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8 years 3 months ago #3549 by dude
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looks like an instrument cabinet.
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8 years 3 months ago #3550 by ??
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I see a few faces and edges that look machined. :unsure: I can't make out an instrument cabinet though. :huh: Will you post a text description, please? :)

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8 years 3 months ago #3569 by dude
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I see this as a controller cabinet with instruments on a front panel. I see a square cavity where a sample or readout could have been on the left. in the lower middle appears to be a handle for adjusting something. to the right I see remains of a knob. all this is heavily weathered I admit but this was my first impression of this block.

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8 years 3 months ago #3570 by ??
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The large “rock” does appear to be a manufactured object to me. I am not sure what to make of it as a whole. I can’t make up my mind if the “handle” extending horizontally from the center of that circle is actually a handle or if it looks more like some kind of perpendicular member coming off the central shaft of some kind of rotating motor. I do see the square hole, but I am not sure what it is.

The three medium-sized “rocks” in front of the large rock do appear to be manufactured as they all three look machined to me. The one in the middle appears to me to have a wide slot on the left that appears to have a slight curvature to it, perhaps a track for a wheel or roller such that perhaps the whole thing was originally round and something rolled around on top of it in this slot in a circular manner.

The left and right medium-sized rocks appear to me to be roughly quarried. Other smaller rocks have straight edges and smooth surfaces, also implying machining or manufacturing.

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