Working on tiny stuff

[ray1970]

Anyone care to guess what this is? Bonus points if you can find the obvious defect in the picture.

[RblDiver]

Let's see, I'll go with glorified toaster, and not enough beer in that pic!

[CS1983]

No clue what the thing is, but it looks like that shaft is snapped.

[ray1970]

Let's see, I'll go with glorified toaster, and not enough beer in that pic!

Wish they let me drink beer at work.

And definitely not a toaster.

[ray1970]

No clue what the thing is, but it looks like that shaft is snapped.

You, sir, are a keen observer. The input shaft is definitely snapped.

[ray1970]

Here's a picture of a complete one in service if it helps anyone make a guess as to what it is.

[buffalobo]

Oil pump and snapped shaft.

If you're unarmed, you are a victim

[Hummer]

Everything's relative but to me there's nothing tiny in that picture.

Looks like some hydraulic pump mechanism to me but google suggests it's a gas compressor. I like machines, and sometimes I even like fixing them. This afternoon, not so much.

[ray1970]

Hummer and buffalobo are both pretty much correct. It's a force feed lubricator pump for a compressor. The first picture is actually the gear box that drives the lubricator pumps. I used to work on the compressors themselves but now I mostly work on all of the auxiliary equipment and controls for the compressors and I find that type of work much more enjoyable.

[brutal]

It's blue and broken.

It's not balls is it?

Do you get bonus points for putting it back together with less parts than you took out? Because that's usually not the case.