Tuesday, December 7, 2010

Identify this

21 comments:

  1. Is that an old alcohol breath tester?

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  2. It's a old PBT wasn't called that then but it was used for testing alcohol level.

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  3. My wild guess is that it's a detector for crowd control gas to let the user know when it's safe to take his or her mask off.

    Or maybe it's a pirate raid ALERRRT.

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  4. That is a picture you took yesterday with your Canon Powershot of an orange box with a switch on it.

    Am I first? Do I win anything?

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  5. It looks like one of the door alarms from the late 1970's. You would hang it on your doorknob and if anyone even touched the door it would sound a loud alarm.

    Gun Nut

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  6. Okay, my first guess might be correct, but upon further study, I'm guessing it is some kind of alcohol level measuring device.

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  7. How about a good, clear, straight-on pic of the entire label?

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  8. I'm going to guess that it's a very early breathalyser! the eighties "Tron" typefont and the barely decipherable company name are a giveaway

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  9. Red light BAD

    Green light GOOD

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  10. Breathalyzer?

    Geiger Counter?

    Mini Guitar Amp?

    Old Fashioned Cell Phone Charger?

    Single Walkie Talkie?

    Police Scanner?

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  11. Is this one of our pre tests from 1975 - 1978 or so? Where are the paper mouth pieces?

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  12. 7:14-

    Cute.

    7:19-

    Yes. Mike Garnett, Jon Morris, Steve Wetzel and I administered thousands of preliminary breath tests with this device.

    Steve-

    Nice use of the EXIF data.

    9:26-

    That would ruin the fun.

    256-

    Now that depends on which end of the mouthpiece you are on, don't you think?

    9:58-

    All the above.

    10:26-

    I've got a brand new pair of roller skates, if you've got a brand new key. It would be nice to have a supply!

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  13. Clearly, that's a black Pilot G-2 ball-point pen, complete with rubberized grip.

    What do I win?!!

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  14. Chief-Good point. I've been on both ends of the machine. Fortunately, when I was was on the blowing end, it was green.

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  15. The orange color gives it away. It detects Ninja Pirates.

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  16. Grundle King-

    The usual selection, you can pick, "blood, breath, or urine?"

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  17. The fact that I DIDN'T know what it was, makes me feel pretty good about my 'innocent' younger days!

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  18. Some of the people who had previously see such a unit likely just saw an orange, blurry thing.

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  19. All of you are wrong. It's a Pen Mate pen sitting on the monthly stats with some weird orange box thing in the way!

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