Previous in Forum: Presents for An Engineering Wife   Next in Forum: Looking for Inexpensive Solenoid Valve
Close
Close
Close
30 comments
Rate Comments: Nested
Guru
United States - Member - Charter Member Engineering Fields - Instrumentation Engineering - Charter Member

Join Date: Mar 2008
Location: The People's Republic of Massachusetts
Posts: 1946
Good Answers: 73

CR4 Challenge: What's This Device?

12/18/2008 2:14 PM

Here's an interesting device for you:

__________________
I go into every human encounter expecting to be framed for a crime I didn't commit. Dilbert, 2013
Register to Reply
Interested in this topic? By joining CR4 you can "subscribe" to
this discussion and receive notification when new comments are added.

"Almost" Good Answers:

Check out these comments that don't yet have enough votes to be "official" good answers and, if you agree with them, vote them!
Guru

Join Date: Aug 2007
Location: Earth - I think.
Posts: 2143
Good Answers: 165
#1

Re: CR4 Challenge, What is it?

12/18/2008 2:24 PM

Knee brace for a robot?

__________________
TANSTAAFL (If you don't know what that means, Google it - yourself)
Register to Reply Off Topic (Score 5)
Guru
Popular Science - Weaponology - New Member United Kingdom - Member - New Member

Join Date: May 2007
Location: Harlow England
Posts: 16512
Good Answers: 670
#2

Re: CR4 Challenge, What is it?

12/18/2008 3:48 PM

Two person rope slide carriage?

__________________
health warning: These posts may contain traces of nut.
Register to Reply
Guru
United States - Member - USA! Hobbies - Musician - Sound Man Engineering Fields - Mechanical Engineering - More than a Hobby Technical Fields - Technical Writing - New Member

Join Date: Oct 2008
Location: City of Roses.
Posts: 2056
Good Answers: 101
#3

Re: CR4 Challenge, What is it?

12/18/2008 3:53 PM

A Torture Device?

From the looks of it, I'm guessing this is the "male" version.

__________________
Don't believe everything you read on the Internet!
Register to Reply Off Topic (Score 5)
Anonymous Poster
#4

Re: CR4 Challenge: What's This Device?

12/18/2008 4:30 PM

I think I saw one of those fall off a '73 Ford Pinto once.

Ok...I'm mostly stumped. Give us a hint. It looks a bit incomplete. Is it part of something larger or is this more or less the state in which it's used?

My current (and almost completely random) guess: It has to do with transformer assembly?

Register to Reply
Guru
Hobbies - HAM Radio - New Member Engineering Fields - Mechanical Engineering - New Member United States - Member - New Member

Join Date: Jun 2007
Location: Kiefer OK
Posts: 1325
Good Answers: 22
#5

Re: CR4 Challenge: What's This Device?

12/18/2008 5:19 PM

I know it's not a thistlewick.

It appears to have wires attached. The U-shaped opening probably goes around a shaft or pipe, but does not clamp to it.

__________________
I wonder..... Would Schrödinger's cat play with a ball of string theory?
Register to Reply
Guru
Popular Science - Biology - New Member Hobbies - Musician - New Member APIX Pilot Plant Design Project - Member - New Member Hobbies - CNC - New Member Fans of Old Computers - ZX-81 - New Member

Join Date: Jan 2007
Location: Centurion, South Africa
Posts: 3921
Good Answers: 97
#6

Re: CR4 Challenge: What's This Device?

12/18/2008 6:01 PM

Sky clamp or ground clamp - for fine tuning the effective length of a transmitting areal.

__________________
Never do today what you can put of until tomorrow - Student motto
Register to Reply
Guru

Join Date: Sep 2007
Location: Wrong end of the yellow brick road in Oz
Posts: 930
Good Answers: 15
#7

Re: CR4 Challenge: What's This Device?

12/18/2008 10:08 PM

The long "Bolts" look like the tie-down bolts used on a mill or CNC machine, the heads are HEX shaped, not round as they appear in the pic?

Only having 1 view makes it difficult to imagine what it does in RL, I think the plug on the right could be part of it, but could also be a left over from some experiment you were doing previously

__________________
Qn, Whats the differance between a Snake and a Onion? Ans, No one cries when you chop up a Snake
Register to Reply
Guru
Popular Science - Weaponology - New Member Netherlands - Member - New Member Fans of Old Computers - Commodore 64 - New Member

Join Date: Sep 2007
Location: Japan
Posts: 2703
Good Answers: 38
#8

Re: CR4 Challenge: What's This Device?

12/18/2008 11:04 PM

I think it is a P782655288V267/203 the 2008 model

__________________
From the Movie "The Big Lebowski" Don't pee on the carpet man!
Register to Reply Off Topic (Score 5)
Guru

Join Date: Sep 2007
Location: Wrong end of the yellow brick road in Oz
Posts: 930
Good Answers: 15
#9
In reply to #8

Re: CR4 Challenge: What's This Device?

12/18/2008 11:46 PM

Nah, the part your specifying has straps that are used to tie down the "subject" the "203" section of the part number specifies that its a rotary oscillating member that would be attached on the other side of this "Appliance" and you'd have a connector that interfaces with the plug shown at the right for added stimulus.

This model is the 202.5 version

__________________
Qn, Whats the differance between a Snake and a Onion? Ans, No one cries when you chop up a Snake
Register to Reply Off Topic (Score 5)
Guru
Popular Science - Weaponology - New Member Netherlands - Member - New Member Fans of Old Computers - Commodore 64 - New Member

Join Date: Sep 2007
Location: Japan
Posts: 2703
Good Answers: 38
#10
In reply to #9

Re: CR4 Challenge: What's This Device?

12/19/2008 12:18 AM

You are still using the 202.5 version?

that one was recalled for leaving traceable lesions on the subject, the "203" vesrion is an updated version and the straps are for added "comfort"

__________________
From the Movie "The Big Lebowski" Don't pee on the carpet man!
Register to Reply Off Topic (Score 5)
Commentator

Join Date: May 2008
Location: Tweed Valley, Australia
Posts: 95
Good Answers: 7
#11

Re: CR4 Challenge: What's This Device?

12/19/2008 6:12 AM

I am guessing that it may be an electronic flow meter. It could be laid over a pipe, perhaps secured by the long bolts, and the flow measured by changes in the magnetic field of the two magnets on either side, Is this close?

Pete.

__________________
Having a farm is great provided you don't have to depend on it for a living.
Register to Reply
Guru
Philippines - Member - New Member Engineering Fields - Instrumentation Engineering - New Member Engineering Fields - Control Engineering - Who am I?

Join Date: Oct 2006
Location: Northern Mindanao, Philippines
Posts: 2147
Good Answers: 53
#12

Re: CR4 Challenge: What's This Device?

12/19/2008 6:44 AM

Could you remove the cardboard behind it please? I think it's part of whatever the cardboard's hiding from view.

__________________
Miscommunication: when what people heard you say differs from what you said. Make yourself understood.
Register to Reply
Guru
Popular Science - Weaponology - New Member United Kingdom - Member - New Member

Join Date: May 2007
Location: Harlow England
Posts: 16512
Good Answers: 670
#13
In reply to #12

Re: CR4 Challenge: What's This Device?

12/19/2008 6:58 AM

Ah, yes, its obviously a cardboard thickness measuring instrument

__________________
health warning: These posts may contain traces of nut.
Register to Reply
Guru

Join Date: Mar 2007
Location: Etherville
Posts: 12362
Good Answers: 115
#14

Re: CR4 Challenge: What's This Device?

12/19/2008 7:38 AM

I'm not saying, 'cos I didn't get points and slobbering adulation from everybody for knowing your ears. I've even sat on the things. No amount of begging will get me to reveal how I charge Del up at night.

__________________
For sale - Signature space. Apply on self addressed postcard..
Register to Reply Score 1 for Good Answer
Guru
United States - Member - Charter Member Engineering Fields - Instrumentation Engineering - Charter Member

Join Date: Mar 2008
Location: The People's Republic of Massachusetts
Posts: 1946
Good Answers: 73
#15

Re: CR4 Challenge: What's This Device?

12/19/2008 8:12 AM

Here's the device without the mounting hardware:

__________________
I go into every human encounter expecting to be framed for a crime I didn't commit. Dilbert, 2013
Register to Reply
Guru
Safety - ESD - New Member India - Member - New Member Engineering Fields - Energy Engineering - New Member

Join Date: May 2007
Location: Pune , India
Posts: 875
Good Answers: 42
#16
In reply to #15

Re: CR4 Challenge: What's This Device?

12/19/2008 9:29 AM

It can be possibly a pressure sensor

Register to Reply
Guru
Popular Science - Cosmology - Let's keep knowledge expanding Engineering Fields - Retired Engineers / Mentors - Hobbies - HAM Radio - New Member

Join Date: Dec 2006
Location: North America, Earth
Posts: 4528
Good Answers: 106
#25
In reply to #15

Re: CR4 Challenge: What's This Device?

12/19/2008 3:23 PM

Motorized vise?

__________________
“I would rather have questions that can't be answered than answers that can't be questioned.” - Richard Feynman
Register to Reply
Guru

Join Date: Aug 2005
Location: Hemel Hempstead, UK
Posts: 5826
Good Answers: 322
#17

Re: CR4 Challenge: What's This Device?

12/19/2008 11:07 AM

Have you put that sheet of cardboard there to hide something that would give it away?

__________________
If you spend all your time looking for people and things to complain about: trust me, you will find plenty to complain about.
Register to Reply
Guru
United States - Member - Charter Member Engineering Fields - Instrumentation Engineering - Charter Member

Join Date: Mar 2008
Location: The People's Republic of Massachusetts
Posts: 1946
Good Answers: 73
#18
In reply to #17

Re: CR4 Challenge: What's This Device?

12/19/2008 11:40 AM

no. This is an older device, from the "back room". However, the modern updated devices look much the same. It is the actual sensor from a much larger testing machine, used in the aero-space forging industry.

__________________
I go into every human encounter expecting to be framed for a crime I didn't commit. Dilbert, 2013
Register to Reply
Guru
Hobbies - Fishing - Popular Science - Paleontology - New Member

Join Date: May 2008
Location: Holeincanoe Ontario
Posts: 2169
Good Answers: 27
#19
In reply to #18

Re: CR4 Challenge: What's This Device?

12/19/2008 12:12 PM

Spar crack detector.

__________________
Prophet Freddy has the answer!
Register to Reply
Active Contributor

Join Date: Aug 2006
Posts: 17
#20

Re: CR4 Challenge: What's This Device?

12/19/2008 12:47 PM

One question: Is this a production piece or custom built?

Register to Reply
Guru
United States - Member - Charter Member Engineering Fields - Instrumentation Engineering - Charter Member

Join Date: Mar 2008
Location: The People's Republic of Massachusetts
Posts: 1946
Good Answers: 73
#21
In reply to #20

Re: CR4 Challenge: What's This Device?

12/19/2008 1:47 PM

This is a production device. In fact, there is an entire industry that provides this type instrumentation.

This testing is an absolute customer requirement. Almost every forging in every airplane and jet engine made in the free world would have been tested with a device such as this.

A hint: there is destructive and non-destructive testing required.

__________________
I go into every human encounter expecting to be framed for a crime I didn't commit. Dilbert, 2013
Register to Reply
Guru
United Kingdom - Member - British

Join Date: Nov 2007
Location: Gloucestershire, England
Posts: 962
#22

Re: CR4 Challenge: What's This Device?

12/19/2008 2:49 PM

Spot welder?

__________________
bondy111
Register to Reply
Anonymous Poster
#23

Re: CR4 Challenge: What's This Device?

12/19/2008 2:50 PM

Part of a benchtop stiffness tester? (The remaining bits of which are cleverly concealed behind the cardboard)

Register to Reply
Guru
Hobbies - Fishing - Popular Science - Paleontology - New Member

Join Date: May 2008
Location: Holeincanoe Ontario
Posts: 2169
Good Answers: 27
#24

Re: CR4 Challenge: What's This Device?

12/19/2008 3:03 PM

Multi-frequency structure or materials properties tester.......

__________________
Prophet Freddy has the answer!
Register to Reply
Anonymous Poster
#26

Re: CR4 Challenge: What's This Device?

12/19/2008 3:58 PM

Magnaflux ????

Register to Reply
Active Contributor

Join Date: Aug 2006
Posts: 17
#27

Re: CR4 Challenge: What's This Device?

12/19/2008 4:14 PM

t looks as though this one is slightly damage; the looker's left front protrusion appears bent. I'm guessing the flat metal pieces coming out of either side are used to detect resonance. I am inclined to guess it is used to test for vibration in a high-speed shaft of some sort; the 4 protrusions set or establish balance... definitely a stumper.

Register to Reply
Guru
Hobbies - Model Rocketry - New Member

Join Date: Jun 2007
Location: East of Seattle, Washington state Republic of the 50 states of America
Posts: 2045
Good Answers: 36
#28

Re: CR4 Challenge: What's This Device?

12/19/2008 9:10 PM

Ultra sound sensor to look for stress cracks.

__________________
(Larrabee's Law) Half of everything you hear in a classroom is crap. Education is figuring out which half is which.
Register to Reply
Guru
United States - Member - Charter Member Engineering Fields - Instrumentation Engineering - Charter Member

Join Date: Mar 2008
Location: The People's Republic of Massachusetts
Posts: 1946
Good Answers: 73
#29

Re: CR4 Challenge: What's This Device?

12/21/2008 8:31 AM
__________________
I go into every human encounter expecting to be framed for a crime I didn't commit. Dilbert, 2013
Register to Reply
Guru
Hobbies - HAM Radio - New Member Engineering Fields - Mechanical Engineering - New Member United States - Member - New Member

Join Date: Jun 2007
Location: Kiefer OK
Posts: 1325
Good Answers: 22
#30
In reply to #29

Re: CR4 Challenge: What's This Device?

12/22/2008 12:55 AM

Link didn't work, but Wikipedia has this. Globalspec even has a page for them.

__________________
I wonder..... Would Schrödinger's cat play with a ball of string theory?
Register to Reply
Register to Reply 30 comments

"Almost" Good Answers:

Check out these comments that don't yet have enough votes to be "official" good answers and, if you agree with them, vote them!
Copy to Clipboard

Users who posted comments:

3Doug (2); Anonymous Poster (3); BigPete (1); Bondy111 (1); Bricktop (4); Duckinthepond (2); Epke (2); Hendrik (1); Kilowatt0 (1); Kris (1); Randall (1); RVZ717 (1); Shandy (2); Snaketails (2); StandardsGuy (1); U V (1); user-deleted-1105 (2); V.I.Abraham (1); Vulcan (1)

Previous in Forum: Presents for An Engineering Wife   Next in Forum: Looking for Inexpensive Solenoid Valve

Advertisement