whatsit

[flip]

Ok, here's yet another whatsit.  We found this in the side wall of a customer's tire.  It cost me $5 to figure it out :





Total length is about 3" and the circular end is about 7/16"

[Tom]

It looks like a specially designed tire puncturing device.  :D

Does that spade looking end move?   If so, I would guess it is some kind of pin for securing a joint. 

[flip]

The flat end does not pivot or move.

[Timburr]

At first glance, it looks like a brake shoe retaining pin, but I have seen something similar sticking out of a teenager's body part.  :D

[Sunfield Hardwood]

It looks to me like a pipe cleaning, tamping device, seems like i've seen them for sale{ I'm talking about a smoking pipe} ya know like Prince Albert in a can. :D

[Dave Shepard]

At first glance, it looks like a brake shoe retaining pin, but I have seen something similar sticking out of a teenager's body part.  :D

My guess as well.


Dave

[Burlkraft]

I'm with SFHW...A pipe tool 

[Ron Scott]

Ditto! on the pipe tool. I use to have one that looked like that.

[mike_van]

16 penny nail, someone left on the RR track -  :D

[Faron]

I agree on the brake shoe retaining pin.  I guess you could tamp your pipe with it though.

[Furby]

Well my first thought was a miss stamped roofing nail, but it looks like there is a taper on the under side of the head.
That being the case, I don't know what it is.

[limbrat]

Is it part of a clipboard?

[flip]

Darn, that was too easy.  It is a pipe tobacco tamp/cleaning tool.  Had a customer at the counter a few weeks I was shootin' the b/s with and bet him $5 he couldn't tell me what it was.  It seems his pappy has smoked a pipe since Columbus landed :-\  How it ended up in a tire is beyoned me but it sure did the trick.

[Cedarman]

Some guy cleaning his pipe out the window while traveling at 60 MPH and OOPS.

[flip]

Would have been more interesting to see the pipe in the sidewall,oops.

[Tom]

I'd like to know how something like that gets into the sidewall of a tire?

[SwampDonkey]

My mom's uncle had a pipe. My grandfather said he never got down to smoking the tobacco in it. He'd strike a match and take a puff to get it burning, then he would hold it in his hand while telling stories or gossip and before he knew it, it would burn out. They used to say he was only smoking matches. He outlived everyone, just as they predicted. ;D  :D