Thread: What's this rubberwhatsit?

Originally Posted by Waldo

G'day,

It's taken me a long time to take a photo to try and see if you lot might know what this is and where it comes from.

After I moved my H&F 16BPA onto a heavy mobile base which I bought off Matrix (the base that is) I noticed this sitting nearby on the floor.

Is it somewhere off the 16BPA? If so what does it do and where does it go?

Or, Matrix is it off your base?

I've had a look all around the two and I'm stuffed if I knwo where and which it came off.

Talk about confuses the heck outta me.

Gday Waldo, its definitely not off the mobile base.

What is it made of?

Can you take another pic maybe with the Macro on or zoom out a bit to focus it? Might make it a bit easier to ID.

Ask Gumby, I think he knows a bit about rubberwhatits.

G'day Matrix,

It's made out of a hard rubber, a bit like say the bushes in your car suspension. Damn camera is cactus at close up shots, Ill try for a better one tomorrow.

Cliff, I thought about Gumby, but it's not green.

The photo's not very good, but I don't think it's a whatsit at all. Looks more like a thingumejig to me.

Originally Posted by chrisb691

The photo's not very good, but I don't think it's a whatsit at all. Looks more like a thingumejig to me.

G'day Chrisb691,

Maybe I shouda posted this under Homemade Tools and Jigs. :

Nothing has fallen apart yet because of it, but it comes from somewhere.

I also have a number of washers and nuts that appear on the shed floor outta nowhere, but you mob'd have a harder time telling me where they fell off from - and nothing's fallen apart because of them yet either.

Its a rubber foot off the bottom of a machine.

Have you noticed your goose's bridle has developed a lean recently?

I reckon it's missing a wigwam!

Hey Waldo, instead of mucking around trying to get your camera to take closeups, why not stand back a bit, take a pic at a higher resolution and crop the background out later?

cheers,

P

Looks a lot like the rubber cap that goes into the end of the aluminium extrusion that the fence runs along.

Originally Posted by bitingmidge

...and crop the background out later?...

Otherwise, we'll look at all ya sheyet in the background & make jokes about it.

2mm x 4mm
20mm x 40mm
200mm x 400mm
eh...
Jedo

Okay, so I felt a bit guilty about being a smartass. I'm not very good at photo manipulation, particularly improving a bad photo. In fact it's usually the other way round...I start off with a good one and make it bad.
Anyway, I grabbed your image and tarted it a bit. At least you can see a bit of detail now.

Maybe one of the other smartasses can do better.

Well can you? Huh! Huh!

Go on....dare you.

Forgot the photo.

Yeap, that is better, I can see what it is now, it is a rubber stamp for plus &/or minus like this.... +

Chris, you didn't happen to buy a 1.8m steel stepladder recently, did you?

The Geelong Ladders ones that we sell (as do Supercheap & others) usually have 2 of these blocks jammed on one of the crossmembers on the bracing legs.

I assume they support the ladders when they're stacked in the container from china.


Cheers.................Sean