Do you know what this is?

Mark Knapp

Mark Knapp

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Can you tell me what this is, I am only asking because I don't know and someone here will, probably many of you. I got it at an estate sale this week end. I have no reason to think it is related to knife making or blacksmithing accept that it was with some stuff like that. I got a really nice antique manual blower for a coal forge.

It is cast steel, the base is 5 1/5 inches by 6 inches and it is 5 1/2 inches tall. The knob on the side is knurled as well as the shaft inside that it is connected to. the big hole at the top is threaded and all of the holes and tubes are inter-connected. There is no lettering on it except the numbers 14530 on the bottom.

I gave five bucks for it so I could bring it home and show it to you guys. Thanks for any help.

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I haven't seen one of those in close to 16yrs, Mark... thanks for the flashbacks! My father was a moldmaker and over the years built his own shop from the ground up. It is now an international leader in the tool and die industry (Anchor/Danly Inc.) but in those early years, it was in our back lot barn. What you have there, is called an "Injector box locator". It would have been mounted to either an "Aerial die mount" or "modular bump" cam. There would have been 6-8 of these on an typical job. The injector valves were mounted to the top and the pins sticking out on that 42deg angle were used to locate the injector core manifold. Once engaged, the casting medium (plastic, vinyl, nylon or other synthetic based liquid) was pumped though and cast into whatever form the core and cavity was intended to produce. (anything from automotive dashboards to those cheap white plastic patio chairs that split down the middle and pinch the back of your leg.) Just seeing one of those again makes me think of......... hmmmmm.... wait a tick.... I must apologize. Apparently, I have been completely making this up. Sorry. I guess I don't know what that is, afterall. Carry on.

Rick
 
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HAHA! I was impressed.... NOT!

OK I was impressed, but then reality set in. I have no Idea but would stick along the Heat/Steam area.
 
FWIW, I called "Balderdash" at the injector box locator coupler"...... but you are good Rick. Very good! ;)

Rob!
 
Does the tube on the top curve into the angled tube from the side?
Maybe some sort of drip oiler that had a wick?

I love picking up neat things that I have no idea what it is. Eventually, someone says, " Hey, where did you get this? I used to run a Champion 14LX printer when I was a kid. Haven't seen an ink feeder box in a long time."
 
Mark,

You've got something that may remain unknown but very unique. My guess would be that it is part of the lubrication system on a large manufacturing machine of some type. Since both tubes appear to be threaded, one would assume that they were attached to lines supplying a liquid of some type and a lubricating or cooling liquid would make sense. This wouldn't have been a simple or cheap part to make so probably part of an industrial machine which got heavy & continuous usage to justify the cost.
 
Nice one Rick. You had me too, except as it was found in Alaska I think it could be an adjustable saw set for large saw mill blades. Jess
 
Isn't that a doo-hinky or a what-ch-a-ma-call-it? Left-handed too unless I'm mistaken.

Look at the shape of the base. Obviously it's for reshaping horse hooves on show and rodeo horses.

- Paul Meske
 
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Rick Marchand said:
I haven't seen one of those in close to 16yrs, Mark... thanks for the flashbacks! My father was a moldmaker and over the years built his own shop from the ground up. It is now an international leader in the tool and die industry (Anchor/Danly Inc.) but in those early years, it was in our back lot barn. What you have there, is called an "Injector box locator". It would have been mounted to either an "Aerial die mount" or "modular bump" cam. There would have been 6-8 of these on an typical job. The injector valves were mounted to the top and the pins sticking out on that 42deg angle were used to locate the injector core manifold. Once engaged, the casting medium (plastic, vinyl, nylon or other synthetic based liquid) was pumped though and cast into whatever form the core and cavity was intended to produce. (anything from automotive dashboards to those cheap white plastic patio chairs that split down the middle and pinch the back of your leg.) Just seeing one of those again makes me think of......... hmmmmm.... wait a tick.... I must apologize. Apparently, I have been completely making this up. Sorry. I guess I don't know what that is, afterall. Carry on.

Rick
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You had me going for just a second but I used to make plastic injection molds. Still, pretty good
 
bladsmth said:
Does the tube on the top curve into the angled tube from the side?
Maybe some sort of drip oiler that had a wick?

I love picking up neat things that I have no idea what it is. Eventually, someone says, " Hey, where did you get this? I used to run a Champion 14LX printer when I was a kid. Haven't seen an ink feeder box in a long time."
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I think you are onto something Stacy, the tube on the top butts squarely into a knurled shaft though it does not curve over to the angled tube. That top tube could very well have been for an oiling wick. It looks like the knurled roller would feed something through from front to back, be oiled by the top tube and have something done to it by something in the large threaded hole.
 
Gary Mulkey said:
Mark,

You've got something that may remain unknown but very unique. My guess would be that it is part of the lubrication system on a large manufacturing machine of some type. Since both tubes appear to be threaded, one would assume that they were attached to lines supplying a liquid of some type and a lubricating or cooling liquid would make sense. This wouldn't have been a simple or cheap part to make so probably part of an industrial machine which got heavy & continuous usage to justify the cost.
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I'm with you Gary, the only threads though are on the large hole on the top.
 
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