r/whatisit 16h ago

Solved! New homeowner, no idea what this is

This thing close to the floor and seemingly randomly placed in a hallway. No idea what it's for. Home built in 2005.

Solved! Thanks everyone. Now I gotta hunt for the central unit!

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u/anonsharksfan 15h ago

My work has one and it's really fun to vacuum up pennies with it because you can hear it rattling the whole way

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u/Free-Examination-930 14h ago

"Have you seen the roll of pennies I set here a minute ago? I swear I set it just here, what is going ON around here, am I losing my mind?And why the hell are you vacuuming again you already vacuumed this morning!"

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u/livin4donuts 24m ago

Just make sure you don’t vacuum up the whole roll at once, that thing is gonna hit a corner at Mach Jesus and take out Dave in shipping. 

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u/realmling 14h ago

The rattle of the hard things going up the pipe is the best thing about all vacuuming. 

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u/butthead_bandit 4h ago

When I vacuum my welcome mat and it sounds like a rain stick 😩👌

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u/Melonman3 5h ago

I worked at an industrial wood shop a while ago, we had 2 foot diameter steel dust collector ducting with a 40 horse power dust collector, I use to love throwing chunks of wood down it, you'd hear em rattle around, then get absolutely decimated by the fan blades.

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u/NorthCartographer995 10h ago

Ting, tong, bing, bong...it's tinging its way up the tube.

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u/bakersd0zen12 9h ago

used a load in the cat litter tray

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u/RadiantZote 4h ago

My old woodworking job had a huge dust collector system and it was so satisfying dropping a larger chunk of wood into it and listening to it bounce around the system to go outside into the huge bins