My apologies for leaving you all dangling for so long... (I've just edited out the smile that was here. I'm thinking of replacing it with "aloof blink" but I haven't decided yet)

I don't see a white marble or any numbers.

Me neither, Admiral.

I don't see any reason why some couldn't be loaded into it though. For it to not be a complete waste of time, obviously, there is the not insignificant matter of something needing to be missing from them first though. Also... I probably should have said something about Gary's round and round bit being a feature of this tool too - so much in fact, that it is part of its name.

But I didn't.

A yo-yo for use with very thick string?

Y-e-e-e-s... w-e-e-e-ll... up to a point... but a weaponised version for adults is not it's intended purpose, Graham, no, although the way it goes round and round is. But then there's the string thing. You'd need to double the superlative and antonym the adjective to be up to a point there

[...same here... :) ]

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Thread died. Now revived.

Yes it did. Thank you for resuscitating it :)

I'm going to pretend that I'm not exactly inundated with work in here
because no one has a smidgeon of a clue what my tool is

*dangle head at sympathetic angle* you poor, poor things :)

Not to worry, people. Time for a clue I think.

In my previous post I mentioned the need for there to be something missing
from what gets put in here ---v



In case you've forgotten, this is the tool you're trying to name.

If you take what gets put in it, and add that to what then gets done to what you put in it, you will have what it is.

Yes! :) It really is that simple.

They can be made from all sorts of things too :)



even paper.

Anyway. Sometimes, the process of making the things that go into it means they're already missing the part that is essential is missing before they go into it, but sometimes, they're not.

And where the thing you want to put in the tool isn't missing what needs to be missing, something like this



...and this can be very useful indeed



you know... before this --- v



becomes very useful indeed.

There. Did that help?

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Nutty bit.

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Nutty bit.

*blink at Admiral*

No



:)

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If that's the way that you make donuts Annie then that's positively medieval. :-D

Cheers.

It's toroidal re-integrator! It disintegrates any sample and re-integrates it into a toroidal shape.. usually made with titanium dies or shaped diamond anvils, this is the home version.

The squish plate is missing.

Right?

I'm going to guess a bobbin holder of some kind, prevents the thread from skipping off the bobbin edge and wrapping around the shaft.

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I suspect that doughnut is a bit larger than the ones (plural) that go into our tool. But that is a great shape to show, now if they could just get strung along.

You might have to clue review them ....

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For putting Cheerios on a string for a Christmas decoration.


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Making a rare appearance in this thread because of Annie claiming tool-royalty in TLP.

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David
Sitting on my butt while others boldly go,
Waiting for a message from a small furry creature from Alpha Centauri.

I now understand the metal hooks are flippers and removers of the pastry nuts. Just not sure what the spinner is for.

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I now understand the metal hooks are flippers and removers of the pastry nuts. Just not sure what the spinner is for.

I think that is so you don't have to align the cheery o's by hand, let random chance do it for you.

Some of those other tools look like they are for making the doughnut holes and one a long time back might just be useful tying up the lose ends.

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Not for Cherry O's. If you look carefully Cherry O's are square. Spent a weekend helping a friend make a few hundred for a TV commercial once.

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There appears to be a preponderance of over-focus going on, people... you know... on what's visible, rather than what should really be very clear in my last post. But never mind.

*start sifting through ravings*

If that's the way that you make donuts Annie then that's positively medieval.

*slow blink down nose* If that's another way of saying backward, Wiggo, then it works really well.

Thank you. Finding new and innovative ways to upgrade the age-old art of the insult is always appreciated ;)

*refocus gaze on Ed in Seattle* If I may take this opportunity to say hello now, and let you know how very pleased I am to meet you, Ed? :) Because I am :) and because it may seem a little incongruous if I do so from this point onwards...

It's toroidal re-integrator! It disintegrates any sample and re-integrates it into a toroidal shape.. usually made with titanium dies or shaped diamond anvils, this is the home version.

The squish plate is missing.

Right?

You were right to suggest something else...

I'm going to guess a bobbin holder of some kind, prevents the thread from skipping off the bobbin edge and wrapping around the shaft.

...it's enabled you to catch up with everyone else on being wrong.

Well done :) I expect it would actually work quite well for that, except it would be a bit like thinking a yoyo was designed to be no more than a holder for a short length of string when it was clearly designed to alternate between being a string-tangler and a dangly thing.

I suspect that doughnut is a bit larger than the ones (plural) that go into our tool. But that is a great shape to show, now if they could just get strung along.

Yes, Gary, a bit larger than makes sense to load into it definitely. The only way I could see more than one donut at a time would be to stack them on the central shaft before setting the whole thing in motion, which I suppose is where Ed's disintegrator idea comes in, although quite why he's worried about the missing squish plate when the surrounding walls would probably do, I don't know.

For putting Cheerios on a string for a Christmas decoration.

For someone who is very wrong, David, you're peculiarly close to being almost right... a bit like this is ---> Congrautualtions.

[edit] Making a rare appearance in this thread because of Annie claiming tool-royalty in TLP.

Yes, well announcing that was clearly a mistake *scowl at would-be-usurpers* Things were quite peaceful in here before...

I now understand the metal hooks are flippers and removers of the pastry nuts. Just not sure what the spinner is for

Obviously what you know you don't know, is a lot less than what you actually don't know, Admiral. Yet your wild groping about in the dark has paid off a little :) The metal hook things do facilitate a very specific form of removal, which oddly enough has been mentioned in this thread in its noun form, as again just then in its metaphorical form as opposed to its verb form... but which needs to also be attached in its noun form to the metal hook thing to facilitate its verb form happening, ie: for "removal" to become more "transferred elsewhere" via a type of feeding - from being a loose jumble of what goes in it, into something of a more elongated collection coming out of it, which could if necessary then be wound onto a bobbin, or not... depending on what your point was for putting the things into it in the first place was.

*reflect on what's just been said* That explains it very well, I think, people. For which you are all, of course, most welcome :)

I think that is so you don't have to align the cheery o's by hand, let random chance do it for you.

It is definitely to avoid having to align anything by hand, Gary, but I prefer to use the word magic rather than "random chance", for how they align by themselves once they're being propelled circularly. The manufacturers like to talk about a simple scientific principle being invoked, all whilst neglecting to actually name it which suggests to me they also think its magic too.

Some of those other tools look like they are for making the doughnut holes

Yes.

...and one a long time back might just be useful tying up the lose ends.

He means this one, everyone :)



although it can also be used between the "doughnuts" and not just to finish them off at the end.

Not for Cherry O's. If you look carefully Cherry O's are square. Spent a weekend helping a friend make a few hundred for a TV commercial once.

Square will work too, Carlos :)

Having said all that, some words have been used that are straying close to your target.

Looking back through all your offerings: Gary used an S word. Ed used a T word and David mentioned a D word. He also mentioned a much courser form of Ed's T which started with an S and could be used for the larger, more chunky ones of what goes in the tool. The Admiral also used an S word, too, and that is in fact half the name of the tool I want... which just leaves what goes in it... which you still haven't worked out and is probably why he doesn't know what it's for.

Being that I'm feeling suddenly more helpful than I was a moment ago when I wrote the last paragraph, and before my next awkward stage wafts in, the second half of what it is called is a spinner, everyone, if that helps...?

edit: was missing two commas. Was going to just put them down here, but I didn't in the end.

Does your first word start with B? And does the thing sell for $14.95?

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David
Sitting on my butt while others boldly go,
Waiting for a message from a small furry creature from Alpha Centauri.

Oh look *point*

two more of you know what it is :) and haven't committed yourselves.

Does your first word start with B? And does the thing sell for $14.95?

Yes, David, it does and they do.

Oh Geeze, how long will it take?

If you're talking about identifying it, Tut, forever is a conservative estimate...

Bead me upp Scotty :-)

Yes! :)

Well, as provider of the last missing word *contemplate the Admiral, David, Tut and then stare at Gary* I declare the communist our latest toolhead, people ;) I think I need to pop into politics really quite soon and pick myself up one of those inverted comma titles too - I wonder what it will be... what with communist taken...? :))

Tutankhamon... that's you :) Congratulations! And your runner up will be... *randomize gaze*

David!

If neither of you can throw another tool at us, then I will make another selection. It will be between Gary and the Admiral

*beam happily*

In the meantime, this is how the beadspinner works... (you might want to skip the first minute or so)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hJ7Y6WUnu_4

I'm going to PM you now.

Thank you for a very entertaining game, everyone :)

I was afraid of that.

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David
Sitting on my butt while others boldly go,
Waiting for a message from a small furry creature from Alpha Centauri.

I was afraid of that.

I know my beady eyes were shocked at the result.

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Nearly six hours, and still no response...

:)

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I must admit to total ignorance of the mystery tool. So it had nothing to do with eating anything. This chump was stumped.

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I love it. Takes some of the fun out of beading, but I need to get one. I have been beading my whole life without one. I even taught my daughter how to bead by hand.

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So it had nothing to do with eating anything.

No.

I suppose I should have just posted the hole in the doughnut/donut... it might have been less misleading, but I didn't.

Takes some of the fun out of beading

Yes, like jabbing holes into your fingertips or threading fresh air onto your needle, which is always a lot of fun, I admit :)

Still no word from Tutankhamon so... David... I will be pm'ing you now :)

If David goes quiet too, or declines the prestigious honour of posting another tool, Gary... I will be contacting you next :) Admiral... we may need you to step in soon after...

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