Guess the part
VonSzarvas
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Bit of Monday fun!
Have been doing a major clear-up in the office, and came across a box of these.... (Clue- can't imagine why!)
Anyone recognise ?
If I don't see the right answer by Wednesday, I'll zoom the photo out a bit
Have been doing a major clear-up in the office, and came across a box of these.... (Clue- can't imagine why!)
Anyone recognise ?
If I don't see the right answer by Wednesday, I'll zoom the photo out a bit
Comments
+1
It's also very nearly a rubber Hot Wheels booster wheel of my own design.
Best Answer Ever!!!
Gordon correctly noted why the image was cropped where it was.
But the pencils.... I thought I used to wind these by pencil too, but all the hexagon shaped pencils found at my desk right now fall straight through the middle.
Perhaps pencils were a bit wider back in the day !
-Phil
Hence the clue in post 1 !!!
Although your question must also be a challenge!
- Actually, I do recall the source. Many moons ago I funded trips to the discotheque by working after school in a tape making factory. As I recall, the job entailed loading/unloading blank tapes to a large machine that recorded them in batches, whilst trying not to inhale too deeply the sweet alluring scent of cherry pipe tobacco smoke puffing almost constantly from the bosses office. Low run stuff, like church and local bands. What I can't imagine or recall is what these sprocket wheels where doing outside the tape cases, as the blank tapes arrived pre-assembled. Perhaps "other" students were very thorough with quality control examinations!!
I used to keep a box of 8-track tapes for the rubber rollers. Eventually even tossed my cherished Best of Burt Bacharach into the box when it became unplayable. Speaking of good ol' Burt, who remembers Nikki, which became the ABC Movie of the Week theme -- with cool slit-scan graphics by Douglas Trumbull (you know, of 2001 fame)?
Anyway, goes to show you old skool gave us cool parts to reuse. What can you reuse out of an MP3 file?
I also recall in the early 90's that Tower Records here in Sacramento had a machine that would let you pick up to 8 or 10 songs and would put them on a tape for you. I think my wife still has a "mix tape" I made for her on it.
How often did the machines fail?
There are worse things than cherry (Captain Black maybe?) pipe tobacco. In the 70s I had a job in a small photo studio, and for hours every day I was cooped up in a small darkroom with heavy cigarette smokers. Everyone knew the smoke settled on the glass lenses in the enlargers; they didn't care. I used to get splitting headaches, and looked forward to working in the E-6 color slide processor room -- somehow the scent of formaldehyde didn't seem quite as bad.
I don't smoke, but if I have to be around smokers, a pipe (and not the weed-filled kind) is fairly innocuous.
Related, who wants to go through my old box of treasured tapes to listen to each & every one to see if there's anything worth saving? Only a couple hundred hours of listening. Apply within.