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!

[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.

[CS1983]

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

[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.

[buffalobo]

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.

Piped up several of them(gas compressors) as a young pipe fitter. Did a Waukesha V16 one time, thing was a monster.

If you're unarmed, you are a victim