Still no definitive answers.
There appear to be 2 motors for adjustments and maybe some type of cam wheel in the sheet
metal piece on the right hand side.
The blue krinkle finish reminds me of old enamel covered pots and pans.
Just an interesting mechanism.
Just a thought that the scales all read sideways in the position it is in. Perhaps if you stood it up with the large end down so that the scales read correctly it might make a difference in how the thing is thought of.
ReplyDeleteYou have it laying on its side. Rotate it up 90 degrees, so that the numbers appear readable. And of course, several pictures at the new angle would be enlightening!
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Somewhere is a manufacturers plate. It probably has all the information needed to determine what it is.
ReplyDeleteI think you should offer an award for the right answer. I am now asking my neighbors about it.
ReplyDeletewell, the metal finish says 1930-40's. and there was a war on and we did make all sorts of stuff to win it.
ReplyDeleteit would help to see it in more than one plane too. although I does remind me of old warplane stuff from that time
the finish I mean does. then again, I found or was given a old brass sight for either arty or mortars and it took me a while to find out what it was. still have it too, hanging on the wall in the shop. the thing is unless you know how to use something like that, you would have no idea what it is or does. dave in pa
Reminds me of the egg sorting machine at my uncles chicken farm.
ReplyDeleteLooks like a calibration device for a bombsight.
ReplyDeleteIs the left end of this machine a rotating knob of sorts? And if you did stand it on end would it set level? Just a thought. It’s probably a time machine.
ReplyDeleteIt's a turbo encabulator. You can tell by the girdle spring, spurving bearing, and lunar wayne shaft.
ReplyDeleteyes but it is non functional because the foo foo valve and the woffle sprockets are missing. >};oD
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I think John Lakeman nailed it here. "Let me walk you through the Donnelly nut spacing and crack system rim-riding rip configuration. Using a field of half-C sprats, and brass-fitted nickel slits, our bracketed caps, and splay-flexed brace columns vent dampers to dampening hatch depths of one half meter from the damper crown to the spurve plinths. How? Well, we bolster twelve husk nuts to each girldle-jerry, while flex tandems press a task apparatus of ten vertically composited patch-hamplers. Then, pin-flam-fastened pan traps at both maiden-apexes of the jim-joist."
DeleteMaybe some other shots to give a 360 view?
ReplyDeleteWhen first posted I looked at it flipped, so you could right read the numbers. To me the Scales indicate the inner workings of a vintage ocular measurement device. This thought is based on the the hardware, crackle finish, the numbers and gradients (0-2.0 & +/- 30% on two scales), and the “adjustment knobs on the larger “canisters” to change angles etc.
ReplyDeleteThis is a tough one as no amount of web search produces anything closely resembling. But it’s certainly in good rig for something older.
You say it's motorized. I don't know, never seen one. But first thought is perhaps an old manual (no computers) mounting for a sky-tracking device for a small telescope Most of the visible steel on side is a rigid base. but that "cylindrical drum shape in top center moves. Would have to be properly aligned on Earth to do the job.
ReplyDeleteClock drive for a 🔭
DeleteDrone copter frame, 3 adjustments for flight axises
ReplyDeleteAfterthought: It sure is clean; not worn; looks perfect. Maybe no-one ever figured it out? [grinning]
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ReplyDeleteA hydraulic flatulence decanter.
ReplyDeleteIt looks like 2 opposing actuators. And the scales on the 2 upper arcs +- indications are reversed. Still no fkn idea what it would be for
ReplyDeleteDas Machinen is unzootable fur gurfingerpocken, Rest und watch das blinkenlites
ReplyDeleteSo its not associated with a bomb sighting piece of equipment at all, eh ?
ReplyDeleteI swear I have seen this before, but looked more used.
Maybe its for mapping instead of bombing.
Something used to apply labels to items on a conveyor belt.
ReplyDeleteThat type of finish I've seen on photo enlargers. That's what it looks like to me. It'd be better if we could see different angles.
ReplyDeleteLooks like the love child of a Sextant and a Gunnery Quadrant. Initially thought a targeting adjustment for a heavy gun/tank but haven't been able to narrow it down
ReplyDeleteYeah, that would put it so that the rod currently horizontal is now vertical and might get a better idea of how it acts on the hinges. Could the pots be solenoids or stepper drives? We have a scale from 0-2, another in % with 0 in the center (deflection scale) and the last another % scale. There is no apparent table or clamp to place a work piece, although the cylindrical devices have traction feet on the outboard ends. Looks like it is designed to push in both directions and measure deflection or tension.
ReplyDeleteOn what, I have no clue!
Paul
It's a Kanewton valve...........................
ReplyDeleteObviously a steam powered metronome for a megalithic orchestra.
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ReplyDeleteIt’s use spans many ages…
Here we have a late 19th/early 20th century cover of an ancient ballad, with the steam powered metronome to help them keep the tempo.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=VPIP9KXdmO0
Can you spot it? 😆
Memories. We used them 50 years ago when I was working for the Bell telephone system. They're designed to pour dial tone into a hopper attached to a #1 or #5 crossbar central office switch. We used to get lots of complaints when the pourer technician went on coffee break.
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