What the heck is this thing? $0.50 flea market find.

[CZroe]

What's LetGo?

A marketplace app for people to sell to nearby users. They tried to make it particularly easy to list by just snapping a photo and letting their algorithm identify what it is to automatically write a listing. Price defaults to “Negotiable” but I already edited the price and title:

Originally identified it as a “black and gray power tool.”

They also use some algorithm to find stuff they think you might be interested in based on what you are looking at. Many people lazily let the app misidentify what they are selling for hilariously bad results.

 

[SKORPI0]

I would never have guessed that. I wonder if it still works.

You can volunteer to be tested on and find out, right? 😉

 

[PJFrylar]

You can volunteer to be tested on and find out, right? 😉

I can volunteer, but I would need my travel expenses covered by ATOT ATOTDC.

 

[Darwin333]

It has a motor in the base that turns a small metal piece deep inside the protrusion (all the way at the base). The piece is shaped such that it will interface with another piece to transmit rotational force in one direction (slopes and ramps, much like the ratcheting piece in the back of a retractable click pen). The protrusion has rubber O-rings and is probably as long as it is to make sure that whatever goes into it remains perfectly straight and doesn’t rub the interior wall. I believe the O-rings are just for a friction fit and not for sealing (no lube and no sign that anything is supposed to turn around that shaft).

I'm going with power/charger for a sex toy. You apply your own lube.

 

[Red Squirrel]

Are you sure it's a motor and not just a transformer? XLR to phono adaptors will sometimes have a transformer in it as XLR is balanced and phono is not so it has to "convert". Something like that, I forget the exact reason, not an audio guy, I just play one at Church.

Edit: NM I guess it's been confirmed to be a dental tool. Looks fun!

 

[PJFrylar]

Are you sure it's a motor and not just a transformer? XLR to phono adaptors will sometimes have a transformer in it as XLR is balanced and phono is not so it has to "convert". Something like that, I forget the exact reason, not an audio guy, I just play one at Church.

Edit: NM I guess it's been confirmed to be a dental tool. Looks fun!

It certainly does. The suggestion to convert it into a dremel like tool is what I would go for, well before I try to sell it off as is. Though it would be awhile before I use that tool on anything I care about.

 

[zinfamous]

What's LetGo?

A Chinese radio station that only plays Disney pop tunes?

 

[Scarpozzi]

A Chinese radio station that only plays Disney pop tunes?

No...it's not Chinese, it's North Korean. Trump's lover is a huge fan.

 

[renz20003]

Gallery:
https://imgur.com/gallery/jRAOLyf

I thought it had something to do with an electronics rework station heat gun, but... nope. Still, the construction is quality so I figure it might be worth identifying.

It’s got a 3-pin DIN with a 180° DIN5 arrangement. It’s all metal construction on the outside except for the obvious (cord; rubber O-rings). The metal cap on the back unscrews and you and then you can unplug the cable, which only has two terminals despite the 3-pin DIN. There is clearly a motor of some kind in there but it does not appear to be a blower despite the vents.

It’s impossible to show in the pictures but there is a metal piece at the base inside of the hollow metal protrusion with slopes ramps and flat sides/drops. Probably meant to engage with whatever it turns without requiring precise alignment. Reminds me of the ratchet mechanism inside a click pen.

We’ve obviously got some kind of adjustment back here, hidden under the plug and metal end cap.

I doubt it’s vaping-related since the cable clearly tethers it to something (vapes stress portability).

No, the protrusion with O-rings is not a TRRS-style connector. It’s one metal piece.

I get the impression that maybe it was meant to be a drink mixer with different mixing attachments or something but it can’t be very strong: there’s nothing to anchor the attachments and keep them from spinning under high torque. Even then, it wouldn’t be a stand-alone device thanks to that connector. Not sure what base station would have such an attachment.

It’s a cable for a European sex robot