I was out on a job site and found an interesting piece of machinery at work and had to have a guy that works there explain it to me. He said they are quite rare now days. So I thought I'd play a little game with the people here. What does it do?
Here's a hint. It is part of a larger machine, and I am a mechanical engineer.
Is that the machine that warps rebuilt steering racks before they are sent to me? ;-)
Is that some kind of regulator or governor? part of a ship perhaps?
Turbo Encabulator?
I think the video needs to be much blurrier for us to determine anything. 
Sorry, about the clarity, stupid blackberry. It's steam powered and is at a campus facility.
Whoa! I was avoiding getting a blackberry or an iphone or any of those ridiculous things...
But that was before I realized they had STEAM POWERED ones!
I'm off to the phone store...
That is a screen door spring rate tester. It calibrates storm and screen door return springs so that they are strong enough to grab the back of your shoe when you're entering the door but not quite strong enough to close the door all the way before the cat gets outside. 
Does remind me of a taffy machine.
No idea what kind of shop this is, and the footage is blurry and grainy. Makes identification darn hard. Can't put it in context with anything.
It's used to measure how often something is "machined". Note when the large grooved gears move. Almost like time gears..IMO
Its a device to make cell phone videos blurry. Keeps dorm mates from posting dirty movies of you and your girl/ boyfriend. Also useful when you have a prof. that picks their nose during lectures.
I think it's designed to slowly torture test manual transmissions.
its definitely a way back machine...can you set it to send me back to 1998 for a day or so, so i can hide some money ? 
I don't know what it is, but it reminded me of this video
Water or oil pump?
Supposedly it operates two pistons to allow coal from a chute to be pushed into a stoker for a coal boiler. The guy said as long as its oiled and has 40psi steam, it will feed coal to the boiler. He also said if you ignore its oiling requirements you'll have to grab a shovel to keep everyone warm on the campus and prison.
pilotbraden wrote:Turbo Encabulator?
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