What is the dumbest items you've seen someone else sell for scrap?

It might help to know what kind of place you got them from.

Could they be clock parts? Just guessing.

Well, where i got them doesn't help much in this case as it was a large amount of very different items ranging from resistors to gi joes.

I'm with parker look like clock parts

I've seen things kinda like what you have associated with industrial chart recorders. They were the shafts that either held the paper roll or rolled up the paper after it had been marked by the recorder pen. Since these items are prone to be handled by ham-fisted operators, spare shafts are something that would be a common item.

Can you see any name at all on any of the parts?

Jon.