What is it?

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  1. Bengal B

    Bengal B Founding Member

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    Its whats left of a Hendricks Motorsports Chevy engine after Tony Stewart got in a 10 car pileup.
     
  2. KyleK

    KyleK Who, me? Staff Member

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    nope, nope, haha, nope, and ....nope!
     
  3. KyleK

    KyleK Who, me? Staff Member

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    @red55 will start carefully analyzing this thing, then I'll give a little direction.
     
  4. shane0911

    shane0911 Helping lost idiots find their village

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    Screw Red,

    2 motors and it's on wheels how about a view from the other side? I'm going to assume electric with all the wires.
    some sort of pump right
     
  5. KyleK

    KyleK Who, me? Staff Member

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    definitely not a pump

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  6. shane0911

    shane0911 Helping lost idiots find their village

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    conveyor belt drive motor
     
  7. red55

    red55 curmudgeon Staff Member

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    OK, what have we got here?

    1. A stamped steel frame with an electronics board and a shitload of heavy duty wires leading away.

    2. An electric motor and at least four belt drives to servos or smaller motors.

    3. A heavy spindle or axle with unusual hub is fixed to the frame with some sturdy rods. This is where the heavy work happens.

    4. Those wheels. I first thought it must be a heavy device and needed to be pulled around, but those wheels are tiny, attached to the spindle, not to the frame, and are not dirty. I think they must be some kind of feeler for the axle and either brake it or position it based on their position.

    5. Some device in that plastic housing attached to the spindle is key to this somehow. I have no idea what it might be.​

    Maybe some sort of control until for machinery. It has several belt driven devices on it, a feeler gauge, a heavy spindle that attaches to some mechanical device, and an electronics board with heavy-duty cabling.
     
  8. KyleK

    KyleK Who, me? Staff Member

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    Red's breakdown is the way to figure this out. The wheels are a key part. They are part of the unit that does the business end of the work that this thing is used for.
     
  9. KyleK

    KyleK Who, me? Staff Member

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    Nothing to do with a conveyor belt.
     
  10. red55

    red55 curmudgeon Staff Member

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    The wheels suggest that whatever this unit is attached to . . . moves.
     

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