Any idea what these are? image searched and AI’d, no exact matches.
Have fun!
They look rusty or corroded, lol…some kind of piston or electrode?
I have no idea what they actually are…hoping to find out!
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For some reason I feel like @Mandrake50 might know lol
They look like some kind of linchpin for farming or the like…still looking…
**where’d you find them?
Not mine, just some random youtube video…hoping my fellow flashlight nerds can figger it out…
video below…not me/mine:
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This video looks so familiar. I believe I’ve seen it about a couple months ago and actually saw the answer for it, but now I can’t remember what the answer was for the life of me.
Unfortunately… you give me too much credit 
I was thinking that they might sit into a socket on some kind of base plate to space out wire or string…
But I have no clue really.
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I was thinking they could space out wire too, And you mentioned the socket because it has like a neck ring and then at the bottom there’s a split maybe you put something in there to make it hold tight or it fit over something. Like you said, it’s like you might put these in some kind of a slotted thing and then string wires through them, and the would hold the wires in place and separated from each other and keep them going on a straight line. I also thought of maybe like some kind of wire twister, but it doesn’t look robust enough for that… also maybe a loom part, but it doesn’t seem to go to that either.
It could be something so specific we’ll never figure it out because it’s a little tiny doodad at the bottom of some giant machine… or since he found it in his toolbox it’s something that was just used all the time and would make sense if we knew what it was.
I’ve done the image search and I’ve done the AI searches… no luck… YMMV…
I don’t care what these things are, It doesn’t impact my life or anything… I just like Internet treasure hunts!
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Probably heating cartridges. You drill holes almost the exact size, stick them in, then as they heat up and expand, they make better thermal contact with the block.
The split at the end makes it easier to squoosh into the hole.
Yeah… and then to twist them to allow alignment of the hoops…??? I give up.
Yeah that’s my first thought also. They have connections very similar to a 1960s stove top burner. So I’m guessing it’s some sort of heating cartridge from 1920 or 1940 for something.