In my cabinet in the kitchen where we store our pharmaceuticals and supplements, I recently uncovered this curiosity when I tried to find a child’s liquid medicine syringe among the cat pill guns and out-of-date vitamins:
It is roughly five inches in width and five inches tall. It has a main shaft and two branches on it, one of which turns up. The second branch is flat, but curved a little. At the bottom of the shaft is a hexagon:
Might it fit into something to turn somehow? I have no idea. Since it’s plastic, I assume it’s of some modern convenience, perhaps one of the various kitchen apparatuses we’ve bought and not used.
Again, it’s something I own, don’t know what it is, but I can’t throw it away. It might prove vital at some point in the future. If nothing else, I’m going to someday create a great piece of artwork gluing every last one of these together.
(Previously: What’s On Brian’s Workbench?. Related because this new doohickey is now no longer in the kitchen, but in the garage.)
It’s a stirring arm for an ice crusher/sno-cone maker. We have one, but it’s packed away for winter right now, so I don’t remember the brand. This arm is placed in the receptacle, which is loaded with a syrup or other flavor. I like to try Gatorade syrup. You load the ice in the top, and when the machine has its cap on “right,” it spins and runs the ice over a razor blade to shave it. The small end goes on a peg in the receptacle, the curved arm is the stirring arm, and the hexagonal end mates with the motor unit to stir in time with the shaving of the ice.
Hey, you know what? I have one of those. Thanks.
Now I just have to find the rest of it.