Author Topic: Guess the teardown victim... (Read 19520 times)

mikeselectricstuff · « **on:** February 03, 2015, 11:22:51 pm »

Scored an interesting thing on ebay...
Original cost around $210,000, about 10 years ago. I paid about 1/1000th of that..
Contains laser, pneumatics, optics, hydraulics, stepper motors and a crapload of tubing.
Weighs about 100kg

Extra clue : there's a good chance you've indirectly made use of one of these or something similar

Guesses.....?

tautech · « **Reply #1 on:** February 03, 2015, 11:31:36 pm »

Plotter?

electr_peter · « **Reply #2 on:** February 03, 2015, 11:36:00 pm »

Eye glasses milling machine?

mrflibble · « **Reply #3 on:** February 03, 2015, 11:37:49 pm »

Food packaging robot?

amyk · « **Reply #4 on:** February 04, 2015, 01:00:08 am »

Automatic mail sorter with integrated x-ray?

Sobelsdaemon · « **Reply #5 on:** February 04, 2015, 01:29:09 am »

Flow Cytometer?

lapm · « **Reply #6 on:** February 04, 2015, 01:37:50 am »

Flux capacitor assembly machine?

Mechanical Menace · « **Reply #7 on:** February 04, 2015, 02:08:48 am »

Some sort of low end car wash?

Or an Heisenberg Compensator?

Psi · « **Reply #8 on:** February 04, 2015, 02:09:44 am »

Laser eye surgery machine. Got to be

gbrettell · « **Reply #9 on:** February 04, 2015, 02:31:37 am »

Water Jet Cutting Machine?

han · « **Reply #10 on:** February 04, 2015, 02:40:58 am »

Laser CNC machine.
or
Robotic LASER WELDING

xrunner · « **Reply #11 on:** February 04, 2015, 02:51:15 am »

Quote from: mikeselectricstuff on February 03, 2015, 11:22:51 pm

Extra clue : there's a good chance you've indirectly made use of one of these or something similar

A wormhole navigation pod!

That's how I got to this planet.

chicken · « **Reply #12 on:** February 04, 2015, 02:59:10 am »

20 minutes photo minilab?

free_electron · « **Reply #13 on:** February 04, 2015, 02:59:24 am »

lens machining tool for glasses ?
cd or dvd mastering engraver ?

Lightages · « **Reply #14 on:** February 04, 2015, 03:10:20 am »

A sentry bot at Aperture Labs?

helius · « **Reply #15 on:** February 04, 2015, 03:12:17 am »

Quote from: chicken on February 04, 2015, 02:59:10 am

20 minutes photo minilab?

I was stumped, but this is the best guess I've read. Noritsu perhaps?

T3sl4co1l · « **Reply #16 on:** February 04, 2015, 03:24:15 am »

Quote from: Lightages on February 04, 2015, 03:10:20 am

A sentry bot at Aperture Labs?

No, that's a crapload of bullets, not a crapload of tubing.

mtdoc · « **Reply #17 on:** February 04, 2015, 03:25:20 am »

Clearly a Wonka - Mobile. "A thing of beauty and a joy forever" . I've heard that before somewhere...

cosmicray · « **Reply #18 on:** February 04, 2015, 03:27:08 am »

What do they call that large projection device that every classic planetarium seems to have for lectures.

houdini · « **Reply #19 on:** February 04, 2015, 03:54:59 am »

A large junk box from an interesting lab.

Howardlong · « **Reply #20 on:** February 04, 2015, 06:31:42 am »

Nasal hair trimmer from Skymall magazine?

Falcon69 · « **Reply #21 on:** February 04, 2015, 06:32:04 am »

I was thinking maybe a Laser printer, but I'm stumped on the tube part. Otherwise, I'd say Ink Jet printer, if not for the Laser.

Maybe a Laser Light/Fog machine?

Falcon69 · « **Reply #22 on:** February 04, 2015, 06:34:44 am »

Could also be a CNC Laser. But, then again, $210,000 back then, a CNC laser probably would have been 5-10 times that. Today, you can get them for 5 grand, not a very good one, but you can get one, mostly only able to cut thin plastic or paper.

Mechanical Menace · « **Reply #23 on:** February 04, 2015, 07:05:17 am »

Quote from: cosmicray on February 04, 2015, 03:27:08 am

What do they call that large projection device that every classic planetarium seems to have for lectures.

Sticking with stereotype of astronomers coming up with accurate if not... catchy* names for things they're known as planetarium projectors.

*Such as the VLA, LBT, E-ELT, TMT etc...

firewalker · « **Reply #24 on:** February 04, 2015, 07:57:10 am »

The price and the tubes reminds me an Agfa film development machine I took apart couples years ago. It had no stepper motors though. Just normal 48 volt dc motors. An many chemical compartments.

Alexander.


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