What is this? - Page 66

glatt · 01-07-2011, 12:48 PM

Or food service. It's a big rolling pin for rolling out the dough for frozen pizzas.

Pico and ME · 01-07-2011, 11:57 AM

Well, i will go with what I thought it was the moment I saw it, which is probably wrong, but it looks like a table leg.

Shawnee123 · 01-07-2011, 01:09 PM

It's a basketball.

TheMercenary · 01-07-2011, 01:42 PM

With it being refined to very specific tolerances I believe it has to be for some kind of industrial use.

BigV · 01-07-2011, 02:42 PM

gravdigr ... you're getting warmer..

I'm going to lunch.

I shall reveal when I return.

BigV · 01-07-2011, 07:52 PM

This is the simplest of objects. It is a 1 1/8"x22" keyed stainless steel shaft. I got it at the local second hand marine shop, Second Wave. I love this place. As you can see, I paid a small price for it. You may compare the price *per foot* at this site for reference. It weighs a little over six pounds. I reckon it was.. hell. I don't know. It was cut short when I bought it. I wonder if it was a propshaft.... maybe not. (Steering) Wheel shaft, sure could be. There's a round shallow hole opposite the keyway where a setscrew would secure the hub of whatever the hell it was.

It is a lovely piece of metal.

BigV · 01-07-2011, 07:56 PM

What is this?

Pico and ME · 01-07-2011, 08:23 PM

A jerry-rigged doo-hickey.

Lamplighter · 01-07-2011, 09:02 PM

A multi-speed Tinker-Toy buffing-wheel powered thru a child-proof-bottle-top clutch assembly.

aka: a Rube Goldberg polisher

01-07-2011, 08:53 PM

(at the first image) I'm guessing this is just a piece of art?

BigV · 01-07-2011, 09:13 PM

Um.

*Technically*, you're right.

Fine, no one will provide the answer I want.

It is the base of a little Christmas Tree of Devil Duckies. I made it as a gift for a friend (her daughter actually). I learned that she likes Devil Duckies. .... I couldn't help myself, friends. You know me.

Flint · 01-07-2011, 09:36 PM

Wait, so the mystery object was :::drumroll::: a ƒucking METAL BAR, aka a you-don't-know-what-it-is-either ???

Dude.

xoxoxoBruce · 01-07-2011, 10:43 PM

What he said.

BigV · 01-08-2011, 03:49 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Flint

Wait, so the mystery object was :::drumroll::: a ƒucking METAL BAR, aka a you-don't-know-what-it-is-either ???

Dude.

I seriously considered the "fucking" part, but while it transmuted the "hard as a steel bar" hyperbole into reality, I haven't found a willing partner (yet). The proportions are within the design tolerances, but it is cold. Plus, I don't have the milling tools or expertise to shape it into something less... industrial.

Dude.

I pick up stuff like this all the time, when I don't quite know what the ultimate use will be. But I do know that whatever it is that I produce that needs this shaft, nothing else would do. This isn't something I could improvise.

Flint · 01-08-2011, 09:10 AM

GET YOUR PITCHFORKS WE ARE GOING AFTER THIS MOTHERFVKCER

01-07-2011, 01:09 PM	#3
Shawnee123 Why, you're a regular Alfred E Einstein, ain't ya? Join Date: Jun 2006 Posts: 21,206	It's a basketball. __________________ A word to the wise ain't necessary - it's the stupid ones who need the advice. --Bill Cosby

01-07-2011, 01:42 PM	#4
TheMercenary “Hypocrisy: prejudice with a halo” Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: Savannah, Georgia Posts: 21,393	With it being refined to very specific tolerances I believe it has to be for some kind of industrial use. __________________ Anyone but the this most fuked up President in History in 2012!

01-07-2011, 02:42 PM	#5
BigV Goon Squad Leader Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Seattle Posts: 27,063	gravdigr ... you're getting warmer.. I'm going to lunch. I shall reveal when I return. __________________ Be Just and Fear Not.

01-07-2011, 07:52 PM	#6
BigV Goon Squad Leader Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Seattle Posts: 27,063	This is the simplest of objects. It is a 1 1/8"x22" keyed stainless steel shaft. I got it at the local second hand marine shop, Second Wave. I love this place. As you can see, I paid a small price for it. You may compare the price per foot at this site for reference. It weighs a little over six pounds. I reckon it was.. hell. I don't know. It was cut short when I bought it. I wonder if it was a propshaft.... maybe not. (Steering) Wheel shaft, sure could be. There's a round shallow hole opposite the keyway where a setscrew would secure the hub of whatever the hell it was. It is a lovely piece of metal. Attached Images __________________ Be Just and Fear Not.

01-07-2011, 07:56 PM	#7
BigV Goon Squad Leader Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Seattle Posts: 27,063	What is this? Attached Images __________________ Be Just and Fear Not.

01-07-2011, 12:48 PM	#1
glatt ™ Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: Arlington, VA Posts: 27,717	Or food service. It's a big rolling pin for rolling out the dough for frozen pizzas.

01-07-2011, 11:57 AM	#2
Pico and ME Are you knock-kneed? Join Date: Jul 2008 Location: Middle Hoosierland Posts: 3,549	Well, i will go with what I thought it was the moment I saw it, which is probably wrong, but it looks like a table leg.

01-07-2011, 08:23 PM	#8
Pico and ME Are you knock-kneed? Join Date: Jul 2008 Location: Middle Hoosierland Posts: 3,549	A jerry-rigged doo-hickey.

01-07-2011, 09:02 PM	#9
Lamplighter Person who doesn't update the user title Join Date: Jun 2010 Location: Bottom lands of the Missoula floods Posts: 6,402	A multi-speed Tinker-Toy buffing-wheel powered thru a child-proof-bottle-top clutch assembly. aka: a Rube Goldberg polisher

01-07-2011, 08:53 PM	#10
Julie_mon Guest Posts: n/a	(at the first image) I'm guessing this is just a piece of art?

01-07-2011, 09:13 PM	#11
BigV Goon Squad Leader Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Seattle Posts: 27,063	Um. Technically, you're right. Fine, no one will provide the answer I want. It is the base of a little Christmas Tree of Devil Duckies. I made it as a gift for a friend (her daughter actually). I learned that she likes Devil Duckies. .... I couldn't help myself, friends. You know me. Attached Images __________________ Be Just and Fear Not.

01-07-2011, 09:36 PM	#12
Flint Snowflake Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Dystopia Posts: 13,136	Wait, so the mystery object was :::drumroll::: a ƒucking METAL BAR, aka a you-don't-know-what-it-is-either ??? Dude. __________________ **************** There's a level of facility that everyone needs to accomplish, and from there it's a matter of deciding for yourself how important ultra-facility is to your expression. ... I found, like Joseph Campbell said, if you just follow whatever gives you a little joy or excitement or awe, then you're on the right track. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Terry Bozzio**

01-07-2011, 10:43 PM	#13
xoxoxoBruce The future is unwritten Join Date: Oct 2002 Posts: 71,105	What he said. __________________ The descent of man ~ Nixon, Friedman, Reagan, Trump.

01-08-2011, 09:10 AM	#15
Flint Snowflake Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Dystopia Posts: 13,136	GET YOUR PITCHFORKS WE ARE GOING AFTER THIS MOTHERFVKCER __________________ **************** There's a level of facility that everyone needs to accomplish, and from there it's a matter of deciding for yourself how important ultra-facility is to your expression. ... I found, like Joseph Campbell said, if you just follow whatever gives you a little joy or excitement or awe, then you're on the right track. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Terry Bozzio**

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