Want to play a game?

[raphv@social.edu.nl]

@Pepijn @brahms are they part of a bigger group? You could use 4 of these to serve as legs to some form of a raised platform or enclosure (maybe to ensure the flow of air underneath)

[pepijn@mastodon.online]

@raphv @brahms Nope. They can work individually.

[spiegelmama@infosec.exchange]

@tal @Pepijn They do look like drawer pulls. But are they too small?

Maybe they're towel or coat hooks?

[pepijn@mastodon.online]

@wylan Ooh good one. Our sliding door has something similar. Less refined though.

So nope

[janeishly@beige.party]

@Pepijn Feet for smallish electronic devices - meters of some type, or maybe audio equipment

[srtcd424@mas.to]

@Pepijn
I think I've seen something like that on flat pack furniture - they push into a hole and another rotating piece locks/captures them? Would explain the visible scratch marks.

[grb090423@mastodon.social]

@Pepijn

Hooks for hanging garments?

[nblr@chaos.social]

@Pepijn Reel-too-reel tape guides?

[timo_micro@scicomm.xyz]

@Pepijn cufflinks for an engineer

[pepijn@mastodon.online]

@grb090423 Yup! They're coat hooks

[grb090423@mastodon.social]

@Pepijn

Yesss

[lbenedix@chaos.social]

@Pepijn look like these little nubs from the back fork of a motorcycle to pick it up for maintenance.

[hellomiakoda@pdx.social]

@Pepijn These look like parts of the tape path on a reel to reel deck.

[rolfbly@mastodon.social]

@Pepijn
- too small for doorknobs
- too small for cabinet feet
- too big for electronic equipment feet.
- scratched. Someone (you?) needed pliers (what's combinatietang in English) too get it out.

Intended as hooks for hanging something with a cord on?

Machining in the middle bit is a bit coarse. A machining exercise?

[tomster@social.tomster.org]

@nblr @Pepijn Or pulleys in some sort of tensioning system I.e. to regulate the speed of a drill press or lathe? The cones certainly hint at a belt that needs to slip onto the cylindrical part.

[pepijn@mastodon.online]

@RolfBly combination or side cutting pliers

They're hooks! See the updated first post.

[pepijn@mastodon.online]

@grb090423 This was the easy part. Now the difficult part: where are they from!

[zl2tod@mastodon.online]

@Pepijn

If they were 5/8" diameter, and the thread was 1/4", they could be used at a pinch to put a camera on a lighting stand, coathanger or not.

[mattdawhit@mastodon.iow.social]

@Pepijn
Are they ducks? In a data centre?

[pepijn@mastodon.online]

@mattdawhit Not fully. Just like data centres and ducks they are part of a fast moving world