ID this thing..
 

i know i've seen this before somewhere, but i can't remember what it is. the center is a spring, the ball is solid steel. anybody know?

http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1324858596.jpg

That Sir, is a thingamajig.

a "muddler"? for crushing mint leaves with ice for your mojito?

Close...looks like an ice cracker to me. Place a few cubes in the palm of your hand, give 'em a whack, dump into a glass, add a few fingers of good bourbon...

Original nutcracker.

Holy cats Paul got it. I found the design. Patented in 1967 to a guy named Samual Sacks. it is an ice cracker. THANKS!

yea..thinking about it. that thing would a shatter any highball glass with the first contact.

ice breaker huh? cool

Someone give it to you as a gift?

Looks like something to keep shoes straight? Ball goes at the heel, pointy bit in the front, spring pushes the two apart?

Or...

Is it missing the gun that fires it?

i have no idea where i got it. it might have been in a random garage sale box. the handle made me think of Vash's suggestion.....definitely reminded me of a muddler. paul was dead on.

Looks like you could give someone a good wallop with that....

I stand corrected!

That's a discipliner.

It belongs to Dr. Who......and he will be looking for it.

How the heck did you find a patent for it in one hour?

when paul mentioned it was an ice cracker, i googled "ice cracker." there was a website that had different pictures of ice cracker designs...apparently people collect these things. i found a picture of this very model, and then checked it out on google docs. took about 3 minutes! just got lucky

I was snooping around this girls nightstand once... I found something like THAT!:cool: