Saturday, April 21, 2018

What is that?

Apparently it spits out pickup trucks.


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  1. That is a volute (AKA housing) for a very large centrifugal pump.
    The vehicle is inside the discharge pipe. The horizontal flange
    on the left is where the rotating element (bearing housing, packing,
    and impeller goes.) Atop the rotatating element is where a direct
    drive motor is flanged to the rotating element via a distance piece.

    The finished product will be able to move a crap-load of water or
    some other liquid product. Given the size of this monster, it could
    fill dozens of olympic size swimming pools in a few seconds.

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    1. Thanks for the info. I wonder where it went when completed? A dam, perhaps?

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    2. I wonder if it is. In my experience a centrifugal pump volute has a constant expelling diameter, not a progressive conical aperture such as this. I'm wondering if this is a collector for a hydro-dynamo, and the pickup truck is parked at the inlet end instead. In this configuration, the incoming water, as it's driven to an ever-decreasing cross sectional area, would be moving at a higher and higher velocity as it nears the turbine. I'm guessing it's application is hydro power generation.

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  2. Bolder dam implement, maybe? If they had shaped it properly they might have come out with a steel Klein bottle**

    **http://www.kleinbottle.com/whats_a_klein_bottle.htm

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  3. Looks like a scroll case for a hydro-electric generating unit.

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  4. No no no, you've got it all wrong! That's the Horn of the Last Trump, they've been working on it for a long time:

    "1 COR 15:52 "In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, ..."

    So you see, those guys were just getting ready for Trump, and now we've got him!

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    1. Behold! I tell you a mystery.
      We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed in a moment,
      In the twinkling of an eye.

      At the last trumpet!

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  5. At first I thought this was from the Hoover Dam generator room. Then I noticed the notation in the lower left, "Escher Wyss". It was a Swiss company that "also manufactured the hydraulic systems of hydroelectric plants."

    Al_in_Ottawa

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  6. That's the part that a penstock connects to in order to transfer the falling water from a hydro-elec dam into rotational energy to turn the turbine.

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  7. I showed this to the gastroenterologist who performed my colonoscopy recently. He confirmed that it is not a medical school proctology anatomy tool.

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  8. It is the valuate for a turbine generator.

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  9. nope. you are all wrong. it is actually the new turbocharger for the latest bmw engine in the mini. it is an effort to increase the airflow thru the engine to increase power output/...

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