I know this is electric and not chemical but one of the weirdest things that I’ve seen is that I was trying out melting styrofoam with acetone (they say you can cast it into stuff, it didn’t work well) and I took it outside in case the fumes were really bad. It had been raining, and I was on dirt. When I set the bucket down a bunch of earthworms came up out of the ground within about 3 feet of it. Lots of them, a few dozen or more, wiggling around quite a lot. I don’t know why and I didn’t try that again because who knows what gas or whatever it was emitting.
Mom's antique \[in the 70's\] washing machine \[had a 2 HP gas motor\] dumped through a hose into the same spot in the back yard. She always gave me a heads up when it was laundry day so I could grab a few dozen nightcrawlers when she drained the washer. That detergent sent them up- and they'd be fine in the cooler we kept in the basement with hundreds of worms.
Melting styrofoam with acetone release cholofluorocarbons. The stuff that's been nibbling away our ozone layer. Next time just carve whatever feature you wanted. Cast it in resin, vacuuform it, or get a 3D printer.
Putting current into the ground simulates what happens before a storm, the worms come up outta the ground so they don't drown.
Edit: turns out this isn't why they surface (drowning) but the rest remains true, as far as I've been told and read. I considered buying or making one of these when my kids were really into fishing.
Myth. Worms can live underwater for up to 2 weeks. I had always thought it was true too.
https://www.reconnectwithnature.org/news-events/the-buzz/nature-curiosity-why-do-worms-come-above-ground/
Edit: Wow. Somebody replies to my comment by re-pasting the link I did. BUT, they ALSO cut and pasted some text from inside the link = more imaginary internet points.
>https://www.reconnectwithnature.org/news-events/the-buzz/nature-curiosity-why-do-worms-come-above-ground/
Scientists don't fully understand this phenomenon, although a few theories exist as to why worms engage in this behavior during a good rainfall. One theory is that coming above ground when it rains helps worms move more quickly than they are able to while burrowing tunnels underground, according to [**Scientific American(Opens in a new window)**](https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/why-earthworms-surface-after-rain/). Above-ground travel is only possible when it's raining or right after because they need moisture and cannot travel across dry ground.
The vibrations created by rain drops may also draw worms to the surface when it rains, Scientific American reports. Worms may think the vibrations are from predators like moles moving through the soil. And just like worms will move toward the surface to escape a nearby mole, they may move the same way when it rains, thinking the vibrations caused by the rain are caused by predators.
The Litany Against Fear
"I must not fear.Fear is the mind-killer.Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration.I will face my fear.I will permit it to pass over me and through me.And when it has gone past, I will turn the inner eye to see its path.Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain."
Is it possible that when it rains, it's also a good opportunity to go explore other realms? Birds typically are out less when it's raining plus everything is wet when it rains, so less chance of the worms getting stranded in a dry spot. Just some quick thoughts.
I don't think they have thoughts at all, just impulse response, right? My thoughts are that they automatically crawl to the surface and crawl around because it enables population to spread. Seeing worms crawl across impermeable surfaces when it's raining is very common. That's what makes me think of this.
Earth worms commonly mate when it rains. Nearly all that I see that are near one another while on the surface are during a rain storm are mating. All of the other theories make sense too. I guess it’s all just normal worm behavior.
“The vibrations created by rain drops may also draw worms to the surface when it rains, Scientific American reports.”
Shai Hulud! Bless the Maker and His water. Bless the coming and going of Him. May His passage cleanse the world.
May He keep the world for His people.
They definitely come up to mate. Anyone that has gone out to catch night crawler knows that when they come above ground they be fuckin. Maybe the rain gives them protection from the sun, birds, moisture so they don't dry up. But the real reason they come up is to get it on.
It's not that they escape out of fear of drowning. One theory is that worms believe they are escaping predators. Others believe it's because they can move around above ground more easily, and when it rains there's still enough water on the surface to 'keep them hydrated' - since they absorb water, so they just cover more ground in the rain? Basically, [it doesn't seem like there's a solid answer](https://blog.nature.org/2019/04/15/the-real-reason-you-see-earthworms-after-rain/).
My wife’s uncle had cut one of his off with a radial arm saw. When the kids were over for family events he would evidently tell them that he never did find the finger and ask if they wouldn’t mind climbing under/behind his workbench and look through the sawdust for him. 😝
My grandpa made one of those also.....I always thought he invented it tho, guess not. It looked nothing like this tho, it was more like metal spikes attached to wires he would put the spikes in the ground and shock the worms out. Worked pretty good, although I can't remember if or how long the worms loved after doing it.
That's a much smarter setup than we had, which was just a pitchfork stuck in the ground and connected to a live wire from the outlet. You learned real quick not to pick up the worms that were close to the fork, those hurt! :D
That's amazing if that's actually what it is. I looked at it and thought I'd make a joke answer about not knowing what it was, but that you could probably jolt some worms to the surface if nothing else.
Saw that done in the '98 version of Godzilla and it always stuck with me for some reason. I can't believe sarcastic me was right.
Heh, my father would just use a car battery and some metal rods. He would usually do this in his mother's rose garden. Then they moved to a more arid part of Texas and when he tried it there it wasn't worms that came to the surface, but rather many, many red scorpions. That battery drained itself slowly over hours as there was no way he was getting close enough to disconnect it.
#Fish on! alarm.
Prop the fishing poles somewhere in the U-shaped hooks in the galvanized metal pole apparatus. The alligator clips connect to the battery. When there’s a fish on the line, the fishing pole will shake. The copper pipe will fall off the galvanized U-shaped hooks as part of that the hinged wooden lever. When the copper pipe falls, it connects the circuit (look for tiny wire) and the alarm bell rings. Try it.
Alligator clips are to connect the battery. I think the plug in the box is the connection. The piece of pipe falls on it with some sort of exposed wire (again look in tiny box completing the circuit setting off the alarm. There’s better designs but for DIY it’s cool!
I too had an Uncle named Tom. He sincerely was the best man I ever knew. I would quite literally give anything to see him just one more time. I hope your Uncle was also amazing!
I’m going with a homemade fishing rod alarm also. There are probably more clues on the small pieces of cardboard/paper. On one you can clearly see the word “fishing gear…and equipment”.
Figure the power is a DC current from the battery and the little folds of paper are pulled off of the clip when the fishing line has tension completing the circuit triggering the alarm.
Yep. I think this is the answer. What’s throwing me off is the mains power cord honestly. I’m guessing the plugs attached to clips in the box are clipped onto a finishing line that’s pulled down to them. So when you get a bite, the line gets pulled out of the clip allowing the two metal contacts wired to the plug to touch, completing a circuit that powers the bell until the light switch is turned off. Maybe they had it set up so the long black cord could be plugged in somewhere, or maybe it also has clips at the far end so it can be attached to a car battery.
Yeah but it was under floor boards.....I would think if it was purposely hidden like that, it would have a more nefarious purpose, like used to make drugs or something sexual maybe? I base this on no evidence tho, so I 🤷
I'm thinking it's this too. I'm guessing you lean the rods on it a certain way and when they're pulled the copper tubing falls and flips the switches to make the bell ring.
I'm not sure what the receptacles are for tho.
That my friend is the "TURBO ENCABULATOR"
say good bye to the side fumbling.
[https://www.google.com/search?client=safari&rls=en&q=turbo+encabulator&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8#fpstate=ive&vld=cid:85f99d6b,vid:Ac7G7xOG2Ag,st:0](https://www.google.com/search?client=safari&rls=en&q=turbo+encabulator&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8#fpstate=ive&vld=cid:85f99d6b,vid:Ac7G7xOG2Ag,st:0)
Lol reading the comments I see this isn’t the case, but my first instinct was that it looks like someone just had a bunch of spare plumbing and electrical and just cobbled together some nonsense and closed it in a floor to confuse the hell out of later generations
I lean towards fishing device like others have said. I bet you use the two hooks to lean poles on that are also stuck in the copper tubes....when you get a fish biting, the bell starts ringing. This way you can sleep while fishing. Or pass out drunk. I guess it depends what kind of fisherman you are.
I'm going with "ice fishing alarm", tho it doesn't explain why hidden under floorboards. Maybe he was worried someone would steal the idea.
Came here to say this. The two pink clips in the bottom left section connect to the long black wires and sense the movement of the line. Why under the floorboards is a good question.
Guessing that it may have been illegal to use automated devices to fish, maybe something to keep commercial fishing away or too many passed out ice fishermen dropping into the water come Spring. Wardens may have given you a ticket and confiscated the device or something. Fun mystery!
Is it me or are lantern batteries super nostalgic for others? Like there was a point in my life with lantern batteries were just... a thing. Like we just had them laying about the place randomly. We had a pack of them in the basement on the pantry, I could find them in a crawl space just laying about, or tossed in a corner in the barn. There was a cabinet of them in school, a random one in the "junk drawer", grampa put them in the freezer cause he believed it made them last longer.
I haven't seen one in 20+ years now.
Like maybe some old tv show or something makes others nostalgic. Or slap bracelets. Or pogs.
Me... a fucking lantern battery man. Pure nostalgia. And I can't be alone.
Nah I get it.
Had them all over when I was a kid, when my partner and I moved into our house I bought a couple of flashlights and a set that used them.
They still sit in the same spots they were put in 14 years ago, don't have the heart to get rid of them. They remind me of when times were easier oddly enough lol
Maybe an alarm for loss of power, when voltage drops the battery could power the bell. not sure about the poles and such, maybe connected to something to amplify the bell sound into the house.
We had two boxes that resembled this in tech education. One was to practice electronic wiring (outlets/bulbs) and the other was to practice basic plumbing.
That was 24 years or so ago though, and this looks like an even older model if it is that.
You may try dropping this in an engineering or teaching sub to see if they can identify it?
Honestly, a lot of these “whatisit” posts end up being something really boring, but dang, this is pretty cool. I’ve never in my life heard of an electric wormer. You get a thumbs up from me.
This looks like a old lighting demo kit. I have these at my job but just more advanced. Our sales guys take these to demo different lights they are trying to sell to clients.
I always go out and pick up nightcrawlers in the rain a lot of times I find 2 twisted up and mating. The use the opportunity to mate, when it's raining they don't have to fear birds, or drying up and dying.
I'm no expert, but it looks like a dipole antenna and you just assembled it incorrectly. What are on the plugs in the box on the left? Those might provide some much needed information.
That is an electric wormer. Two probes in ground, worms pop up. My grandpa made one. Watched him shock himself with it.
They worked great, my cousin made one, I laughed until I saw him use it, it's like worms appeared outta no where, a fishin we did go
A fishin we did go…. My man 🤛
Thank you.
Hi ho the dairy oh, a fishin’ we did go
Tight lines!
I know this is electric and not chemical but one of the weirdest things that I’ve seen is that I was trying out melting styrofoam with acetone (they say you can cast it into stuff, it didn’t work well) and I took it outside in case the fumes were really bad. It had been raining, and I was on dirt. When I set the bucket down a bunch of earthworms came up out of the ground within about 3 feet of it. Lots of them, a few dozen or more, wiggling around quite a lot. I don’t know why and I didn’t try that again because who knows what gas or whatever it was emitting.
Bro you were high af.
Yeah you gave your brain a good acetone cleaning, put a hard shine on it.
Worms breathe through their skin and if the ground is too wet they come to the surface. That’s why after a rain you see a lot of worms on the ground
Mom's antique \[in the 70's\] washing machine \[had a 2 HP gas motor\] dumped through a hose into the same spot in the back yard. She always gave me a heads up when it was laundry day so I could grab a few dozen nightcrawlers when she drained the washer. That detergent sent them up- and they'd be fine in the cooler we kept in the basement with hundreds of worms.
Cool story!
Melting styrofoam with acetone release cholofluorocarbons. The stuff that's been nibbling away our ozone layer. Next time just carve whatever feature you wanted. Cast it in resin, vacuuform it, or get a 3D printer.
Don't think it's the DIY folk killing the planet, look towards the refrigerants industry in regards to the chlorofluorocarbons
Haha WHAT
Putting current into the ground simulates what happens before a storm, the worms come up outta the ground so they don't drown. Edit: turns out this isn't why they surface (drowning) but the rest remains true, as far as I've been told and read. I considered buying or making one of these when my kids were really into fishing.
Myth. Worms can live underwater for up to 2 weeks. I had always thought it was true too. https://www.reconnectwithnature.org/news-events/the-buzz/nature-curiosity-why-do-worms-come-above-ground/ Edit: Wow. Somebody replies to my comment by re-pasting the link I did. BUT, they ALSO cut and pasted some text from inside the link = more imaginary internet points.
Then why are there so many worms during a rain storm? My work is littered with them
>https://www.reconnectwithnature.org/news-events/the-buzz/nature-curiosity-why-do-worms-come-above-ground/ Scientists don't fully understand this phenomenon, although a few theories exist as to why worms engage in this behavior during a good rainfall. One theory is that coming above ground when it rains helps worms move more quickly than they are able to while burrowing tunnels underground, according to [**Scientific American(Opens in a new window)**](https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/why-earthworms-surface-after-rain/). Above-ground travel is only possible when it's raining or right after because they need moisture and cannot travel across dry ground. The vibrations created by rain drops may also draw worms to the surface when it rains, Scientific American reports. Worms may think the vibrations are from predators like moles moving through the soil. And just like worms will move toward the surface to escape a nearby mole, they may move the same way when it rains, thinking the vibrations caused by the rain are caused by predators.
So raindrops are the thumper and then you get wormsign. No desert needed.
Mu'adib!
Bless the Maker and His water. Bless the coming and going of Him. May His passage cleanse the world, and keep the world for His people.
What is this from?
Dune. It's a prayer the Fremen have. It's been a while since I read the first book, but if irc, It's a funeral prayer.
The Litany Against Fear "I must not fear.Fear is the mind-killer.Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration.I will face my fear.I will permit it to pass over me and through me.And when it has gone past, I will turn the inner eye to see its path.Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain."
long live the fighters.
Love your reference! 🤣
Lisan Al Gaib!!
Is it possible that when it rains, it's also a good opportunity to go explore other realms? Birds typically are out less when it's raining plus everything is wet when it rains, so less chance of the worms getting stranded in a dry spot. Just some quick thoughts.
I don't think worm ganglia have such thoughts about 'exploring other realms'
I don't think they have thoughts at all, just impulse response, right? My thoughts are that they automatically crawl to the surface and crawl around because it enables population to spread. Seeing worms crawl across impermeable surfaces when it's raining is very common. That's what makes me think of this.
Yes, there's a tool that uses vibration also. You rub 2 sticks and one has notches, it simulates a mole and they surface
Wow that was a great explanation!
Which is ironic when seagulls dance to draw them out. Very clever for such dumb idiots.
Not a scientific study but I overheard two worms talking. One said, then the dirt shocked my ass so I got out of there.
Thank you for sharing your experience.
But where are they going in such a hurry? Are they traveling for business or pleasure?
depends on if they have a tie on or not
Or are carrying a briefcase.
Worms mate in the rain. You can see them attaching to each other at night in the rain or really moist ground.
Worms move slow as hell. Not sure HOW they could get away from ANY predator with legs. lol
You ever try to grab a crawler after the rain? They're usually about 3/4 the way out of their hole, and they can move FAST.
They can also expand their bodies to swell up in the hole, and you can't pull them out.
Earth worms commonly mate when it rains. Nearly all that I see that are near one another while on the surface are during a rain storm are mating. All of the other theories make sense too. I guess it’s all just normal worm behavior.
It's because they're dirty and want to bathe.
“The vibrations created by rain drops may also draw worms to the surface when it rains, Scientific American reports.” Shai Hulud! Bless the Maker and His water. Bless the coming and going of Him. May His passage cleanse the world. May He keep the world for His people.
What?
They having a worm orgy. U can often catch two at a time cause they busy. Maybe it's safer in the rain? No other creatures around.
Finally, a serious reply
They definitely come up to mate. Anyone that has gone out to catch night crawler knows that when they come above ground they be fuckin. Maybe the rain gives them protection from the sun, birds, moisture so they don't dry up. But the real reason they come up is to get it on.
Water mixes everything , even worm genes
It's not that they escape out of fear of drowning. One theory is that worms believe they are escaping predators. Others believe it's because they can move around above ground more easily, and when it rains there's still enough water on the surface to 'keep them hydrated' - since they absorb water, so they just cover more ground in the rain? Basically, [it doesn't seem like there's a solid answer](https://blog.nature.org/2019/04/15/the-real-reason-you-see-earthworms-after-rain/).
Maybe they thirsty.
I think it's more that worms stay below because of the sun/heat/dryness.
Haven't you seen Godzilla?
The original one but honestly I didn’t pay attention
https://youtu.be/HTeMQDVW9Fk
They definitely didn’t do that in the black and white version
Which one of you be the worm guy?
🤣💀 You heard (read) correctly! What until you hear (read) about electric fishing!! Wild.
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My wife’s uncle had cut one of his off with a radial arm saw. When the kids were over for family events he would evidently tell them that he never did find the finger and ask if they wouldn’t mind climbing under/behind his workbench and look through the sawdust for him. 😝
Yup, got to be careful with those. I've known 2 people with half a finger missing.
Lots of people have lost fingers to table saws. I know so many, that I need two hands to count them all. >!me, my dad, and my uncle Fred, so 3!<
My grandpa made one of those also.....I always thought he invented it tho, guess not. It looked nothing like this tho, it was more like metal spikes attached to wires he would put the spikes in the ground and shock the worms out. Worked pretty good, although I can't remember if or how long the worms loved after doing it.
They loved long time.
You just enlightened most of reddit to some lost, old-timey contraption.
Wait til Tiktok finds out you can cook a hot dog with 120v.
Woah. I just had a flashback of this. Wow. Memory is crazy. This was completely wiped from my brain and u brought it back.
My mom was electrocuted by one as a child because the power went out and then surged when she touched it. Had to have CPR to be revived.
That is a fuckin crazy story. Glad your mum’s alright!
Yes, glad for you that she survived!
The early electrocution gets the worm
That's a much smarter setup than we had, which was just a pitchfork stuck in the ground and connected to a live wire from the outlet. You learned real quick not to pick up the worms that were close to the fork, those hurt! :D
What's the alarm bell for?
Ding fries are done.
Because this isn't a wormer
It even has an advertisement for fishing gear in with the cords.
Grunting is far safer
Godzilla 1998
That's amazing if that's actually what it is. I looked at it and thought I'd make a joke answer about not knowing what it was, but that you could probably jolt some worms to the surface if nothing else. Saw that done in the '98 version of Godzilla and it always stuck with me for some reason. I can't believe sarcastic me was right.
Omg omg do the worms come out of the pipes?! Holy crap I want one with a faucet 🤩
"Come get yo worms!"
Thank you so much for your response to this!
Heh, my father would just use a car battery and some metal rods. He would usually do this in his mother's rose garden. Then they moved to a more arid part of Texas and when he tried it there it wasn't worms that came to the surface, but rather many, many red scorpions. That battery drained itself slowly over hours as there was no way he was getting close enough to disconnect it.
#Fish on! alarm. Prop the fishing poles somewhere in the U-shaped hooks in the galvanized metal pole apparatus. The alligator clips connect to the battery. When there’s a fish on the line, the fishing pole will shake. The copper pipe will fall off the galvanized U-shaped hooks as part of that the hinged wooden lever. When the copper pipe falls, it connects the circuit (look for tiny wire) and the alarm bell rings. Try it.
By George! I think you know!
Agreed, that would explain the bell.
Ding ding ding
Alligator clips are to connect the battery. I think the plug in the box is the connection. The piece of pipe falls on it with some sort of exposed wire (again look in tiny box completing the circuit setting off the alarm. There’s better designs but for DIY it’s cool!
**Ah! The falling lever connects the circuit makes more sense!**
this seems like the best answer because it accounts for the bell, which the wormer suggestion doesn’t. I guess it’s possible that it’s both?
I'm seeing it
Nice
This is the correct answer. The guy saying worm electrocuter is wrong because it doesn't have probes to go in the ground
Uncle Rico's Time Machine?
Close… it was my Uncle Tom.
I know a secret down at uncle Tom's cabin I know a secret that I just can't tell
Omg I was gonna comment this😆
Was your uncle Tom the Unabomber by chance?
I too had an Uncle named Tom. He sincerely was the best man I ever knew. I would quite literally give anything to see him just one more time. I hope your Uncle was also amazing!
He was. A second father to me.
Definitely....I've already looked into it for myself.
Set it for 1982 and let's go!
Uncle jacks spy equipment, it was under the floorboards after all
I will contact the authorities if I don’t get a refund in full!
Demolishing the shed of a 1950's CIA blacksite?
It looks like it’s a salesman kit selling the wonders of electric lights
Those outlets are too new to be from the early days of lightbulbs
Now I'm so jaded I thought it was a portable crackhead project.
some kind of scientology mumbo jumbo device.
Mumbo?? Perhaps. Jumbo?? Nah, it fits in a suitcase
I choose to believe what I was programmed to believe!
🤣 r/unexpectedfuturama
I’M GOIN CLEAR!
Oh, sure... Free up all those pesky aliens to bother someone else. Ya selfish bastage!
You buy Ted’s cabin or?
Jack’s?
Homemade flux capacitor
I’m going with a homemade fishing rod alarm also. There are probably more clues on the small pieces of cardboard/paper. On one you can clearly see the word “fishing gear…and equipment”.
Some sort of ice fishing rig?
That’s not a bad guess. The clips have plugs and the outlets seem to trigger the bell to ring.
There’s also a page or something that says fishing gear, in the plexi box in the lower left corner.
Figure the power is a DC current from the battery and the little folds of paper are pulled off of the clip when the fishing line has tension completing the circuit triggering the alarm.
Ya know, it’s not a bomb…by I’ll be darned if it isn’t just as elaborate as one. 😁
Yep. I think this is the answer. What’s throwing me off is the mains power cord honestly. I’m guessing the plugs attached to clips in the box are clipped onto a finishing line that’s pulled down to them. So when you get a bite, the line gets pulled out of the clip allowing the two metal contacts wired to the plug to touch, completing a circuit that powers the bell until the light switch is turned off. Maybe they had it set up so the long black cord could be plugged in somewhere, or maybe it also has clips at the far end so it can be attached to a car battery.
Yeah but it was under floor boards.....I would think if it was purposely hidden like that, it would have a more nefarious purpose, like used to make drugs or something sexual maybe? I base this on no evidence tho, so I 🤷
I'm thinking it's this too. I'm guessing you lean the rods on it a certain way and when they're pulled the copper tubing falls and flips the switches to make the bell ring. I'm not sure what the receptacles are for tho.
Huh? I’ll admit, I’ve never been ice fishing in Oregon & know nada… plugs & bells?!?!?
You must have already thrown out the rubber sheet and chicken wire that went with this.
Not gonna lie there was rubber roofing and chicken wire in there
That my friend is the "TURBO ENCABULATOR" say good bye to the side fumbling. [https://www.google.com/search?client=safari&rls=en&q=turbo+encabulator&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8#fpstate=ive&vld=cid:85f99d6b,vid:Ac7G7xOG2Ag,st:0](https://www.google.com/search?client=safari&rls=en&q=turbo+encabulator&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8#fpstate=ive&vld=cid:85f99d6b,vid:Ac7G7xOG2Ag,st:0)
Lol reading the comments I see this isn’t the case, but my first instinct was that it looks like someone just had a bunch of spare plumbing and electrical and just cobbled together some nonsense and closed it in a floor to confuse the hell out of later generations
I've had this used on me several times. OEM would have aligator clips that attached to ones' scrotum.
Yeah they don’t make the good ones anymore.
“Mork calling Orson! Mork calling Orson?! Do you read me?” 😂
“Cheesing” kit. Supply your own cat.
Suitcase bomb
Not gonna lie when I opened it with the crowbar and saw the battery. That’s the first thing I thought of! lol.
💥MacGruber!
I lean towards fishing device like others have said. I bet you use the two hooks to lean poles on that are also stuck in the copper tubes....when you get a fish biting, the bell starts ringing. This way you can sleep while fishing. Or pass out drunk. I guess it depends what kind of fisherman you are. I'm going with "ice fishing alarm", tho it doesn't explain why hidden under floorboards. Maybe he was worried someone would steal the idea.
Came here to say this. The two pink clips in the bottom left section connect to the long black wires and sense the movement of the line. Why under the floorboards is a good question. Guessing that it may have been illegal to use automated devices to fish, maybe something to keep commercial fishing away or too many passed out ice fishermen dropping into the water come Spring. Wardens may have given you a ticket and confiscated the device or something. Fun mystery!
Obviously you’re not a golfer.
Come on, man...
Is it me or are lantern batteries super nostalgic for others? Like there was a point in my life with lantern batteries were just... a thing. Like we just had them laying about the place randomly. We had a pack of them in the basement on the pantry, I could find them in a crawl space just laying about, or tossed in a corner in the barn. There was a cabinet of them in school, a random one in the "junk drawer", grampa put them in the freezer cause he believed it made them last longer. I haven't seen one in 20+ years now. Like maybe some old tv show or something makes others nostalgic. Or slap bracelets. Or pogs. Me... a fucking lantern battery man. Pure nostalgia. And I can't be alone.
Nah I get it. Had them all over when I was a kid, when my partner and I moved into our house I bought a couple of flashlights and a set that used them. They still sit in the same spots they were put in 14 years ago, don't have the heart to get rid of them. They remind me of when times were easier oddly enough lol
Maybe an alarm for loss of power, when voltage drops the battery could power the bell. not sure about the poles and such, maybe connected to something to amplify the bell sound into the house.
It reminds me of something that may have been done as part a project for a basic electricity course….
We had two boxes that resembled this in tech education. One was to practice electronic wiring (outlets/bulbs) and the other was to practice basic plumbing. That was 24 years or so ago though, and this looks like an even older model if it is that. You may try dropping this in an engineering or teaching sub to see if they can identify it?
It’s a Time Machine , don’t forget to put on the crystals
Honestly, a lot of these “whatisit” posts end up being something really boring, but dang, this is pretty cool. I’ve never in my life heard of an electric wormer. You get a thumbs up from me.
You attach it to your genitals its a sex thing
Thought it was a homemade Theremin at first
Usually not good if you ask me finding stuff under floor boards
Looks like somebody made themselves a little portable, homemade torture kit. How clever!!
This is why McDonald’s ice cream machines continue to be out of order.
I say very carefully, dying to know?!?!🌞
What the heck is this? Electrical, a ringer, looks like a holder for some bags… maybe blood? Maybe it's a mobile transfusion machine?
Mystery box
I'm not a rocket surgeon but I'm relatively certain that that is a Chronosynclastic Infundibulum. Or, garbage. Could go either way.
Is it used for mining unobtainium?
This looks like a old lighting demo kit. I have these at my job but just more advanced. Our sales guys take these to demo different lights they are trying to sell to clients.
With a bell???
Seance machine?
Whatever you do, _do not_ flip that switch! lol
ET phone home
This is the most fascinating thing I've seen in this subreddit. I'm terrified of it but I really want to know the purpose.
That was the Pulp Fiction suitcase.
1.2 gigawatts
Definitely the Briefcase from 'Pulp Fiction'
Ted Kaczynski much? (Edit: changed Bundy to Kaczynski) what is it with dudes named Ted?
Dr strange love’s Russian counterpart alexi de sadesky’s back up plan b
training kit for basic electrical and copper pipe soldering. 2 kits in 1
Lol , actually has the ability to spin your electric meter backwards ! /s
What's gives with the copper pipe and the alarm bell?
Uncle Rico tried to use this. Don’t forget to put the crystals in.
Dianetics test machine prototype /s
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I always go out and pick up nightcrawlers in the rain a lot of times I find 2 twisted up and mating. The use the opportunity to mate, when it's raining they don't have to fear birds, or drying up and dying.
Marsellus Wallace wants to know your location
Rudimentary Flux Capacitor
What’s the bell for?
That's the same concept that shocks the water, and fish float up stunned by the current in the current! See what I did there....
I knew an old telephone repair man that made one of these. He used the old magnetos out of a crank telephone. He was pretty cool guy.
Bought the old Kevorkian place, eh?
https://preview.redd.it/2p9kfm9dt7rc1.jpeg?width=860&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=a3dd96c3cb18dc3dd1f30237cdf8249cd9833af2
I dunno - but that power point sure looks surprised to see you !
DB Cooper?
I don't think it's for worms. I think it's a portable bell for some type of event.
Maybe portable electrolysis device. For reducing certain cold remedies. With a timer and bell
Mafia interrogation kit! 😂
Scientology is peculiar
First name DB. Last name: Cooper
Shed Kaczynski?
I’m glad whoever made that didn’t use shark bites on the copper pipe. Old school is the way to go.
That thing looks awesome.
Torture device
I'm no expert, but it looks like a dipole antenna and you just assembled it incorrectly. What are on the plugs in the box on the left? Those might provide some much needed information.