Re: Can you tell what it is yet.
Posted: Mon Sep 30, 2013 7:21 pm
Here's another picture clue and it's very heavy, you couldn't lift it with one hand.
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Can you tell what it is yet.
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Re: Can you tell what it is yet.
Posted: Mon Sep 30, 2013 7:25 pm
oh and Paul Carr is not allowed to play as he would get it straight away.
Re: Can you tell what it is yet.
Posted: Mon Sep 30, 2013 9:24 pm
Conveyor belt roller ?
Re: Can you tell what it is yet.
Posted: Mon Sep 30, 2013 9:30 pm
Looks like a shot-sleeve,that holds the molten metal used for the die casting, before it is pressed into the mould.
or perhaps the plunger for the shot-sleeve.
zBret
or perhaps the plunger for the shot-sleeve.
zBret
Re: Can you tell what it is yet.
Posted: Mon Sep 30, 2013 10:27 pm
Keep guessing guys, it helps to keep things straight ?
Re: Can you tell what it is yet.
Posted: Mon Sep 30, 2013 11:31 pm
I'll take one more guess...an alignment pin for the two halves of the diecast mould 
zBret
zBret
Re: Can you tell what it is yet.
Posted: Tue Oct 01, 2013 1:05 am
It looks like a compression roller. Don't know what it came off of, or if it's run in a pair.
Re: Can you tell what it is yet.
Posted: Tue Oct 01, 2013 2:48 am
From a sex toy shop in the Land of the Amazons?
Cam
Cam
Re: Can you tell what it is yet.
Posted: Tue Oct 01, 2013 3:02 am
Piston from injection moulding machine ????
Re: Can you tell what it is yet.
Posted: Tue Oct 01, 2013 3:46 am
johnboy wrote:Maybe it's a tall hash tray from the boardroom?motorman wrote:Is it a tall Ash tray from the board room?
I going with johnboy on this one...I'm sure back in the 60ds there was a lot of that going on
