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I double dog dare you PIF

I recently received two sticks of Arko. When I opened one up and took a whiff I discovered it really does smell exactly like a urinal cake. My wife, who thinks it smells like a cross between a urinal cake, an office deodorizer, and a cheap candy, said to me, "If you shave with that stuff you're not coming anywhere near me." I really love my wife so the Arko has to go. That's ok, I've got two pucks of Mystic Waters coming. Besides, after smelling this stuff I don't think I want to put it on my face. I really don't want to smell like a urinal. So, my disappointment is your gain, that is, if you want to smell like a urinal while you shave.
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RULES:

Here are the rules. Pictured below are two items that belonged to my late father. These items were part of his work. One of them is made from sterilized horse hair. The first person to correctly identify both items and guess what he did for a living based on the identity of these two items wins the Arko. This PIF is open to the United States and Canada. Due to my work schedule, getting to the post office is a bit tricky so after you've been informed that you've won it may take a few days for me to get the soap mailed out.

EDIT: There is no limit to the number of times you may guess. Guess as many times as you want.


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Oh yeah...seems to me like that is a drafting board brush and other might be some kind of compass. Of course I am wrong with my guess on his occupation so these are pretty much moot.
 
No, he wasn't an auto designer. That second item isn't a compass but that's a good guess.
 
Furniture restorer?
Is that thing part of a sander?

Vintage KEUFFEL & ESSER Drafting Table Horse Hair Brush
 
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Remember, your answer must include the identity of both items and a reasonably accurate guess as to his occupation.
 
People keep giving partial answers. Get all three parts together and you'll win. There's no limit to the number of guesses you make. You can guess as many times as you want.
 
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3 parts
First one is a Model/drafting Brush
Second is a model rotary engine
He occupation was he was in Research and development for the Rotary engine
Or he was a model designer for the engine

That's my guess haha
 
He took care of horses, it is a brush and that other thing they rub on horses (I have no clue what the item is).

Either way this is getting interesting :) I have a few more sticks of Arko or so, so I'm good :) Even if it smelled like pee, it lathers so amazingly I would have to debate using it :p
 
WINNER, WINNER, CHICKEN DINNER!!! :a50::a50:

Nova 316's the winner. He was, at the end of his career, VP of research for OMC (Outboard Marine Corporation) which made Evinrude motors and Johnson snowmobiles. OMC was bought up by Bombardier about a decade or so ago, I believe, and he worked for them for a time before he was stricken with Lou Gehrig's Disease.

That is indeed a model of a rotary engine. He had several permutations of this model in varying degrees of complexity and this was just a desk-top model that he could fiddle with while trying to work things out. My father had four patents for the rotary engine; a lubricating system, and apparatus for eliminating drains, a thrust bearing arrangement and side port. In all he had 36 patents including several for lost foam molding and casting, and vacuum die casting.
 
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