found this under my desk no threads on either end a hole through the end with the 1/2 in nut the other end is a triangle hole
(http://i57.photobucket.com/albums/g208/amertrac/GEDC1824_zpsb19e6b6d.jpg)
Fire Hydrant wrench?
I forgot to mention. It is only 2 1/2 in long sorry bob w.g
Does stuff reproduce under your desk, or is it just a safe place for unknown objects to shelter? And, do you leave the door unlocked for them, and cookies and milk out?
NO idea what that is, but it's sure a good example of whatever it is.
Quote from: Bill Houghton on February 04, 2013, 04:43:56 PM
..... it's sure a good example of whatever it is.
And, it looks to be the much scarcer bronze variation.
The hex looks to be tapered, maybe to press into wooden part. First thing I thought of was a type of "easy-out" to remove broken pipe nipple, but too soft for that, I guess. Does look like someone had a pipe wrench or vise grips on the round end.
I have not seen one that shape before, but it could be a radiator or gas key.
Glow plug wrench for model airplane engines? Or boat/car/whatever model engine.
Quote from: wvtools on February 04, 2013, 10:36:20 PM
I have not seen one that shape before, but it could be a radiator or gas key.
I THINK YOU ARE ON TO SOMETHING IT COULD BR COMMERCIAL TO PREVENT TAMPERING OF RADIATORS
bob w.
Quote from: Bill Houghton on February 04, 2013, 04:43:56 PM
Does stuff reproduce under your desk, or is it just a safe place for unknown objects to shelter? And, do you leave the door unlocked for them, and cookies and milk out?
NO idea what that is, but it's sure a good example of whatever it is.
I always complained that there is a black hole in my office where things disappear . I do believe I have found it bob w.
This sounds like the work of the G.F.M (Garage Floor Monster)
In the UK gas and electricity meter boxes have a triangular spigot on the lock - meter readers all have a key to suit... Also in works and public toilets the soap and towel dispensers have odd shaped keys for the janitor to use...
Only in the UK could an electric box have a spigot....LOL
I love this language ;P
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Quote from: rusty on February 05, 2013, 05:53:50 PM
Only in the UK could an electric box have a spigot....LOL
hey, u gotta bleed the lines somehow when u have a extended power outage.
Quote from: Billman49 on February 06, 2013, 03:16:28 AM
see: http://www.keys-cut.com/index.php?route=product/product&product_id=230
sure looks like one end is right bob w.
MMMMM Spigot..... I guess the following link may help to explain the some of the differences between US and UK Englsih
http://separatedbyacommonlanguage.blogspot.co.uk/2012/04/tidbits-and-titbits.html
In the UK spigot can mean a tap (or faucet) as well as the wooden peg that fits in the spile hole of a barrel - but it can also mean any part of something that fits into a socket of something else, e.g the spigot of a pipe....
What word would you use in the US for the part of a lock that fits into the key????
>the wooden peg that fits in the spile hole of a barrel
Oddly, the part of something that something else fits into is often the barrel....
So, the key goes in a cylinder, the cylinder goes in a barrel....
(More commonly tho, it goes in a housing, but you can't live in there...)
We are at cross purposes - for barrel read cask (for liquids such as beer)
Many old padlock keys have a hole in the centre that fits around the 'spigot' in the centre of the lock aperature....
What would you call this???
KEYHOLE HERE LOL BOB W.
I'd call that the pin for a barrel-key lock.
In common usage here, at least, a spigot has to have something come out of it. This would be definition 2 in the Oxford English Dictionary: "A hollow wooden peg or tube used in drawing off a liquor; a faucet."
Earlier American dictionaries retain the understanding of a peg driven into a cask or barrel. The online American Heritage Dictionary defines spigot as:
1 A faucet.
2 A wooden faucet placed in the bunghole of a cask.
3 The vent plug of a cask.
In common usage, however, the meaning of a plug, spike, or pin has been lost on this side of the pond.