Okay. All y'all really did pretty well yesterday. You went down the same paths I tread (well the ones who were taking it seriously... I admit, birds didn't come to mind... Dad) when I first saw it.
So, as I told Og yesterday, it's not a cap, but the threads are for a cap.
So, let's put the cap back on and see if you can't figure this out. I have great confidence that you can.
So, as I told Og yesterday, it's not a cap, but the threads are for a cap.
So, let's put the cap back on and see if you can't figure this out. I have great confidence that you can.
From the sprue marks, it is cast iron/steel.
I have no idea.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DjT-HawlF_g
No, no still doesn't help at all.
hmm. Possibly the back of a pipeline reamer?
Think Roto-rooter ... or not. :)
Anyway, it's clear that this is the warhead from one of the goofiest ideas of the Cold War. It's a precision-guided track-pin extractor.
The idea was that clusters of these could be fired at Soviet armor columns; the individual units would home in on the tracks and un-pin them, causing enough damage in the process to make repairs time-consuming, but causing no collateral damage, and leaving no unexploded warheads around the battlefield.
Apart from the mechanical issues involved, the guidance technology of the day was just not up to the task. The project was finally scrapped in 1987.
Still, no functional clue.
story:
http://tinyurl.com/BronxSonia
"Yet Sotomayor did not live her entire childhood in a housing project in the South Bronx — she spent most of her teenage years in a middle-class neighborhood, attending private school and winning scholarships to Princeton and then Yale."
-I wonder what caused the transition - mom get re-married? Where I grew up private school was not the hallmark of middle-classedness, that was for the (relatively) rich kids.
Anyway, she's still had a solid career, but getting into Princeton from a good private school is a little easier than going from public hellhole in the Bronx.
Maybe she's really from Bronxville in Westchester Cty?
Seriously, It could very well be LokTite. The question becomes, What does LockTite say? It says, Long term and sometimes violent vibration. We have two photographs, the first showing the base, the second showing the base and its cap. Now the second appears to be showing the base in the upper left and the cap in the lower right. This is shown by the threads at the joint. Now, the Armorer described this as a "cap". Now a "cap" is above or in front of the base. If it were below or behind the base, he would have called it a "tail".
Let's look at the first photo again. let's focus just on the shaft. Look at the exposed end. It's chamfered from the outside in and from the inside which can be seen in a enlarged image suggest the a select a specific use of this shaft.