And Today's Mystery Object Is...

[DerekS]

Hello, I'm just doing some prep work with my car stuff ready for moving house and came across this, not for use on a car I know, but I've always wondered exactly what it is! It's made by Sheen instruments of Richmond,  Surrey. Do you know?

Derek.

[JohnD]

Derek,

Of the two 'pointers', one grey and the other black with two weights(?) on it, which one moves?

Sheen make devices to test paint, the substance or the finish.     Could this be a viscometer, to test that a paint is of the right consistentcy before application?

John

[DerekS]

Hello John, its the front grey pointer that swings, very freely too...

Derek.

[Mark Seniac]

Derek

it looks like one of those things that you use to do a thingy ma Bob with but it looks like your missing the thingie that attaches to the ma Bob ........ gawd knows what it is I’m interested myself as too what it is I’ll keep checking in too see if you crack what it is ... I first thought it was a drum thing that you stretch probably a skin over too play/bang a tune out of it !!!! 
mark

 

[Colin Lindsay]

It looks like a seismometer... any earthquakes round your way?

Of course it could be a simple weather station; if the pointer sways about it's windy and if it's wet, it's raining...

[Badwolf]

We use the mini wolf for weather reports. We send her out, if she comes back wet it's raining, with white bits it's snowing. Fur ruffled it's windy, fur hot it's sunny, small white bits hail stones. If you can't see her...it's foggy.

[Chris A]

It's a twowit. They come in various sizes and shapes. This on is a round twowit . . . 

[Mark Seniac]

Closest thing I’ve found is a pendulum impact tester !!! 
mark

 

[Chris A]

1 minute ago, Mark Seniac said:

Closest thing I’ve found is a pendulum impact tester !!! 
mark

 

I've seen them on the telly being used, usually massive jobs with heavy weights, this would be for testing something much smaller and more delicate

[Mark Seniac]

2 minutes ago, Chris A said:

I've seen them on the telly being used, usually massive jobs with heavy weights, this would be for testing something much smaller and more delicate

Chris 

the one I found was just a little bit bigger than derek’s one in fact there was a man standing next to it and he could of walked inside it lol..... 

 

[Mark Seniac]

On 09/06/2021 at 15:43, derekskill said:

Hello, I'm just doing some prep work with my car stuff ready for moving house and came across this, not for use on a car I know, but I've always wondered exactly what it is! It's made by Sheen instruments of Richmond,  Surrey. Do you know?

Derek.

Do we get a prize derek

[Chris A]

9 minutes ago, Mark Seniac said:

he one I found was just a little bit bigger than derek’s one in fact there was a man standing next to it and he could of walked inside it lol..... 

That's the sort of thing, serious kit!

[thescrapman]

What does the little plate say?

anything on the box?

[JohnD]

21 hours ago, derekskill said:

Hello John, its the front grey pointer that swings, very freely too...

Derek.

In that case, it's a paint viscometer.    You dip it in the stuff, hold the grey pointer to one of the marks on the scale, and time how long it takes to reach 'zero'.

Come on guys, use your brains, not your funny bones! (Which aren't working!)

[Chris A]

2 minutes ago, JohnD said:

In that case, it's a paint viscometer.    You dip it in the stuff, hold the grey pointer to one of that marks on the scale, and time how long it takes to reach 'zero'.

The way I've seen people test the viscosity of paint is where a predetermined volume of paint is put into a funnel and the time taken for it to run out determines the viscosity

[JohnD]

That's what that is.

Do you have a better idea of what Derek's instrument is?

[DerekS]

Thanks for your interest guys, genuinely, I haven't a clue what it is or how old it is either! Here's another pic where hopefully you can gauge the size better and see the label. Also, there's an L-shaped "stop" for the swinging needle. The factory where I'd spent the best part of my working life closed and I was one of the last to leave in 2005, this item got mixed up with my tools when I brought them home...

[DerekS]

Ps scrapman, sorry, the only thing on the box is the Sheen name/badge.

[Mark Seniac]

1 minute ago, derekskill said:

Thanks for your interest guys, genuinely, I haven't a clue what it is or how old it is either! Here's another pic where hopefully you can gauge the size better and see the label. Also, there's an L-shaped "stop" for the swinging needle. The factory where I'd spent the best part of my working life closed and I was one of the last to leave in 2005, this item got mixed up with my tools when I brought them home...

Lol love how you worked there all that time and the last too leave and you picked this up!!! You obviously didn’t work In that department then 😂seriously though I can’t wait too find out what it really is and used for.... it’s got me stumped 

 

[DerekS]

Mark, it was in an old building that was being cleared out for demolition,  it had been part workshop and part stores for a LOT of years. The company I worked for bought the building in the 1940s, it had been built during the First World War for the coal industry. 

[JohnD]

Sheen Instruments still exists, but is part of a larger company and based in the Netherlands.  Their website is at https://www.tqcsheen.com/

Maybe an email to them might get some idea of what this is?

John

 

[DerekS]

Hello John, I've had a look at that and there is a contact in the UK on the website. I've fired off an email, we'll see how it goes and thanks for that! 

Derek.

[DerekS]

Good morning,  that was a good suggestion John, I've just had an email back off the Sheen Industrial Physics Department and it's a...

[Jeffds1360]

...... come on Derek.

I used a skid resistance meter on tarmac road surfaces many years ago. Similar but 4x that size.

[Mark Seniac]

4 hours ago, derekskill said:

Good morning,  that was a good suggestion John, I've just had an email back off the Sheen Industrial Physics Department and it's a...

And..........???? !!!! Cmon derek what’s the score my son .. lol