I’d be freaked out too if my candle had one of those things buried in it.

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"It looks just like the hat that fell off my snowman birdfeeder."

The original poster, lfbadam, replied, "OMG, I also have a snowman birdfeeder on the porch I forgot about. I found the exact bird feeder online, and the hat looks like an exact match. Thanks!"

"It is a centering device for a sewer camera that obviously got stuck or fell off the camera. I have one of these. I've never used it exactly for this reason. It self-expands and can probably never get out if not taken apart. And sadly, it's probably going to be easier to take the pipe apart than that thing."

The original poster, cudidoge, replied, "OMG. So the last plumber left this in the pipe, and it’s not coming out?? Wow. We will have to confront them about it. I found the part on Amazon almost exactly. It’s definitely a centering device for a plumbing camera." 

"Likely a mill ball. Used for turning things that aren’t powders into powders."

"For context, a ball mill is a big revolving drum partially full of metal balls. As the drum turns, the balls grind up whatever other contents are in the drum. With that size and that finish, it is vastly more likely to be a mill ball than a giant ball bearing or cannonball. There are lots of old industrial areas where you can find giant piles of these things. There are literally millions of these sitting around the country."

"Be aware it could contain lead. You should wash your hands after handling it, and don't feed it to any babies."

"It’s a personal safety alarm. If you pulled out the metal pin, it would start making a loud alarm (when it’s not water-damaged)."

"I recognize the pin system. That's exactly what this is. My mom had one given to her at an event at one point and had to remove the battery because my sister and I wouldn't stop messing with it when we were young."

"Looks like an old film exposer/printer. Like this one."

"It’s called a contact printer. You place the photo negative on the glass and a piece of photo paper on top, emulsion side down. Close the lid and expose the paper to make a contact print."

"I know this one! And I have one! That is the mount for a Buffalo Forge hand crank blower for a blacksmith forge. The clamp part mounts to the bottom of the blower, and the four pipes are for the legs to attach. It's either from the 200 or the 200 silent model."

"Looks like the bottom of a Nimbus 2000."

"They are toy broomsticks from Harry Potter, stuck handle-first into the ground. Now, why they are doing this is a whole different question that I can't answer!"

"Oh, I know this one! It is the 'bug' from a board game. You hit it with little hammer-like things and try to get it into your goal! Here's a link to the commercial."

"I finally had the answer to one of these posts, and I was 17 hours too late! But yeah, that is indeed Bug Out, and it was a lot of fun. I used to play it with my brother when we were kids."

"It could be the negative space left behind by a pyrite that corroded. They corrode pretty quickly when exposed to air and water, and once that happens, the rock is left with an almost perfectly cubical impression."

"There’s a 'sweet spot' in the rate of water and mechanical erosion where you’ll see a cube of iron pyrite dissolved right out of the rock face, and before it’s worn into a round indentation or worn completely flat.

It’s possible — but perhaps unlikely — that you can find a rock with these voids on the surface, and where the interior is non-porous enough to have an intact pyrite crystal inside. (The smaller the stone, the likelier it is to have already split naturally if the pyrite provides a weak spot.)"

"Looks like an old compass. A pencil would go in the hoopy side."

"That looks like a shoemaking sole iron that is used to finish the edge of leather soles by melting in wax and burnishing. It is a big one, though. Here is an example."

"100% a crab fork. Even if you're landlocked and can't find a real seafood place and have to settle for a Red Lobster meal, they'll still send one of these bad boys out on your plate with an order of snow/king crab legs."

The original poster, talazws, replied, "Pretty sure this is it! I noticed one corner is curved while one is a square, which seems to match the shape of an axe."

"It's the disk of an electrostatic generator, called a Wimshurst machine. They're really awesome to play with, generally as a science demonstration tool."

"Pretty sure this is a part of a Wimhurst electrostatic generator machine."

"Yeah, I've heard it referred to as a Victorian 'kissing machine.' You build up the static and give your sweetie a kiss, and it's electric. People had to get really creative with how they entertained themselves before TV and radio were invented. But it could be a newer one from a classroom demonstration setup, just showing the sparks."

"Looks like one of the tong sets for adding coals to a hookah, if I had to guess."

"It's a part of a right-angle screwdriver attachment."

"Y'all blow my MIND with the stuff you identify in five minutes or less!"

"These look like the stakes on my baby's playpen; they anchor it down when used outside, but are stored upside down in the gate's frame when inside."

"Was it near a crossing? Do you live in an area that gets snow? Pretty certain it's a snow plow skid shoe."

The original poster, amidfallenleaves, replied, "That seems very likely! It wasn’t near a crossing but along a very nearby access road that would have been plowed. Thank you — never would have guessed this."

"I think I know, it looks like a water flow director from a Fluval aquarium pump."

"Can confirm. If you have one of these filters, you know exactly what these are because they end up coming off at some point."

"Magnetic vases. You stick the flat pieces under the tablecloth or table runner, and it looks like the skinny vases are standing up with magic."

"Wow, I get to answer something! I am very certain this is for chimney swifts (birds)! I learned about them from TheWildlifeHomestead, who made his own chimney swift chimney!"

"Chimney swifts are endangered — one of the reasons for their decline is a lack of nesting spaces because so many chimneys are capped or torn down, and stone/brick chimneys just aren’t as common anymore.

They don’t do any damage to the chimney. If you’ve got a chimney that is used by swifts, it should stay uncapped to give them somewhere to raise their babies. They really are fascinating birds, and can use all the help they can get!"

"Maybe it’s a French flag colored macaron shaped souvenir type thing?"

"I think you’re on to something! Maybe it fell off the rest of the keychain!"

"Wow, good job! Even the length for each color fits!"

"Do you have any kids? They look like the tool that comes with dig kits for fake fossils and gemstones."

"Definitely a National Geographic Dig Kit chisel. Match confirmed."

"It is a bakelite cufflink. Here are some earrings from around the same time, some bakelite cufflinks, and here are cufflinks that use the chain linkage like yours.

"I used to have a kitchen canister set like this that had similar-shaped spoons. Though the one you found seems much tinier, perhaps there’s something like that even smaller for salt or similar."

"This is a wiring protective cover for direct burial. Hence, the electrical tape. If you were to open that up, you would probably find it very well sealed up. It used to be a splice on two electrical-type cables. Hard to tell from the photograph if it was phone cable, coax, cable, or electrical cable."

"To me, they look like the top or base of a mannequin form. The old-school ones were wooden, with wooden tops and bases. Tailors use them for making their goods."

"I agree. These look like simple dressform finials to me. It looks like some of these had screw-on stems to fit different dress forms, as the stem size can vary a lot."

"It might be the band from a powder keg. If there's a historical society nearby. They'll probably be able to give you an answer one way or the other."

"This is one of the rings (usually two were used, though larger barrels had more) around a wooden keg, which was filled with gunpowder."

"Trivia time: DuPont had a powder factory located beside a creek, built as a long series of individual cells with blast-proof walls on three sides. The roof and front wall of each section were of light construction, so that a blast in one cell would not affect the others. When blasts occurred, the contents of the cell would be hurled across the stream. The crews in these cells were said to have 'gone over the creek.'"

"They are Dandiya sticks. They are used during the annual Hindu harvest festival of Navratri to reenact the mythical battle between Goddess Durga and Mahishasura.

Here's a link to some on Amazon. Scroll through the pictures, and you will see some that look just like yours."

"Old French 'Fours à moufle' for chemical/pharmaceutical preparations!"

"It's basically a very high-temperature oven/kiln that works with charcoal, the ancestor of the modern fours à moufle, found in labs. The 'moufle' refers to a 'metal or refractory clay element used to insulate an object from the flame (and combustion gases) in a furnace/kiln.'"

"Spark plug wrench with screwdriver for a chainsaw."

"'Scrench' is what we call them at work."

"It looks like a random number generator. It reminds me of the Wheel of Fortune or a roulette wheel."

"This is 100% a broken pocket watch — specifically one of the dollar watches from the Westclox brand, if I had to guess. When pocket watches are overwound, something inside snaps and doesn't let the spring keep its tension, meaning that it won't tick, but the hands will spin wildly. Depending on how much and/or how fast it gets wound at that point, the hands will spin for longer and stop in a random place. It looks like whoever owned it before turned it into a random number picker, possibly for gambling or some sort of numerology thing, rather than getting it fixed.

For the face, I would guess that they either painted over the dial or sanded off the numbers and details before drawing the lines and writing everything."

"These numbers could be used to fill out a soccer pool ticket. Here in Spain, one means you’re betting on the home team to win, two means the away team will win, and an X means it will end in a tie. In a standard pool, you have to predict the outcome of 15 matches. I’m not sure how it works in other countries."

"Apparently, it's a S&C Fuse Talon Handler Overhead Handling Hook - 4440."

"It's for replacing (large) fuses in ultra-high voltage equipment, to be mounted on the end of a long fiberglass pole, so the operator doesn't get close to the equipment."

"It looks to me like the tang of a smallsword. Triangular blade, etched and gilt. I'm not really a smallsword kinda guy, but probably late 18th or early 19th century? Here's a pic I grabbed off Google."

"I second this; it's a broken smallsword blade that's been cut down for some reason, likely for some sentimental value or something like that.

Or it could be from a hiltsmith's workshop, as it was common for swordsmiths to specialize in making hilts or blades; and having a short stubby sword blade to clamp in the workbench to test the fit of the pieces would be a very handy thing to have.

The brass on the tang is likely just that the piece broke and has been repaired by brazing at some point."

"This is not a part of the candle; it is a part of one of the machines on the assembly line that manufactured the candle. Send this picture to the company. They'll want to know the batch this came from for a potential recall, and they may send you a few free candles as an apology."

"This is dangerous if that caught fire and the toxins were released. That isn't what you expect as a customer. Could cause all sorts of health risks. They would issue a product recall if they were aware, so clearly they were not."

"It's from a kids' board game called 'Moo Moo Achoo!' My kid has it. It blows bubbles and sneezes."

"It's a feed mill/feed grinder. There would have been a sheet metal hopper on top. It would grind things like oats, wheat, barley, or corn. This is a different brand, but it shows what it would look like in operation. "

"This is the aftermath of periodically grinding the rails. They have a machine that rides on the tracks, and these chunks fall off every now and again."

"I worked for Loram years ago. Can confirm. Rail-grinding boogers."

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