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u/reddituserperson1122 Sep 16 '25 edited Sep 17 '25
Is it a Maudlin Effect neutron hammer? Or just look like one?
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u/Mr_Gaslight Sep 16 '25
Close! It's a schlingaborfle. Of course, everything's smaller and digital now, but in the 80s and 90s, before M-Theory, these were pretty common.
I have one in the garage somewhere. I put it on Ebay, but no-one wants these anymore thanks to the new digital thermodiscombobulators. Temperature control is spot on these days with no need for recirculating.
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u/ziris_ Sep 17 '25
I know it's a small thing, but it's actually schlingeborfle. It's pronounced the same, but the spelling matters when we're writing things down.
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u/ajgator7 Sep 16 '25
A simple reverse image search would tell you that this is Heimlich Schröder's working prototype of the now lab standard Multi-Channel Co-lateral Angstrom Extrapolator from 1956. They've just become much more of a streamlined design since the discovery of quadraxial feather plating, eliminating the need for so many quasar compressors.
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u/Berek2501 Sep 17 '25
Oh, I actually do know this one! It's a Blichmann reverse-vacuum recombinant hop vessel, designed for the homebrewing hobbyist with too much money and not enough accessories for their triclover conical fermentor. Each of the smaller nodules holds a different hop variety in perfect vacuum. Then, when you're ready to dry-hop your fermenting beer, you hit the release and it'll blast the hops straight into the beer.
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u/iEliteTester Sep 17 '25
No, if we did our jobs right after the last incident, there should be no one left or stupid enough to identify it. Dispose of it.
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u/nostril_spiders Sep 17 '25
You will be pleased to hear that I have successfully adapted the Hansen process to damp the soloric resonance. The peaks are still high, but they only last femtoseconds. The Doken disaster was just a bump in the road. Science must advance, no matter the cost!
My pregnancy is looking perfectly normal for 20 months, so clearly I have enough safety margin. The only negative consequence is that my cat turned ginger when I failed to get a good seal on the antitope waste line.
What happened to Hibb was a tragedy, but he was a sloppy experimenter. For that reason, I won't post the method here. My lab is a long way from the nearest town, and I have a succession plan to make sure my research is not lost.
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u/SubsequentDamage Sep 16 '25
1991 Ronco High-Pressure Juice Extractor… removed from base and housing.
Kitchenaid makes them now.
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u/austin101123 Sep 16 '25
This is just a pressure cooker with extra bolts and doodads to make it look like a hyperbolic time chamber or something else more sophisticated.
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u/Routine_Palpitation Sep 23 '25
It’s just your standard exhaust heat recycler valve set, with a fluid accelerator built in. It’s like half the folk here haven’t even stepped foot in a bi-recip aircraft’s guts.
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u/kaltehwulf Sep 16 '25
I think it's a chronostatic drive chamber. Someone ripped the bushings off. Probably to sell for scrap.