Reference for Eduyot 3:8

שְׁלֹשָׁה דְבָרִים רַבִּי צָדוֹק מְטַמֵּא, וַחֲכָמִים מְטַהֲרִין. מַסְמֵר הַשֻּׁלְחָנִי, וְאָרוֹן שֶׁל גָּרוֹסוֹת, וּמַסְמֵר שֶׁל אֶבֶן שָׁעוֹת, רַבִּי צָדוֹק מְטַמֵּא וַחֲכָמִים מְטַהֲרִין:

Three things, R. Tzaddok rules tamei [i.e., susceptible of tumah], and the sages, tahor: the nail of the money changer, [on which he hangs his scales. Our rabbis have explicated it as a nail fixed into a post before the money changer on which he hangs the shutter of the shop, and which they rule tahor because it is ground-based], and the grist-maker's closet [(Those who make grist of beans in their mill have a wooden closet (in which to deposit them)], and an hour-stone [a stone which has lines on which are inscribed the signs of the hours into which is stuck a nail by which they indicate the hours.] R. Tzaddok rules [the closet] tamei [because it is considered a "vessel"], and the sages rule it tahor, [for it is a wooden vessel intended to remain stationary and not to be moved. (R. Tzaddok holds that sometimes it is made to be movable.) The halachah is not in accordance with R. Tzaddok.]

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