What Is It? - #33

[TICA]

A loom of some kind? First attempts at a robot? I need more coffee......

 

[SifuPhil]

Tickler Condom ?

You're getting as bad as That Guy! layful:

I hope that's not something you'd find in an operating room.......


Sort of looks like a tiny catapult - what for, I don't know....

Tiny cats, perhaps?

It looks like a spool holder in the center, and a thread cutter on the side, and maybe a place for more threads/yarns on all those movable arms, so I am guessing something related to sewing, or an industrial knitting machine, and found in a factory.

No, not anything to do with sewing.

A complicated tire changer. Almost looks adjustable to spread something.

It DOES look like one of those things at Firestone, doesn't it? Unfortunately, no.

It dissects bugs, or prepares specimens for mounting somehow.

Cool! But nope, not a bug-cutter.

The inside workings of R2D2

Boop*Bleep*Bleep*Baaaw!

 

[SifuPhil]

Yeah well, size does matter then doesn't it? 4-5 ins so not all that 'robust' but precise. Are those tiny tensioning handles? very precise use then.

I'm not up to speed with things medical but is for positioning and inserting a radiation pellet into a tumour or something? (If that's even done.)

No, it's FEET, not INCHES. Easy enough mistake.

A lens holder, when grinding lenses.

No, but good guess!

So, am I missing something here ?
I thought this strange, dangerous gadget is supposed to be 4-5 feet tall, NOT 4-5 inches tall.
At this point, it still looks to me like it holds some kind of a spool, although the idea of balancing a tire with it, seems very possible also.
It appears to bolt down, although the bolts don't look very strong, so it must not take a lot of tension to do whatever it does.

Basically, I am lost even for better ideas on this one.....great choice, Sifu !

Thank you!

Doh! I read that as inches! More chocolate called for, or new glasses! :crushed:

Back to the drawing board.

20 lashes with a wet noodle for Di ...

Bwahahahahahahahahahahahahaha!

ham radio broadcast aerial

No, but another good guess.

Does the finished product have an optical use?

The finished product? No.

Surveyor's Surveying Instrument ?

Nope.

Gee thats so hard I have no idea.. I`ll wait for the answer I have tried even asked my
hubby and he is good with mechanical things but this has him stumped as well.. :dunno:

This must be one for the archives, then ...

A loom of some kind? First attempts at a robot? I need more coffee......

Not a loom, nor a robot.

 

[SifuPhil]

Handles radioactive isotopes?

Is it for loading/extracting the radioactive business bit of a nuke??

2nd guess, remote attachment for a bomb disarmament robot gizmo?... oh, nup, you said slow.

DING! DING! DING!

We have winnas!

This item is a “tamnun” (Hebrew for octopus) or, more formally, a Multi-Counter Gamma-Ray Goniometer. It was developed (and patented) at the Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel in the 1970s for use in Tandem Accelerator experiments. The multiple movable arms are meant to grip up to six gamma-ray detectors at precisely calculated angles.

Congrats to That Guy for figuring out what this thing is, and to Diwundrin for guessing that it had something to do with radioactivity!

Thanks for playing, and watch for the next WII, coming to a mental asylum near you.

 

[Michael.]

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Well done for guessing that it was just a simple

'Multi-Counter Gamma-Ray Goniometer'



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[Diwundrin]

Yeah, too easy right??

 

[Phantom]

Oh B.............. I searched fo radioactive atom

Bit Close but no cigar

 

[That Guy]

DING! DING! DING!

We have winnas!

Congrats to That Guy for figuring out what this thing is, and to Diwundrin for guessing that it had something to do with radioactivity!

 

[Diwundrin]

:thumbsup::lofl:

 

[Rainee]

Great quiz thanks , I told hubby and he said well he would never have guessed that at all , thanks for the fun and
looking forward to the next one..