Anyone know what all this stuff is?

[Phillip Patton]

And can anyone guess what I'll be using it for?

 

[MadBug]

Multi-valved turbocharged Footapan Assembly. Undoubtedly.
Bob

 

[Patrice Lemée]

Patrice

 

[Nathan the Machinist]

I don't know what that stuff is, but I'm guessing you got that stuff at auction. I do know enough about that kind of stuff to know it was very expensive when it was originally installed. That's probably 50K worth of "stuff" sitting on your trailer there. I also know I've be real carful with any residues you may find inside.

Did that stuff come out of a polymer reaction facility? Do you know what kind of chemicals they were working with?

You building salt pots?

 

[richard j]

are you going to be fixing up some kind of wild heat treating oven?

 

[Nathan the Machinist]

Patrice

Ah, a really slow stainless steel "super car". A Delorean. AMC deserved to "go away" after that one.

 

[myright]

Nice - Our first Blade Forums meth lab

 

[silver_pilate]

Vac chamber for stabilizing woods?

--nathan

 

[jamiemackie]

The first pic looks like a salt pot, the thing in the sixth pic looks like a vacum pump for stabilising wood.

The rest I have no idea about, some crazy HT oven?

Jamie

 

[Fubarski]

Beer. And if not, should be.

 

[deker]

Beer. And if not, should be.

Nonononono...that's a vacuum still for making Vodka

-d

 

[mr2blue]

cryo treating

 

[Phillip Patton]

Lot's of good guesses here.

This is a bunch of vacuum equipment that my dad got about 15 years ago for free from a company that didn't need it and couldn't sell it. He says it cost more than $100K when it was new.

Of course it's almost worthless now, unless you could find someone who could use it, or sell it for scrap. I'm going to use at least one of the vacuum pumps for stabilizing handle materials, and the part in the first and last picture will be a low temp salt pot.

In the fifth picture from the top, you can see a couple of big magnets. My dad wants to have them sliced up and use them to make a wind powered generator.

 

[69_knives]

Well, that's a relief. I thought you were Dr. Evil and were going to make the 'Preparation H' laser to blow up the moon.

 

[Phillip Patton]

cryo treating

Actually, the big thing lying on its back is a "molecular sieve", which uses liquid nitrogen to scavenge gases that the vacuum pump can't get. I don't know what I could use it for though.

 

[P.Brewster]

Homeland Security should be showing up any time now...

 

[Leadfoot2]

Fathers are the worst pack rats in the world, I've taken 300 ton of scrap off of my dads place since he died.
Should make a great wood stabilizer, good catch.

Leadfoot

 

[rio]

cooking meth???? j/k

 

[Fred.Rowe]

Whatever it is; I want one.

The possibilities are endless.

Show us what you come up with.

Fred

 

[fitzo]

I wonder what it was attached to in it's past? Maybe a mass spectrometer or an electron microscope. Could be any number of applications. I bet it has an interesting story.