One final guess from me, and then I give up.

You are a scales guy, right?

I'm going to guess that it's some sort of standardized weight for calibrating scales. Only thing is it looks really small for doing truck scales. But that's still my guess.

The notches, and the curvature, seem to indicate some kind of flexible, connective function. It reminds me, somehow, of a u-joint.

Ok , the thingee is a thingee for your Ipod head phones to keep the cords un tangled ,
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I initionaly thaough this was the view to use ,
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then this view ,
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but then I thought that a safer for work view was in order


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So we were all on the right track with the wrapping lines around it approach.

Good one, zippyt.

thank ye sir

Buster, that looks like the grille of a piece of heavy equipment, like a dozer or something?

nope, but I'll not give you, Bruce any more clues. Because you know

Is it part of the windshield of a Florida school bus?

cover over a small engine with a pull cord... chainsaw?

The honeycomb-like part looks like an air-filter cover from a lawn mower, and old gaskets.

Ok. If you had a car, date, friends and a few bucks back in the late 50s, 60s or perhaps the 70s you might, or should have used one of these.

Is it a speaker for ordering food at a drive in?

If not that, it must be the speaker you put inside your window when watching the movie.

Or a drive-in movie speaker. To order movie watching to get in your ear.

Huh?

Let me try that language out:

"To buy ice cream eating to see cherry on top."

Hi, my name is glatt, and I'm a late editor.

You said it was a drive-in speaker "to order food" so I said, maybe it is to "order" something else: the movie. Or the watching of the movie. Well, not the actual watching of the movie, but to "order" a certain part of it. To get in your ear. To order movie watching to get in your ear. Shut up.