Comments for The whatzis continued.

The whatzis continued.

2009-05-29T12:21:02Z

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.

Comment from Fishmugger on 2009-05-30

2009-05-30T13:38:24Z

The paint job is definitely done by an NG Squad on weekend duty with paint left over from when they had to line the parking lot. The cap has nothing in it as the thingy with the red goop is off center and when the cap is rotated in the threads, it would use almost all of the space inside the cap. So the red goop is a red herring. The locking rings on the cap end signify something very important. The trick is to see if the other end is pointy or has something else it attaches to, which is probably why the picture is cropped. Other then that, I go with Maj Mike.

Comment from Argent on 2009-05-30

2009-05-30T11:38:40Z

Well i'm going to try for a some kind of material delivery device.

Comment from Grumpy on 2009-05-30

2009-05-30T09:11:07Z

@Robert Re: Roto-Rooter, Any ideas? I don't think the Armorer would like my idea for that one. :)

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.

Comment from Holdfast on 2009-05-30

2009-05-30T05:04:16Z

Looks like "Sonia from the Bronx" is not quite that simple a
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?

Comment from Grimmy on 2009-05-29

2009-05-29T23:29:20Z

Stoopid as it makes me sound, my first thought when I saw the first pic was that it was a jet aircraft starter attachment.

Still, no functional clue.

Comment from Eric Wilner on 2009-05-29

2009-05-29T21:45:04Z

Red glop on nuts isn't necessarily a tamper indicator; it could be to prevent casual, accidental, or vibration-induced turning.
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.

Comment from Robert on 2009-05-29

2009-05-29T20:29:01Z

hmm. Possibly the back of a pipeline reamer?
Think Roto-rooter ... or not. :)

Comment from Grumpy on 2009-05-29

2009-05-29T14:54:20Z

Question, why is there machinists' dye on the bolts? They do it for different reasons. People believe they do it for other reasons. The machinist may use it as a reference, but only with a scribe line through it, but not on a bolt. The application shown here appears to be an anti-tampering indicator.

Comment from John of Argghhh! on 2009-05-29

2009-05-29T12:40:12Z

Ah, then read the comments, Og. Don't worry about the video, Frank. I'll post it with the reveal, anyway.

Comment from og on 2009-05-29

2009-05-29T12:23:17Z

Why, now it's OBVIOUS! of COURSE, it's a...

No, no still doesn't help at all.

Comment from fdcol63 on 2009-05-29

2009-05-29T12:22:29Z

Looks like Alan is correct. My previous message with a link to a YouTube video entitled "Czech RPG-7 7.62x39 Rocket Trainer Test Fire" appears to have triggered a SPAM filter or something.

Comment from fdcol63 on 2009-05-29

2009-05-29T12:16:31Z

Alan is correct:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DjT-HawlF_g

Comment from Alan Briley, RN on 2009-05-29

2009-05-29T11:49:33Z

It is the training warhead for a RPG-7?

Comment from BigFred on 2009-05-29

2009-05-29T11:48:14Z

It looks to substantial for a 1 use item, the red paint on the nuts is my indicator. As they are adjustable.

From the sprue marks, it is cast iron/steel.

I have no idea.