What The Hell Is That?!

[Chauncey Gardiner]

Hint - It's wax.

 

[letschat7]

What pen?

I gave away a Mont Blanc fountain pen to someone here many moons ago.

 

[IMA SOL MAN]

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Hint - It's wax.

Horse suppository? 🧐

 

[knucklegary]

Horse suppository? 🧐

Then the grip ring makes perfect sense!

 

[PhotonWrangler]

A wax bottle cork?

 

[KITROBASKIN]

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Self-devouring rocket cannibalizes itself for extra fuel

If a new rocket developed by University of Glasgow engineers seems to get smaller as it burns, your eyes aren't playing tricks. It is. The new Ouroborous-3 (sic) rocket engine conserves fuel by eating itself as it burns.

newatlas.com

 

[Chauncey Gardiner]

Self-devouring rocket cannibalizes itself for extra fuel

If a new rocket developed by University of Glasgow engineers seems to get smaller as it burns, your eyes aren't playing tricks. It is. The new Ouroborous-3 (sic) rocket engine conserves fuel by eating itself as it burns.

newatlas.com

HA! That's not totally out of the ballpark. 😁 Although, it doesn't propel itself, it does get smaller as it functions. Or, more accurately, it used to. It is now missing a critical component to function.

 

[raggie33]

its a picture

 

[Chauncey Gardiner]

What pen?

No. Read the clue.

Horse suppository? 🧐

😹 No. Read the clue.

A wax bottle cork?

No. Wait. What? That would be a mighty long bottleneck. 😃

its a picture

No. Sorry, no patrician trophy for you. Try harder.

 

[knucklegary]

Yo-yo string wax!

 

[ironhorse]

Candle?

 

[letschat7]

Wasn't a guess what pen is in the picture.

 

[PhotonWrangler]

The Green Giant's chapstick?

 

[KITROBASKIN]

At some point you should mention what the critical component is…

 

[Chauncey Gardiner]

Candle?

It was, in a former "life." 😁

A few years back, a client asked me to check on a clogged bathroom sink at his rental. After meeting the tenant and having a brief discussion, I removed the p-trap and saw it was unobstructed. Then, removing the pivot rod and stopper, I shined my EDC down the drain and saw the top of our mystery item. Thinking, What the hell is that? I used a thin wooden dowl to push the obstruction into an awaiting bucket. It didn't require any force to push it out.

Now, I've unclogged lots of sinks and seen all manner of gunk come out, but I'd never seen anything similar to this six-inch piece of wax. This was the first sink I'd ever worked on in a mobile home, and I'll admit here that I began to wonder if this wax thingamajig was an actual part of the sink drain .... perhaps part of an anti-backflow system. 🤔 It just fit so perfectly that it had to belong ....right?

Taking it in a gloved hand, I went into the adjoining room and asked the woman living there if she had any idea what it was. L@@King at it she paused for a minute, then admitted she had been taking a shower when a burning candle fell over and a little wax went down the drain ... "I thought I got all of it out." Think of a burning candle lying on its side, constantly dripping wax down the drain.

The missing component, of course, is the wick.

When you guys are stumped, You're supposed to post - "What the hell is that?!

 

[ironhorse]

What did I win?

 

[Monocrom]

What did I win?

Our eternal gratitude.

 

[Chauncey Gardiner]

What did I win?

Well, it isn't really a candle. Is it? This isn't horseshoes. Close doesn't count as a win. 😉

 

[SCEMan]

Wow!
I thought it was the prop from the Parenthood film's blackout scene when Steve Martin thinks he's grabbed a candle...

 

[bykfixer]

What are these?