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What is This?

07/14/2015 1:12 PM

What is this? No cheating please!

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07/14/2015 1:13 PM

Levitating Hoverboard
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07/14/2015 2:10 PM

It kinda sucks when the first person to reply nails it!

Good Answer there BD.

Since you got it, here's a follow up.

Who made it?

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07/14/2015 2:50 PM

Doc Brown?

Lyndoor IndustriesTM?

KrisDelTM?

Go on. Do tell!

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07/14/2015 3:31 PM

Here is the article. A hover board that uses magnetic levitation,and liquid nitrogen cooled superconductors and permanent magnets.

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07/14/2015 1:17 PM

Pepto-Bismol powered Life raft??

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07/14/2015 1:21 PM

LOL...

I like this one better...

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07/14/2015 1:26 PM

That looks like an electric headband charger with the optional E-Stop attachment!

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07/14/2015 1:31 PM

Looks like a high tech fly zapper to me....

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07/14/2015 2:19 PM

Audi vacuum aperture grommus?

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07/16/2015 12:24 PM

Whatever it is it is made by Audi.

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07/14/2015 1:31 PM

a soapdish filled with dry ice
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07/14/2015 5:10 PM

An overexposed photograph.
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07/14/2015 5:26 PM

What the heck is this her jar then?

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07/14/2015 5:48 PM

Oil?

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07/14/2015 7:39 PM

It's an Ampco Lubricator for adding lubrication to the valve seats on dry fuel source engines,,,,,.

http://ampcolubes.com/home

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07/15/2015 9:06 AM

Bingo! Sometimes called a "Top oiler" or "Induction oiler". I had one on an old Volvo, which is probably why it kept getting older.

It was said, that you could use brake fluid for higher performance.

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07/14/2015 5:52 PM

That's a water separation device for fuel supply on an old hot rod....

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07/14/2015 6:12 PM

Aftermarket fuel over-pressurization trap on an old Ford flathead V-8?

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07/14/2015 6:49 PM

All Veteran and some vintage cars benefit from a fuel additive to change the octane rating and often to add upper cylinder lubricant as well. A common additive is called Flash Lube

It can be premixed with the fuel in the tank or, as this one appears to be (albeit home made), drawn in via a carburetor vacuum port as you drive.

If it were, as has been suggested, a water separation device, you would note an incoming pipe as well as the outgoing one, and there would be no breather.

Below is a pic of a genuine unit.
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07/15/2015 9:11 AM

AS BD said.

And it's a Lexus to boot!

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07/15/2015 10:53 AM

Some sort of new Kotex, with only seven amazing absorbent fibers, and you can ride it to work, hovering over the sidewalk?

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