The "What Is This?" game

[Badot]

One of those stainless steel skin smell remover thingamajigs?

[Janx101]

I remember Yama gloating the other week .. for when it was his turn.. had a big ass ball bearing, but was going to require WHAT it was FROM!! ..

now i would be guessing... a road bridge turntable bearing... you know those swing/swivel 90 degrees type bridges.. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swing_bridge

[yamahonkawazuki]

Looks like a ball bearing

partially correct. now what was it from/used for.  also the item that it is sitting on is also used by it

[pliskin]

One half a set of Ben Wa balls and the tube used to insert said balls

[yamahonkawazuki]

clues will be very vague further out n( beginning now) key date is 1977 key name is westinghouse

[Badot]

Bearing from an AWAC off a Boeing E3?

[yamahonkawazuki]

negative. next set of clues. ( 3 locations) hanford WA, Los Alamos NM, Oak ridge Tn

[adidasguy]

That would mean a bearing from a reactor generator? or turbine?

[Janx101]

Yama has a radioactive Ball?.... lol.... you use that thing as a night light??  ...

"hey baby!!! come check out my glowing balls!!" .. lmao!

[codajastal]

Ball Bearing from The United States Department of Energy National Laboratories and Technology Center

[yamahonkawazuki]

That would mean a bearing from a reactor generator? or turbine?

partially correct my friend. a reactor....( what) ive one final clue for the most part. although it should wait until maybe tomorrow. because a MAJOR is within that illustration. and no it isnt radioactive. ( was never put into service. ) grandfather kinda snagged it off a parts shelf  he was an acct. back in the day @ this place.

[slipperymongoose]

A bit off a control rod for the reactor?

[yamahonkawazuki]

naah just a tad above that.

[slipperymongoose]

Look in Australia we consider nuclear reactors the work of the devil ever since the Russians screwed up so my final guess is part of the big heavy tiles that go ontop of the reactor.

[Janx101]

Look in Australia we consider nuclear reactors the work of the devil ever since the Russians screwed up so my final guess is part of the big heavy tiles that go ontop of the reactor.

... we do??....  ... maybe you do!! 

personally i think Lithgow is the perfect place for an Aussie Reactor!!! .. emergencies included!!

but .. that white thing under the ball ... is it a thingy-widget weight for flow control of steam in a pipe leading from the reactor?....

cos as i understand it the 'noo-klee-arrs' are only used to superheat water into steam .. which then drives a turbine to generate eleck-trickery!!

[yamahonkawazuki]

those two pieces work as a system/together. a bearing and spacer if you will

[slipperymongoose]

Hey I'm all for having nuclear power down under we got heaps of space out back to dump all the waste.

[codajastal]

Hey I'm all for having nuclear power down under we got heaps of space out back to dump all the waste.

Yea like Pine Gap. Nothing good goes on there

[slipperymongoose]

Ok like the very top of the reactor where like the heavy tile things are to keep it all contained?

[Kiwingenuity]

Would it be something like part of a non return ball valve assembly for cooling water? hanford WA, Los Alamos NM, Oak ridge Tn were all sites also used for the Manhatten project...