What is this!??!

TrixiBuG · 18 Jun 2015 at 12:12

Someone at work found this in a set of desk draws and we are all stumped as to what it is...can the great and grand knowledge of GD help?

Chewing gum packet for scale

I'm pretty sure its not a Queen Wasp - but I could be wrong cause my Dad's retired

doofer · 18 Jun 2015 at 12:14

It's a brass screw insert. You have a screw loose.

cheesyboy · 18 Jun 2015 at 12:16

It's a child's thimble, dating from the French gothic period

NexusK · 18 Jun 2015 at 12:19

It's a Dalek. Run!

[TFU] Thegoon84 · 18 Jun 2015 at 12:20

Butt plug... Pro butt plug.

Tuppy_Glossop · 18 Jun 2015 at 12:20

Some kind of *ahem* plug ? :eek:

D'oh, beaten !

[FnG]magnolia · 18 Jun 2015 at 12:20

Your life is Inception.

Dis86 · 18 Jun 2015 at 12:23

Do you work in the dullest office on earth?

'we found a small screw'

'quick, to the Internet!'

Meanwhile someone in the background swoons and faints due to the unexpected excitement.

robfosters · 18 Jun 2015 at 12:24

A screw surely. The end takes an Allen key.

fez · 18 Jun 2015 at 12:26

Its a screw with an allen key hole in the end and I would assume that there is a thread inside which matches with a bolt somewhere. Flat pack chipboard desks and the like use that sort of thing.

pepsilol · 18 Jun 2015 at 12:28

You've gotta be ******** me..

Hitman_Leon · 18 Jun 2015 at 12:28

robfosters said:
A screw surely. The end takes an Allen key.

The allen end is used to screw it into the wood, usually MDF, the inside past the allen end will be threaded to accept a screw for fixing the piece of furniture together it came from.

Cosimo · 18 Jun 2015 at 12:29

Waits for desk to lose a leg...

grudas · 18 Jun 2015 at 12:30

dragon bum plug

StriderX · 18 Jun 2015 at 12:30

It's Cthulhu clearly, buy some queen wasps and nuke it from orbit, then hug your father who knows where to get a mac10 <3 minutes with hovis for proof.

[FnG]magnolia · 18 Jun 2015 at 12:30

So ... can I stick this up my butt or not? I'm getting conflicting views here.

Haggisman · 18 Jun 2015 at 12:32

Drawer.

Hitman_Leon · 18 Jun 2015 at 12:32

Cosimo said:
Waits for desk to lose a leg...

It was in a set of drawers, possible broken toe/toes when drawer falls out :eek:

Electroshadow · 18 Jun 2015 at 12:40

its a bolt thread fixing for wood.
that fixing would be inserted into a hole in a piece of would say a table top. Then the table leg would have a bolt fitted in the end which would screw into that fixing hence attaching the table leg to the table top.

alan key form is for screwing this fixing into the wood

Bensons · 18 Jun 2015 at 12:43

It's a heatsink for a screw