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  • natrix
    natrix Posts: 1,111
    Does it grind something between the disks??
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  • pinno
    pinno Posts: 52,534
    No.
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  • veronese68
    veronese68 Posts: 27,872
    Some sort of centrifuge?
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  • sungod
    sungod Posts: 17,442
    is it for testing or calibrating something?
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  • chris_bass
    chris_bass Posts: 4,913
    Is it an industrial salad spinner?
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  • pinno
    pinno Posts: 52,534
    No
    No and
    No.
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  • natrix
    natrix Posts: 1,111
    Is it used on film, splicing film for example?
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  • pinno
    pinno Posts: 52,534
    natrix wrote:
    Is it used on film, splicing film for example?

    Interesting suggestion but no i'm afraid.
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  • RideOnTime
    RideOnTime Posts: 4,712
    It's very clearly sex and sheep related...
  • veronese68
    veronese68 Posts: 27,872
    Chris Bass wrote:
    Is it an industrial salad spinner?
    That's a form of centrifuge, fark off and get your own ideas. Preferably the correct one. :P
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  • natrix
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    Is it used in a laboratory, sample preparation perhaps??
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  • chris_bass
    chris_bass Posts: 4,913
    Veronese68 wrote:
    Chris Bass wrote:
    Is it an industrial salad spinner?
    That's a form of centrifuge, fark off and get your own ideas. Preferably the correct one. :P

    I like to be more specific, although in this case, specifically wrong!!
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  • davis
    davis Posts: 2,506
    Is that a counter on the left hand side?
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  • pinno
    pinno Posts: 52,534
    RideOnTime wrote:
    It's very clearly sex and sheep related...

    Yay winner. It's a sheep testicle mangler.

    Only joking.

    Nope, not sheep or sex related unless you are extremely deranged.
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  • veronese68
    veronese68 Posts: 27,872
    pinarello001 wrote:
    Nope, not sheep or sex related unless you are extremely deranged.
    Which you are, so it is. :P
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  • big_p
    big_p Posts: 565
    Chisel sharpener, drill bit sharpener ?
  • tyred&weary
    tyred&weary Posts: 243
    I have no idea why I think this, but is it for sorting/counting ballbearings or de-rusting them?
  • pinno
    pinno Posts: 52,534
    Tyred&weary wrote:
    I have no idea why I think this, but is it for sorting/counting ballbearings or de-rusting them?

    It is for sorting something. You're very clever...
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  • natrix
    natrix Posts: 1,111
    Is it used in a laboratory, sample sorting perhaps??
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  • pinno
    pinno Posts: 52,534
    No. Against the contemporary run of play, it is not medically related.
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  • natrix
    natrix Posts: 1,111
    davis wrote:
    Is that a counter on the left hand side?

    Shamelessly stealing two other ideas, :twisted: do you fill it with something (beans maybe), turn the handle really fast which spins the things out by centrifugal force, and they're then counted by the counter :?:
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  • pinno
    pinno Posts: 52,534
    It does count but there is no centrifugal force involved. Bit more sophisticated than bean sorting. Why would you count beans?!
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  • graham.
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    pinarello001 wrote:
    Why would you count beans?!

    To know how many you had! :?
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  • natrix
    natrix Posts: 1,111
    pinarello001 wrote:
    Why would you count beans?!

    I was thinking of runner beans (to be planted to grow more plants rather than to be eaten). I think that they're sold in packets with a certain number each. The machine would count 10 into a bag, then the bag would drop off and another ten counted out. The sort of machine that Sutton Seeds would use.
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  • natrix
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    pinarello001 wrote:
    there is no centrifugal force involved

    Are you going to be pedantic and claim that it uses centripetal force :roll:
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  • pinno
    pinno Posts: 52,534
    natrix wrote:
    pinarello001 wrote:
    there is no centrifugal force involved

    Are you going to be pedantic and claim that it uses centripetal force :roll:

    We all know gravity and centrifugal force is a conspiracy.
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  • keef66
    keef66 Posts: 13,123
    natrix wrote:
    pinarello001 wrote:
    Why would you count beans?!

    I was thinking of runner beans (to be planted to grow more plants rather than to be eaten). I think that they're sold in packets with a certain number each. The machine would count 10 into a bag, then the bag would drop off and another ten counted out. The sort of machine that Sutton Seeds would use.

    There are indeed commercial seed counters for a range of applications. In conducting cereal and oilseed rape trials we routinely assess grain quality by determining thousand grain weights for hundreds of samples at a time. Doing that by hand would be tedious, even for the student!
  • sungod
    sungod Posts: 17,442
    does it count/sort/grade natural things or manufactured things?
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  • pinno
    pinno Posts: 52,534
    Manufactured things.
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  • sungod
    sungod Posts: 17,442
    clooooooooooooooooooooooooooooos, we need clooooooooooooooooooooooooooos
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