The "What Is This?" game

[axexandru]

Nope.

[Janx101]

Filter cage?

[axexandru]

No

[ragecage23]

Is it a stand of some sort?

[axexandru]

No., not a stand

[Slack]

the lid to a salad spinner? - I don't know exactly what they are actually called, or exactly why they are used, but my wife has one.

[Slack]

Or a coaster?

[axexandru]

No. I have never seen a salad spiner )) i'm gonna google it

[ragecage23]

Can we get a size comparison?

[Slack]

Hot tub prefilter?

[Iarn]

I think they're called lazy susans, Slack.

Is it some varient of a spool?

[axexandru]

Yes, it is a varient of a spool, but for what? If no one gives a more specific answer, i will give it to you Iarn. It's about 15 cm in diameter.

[Janx101]

Na, a lazy susan is the round spinning thing in centre of table for condiments or side dishes etc,

Spool for industrial weaving machine... carpets etc. .. ?

[axexandru]

No

[Iarn]

A spool for weed eater string?

[axexandru]

No

[Slack]

I think they're called lazy susans, Slack.

Is it some varient of a spool?

No not a lazy suzan, a salad spinner -I did have the name right- is completely different:

I think you rinse veggies and use that thing to dry them  I eat my veggies dirt and all 

[Iarn]

Spool for electrical wire?

And I've never seen one of those in my life, Slack.

[axexandru]

No, not for electrical wire. It's a spool or a reel. One small clue, it is used in some sort of chemistry

[Iarn]

Centrifugal seperator thing? Spins solutions to seperate them?

Aka centrifuge.

magnesium spool?