anybody know what this whoosimawhatsit is ???

[thebelvedereman]

My stepmother found it in the basement, along with a whole bunch of car parts, the little knob on the end spins the two arms that are inside the funnel, and I have no idea what it is, not even sure if it's for anything to do with cars lol

[Plymouthy Adams]

Its a pooper scooper and you got it laying on your stove.....eeeew!!!!!!                                                                                  

 

 

 

 

 

 

I really am just jerking your chain.......

Edited August 26, 2018 by Plymouthy Adams

[48ply1stcar]

It's a ice cream scoop.

[thebelvedereman]

5 minutes ago, 48ply1stcar said:

It's a ice cream scoop.

 LOL, well I guess it's not for working on cars then, I wonder what the heck it was doing with a bunch of antique car parts, maybe they were working on cars and making ice cream LOL

[DonaldSmith]

Ice cream scoop makes sense.  Twisting the knob will move the arms to cut the ice cream free.  ...or whatever sticky mass you are scooping.  Peanut butter?  

[thebelvedereman]

 yep, it was invented in 1887, and it's called a conical key scoop, and it was used mainly in ice cream parlors between 1887 and 1920, my stepmother found it with a bunch of antique auto parts, I guess they just threw it in there because it was an antique it's pretty much in perfect shape

[Plymouthy Adams]

they threw it in because like you in the beginning it was an unknown item....it is also the first time I saw a scoop of this style...very interesting ...thanks for posting...

[thebelvedereman]

6 minutes ago, Plymouthy Adams said:

they threw it in because like you in the beginning it was an unknown item....it is also the first time I saw a scoop of this style...very interesting ...thanks for posting...

No problem Tim, and thank you everyone I wouldn't have known what it was either if it wasn't for you guys, I looked up just about everything I could think of on the internet including a flour sifter, we got a great bunch of guys here, and I knew that one of you would know what it was, and then after you guys figured it out I did some research on the internet and found out exactly when it was made and everything, I might just throw it on the backseat of my car and take it to the cruise nights with the rest of the antique stuff that I have in the car

[pflaming]

Maybe take a canister of homemade ice cream, demonstrate and make a lot of friends while having fun.

[thebelvedereman]

 I don't know if I'd make any friends, it appears to be galvanized, and would probably just taste like old metal LOL

[Eneto-55]

52 minutes ago, thebelvedereman said:

 I don't know if I'd make any friends, it appears to be galvanized, and would probably just taste like old metal LOL

 

I would guess that it is hot tin plated.  (Cold tin plating, or "bright tin", is not food safe, but hot tin plating was used on lots of steel food service & processing items, like a hand meat grinder, for instance.)

[Plymouthy Adams]

a cat therefore found cooked on a hot tin roof would be safe to eat.....

[thebelvedereman]

2 hours ago, Eneto-55 said:

 

I would guess that it is hot tin plated.  (Cold tin plating, or "bright tin", is not food safe, but hot tin plating was used on lots of steel food service & processing items, like a hand meat grinder, for instance.)

 I'm not sure, but it does have some Rust spots inside, not to mention it's over a hundred years old, I'm not sure I would want to be eating anything from it

Edited August 27, 2018 by thebelvedereman

[Eneto-55]

6 hours ago, Plymouthy Adams said:

a cat therefore found cooked on a hot tin roof would be safe to eat.....

Where is the laughing smiley face?

(Of course we CALL it tin, but I know that you know that it is really galvanized steel...)

[Eneto-55]

4 hours ago, thebelvedereman said:

 I'm not sure, but it does have some Rust spots inside, not to mention it's over a hundred years old, I'm not sure I would want to be eating anything from it

Yeah, I wouldn't either. but we used to drink well water out at the windmill from a rusty tin can stuck over a nearby fence post.  (After we rinsed out the spiders, of course.)  

[Plymouthy Adams]

15 minutes ago, Eneto-55 said:

Where is the laughing smiley face?

(Of course we CALL it tin, but I know that you know that it is really galvanized steel...)

 

I could not find one with a slurping tongue so I did not post any at all............

 

[Grdpa's 50 Dodge]

Spiders were just a programed part of our protein input

[johnsartain]

Ice cream scoop, car parts... We have a guy that sets up and sells homemade ice cream at our county fair. He has Ice Cream machines powered by a old John Deere popper engines. Pretty neat to watch, and some good Ice Cream as well.

 

Edited September 29, 2018 by johnsartain