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 RUclips 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?
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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!
I was guessing it was a case for an LED to make it look like a standard filament bulb.
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
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.
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.
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?
LOL the silver balls are for your shoes. they're supposed to have a scented oil on the cotton bowl. And you can close them to prevent that from evaporating when not in use. But yeah they go in your shoes.
YES.... the famous sound in the end is here again!!! Thanks Tim. You are the best!!!!
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.
That green gadget is infact a "Scissors Type Staple Remover" there is one by a brand named Welter's.
Red and black one removes an anti theft device for retail I'll bet. They've had so many variations over the years.
The first object t
Is to maintain humidity in an acoustic guitar. You dampen the sponge inside and leave inside the guitar body.
I think the one with the rubber white bowl and plastic with a big opening might be used in sucking up the yellow of a cracked egg, I've seen people using plastic bottles to do it, that might be a dedicated device.
EDIT: I think it is this device called "Sunny Side Out " yolk separator ruclips.net/video/ywS4I0EhMJ4/видео.htmlsi=VQZPuGLsJe7yJAni
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
I haven't seen a pair of odor-eaters like that silver pair in years.
They're for your shoes.
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
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.
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.
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
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
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
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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
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. 😂
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
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.
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.
a whole collection of whatsits? tim you spoil us
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.
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 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.
This whole channel could be called Tim’s Weird Stuff
I had never seen an illusion here
*thing falls apart* "well, that's its fate, isn't it?" same
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!
The small, green item with triangle tip is, indeed, a staple wire remover. I've got plenty of those in the office
This comment section is one example of why I love the internet.
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 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.
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.
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.
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
Pretty sure the green moving one is for removing surgical staples?
Normal sampler. Surgical one is similar though.
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 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.
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.
5:00 Egg Yolk separator. Fact
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?
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.
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 white and silver plunger is a Playtex Automatic Expander. This video shows the bottle system and how the expander works. ruclips.net/user/shortsWl0dqjTJZZM
I remember my mom had this system back in the 70's. Since the milk was put in a bag instead of a rigid plastic bottle, it collapsed as the baby nursed and they didn't swallow air.
from what i can tell. the silver balls are deodorant balls for bags and shoes.
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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.
Convince me Tim isn't an SCP.
The red and black thing may be a safety switch for a power tool.
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 ☺️.
2 silver balls is probably shoe-dorants (to remove bad smell), the green pistol grip thing seems to be a punch card/ticket puncher.
green thing i beleive is a staplesless stapler?
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.
3:15 this is a staple remover
That green device at 2:55 is a staple remover.
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 thing is for joining multiple papers together with a paper staple
The silver balls at 1:23 look a lot like Odor Eaters balls. You drop them into shoes and they're supposed to deodorize them.
The most useful comment section I've ever experienced.
@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.
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 silver balls are "sneaker balls", they would have been scented at some stage. Pop one in each shoe and leave over night.
The pressing tool might be for lemons?
the silver balls are to put into your shoes to help with odor
5:30 could that be a cap for some bottle or something
seeing your videos always sparks such joy 😊
I believe those silver balls are air fresheners for shoes... Used to have a few like them
Moth ball holders, no idea, stapleless stapler
Nostalgia has been activated, I used to watch this all the time when I was like 7 🥺
Silver balls had scent on the cotton and they were used to put in your shoes after you take them off to keep the smell fresh!!!!
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 :)
Is the green thing a stitch remover
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 love videos like this. You already know brilliant people will be figuring it all out in the comments
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.
@ 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!
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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.
White thing I thinks is an egg yoke separator.
They're sex toys Tim...
The green one is a staple remover. The long green thing with holes is a humidifier for a classical guitar.
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Literally clicked just to see what's so weird about a staple remover (green thing in thumbnail). I have one except blue. Push the triangular metal bit under the staple and press down and it bends the little spikes out without ripping paper. Pretty standard office kit, and really handy for the one specific task it's designed for.
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.
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
The white Belloes with clear Nosel is an Egg separator, with your Egg in a Dish compres the Belloes put the Nosel in contact with the Yolk, release the Ylok is lifted away from the White. Quic and somewhat ifishent. The only one I reckonise.
Wow, I've got the EXACT green staple remover. It belonged to my dad so it's probably from 80s or 90s
Every once in a while I loose myself in Tim's avalanche of bullshit
Believe it or not I always end up regretting it
This one being my favourite, as it is is absolutely useless and the worst waste of time on YTP
That green hole punch thing is for fastening two peices of paper together without using any metal. You put two peices in and punch it and it makes sort of a paper paper clip holding the two sheets together
The green one I was thinking would be a staple-less stapler. The last one looks like a fruit pealer, like try putting an orange in it?
I think that second-to-last one is for sucking up egg yolks.
The silver ball things might be for moth balls? No clue about the rest.
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.
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.
The two silver balls are for dropping a perfume or aftershave or even a room freshener oil or scent in, on the cotton balls. When you want the scent to do its work, you twist the balls in opposite directions to open those windows you mentioned. But when you don't want them to work you twist them closed.
There are similar ones to perfume the interior of a lady's handbag, and ones to use in a car. But those ones usually have a clip which secures them to the air vents of the car.