What is it? Game 123

Whoa, I turn around and it's already time for our weekly collaboration with the always excellent What is it? Blog. Can you guess what the strange tool above is for?

Game rules are simple: place your guess in the comment section below. One guess per comment, please. You can enter as many guesses as you'd like. Two prizes: the first correct guess and the funniest yet wrong guess will win T-shirts from the Neatorama Shop. You have until the answers are posted in the What is it? Blog.

For more clues, check out the What is it? Blog. Good luck!

Congrats to Doug Fallon who guessed correctly in the last What is it? Game 122, and to Declan ("the devastator"), Digma03 ("Iron Man's Whisk"), and kminks ("Medieval Purple Nurple device") for the funniest guesses.

Update 1/16/09 - Congrats to wkb who got it right, and to Tim Giachetti who made me chuckle with his entry of ... you'll have to see it for yourself!

Item 1829 is an ultrasonic fogger. Immerse it in fresh water and it'll produce a mist above it. The protruding bit above it is a safety device - it won't function unless the sticky-up bit is submerged.
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It's a Lego mill. In the earliest days of the Lego company, all Lego pieces were crafted by hand using these devices. You would insert a stick of Lego material, usually Bakelite in the early days of Legos, into one side, turn the crank, and it would cut out the posts on one half. Flip it over and run it through the other side, trim to size, and you would have a perfectly-formed Lego.
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