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liam.mccaffrey - 31/10/08 at 02:29 PM

I love quirky stuff and this caught my eye.

There is a prize of 50p waiting for the person who can tell me what this is and how it was made.

SPOILER WARNING!!
the answer is at the end of page 2, nobody won the 50p

thing
thing

[Edited on 31/10/08 by liam.mccaffrey]

[Edited on 31/10/08 by liam.mccaffrey]

Mr Whippy - 31/10/08 at 02:31 PM

gas burner for a hot air balloon?

that was a wild guess btw as there was 50p at stake

[Edited on 31/10/08 by Mr Whippy]

omega0684 - 31/10/08 at 02:36 PM

a fancy shower head that some pretentious bar steward would by for £500!

graememk - 31/10/08 at 02:39 PM

is it a cock ring ?

02GF74 - 31/10/08 at 02:40 PM

special attachent you stick over you todger so you can write your name in decitriplicate in the snow.

Mr Whippy - 31/10/08 at 02:41 PM

quote:
Originally posted by graememk
is it a cock ring ?


for what an elephant?!

actually I think its a manifold for some plumbing, probably some kind of heat exchanger core

[Edited on 31/10/08 by Mr Whippy]

Mr Whippy - 31/10/08 at 02:45 PM

there's always one...

matt_claydon - 31/10/08 at 03:01 PM

quote:
Originally posted by 02GF74
special attachent you stick over you todger so you can write your name in decitriplicate in the snow.


Surely it would be deciquadruplicate?!

DarrenW - 31/10/08 at 03:18 PM

I have no idea but if you go to the doctors they may remove it for you. Does it hurt?

blakep82 - 31/10/08 at 03:21 PM

quote:
Originally posted by omega0684
a fancy shower head that some pretentious bar steward would by for £500!


...and so i said, 'pretentious? Moi?!'

errr, i'd have said a shower head too

DarrenW - 31/10/08 at 03:25 PM

Sioux chief geothermal heating system collection manifold.

iank - 31/10/08 at 03:32 PM

Business end of a fountain?

liam.mccaffrey - 31/10/08 at 03:52 PM

someone is kind of/sort of on the right track.

any guesses for how it was made?

Mr Whippy - 31/10/08 at 03:53 PM

quote:
Originally posted by DarrenW
Sioux chief geothermal heating system collection manifold.


only if you find a link

quote:
Originally posted by liam.mccaffreyany guesses for how it was made?


Using federation replicator technology?

[Edited on 31/10/08 by Mr Whippy]

liam.mccaffrey - 31/10/08 at 04:17 PM

i love star trek btw

DarrenW - 31/10/08 at 04:37 PM

I was thinking it could be for a water circulating geothermal system, but as this link explains there are types that recirculate the refigerant itself and use 14 ground loops per bore hole.

http://www.copper.org/publications/newsletters/cutopics/Ct88/homeheating.html


One of the pics shows an alternative style of manifold.

[Edited on 31/10/08 by DarrenW]

Mr Whippy - 31/10/08 at 05:01 PM

quote:
Originally posted by liam.mccaffrey
i love star trek btw


I just watch it for the womens body hugging costumes

liam.mccaffrey - 31/10/08 at 05:27 PM

it is actually an exhaust manifold for a model pratt and whitney 14 cylinder radial engine

it was made by eltro-deposition over a low temp alloy core.

matt_claydon - 31/10/08 at 06:20 PM

Cool, do you have a picture of the engine? I presume it's two banks of seven cylinders?

liam.mccaffrey - 31/10/08 at 06:32 PM

its from a great model engine site and yes its twin banks of 7. engines>gallery>page 11 at the bottom

http://www.modelenginenews.org/

rusty nuts - 31/10/08 at 07:35 PM

quote:
Originally posted by liam.mccaffrey
it is actually an exhaust manifold for a model pratt and whitney 14 cylinder radial engine

it was made by eltro-deposition over a low temp alloy core.

I was going to say that but you gave the answer out too early.

02GF74 - 31/10/08 at 09:30 PM

elector-depsition .... that must have taken a fair bit of time. can see where they're coming from as soldering the tube may not have been high temp enoiugh, maybe....