Off Topic What’s this knife/sheath sitting on?

[RayseM]

You are a good and fertile guesser Coleman but NO.

 

[RayseM]

No more thoughts on the subject at hand? Too soon to quit or are you all ready to cal UNCLE?

Here is a close up if that helps. My best clue is a giveaway so I can't tell you.

 

[Sharp & Fiery]

Fish hook sharpening stones?

 

[Wild Willie]

Do you wrap them in that rag and hit things?

 

[RayseM]

No fishing or sharpening involved with these things.

Wrap them in rags and hit things? I suppose I could but I haven't yet.

 

[Wild Willie]

Battery packs of some sort?

 

[RayseM]

No batteries or electronics involved. These don't do (per se) rather they exhibit properties.

 

[Sharp & Fiery]

Are these lead?

 

[jlauffer]

Magnets?

 

[Sharp & Fiery]

Magnets?

John beat me to it.

 

[RayseM]

My last clue was to on point eh?

CERAMIC magnets. So you are 50% there jlauffer .

NOW please - any guesses as to what their specific purpose is. These were an Agricultural WHO KNEW discovery for me.

 

[Wild Willie]

Hardware magnets, they sit in the reumen and stop any issues arising from a cow ingesting metal fragments.

 

[Wild Willie]

The ones I always saw around here were round though. That's what might have thrown me.

 

[RayseM]

DING DING DING - the last 50% to Wild Willie



I've had these for going on 40 years. They were the rare earth magnets of the day in terms of attraction power. I tried to use them for a furniture door pull experiment. Not quite up to that task but they are pretty powerful.

 

[RayseM]

What I didn't say is that the knife blade is COBALT so that is why it wasn't stuck hard and incongruously to the magnet.

 

[RayseM]

Are we done?

 

[Sharp & Fiery]

Hopefully not…people are probably just busy with work. I’ll try to have something this weekend.

 

[Wild Willie]

I'll have one in a little bit.

 

[RayseM]

Hopefully not…people are probably just busy with work. I’ll try to have something this weekend.

People are working? Yeah, I should be but my retired wife has made other plans for "US" today. Like a snow day off from school - you just need to go with it.

Bring it on WW.

 

[Wild Willie]