OK, this one came in a Christmas cracker from Aldi. Some pretty good other things, but no idea what this is!
It's about 7cm long, silver coloured plastic; the two curved 'blade' things don't appear to be metal.
Here:
Ideas gratefullky received!
It's to cut through the the top seal material on a wine bottle that uses a traditional cork. Place the tool over the top of the bottle seal with the cutting edges underneath the lip and simply rotate this removes the top of the seal exposing the cork.
Richard
Ah, not what I thought it was then.
[Winces, and crosses legs.]
My first thought. But it's too small to fit any wine bottle I have. And the 'blades' are not sharp at all.
There may only be one that is meant to be sharp. The other three are just wheels.
You have broken all the rules of mystery object posts!
For next time, they are:
At least on the first post, the link is to be broken or point at something completely unrelated.
The image must take ages to download - usually because it is an unfeasibly large number of megabytes on an overloaded "free" server with even more megabytes of advertising and general crap.
The image should be taken at a very unhelpful angle.
It should be blurred. You can achieve this by moving camera, making sure it is out of focus, or using one of the various blurring tools in Photoshop et al.
Contrast and brightness are to be compromised by taking picture in a very dark corner or whiting-out large parts with the flash. Doing photo under LP sodium street lighting can do wonders for colour rendering.
The actual object must not occupy more than about 20% of the image area. Ideally other distracting items are in view. Or reflected (c.f. dangly bits reflected on kettle on ebay).
It is so similar to wine bottle capsule cutters, it seems to be the only answer - for small bottles? Perhaps somewhere they use similar capsules on, say, "soda pop" bottles or one glass wine bottles?
In message , at 00:13:45 on Sun, 28 Dec 2014, Bob Eager remarked:
Might have been made too small (someone in China getting one of the measurements wrong - the real one I have here is also 7cm long) and thus surplus to the original requirement.
"I know - let's stuff them in Xmas Crackers..."
Yes, does look as if that's what it is. No real blade though...all four rollers are just that.
The only actual useless gift in the whole box of crackers - they were good value!
Thanks everyone.
In message , at 10:39:32 on Sun, 28 Dec 2014, Bob Eager remarked:
They could have put rollers on (instead of cutters) after they discovered the size of the frame was wrong. Just for show.
The one I have here has four cutters (not one and three rollers).
Wine bottle foil cutter?
Wine bottle foil cutter/q
Oh good afternoon Burns.....
Jim K
Go on then. List the USEFUL stuff:-)
Can only remember what I got. A folding ruler - a sort of concertina as a load of linked plastic tiles. It works and is reasonably accurate. Oh, SWMBO got a screwdriver set which wasn't bad at all.
How about photographing the ruler NEXT to the mystery object so that we can work out the size?
Tim
Why bother since I posted the size?
Because the size you quoted and your statement that it's too small to be a foil cutter doesn't tie up. 7cm is more than big enough for it to be one.
Tim
OK...
Well, the length is as I said. The 'too small' bit comes from the fact that the curved part (where the bottle neck would fit) is too small for any of the bog standard wine bottles I have.
Aha. I forced it a bit and it fitted!
Much to my amazement, it works too. I still can't work out how it's managing to cut anything, but it does.
Thanks everyone.
The only useful thing I got was a bottle opener. Real metal too.
The book mark would have been useful if it worked on a kindle.
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