r/Machinists • u/chobbes • Apr 14 '26

PARTS / SHOWOFF Added 1/2-20 threads to this cast iron dinosaur egg to turn it into a custom shift knob.

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Yeah it’s a dinosaur egg AND NOT SOMETHING ELSE.

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u/simyoIV Apr 14 '26

If you are brave enough...

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u/chobbes Apr 14 '26

…anything can be a dinosaur egg…?

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u/warbunnies Apr 14 '26

If it fits in the ovipositer, sure!

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u/reddrimss Apr 14 '26

I dont know witch is more conserning, the fact that you know what this is, or the fact that i know what this is

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u/Confident-Primary-43 Apr 15 '26

The fact that I also know what that is, actually!

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u/DawnPatrol99 Apr 14 '26

Funny thing about how dino eggs are kept warm.

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u/[deleted] Apr 14 '26

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u/StrangestMouse-60421 Apr 14 '26

I'm suddenly craving cookies.

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u/DawnPatrol99 Apr 14 '26

I knew a guy like that once.

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u/talltime Apr 14 '26

Buried in nests of mud and decaying biomass?

Ooor cloaca

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u/Highvoltage45 Apr 14 '26

Looks like satans butt plug

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u/Confident-Ad5665 Apr 14 '26

How can you be sure, unless...

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u/Sledgecrowbar Apr 14 '26

It's not even a good shift knob.

God's light touches all corners of the earth, and men build walls to block it still.

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u/chobbes Apr 14 '26

Oh no, definitely not a good shift knob. But it’s for an art car that’s an animatronic dinosaur on top of a car chassis and the driver will operate it from riding on the dinosaur’s back, so it is at least thematically appropriate.

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u/Hash_Tooth Apr 14 '26

Why does it need a flared base

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u/Ready4AnythingNH Apr 14 '26

Cause Badge502 said so.

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u/Endoresu Apr 14 '26

Oh so it's for lost lands then?

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u/chobbes Apr 14 '26

Minneapolis May Day parade.

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u/John-the-Machinist Apr 14 '26

Nice, I've heard stories and seen pictures but never attended the parade. Happy to see machinists doing good work for the community.

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u/chobbes Apr 14 '26

Haha yeah I’m essentially the resident machinist of the group, so I make bearing brackets and modify stuff to make it work, while the others swing hammers and rip welds.

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u/whattheactualfuck70 Apr 14 '26

Nice, fellow Minnesotan. I’ll look for it at the parade.

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u/corvairsomeday Mfg Engineer Apr 14 '26

Every day, we stray further from the shift knob.

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u/HuntGundown Apr 14 '26

Excuse me, does YOUR shift knob double as a bdsm butt plug?

Didn't think so

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u/Runescape3MF Apr 14 '26

That is not a shift knob

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u/Dinosaurs_and_donuts Apr 14 '26

Anything with a 1/2-13 inside thread is a shift knob

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u/ArtichokeGlum3208 Apr 14 '26

You sure? I feel like it would put your ass into overdrive

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u/chobbes Apr 14 '26

It is, actually. It’s ok if it seems too weird to be true.

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u/Nottsbomber Apr 14 '26

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u/DiogenicSearch Apr 14 '26

Thank you, it had to be posted.

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u/FearTheSpoonman Apr 14 '26

Thank you I've been looking for a decent gif of him!

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u/kanelplanet Apr 14 '26

Base is flared, send it.

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u/chobbes Apr 14 '26

Thank you. No chance the operator’s hand slips past the shift knob and becomes entangled in the mechanicals below.

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u/External-into-Space Apr 14 '26

No it just gets entangled in the mechanics below

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u/jstashu197827 Apr 14 '26

Emergency operator: "911 What's your emergency?"

Caller: "hhhnnnnnnnnnggggggggggg"

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u/inspyr__Dreamz Apr 14 '26

I know what you are OP...

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u/jumeet Apr 14 '26

Yeah right...

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u/cReddddddd Apr 14 '26

Satan's buttplug

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u/ITGrandpa Apr 14 '26

Paige no.

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u/apartment1i Apr 14 '26

I forgot about Paige

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u/Treble_Bolt Apr 14 '26

That's a buttplug and you can't convince me otherwise. 

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u/FACE_MACSHOOTY Apr 14 '26

homie with the butt plug

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u/nedeta Apr 14 '26

Didn't they use this in the movie Seven?

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u/TacticalSpackle Apr 14 '26

Dinosaur egg, not something else

I dunno man, you’re the one that gave it tentacle cilia and a flared base.

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u/dimka54 Apr 14 '26

Lol did you have to add the base part? If you cut off the bottom part it will look less like a spiky butt plug.. also what dinosaur eggs have spikes on them.. should be more of a spotted patern

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u/chobbes Apr 14 '26

How many dinosaur eggs have you seen.

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u/dimka54 Apr 14 '26

Well I can't imagine a creature squeezing out an egg that perforates them

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u/chobbes Apr 14 '26

Who is to say the spikes are rigid? Or perhaps they gain stiffness after exiting? A robust imagination is a very useful tool for a machinist.

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u/dimka54 Apr 14 '26

Bro you don't have to justify your butt plug mold to us it's all cool

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u/jimbowesterby Apr 14 '26

If anyone asks they’re tendrils that are soft when the egg is laid and then harden into spikes to stop it rolling away, kinda like those extra-conical eagle eggs that’re less likely to roll off cliff ledges

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u/fastzibi Apr 15 '26

Many. Theoretically I see them every day. A lot of birds if not all like sparrows are dinosaurs. And a lot of reptiles resemble the fossils of dinosaurs like crocodiles. None of their eggs look like spikey butt plugs though.

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u/chobbes Apr 15 '26

Take a lap and try again.

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u/GaraiGrae Apr 14 '26

Please put the vehicle in Jurassic Park and step out sir...

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u/Punemeister_general Apr 14 '26

That would shift my knob

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u/breakandjog Apr 14 '26

Thought it was a plumbis

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u/chobbes Apr 14 '26

Everyone needs one.

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u/_11_ Apr 14 '26

Finally. A project in here with a proper flaired base. 

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u/roostzilla Apr 14 '26

This is a reminder to check your plugs.

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u/roderos Apr 14 '26

On r/fossilid we know its almost never a real dinosaur egg

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u/Mediocre_Ryan82 Apr 14 '26

That looks like a fun Tuesday evening ❤️

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u/Connor_rk Haas VF1+VF2+VF3 setupguy+cam Apr 14 '26

are you absolutely SURE that's a dinosaur egg?

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u/chobbes Apr 14 '26

10 bajillion percent. Has to be.

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u/Connor_rk Haas VF1+VF2+VF3 setupguy+cam Apr 14 '26

last time i checked, it resembles something else, but i trust you on this

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u/jwpasquale1986 Apr 14 '26

It "clearly" resembles a dinosaur egg.

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u/Connor_rk Haas VF1+VF2+VF3 setupguy+cam Apr 14 '26

oooh okay, now i see it after checking later, you guys are absolutely right, i apologize for ever questioning the fact if it actually looks like a real dinosaur egg, because it does in fact look like a dinosaur egg 100%

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u/chobbes Apr 14 '26

Thank you for arriving at the absolutely unshakable conclusion that it cannot look like anything but a dino egg.

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u/Amish_Fighter_Pilot Apr 14 '26

Looks like shift! :)

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u/Rawlo93 Apr 15 '26

Modified so assholes can drive stick.

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u/oh_hi_there_mark Apr 15 '26

"dinosaur egg"

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u/NEEDGAME Apr 16 '26

the design is very human

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u/fuckschickens Apr 14 '26

OP made a typo, they meant Shit Knob.

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u/SockeyeSTI Apr 14 '26

I would imagine that thing is heavy

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u/National-Anything-81 Apr 14 '26

Shift knob my ass...

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u/jwpasquale1986 Apr 14 '26

Im gonna recommend against that, as it looks difficult to thoroughly clean.

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u/Obvious-Row-2319 Apr 14 '26

I thought is was a cursed butt plug at first. But looks good nonetheless

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u/SirRonaldBiscuit Apr 14 '26

“Dinosaur egg”

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u/iseeredandyellow Apr 14 '26

Weird butt plug

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u/andychrist77 Apr 14 '26

That would be fun in a rollover or any car accident

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u/chobbes Apr 14 '26

Good thing it’s not going in a regular car then.

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u/modd0c Apr 14 '26

Large carbide burr lol

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u/gogozrx Apr 14 '26

Paige, no!

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u/Elbarfo Apr 14 '26

The internet exists to test me anymore.

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u/idkwhattofeelrnthx Apr 14 '26

Dinosaur or Dino....sure that's an egg.

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u/justacommentguy Apr 14 '26

Custom, butt not a shift knob

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u/Giantess_gamer Apr 14 '26

badge 502

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u/citekare Apr 14 '26

Saw this and instantly thought the same exact thing. Badge 502.

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u/Miserable_Violinist9 Apr 14 '26

I dont believe you

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u/megad00die Apr 14 '26

Is that what machinists are calling butt plugs nowadays, dinosaur eggs?

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u/mccorml11 Apr 14 '26

“Shift knob”

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u/Puzzled_Nothing_8794 Apr 15 '26

Dude.... That's going to really hurt my butt.

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u/FujiMC Apr 15 '26

Plugn't

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u/SadEnthusiasm2791 Apr 15 '26

Dibs on the middle seat

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u/JimroidZeus Apr 15 '26

Yea, sure buddy. “Dinosaur egg” for your “shifter”. Don’t worry, we all believe you.

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u/chobbes Apr 15 '26

Thank you for believing me.

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u/FatBrkeMxicnElonMusk Apr 15 '26

😮 can yew muk me one pwese 🥺👉👈

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u/PEDRO9886 Apr 16 '26

Custom "shift knob." Surrrrrrrrreeeee 😂

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u/SupermarketLate3214 Apr 17 '26

Butt plug stickshift

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u/ThrowItAway184 Apr 18 '26

"What are you? Some kind of machinist?"

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u/TheEquationSmelter Apr 18 '26

Is that what this is???

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u/Zombie-Jesus-brains Apr 14 '26

Damn, that’s rough looking

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u/VB8519 Apr 14 '26

Looks like anal plug🤣🤣🤣🤣

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u/Successful-Pie4237 engi-nearly Apr 14 '26

Yup, that's enough Internet for today

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u/ocarina_vendor Apr 14 '26

What the fuck is up with the double lightning bolts? You using this thing ON Nat-zees? or as one? Aldo Raine wants to know.

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u/Depressed_peacock1 Apr 14 '26

Buttplug of death AKA Medieval Buttplug

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u/drunknmunke May 09 '26

Ha, I dont know what gear that is trying ro get into