German Threaded Junk, 1 inch tall
Sunday, September 30th, 2007
Warren, Connecticut. I don’t know about you but I have jars, cans, and boxes of old nuts, bolts, and "junk" like this in my basement that I’ve both inherited from the pack rat we bought our house from and which I’ve collected over many years. I promised my wife that this is going to be the year I clean up and organize this stuff and so, I set up a table and started sorting. Of course, the sorting gets interrupted every time I find a thing like this which I know nothing about yet think is interesting. I now have a bigger collection of interesting crap that has no use than seemingly useful crap that also probably has no use. Nothing has been thrown out and now all I’m doing is looking for cool junk to photograph. Sigh, my poor wife.
Well, I found a use for this totemic piece of junk. Recently my Canon 100mm f/2.8 macro lens fell apart in my hands: a screw fell out and it sounded like something was loose inside when shook, never a good sign. It was out of warranty but I had Canon fix it and I just got it back. What to shoot to test the lens? Ah, the German threaded totemic figure sitting on my desk.
Hey, the lens works.
Note: This piece of brass is 1″ tall.
what a cute and sturdy little piece of junk. I would love to know what it was.
well, I guess no matter what it was, it still is, only unemployed.
and you photographed it beautifully…
sheryl
Sheryl: something tells me your basement has many items like this one, unemployed but looking for modeling work. Thanks.
Beautiful. It looks like it is suspended in the air.
Thanks jamie, yes, it does except that that front reflection. I have more of this junk to shoot but it’s nice out today so it’s wood stacking time. Sigh.
First look guess it is a pressure relief valve. Does the upper end (as seen in the photo) depress?
Steve, not that I know of. To me it looks more like something that fits on furniture, maybe holding a drawer knob. I know, I know, not quite, but since there’s no hole through the middle… However, the black rubber “gasket” or whatever it is does point toward your theory.