CR4 Challenge #1271

I'd say materials testing - tensile strength, hardness -something like that.

It's an IHOP pancake press.

Since the mystery device has a clamp device to hold the test sample it would be difficult for it to measure surface smoothness. it also looks to have a pressure transducer above the 'test probe' and considering the number of teeth on the large gear wheel, movement of the probe would be in very fine increments. As a wild guess I would expect the device could be used to measure density of rubber compounds.

The gray box, would that be the display unit that attaches to the connector on the front of the mystery device? On a side note, I have a box of those female connectors around here somewhere, and yes I am a Pack Rat. 8-)

kevin

The gray box has nothing to do with this instrument. It just happened to be in the picture. The "gray box" is widely used throughout many industries, and is modern.

OK then, the gray box is some sort of data transmitter, on the left end, top(?) there looks to be an attachment point for an antenna, or a co-axial cable connector, the plastic plug on the top (front?) of the gray box seems to cover a multi-connector, again just a wild guess, it could be an elaborate roach squisher for all I know. 8-)

The gray rectangular box is an electrical outlet in a plugmold strip. You didn't specify which gray rectangular object :-{>

As for the tool, it is obvious to me that the object being 'tooled' is the small shiny block held by a tiny vise on the base plate. The upper level moves up an down, probably heavy, and the coil object around the copper rod near the base reports either position or torgue, but may be an electromagnetic stamper.

Is the grey box some sort of portable function/signal generator?

Come on! CR4 only lets PlbMak do Friday afternoon picture quizzes!

The device really does look like a hardness tester...

I can't resolve in my mind though why Bricktop would have to call the retiree to find out how to use it if that's all there was to it. Unless of course it's a really tricky hardness tester to use.

The gray box is where you put the dilithium crystals, it powers that thingie in the foreground ("just happened to be in the picture" my ass! ) and Harcourt Fenton Mudd, III is indeed retired.

Looks to me like a wine press/bottle corker!

But that just would be my response.

I'm stumped, but I would assume it is used to either find the fracture point of something brittle, or used to press fit precision parts that require subtleness to avoid damage.

It's a walnut cracker. Calibrated to crack the shell without breaking the nut inside. This way you have those nice half pieces of walnut to use or munch on.

Precision balance tester. Or a high-tech axle bearing press. It's definitely not a thistlewick.

a poor mans micrometer? or a 1970's idea of a stepmotor? (i have to agree it looks like some tensile (or crushing) testing device)

Dimpler, or seismograph.

Brinell tester, chart recorder.

I have no idea about the machine, but the gray box I believe it is a photocopier (back side wiev), may be?

Regards

Ernesto

MAY BE A TORSION TEST MACHINE?

AND REGARDING TO THE "GRAY BOX" I AGREE TO ERNESTO... IT COULD BE A PHOTOCOPIER VIEWED BACK SIDE.....

BEST REGARDS

JFERREYRA

Looks a hellofalot like a photocopier or printer, but upon enlarging the image, it appears to have a shaft or dial coming out the front end to the left.

Solenoid driven flatness tester.

The grey box kinda looks like a digital oscope laying on its back with the front cover inplace.

The other thing is an over engineered hat rack.

Gray box; variac.

The "grey box":

Brake hp testing?

Darn, I was so close. I was going to say the the grey box is "a whitish-grey thing with a shaft coming out and a knob and a flat control panel" but instead I said "chart recorder".

don't feel too bad, that happens to me all the time

Dynamometer

Unless Ken is on the button.................

I was correct then, a roach squisher...

Upon closer examination, on top of the base plate is a jig that holds the test sample in place. The horizontal disk is a gear that precisely moves a probe into contact with the sample. The upper plates are for stability, and the whole unit is adjustable for different size samples. Because the jig is not very big, the items being tested must not have a large diameter, but they do come in varying lengths. The most likely candidates for measurement that I can think of are springs.

I have no idea about the gray box, but the item to the right of it is a telephone. Younger people might be confused by the cord and the lack of an LCD screen.

No very strong conclusions here, just my observations after clipboarding the pic into a photo editor and enlarging it.

I have no idea about the gray box, but the item to the right of it is a telephone. Younger people might be confused by the cord and the lack of an LCD screen.

Although much of what you wrote makes sense, your conjecture that the item to the right of the gray box is a telephone is simply not plausible. Unless the camera lens is very badly distorting the perspective, that thing looks as if it is has a base nearly 150mm by 200mm and a height of as much as (maybe more than !!) 100 mm. Clearly, unless Bricktop works with a bunch of freakish giants, this device could not possibly fit in a pocket. And where is the lens, without which the device could certainly not take pictures?

Prototype of automatic toilet flusher?

Possibly a precision laser drill? Or retiree's whatsaname.

Regards JD.

Is that a carbon pile resistor on the bottom?

The Gray Box is a variable speed hydraulic motor.

The instrument looks to be for testing the crush pressure on somthing but cannot think what it is.

A lot of good guesses, and some people came quite close.

The instrument was used to calibrate Tinius_Olsen tensile pulling machines. It was used in place of the extensometer , where a very precise measurement was converted to an electrical signal.

The grey box is a Honeywell_Herculine_2002_Actuator. They are used in our plant as valve drives, to control gas and air flow to industrial furnaces.

I'm going to have to 'fess up here: I'm obviously the only person here who doesn't know what this is:-

That was Challenge_#1269

Aaaah, Thanks.

Where do you think this device fits in the system?

Something to do with shear, or maybe Young?????

It looks a lot like a pneumatic punch , Hot or cold??

Some kind of material strength tester,shear point?

Gray box is interment used for sensing and measurement readouts?

all the information and answers are allready given.

But it is off course a precesion mini donut hole maker