Tim's Weird Stuff!
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Over the years, Tim has acquired a number of objects that he now is unsure what they are or what they do. He sometimes calls an unknown object a WIF - or What's It For?
Tim is looking forward to hearing from you, the UA-cam audience, to make suggestions, or maybe actually tell him what these objects are really for.
However Tim starts with a strange object - a green plastic tube with holes along its length, and a strip of foam inside it. Tim gives a clue - you place it in water for about 20 seconds, and it is then ready for use. At the end of the video, he reveals what this unusual object is used for. Can you guess? - Наука та технологія
Green moving apparatus is for removing surgical staples, which are more modern version of skin wound closure stitches.
Hey, he was right about it removing staples
True that!
It's a normal paper staple remover, I've had one for years. Mine is yellow. They work really well. You can still buy them, they're called "scissor style staple removers".
The surgical ones are similar though.
Thing looks enough like an old seam/stich remover my mother used to have I'd have guessed that. Funny how so many devices look alike, but I guess they all do a similar thing in the end.
@@ZarvainI like this
The white bulb is for sucking the yolk out of an egg!
I was going to say exactly this! It looks exactly perfect for it
this would be my guess
Yup I got that too
Dammit, you beat me to it - I actually knew this one!
yes, it is a yolk separator
Those mysterious balls with windows seem to me like a sort of deodorant for shoes. I have has some in the past and they looked like that.
Yes, I had some of those that were painted to look like little footballs. They are claimed to absorb odours from shoes and give off a strong air freshener type smell.
They could also be a modern version of moth balls
Ditto except I have them currently not as pretty though, checkered.
I think you are spot on. If you search “Sneaker Balls” you can see little plastic spheres that appear to be the same size in various colours and patterns.
Now that you say that it does look like what you'd put in a hockey bag to make it smell less shit
I haven't seen a pair of odor-eaters like that silver pair in years.
They're for your shoes.
The red and black item may be a stack seperator. You hook it on the edge of a surface so the stack sits just on the small flat part. Then when you need to pick up the stack, you push the red piece in and it makes a centimeter gap to get your fingers under. I can imagine using it for tiles or other heavy items that are stored in stacks
Is this your guess or you know this for sure either way it makes sense to me
@@atacstringer8573 it's a guess, I cant find it on google and it's not something I ever used myself
I like that
@@atacstringer8573he said “may be” so obviously probably guessing
The yellow and black plastic object appears to be a “ SOUCOUPES FLOTTANTES” or in English, “Floating Saucers” and are also called “Egg Flips”and are sold in bags of 10 and are marketed as pool toys
I don't know about that one can't find anything about it on any of those names
Indeed. In the UK a similar pool toy is called "Zoggs Seal Flips" and are used to encourage blowing out through the mouth to flip them over.
My son Henry told me that this is breathing while swimming, you have to blow it to flip it over.
@@deejsteriseryeah! i used to play it when i was a kid! good times!
@@atacstringer8573My brother in Christ, you just copy the words "soucoupes flottantes" and there it is. The first result on google. Wtf you talking about not finding anything.
The white plastic and silver chrome device is in fact a Playtex Baby Bottle Expander perhaps from the 1970’s
I wonder if they're scented I believe those are the exact same sneaker fresheners that I have they open and closed with vents on the side
@@Trickedouthuffy Different item, the bottle expander is at 5:30, the balls at 1:50.
I concur@@Trickedouthuffy
Tons of comments pointed it out last time Tim showed it. Kinda sad he doesn’t see the comments. :(
What even is a baby bottle expander? I don't get it
A reverse image search for the green tool turned up an exact match. A Welters brand staple remover. It was pictured with a removed and bent staple, and was advertised as a staple remover.
I had one, I loved it! Worked very well!
Yup, I've got a yellow one.
Yeah, I had one for years before I realized what it’s for.
I have one in my desk right now.
Yeah,they are for skin staples......took one home last time I got staples to remove them myself later
One of the only channels that it's a pleasure to scroll through the comments. Some spot-on observations! Still some mysteries, though.
Vibe attracts tribe.
And no hate.
yellow and black thing is called a " BECO EGG-FLIPS " used for teaching swimming or playing in pools.
Yes, I was going to say I played with something exactly like that when I was learning to swim in the 80s
I missed your comment.. you got it first!
I thought surely it would be for preserving avocado halves, although why you would even allow such filth in your kitchen is beyond me. Avocados are the Devil's gonads and no one shall convince me otherwise.
Yeah I used image search on chrome and apparently its for kids to practice breathing techniques in the water. I guess the goal is to flip it with ones breath.
How does it teach one swimming??🤔
The black and yellow ball is used to teach babies be more comftable in water, you let the ball float in water and then you can make it flip by blowing on the edges. Atleast thats how i have seen balls like that used before
Back in the 70’s there was a baby bottle system that used a bag as the bottle and it was placed in a plastic bottle shaped tube and the last device was used to “install” the bag in the tube. The idea was the bag was flexible and would collapse as the baby drank and that was supposed to reduce the amount of gas in the babies stomach.
Those were still common at least up until the 90s for sure
@@Superabound2 I’m old enough to remember the commercials when those were the newest thing lol
They were still in use when I had babies in the mid to late 2000's. You don't need that expander for the bags, and I still can't figure out what exactly it's used for.
@@TehButterflyEffect it was supposed to make it easier to install the in the tube but as you figured out by trail and error you didn’t really need it. However when they were introduced (I’m 66) convenience was the watch word so anything that might make your day easier was developed and marketed as a modern convenience..
That's exactly what 5:40 is, a "baby bottle expander". You can still buy them.
*SIR, THE DOOHICKEYS ARE OPERATING AT MAXIMUM EFFICIENCY*
For using the word, 'DOOHICKEY', I liked your comment. For using Doohickey in plural form, you get a special comment of approval.
I have the first one for humidifying my cello.
The green one might be a surgical staple remover.
Thanks, Tim.
Item 2 is a set of sneaker deodorizers. Smelly stuff goes on the cotton, and the windows release the scent.
I saw that ...I have colored plastic ones in my work boots
The Black and Red thing looks like a stack separator to me. I've used similar where you put the device at the top of a stack of (example) tiles, push it in a bit and it separates an x amount of tiles to pick up. This one looks more like you put the black lip on a table etc., and push the red bit into a stack to do the same thing.
It's driving me mad because I've used one of these before but I just can't remember what it was for. So weird, I remember seeing the object but not what it was used for. My head is spinning hah.
So happy this channel is still going, one of the few that I've been watching continuously for more than a decade
its always top quality content too.
the white egg shaped item is literally a yolk separator. you crack your eggs into a bowl and then suck it up with that wide mouth.
that silver and black thing is a deodorizer ball. most people put them in shoes. id imagine that bit of cotton smells nice
Ew
The last one is an automatic expander for a vintage playtex nurse for baby bottles
This answer just leaves me with more questions lol. What on earth is a "vintage playtex nurse"?
Don’t know but I want one.
*thing falls apart* "well, that's its fate, isn't it?" same
a whole collection of whatsits? tim you spoil us
The small, green item with triangle tip is, indeed, a staple wire remover. I've got plenty of those in the office
I’ve seen something like the black and red thing in some old washers/dryers. They keep the drum still in shipping and you yank them out before first use
The first one looks like humidificator for instruments called "Dampit”.
Correct answer.
Yep! Came here to say that. I had them for my violins and violas so the weather would ruin them over time
6:29 he tells you what it is
@@direfan706 Different item.
Not seen one that size before, mine is very thin and shorter, for clarinets.
I recognised the humidifier immediately.
had one similar (but smaller) for my violin while growing up. The air can be quite dry in Australia and you wouldn't want the instrument to crack.
The green item at 3:00 is indeed a staple remover. You stick the metal triangle under the flat part of the staple and press shut like a pair of scissors, the staple will open.
you are correct in that the plastic handle holding the triangle gets weaker over time and eventually wears out making it unable to remove staples effectively.
This whole channel could be called Tim’s Weird Stuff
I had never seen an illusion here
The black and yellow is a water toy. It floats in water at the rim and Ive seen them before if you blow on them they flip over.
The green one will emboss two pieces of paper together. Kind of a wireless paperclip. The white bulb is used to separate an egg yolk from the white.
i think the white rubber thing that looks like a light bulb is a yolk separator - either suck up the yolk or the white of an egg.... taah daah!
Green one could be a paper clip thing, like pressing the paper together to keep it together?
Silver balls might be for laundry or for sock draws to keep things fresh, add perfume to the ball?
Green thing, Agree, looks like a stapleless stapler.
@@WOFFY-qc9te Other way 'round, it's a staple remover.
Green one is a staple remover.
The balls are shoe deodorant balls.
So funny to see my everyday important tool appear on this channel. I remember well my bass teacher introducing me to that in 1979. They’re long lasting. I only had to renew it once I the past 40+ years. I’ve been using it religiously to keep my bass at the right humidity. Most important as my bass is more than 175 years old and I don’t want to be the owner who neglects this beautiful instrument. I had no idea it was something so easily found in my home town Amsterdam (I know exactly in which shop Tim must have purchased it) as I thought it would be common everywhere over the world. Maybe not then. 😂
The blank and red item may have been designed to be used as a safety switch on some machine. Removing the red paddle would prevent the machine from starting.
The green tube is a slow motion humidifier for wooden instruments. They make smaller versions of it for small instruments. When humidifying wooden instruments, you want to do it very gradually. You hang the sponge inside the instrument to humidify it in small increments.
3:05 is that one of them gadgets to staple paper without using staples... Where they cut and link two sheets together?
4:00 This one looks like an attachement point for a bicycle basket. The moving part locks the basket into place, but pulling on it you can lift the basket out of the lock. The round part clips on the bicycles steering rod. Could be missing a spring, could be from something else, but it looks like a locking mechanism for bicycle baskets.
The silver balls are Odour Eaters. Twist to open the vents, and stick one in each shoe while you aren’t wearing them. If the white ball inside doesn’t smell fresh, the Odour Eater has reached the end of its usable lifespan. I had a pair of green ones which I used in my gym shoes in middle school.
It's true about the first one. But, I also seen it offered for acoustic guitars. Effectively, anything made of wood that would (heh) suffer if it dried out.
The green one is a stapleless stapler. It punches two or more pieces of paper together in a way they hold together.
Actually it's a staple remover. I've got one (but mine is yellow).
Seems like we have answers in the comments for all but the black and red one. Come on guys, we gotta solve this puzzle for Tim
3:00 that is a staple-less stapler. The triangle cut punch, binds several pages together but can be easily separated if need be. Side benefit, the damage is less visible when scanning a removed page.
This comment section is one example of why I love the internet.
Silver Balls I've seen new in box before and are shoe deodourisers as others have mentioned, you soak the cotton in a sent of choice, adjust the opening to desired strength and pop them in when you put the shoes away.
White Bulb I've seen new too, it is for seperating yolks from eggs as often you'll only want the yolk or white in some cooking processes or recipes.
I know I've seen that red and black device before. It's killing me that I can't remember the context of how its used and what for.
Exactly the same with me. I've held one before even and I can't recall what it's actually used for.
some people were saying it might go to a dryer as a holding clip while in shipment. does that ring a bell?
Another reply said for extinguisher safety switch, which I think I may have seen in automotive or portable extinguishers.
Or maybe an insecticide applicator? Something like that?
Or, if you picture an opening in the top of something, if you place this in there so that the part under the hole is under a lip, then you press the red bit in, it would act as a wedge to keep the angle bit firmly under said lip. But why?
I know I've seen/used one before!
@@gregorymessimer5728 paint tin opener?
@2:20 the yellow / black object is a teaching toy. Per info I found: These nifty little floats help teach beginning swimmers breathing techniques. Blow forcefully on the egg at water level and over it flips. Bright, contrasting colors are a clear indication that the swimmer is breathing correctly.
The green tool is a paper stapler, I think I remember having them years ago they were good for about 3-5 sheets of paper.
We had some other styles too but they all performed that same way.
It's called a Stapleless Stapler!
@@MJWPub Actually called a "scissor style staple remover".
Green tool a hole punch that i have seen on freight train paperslips in the small iron grate box next to the doors. Its “just” a special indicator punch, that shows that the right people have handled the papers, when a freight train car arrived at its destination. Of course this is not the only usage, im sure.
@@jacobbroe5279 Google "scissor style staple remover", you can still buy them.
That white thing is something I bought for my parents! It’s a yolk separator for eggs. You crack an egg in a bowl and use the thing to suck out an egg like a syringe.
The little silver balls are things I found around the house as a kid except they were red and blue. They’re to deodorize shoes.
The green one is a staple remover. The long green thing with holes is a humidifier for a classical guitar.
My brother had one of those green tubes, It was called a “Damp It” and it was for maintaining a certain humidity inside a Violin case. To prevent cracking
Hello to write off the bat… The green hose with the hole is in it Is the humidifier, guitars, violins, and string instruments. The pointy clamp thing at the other end is to put collapsible plastic bags into baby bottles. I think it’s Playtex brand.
The green scissors is a paper joiner. It is like a staple without the metal clip, it is used when you have to put a small group of paper together like a letter written in that thin paper used for air mail. Just clip the corner of the papers and the hole will keep them together.
It's a staple remover.
@@j.f.christ8421 true, Google reverse image search shows staples being removed. I thought it might have been for medical staples but it's just for paper ones.
close, but no cigar 🙂
The green object is a no-staple stapler. You can put more than one page in the space between the triangles, press down, and the mechanism will punch a hole and fold the excess paper down onto itself, sticking the pages together.
I knew what that first one was as soon as i saw it! I used to have a miniature one for keeping the humidity up in my viola’s case :)
the green tube with holes in it is a stringed instrument humidifier. this particular one seems to be sized for maybe a bass or cello. you soak it in water and shake it off so it isn't dripping wet and then you slip it into the f-hole of the stringed instrument. there it will slowly release moisture and keep the wood from splitting and cracking in very dry environments.
seeing your videos always sparks such joy 😊
Those two steel balls, which swivel to open some slots, remind me a lot of those balls you insert in the washing machine to capture the dye that leaks out from certain clothes while being washed at high temperatures.
The cotton ball seems like a hint to its purpose, as it would absorb most of the dye by capillary action.
Either that or it's used to dose a solid detergent to be used in the washing machine.
The first I did indeed get right, a Dampit style bass humidifier, but I've never seen a green one, they're usually a rather dull greyish.. The others I've no idea about, but I can believe the egg separator theory..
Most intriguing! Thank you Tim. 🌟👍
That green device at 2:55 is a staple remover.
Im sure its been said 100 times already, however ill identify it again. The two balls with the slots and cotton balls are "SHOE DEODORANT BALLS". Basically they have a scent originally and also help remove moisture im sure, from your shoes. When you say, arrive home qnd kick off your shoes. You toss one ball in each to keep the funk away. Also meant for reducing gym locker and closet shoe funk transferring to everything else. We had those ones and a few others that were all white and white with blue vents.
Pretty popular infomercial stuff in the 90's.
Pretty sure the green moving one is for removing surgical staples?
Normal sampler. Surgical one is similar though.
The yellow and black thing is a swimming teaching tool. You swim doggy paddle and blow to flip the egg over in the water several times before reaching the other end of the pool.
The red and black thing may be a safety switch for a power tool.
Item 1 (green hose): humidifier for instrument (think chello)
Item 2 (silver balls): shoe deodorizers
Item 3 (yellow and black): pool toy
Item 4 (green scissors): surgical staple remover
Item 5 (red and black): stack separator (think stack of tiles)
Item 6 (white bulb): egg yolk separator
Item 7 (white and silver): bag connector to 70s baby feeder that kept milk in bag and connected to feeder with this
I love videos like this. You already know brilliant people will be figuring it all out in the comments
Sneaker deodorizers, swimming instructional aids, surgical staple remover, a device for working with marble slabs, the suction component from a snake bite kit, and a reusable bung plug.
WE LOVE YOU TIM! ❤
1 plant waterer, 2 air fresheners, 3 no idea, 4 foldable tab cutter? 5 no idea, 6 egg yolker, 7 no idea.
The silver balls remind me of those old car air fresheners, that I remember from my childhood.
1:25 - I have same things here at home in Russia (so these balls are world wide popular, I assume) in bathroom, but I do not really know what are they for either. I think, you right though, they are for washing but I never tried it. I dont know, I will ask my dad - these things really strange
WW3
They are shoe deodorizers, called Sneaker Balls. You put them in your shoes while not in use.
The pressing tool might be for lemons?
2:53 OH I had one of those! It was yellow, and it was used to remove staples from pages
4:30 looks like a part of packaging. Round would mount to the main item and the orange clip would secure an accessory item. Like bells or tassles for a bike. Extra pieces for a stroller. Etc.
6:10 My best guess is, it's a pressure regulating bottle stopper. I imagine the press and spread feature, is a fastening/locking mechanism. Plunger materials tells me for sealing purposes. I'd assume this lid purges gases that build up, or will not open unless correct pressure conditions are present. Aka, I can't drop my meter down the check port, bc the system is pressured. Purge pressure, the lid can be removed. My best guess
Long time fan, love your stuff Tim!
I believe those silver balls are air fresheners for shoes... Used to have a few like them
Nostalgia has been activated, I used to watch this all the time when I was like 7 🥺
The green thing is for joining multiple papers together with a paper staple
Tim and his collection of 'wotsits'. Lovely!
For the orange wedge with the black receptacle, try turning the wedge part around. Place it against drywall, or cardboard and hammer the flat end of the wedge. It'll make a nice rectangular hole. I have no idea what it's really for.
The silver balls are fresheners, probably for shoes, as there are two of them. You put your perfume of choice on the cotton ball inside and open it to allow the fragrance out. And the white bulb with the clear plastic end if for separating eggs. You simply suck up the yoke and leave the white behind.
The silver balls look like "Sneaker Balls" but some sort of manual version where you add your own deodoriser or perfume to. The one i have has the "cotton ball" built in to it and mine is kind of a tissue. I bought mine in USA at JC PENNEY and it's still working 6 years later but the one i bought in South Africa where i stay only lasted for 1 year for the same "sneaker ball" brand. Mine also cannot be puuled open like you did, i can only twist mine open to let the scent into my shoes.
I thought the tube was for spinning and making noise
Does it change shape in water or something?
Ball aroma diffusers?
Antigravity resonator
Dog nail clippers?
A door latch?
The top of a turkey baster
And a door stop
2nd one is a shoe deodorizer. The cotton inside holds a fragrance and possibly desiccant. There is two, one for each shoe. You rotate them to open the windows around the rims to adjust the amount of fragrance.
3rd, don't know.
4th is a surgical staple remover. It bends the ends up and out.
5th, don't know.
6th is for separating egg yolks.
7th is a Playtex bottle expander.
I thought the Baby Bottle Expander was a high ceiling lightbulb grabber until I read the comments. The hose humidifier had me confused, I thought he meant you use it as a bow to play it, until I read about it, haha.
A staple remover was my guess from the thumb nail too but what about some type of sewing paraphernalia? For undoing or removing stitches maybe?
So the Silver balls are used to deliver scent in a room!
You put perfume on the cotton ball and the vents control, how much is released.
The green hole punch looks like a staple free stapler. Where the paper us folded to clasp multiple sheets together.
I have lots of similar trinkets and gadgets, I figured out the uses for.
The light bulb thing, has a rubber brush attachment, for cleaning things, with blown dust. I have seen that exact one, but cant remember what it was used for.
@ 1:24 I think that absorbs dye from new clothing, so it doesn't transfer into other items of clothing being washed.
@ 4:49 That's an egg yolk separator.
The rest? I have no idea... LOL!
the green clipper thing is a 'wireless paperclip'; does the same thing as a paperclip by binding the paper together, no wire. We had one in an office I worked in back in the day.
That green gadget is infact a "Scissors Type Staple Remover" there is one by a brand named Welter's.
the silver balls are sneaker fresheners. Ive seen them sold at Walmart forever ago. You twist them closed while you wear the sneakers. Then Open them up and put them in your shoes when you are done. White bulb thing seems to be an egg yolk separator. It seems the red and black bit is part of an e-stop or interlock switch.
I’ve seen that green noodle before used as a way to regulate humidity inside of an acoustic guitar.
The green tube is a Sound Hole Moistener for wood instruments !
The green tool is a staple remover. For large staples with more than 50 pages
The silver balls are "sneaker balls", they would have been scented at some stage. Pop one in each shoe and leave over night.
The metal balls with the vents andthe puff inside is a deoderizer!
You can put a scent on the puff balls inside, and the vents control how strong the scent is.
Since there's 2, i think they are shoe deodorizers.
The yellow and black item is a
Beco Egg Flips Pool Toy
"A unique toy for learning to swim.
By blowing on the egg, a child causes the toy to rotate.
Great breathing exercise.
Especially recommended for use in swimming schools."
The only thing i need to know now is if Tim has red the comments or someone else in his team has done it and informed Tim about the answers ☺️.
the silver balls are air fresheners, to put in drawers, they would come from the factory with that cotton ball soaked in a liquid that smells good and prevents insects from growing (like moth balls) , and you can select how strong you want the effect by turning the shutters open or closed
I wish Tim was running for president
Presuming you mean PotUS, I don't think he was born in the US, so he is not eligible.
@@verdatumYou must be fun at parties.
@@ZacHawkins42 I mean, it's a bit of a dick move to judge an anonymous person's character based on a single sentence, but yeah, I have a bad-anime party this weekend. People bring in the worst they got, we play it in the background, have some cocktails, you're welcome to drop in whenever, the more the merrier!
@@verdatum This sounds very realistic and totally not an overreaction in response to being called out for crapping on OP's whimsy.
@@ZacHawkins42 You must be fun at parties. You're still invited though :)
@4:00 pretty sure that's just a part of something much bigger and has no uses on its own.
It looks like a wire harness clamp that can be attached and removed into a specified notch, amd then locked in by sliding the red tab.
The red and black plastic pieces seem to be a fire extinguisher lock.
That seems right! Like an automotive one! I know I've seen it before... But where?