guessing, Drin! thumb.gif
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  • kscottkscott Registered Users Posts: 72 Big grins
    edited April 5, 2009
    something on the light side
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  • NikolaiNikolai Registered Users Posts: 19,035 Major grins
    edited April 6, 2009
    kscott wrote:
    something on a light side
    Any hint to the exposure duration and the subject size?rolleyes1.gif
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  • kscottkscott Registered Users Posts: 72 Big grins
    edited April 6, 2009
    Nikolai wrote:
    Any hint to the exposure duration and the subject size?rolleyes1.gif

    its about a 1.3 second exosure ISO 100 f-13 16mm
    the size is about 20 ft:D
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  • NikolaiNikolai Registered Users Posts: 19,035 Major grins
    edited April 6, 2009
    kscott wrote:
    its about a 1.3 second exosure ISO 100 f-13 16mm
    the size is about 20 ft:D
    Ferrywheels on some fairgrounds?headscratch.gif
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  • kscottkscott Registered Users Posts: 72 Big grins
    edited April 6, 2009
    Nikolai wrote:
    Ferrywheels on some fairgrounds?headscratch.gif

    your probably a detective or a doctor...lol

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  • NikolaiNikolai Registered Users Posts: 19,035 Major grins
    edited April 6, 2009
    kscott wrote:
    your probably a detective or a doctor...lol
    Very cool shot! thumb.gif
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  • ic4uic4u Registered Users Posts: 1,455 Major grins
    edited April 21, 2009
    Guesswork
    Anyone care to guess what this is?
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  • kscottkscott Registered Users Posts: 72 Big grins
    edited April 21, 2009
    ic4u wrote:
    Anyone care to guess what this is?


    rotating brushes in a vacuum cleaner of sorts????
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  • DonRicklinDonRicklin Registered Users Posts: 5,551 Major grins
    edited April 21, 2009
    Hemlock needles in a rolling walk sweeper.

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  • ic4uic4u Registered Users Posts: 1,455 Major grins
    edited April 21, 2009
    Nope, and nope to both guesses, so sorry...my one hint is that you most likely would find this outdoorsdeal.gif
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  • kscottkscott Registered Users Posts: 72 Big grins
    edited April 21, 2009
    ic4u wrote:
    Nope, and nope to both guesses, so sorry...my one hint is that you most likely would find this outdoorsdeal.gif

    i would have to say pine needles in the groove of an outdoor door matt
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  • ic4uic4u Registered Users Posts: 1,455 Major grins
    edited April 21, 2009
    kscott wrote:
    i would have to say pine needles in the groove of an outdoor door matt

    Close, but it's not a doormat, although it serves a similar purpose
    (that should give it away)
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  • NikolaiNikolai Registered Users Posts: 19,035 Major grins
    edited April 22, 2009
    ic4u wrote:
    Close, but it's not a doormat, although it serves a similar purpose
    (that should give it away)
    I still have no clue what else it can be. :cry
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  • sdways01sdways01 Registered Users Posts: 151 Major grins
    edited April 22, 2009
    ic4u wrote:
    Close, but it's not a doormat, although it serves a similar purpose
    (that should give it away)

    Hemlock/pines needles in a boot/shoe cleaner, the kind you run you feet back and forth thru to get the dirt off your shoes?
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  • ic4uic4u Registered Users Posts: 1,455 Major grins
    edited April 22, 2009
    sdways01 wrote:
    Hemlock/pines needles in a boot/shoe cleaner, the kind you run you feet back and forth thru to get the dirt off your shoes?

    Bingo!!!clap.gifclapclap.gif
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  • sapphire73sapphire73 Registered Users, Super Moderators Posts: 1,976 moderator
    edited April 24, 2009
    Too easy?
    I explored three of the assignments before making several outings with camera in hand. This seemed to have some more recent posts than #1 (which I also did), so I am contributing something here as well.

    Note: I have only read the early and later posts in this thread, so hope I am not duplicating an earlier image here. And boy, was the needles in the boot/shoe cleaner a hard one to guess!

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  • NikolaiNikolai Registered Users Posts: 19,035 Major grins
    edited April 24, 2009
    sapphire73 wrote:
    I explored three of the assignments before making several outings with camera in hand. This seemed to have some more recent posts than #1 (which I also did), so I am contributing something here as well.

    Note: I have only read the early and later posts in this thread, so hope I am not duplicating an earlier image here. And boy, was the needles in the boot/shoe cleaner a hard one to guess!
    folding shovel?headscratch.gif
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  • sapphire73sapphire73 Registered Users, Super Moderators Posts: 1,976 moderator
    edited April 25, 2009
    Nikolai wrote:
    folding shovel?headscratch.gif

    Good guess, but not a folding shovel....
  • sapphire73sapphire73 Registered Users, Super Moderators Posts: 1,976 moderator
    edited April 26, 2009
    Next hint:

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  • eL eSs VeeeL eSs Vee Registered Users Posts: 1,243 Major grins
    edited April 26, 2009
    Part of a weight/exercise machine?
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  • NikolaiNikolai Registered Users Posts: 19,035 Major grins
    edited April 26, 2009
    sapphire73 wrote:
    Next hint:
    Now I know I don't know what it is, cause I don't recognize it at al...rolleyes1.gif
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  • dixondukedixonduke Registered Users Posts: 197 Major grins
    edited April 26, 2009
    Basketball Goal?
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  • sapphire73sapphire73 Registered Users, Super Moderators Posts: 1,976 moderator
    edited April 26, 2009
    dixonduke wrote:
    Basketball Goal?

    You got it!
  • ShutterStaciShutterStaci Registered Users Posts: 43 Big grins
    edited July 31, 2010
    Some crazy circular red thing.
    wings.gifOoh! I want to play. Whoever guesses right gets to have it!
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  • NikolaiNikolai Registered Users Posts: 19,035 Major grins
    edited August 1, 2010
    wings.gifOoh! I want to play. Whoever guesses right gets to have it!

    Lemme guess: shot through the bottom of a glass/plastic bowl/bottle? headscratch.gif
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