Picture quiz

Richard Ibrahim · 07-13-05, 10:43 AM

Anyone fancy hazarding a guess at what this is ? It was retrieved from my GTD shortly after I put it on the road a few years back.As a clue, I originally bought the car as "nearly complete and built by an FI technician". It gave me a new meaning to term FI (second word being idiot).In fact the build quality was so poor that I finished up stripping it down to the last rivet and started all over again.The picture aptly illustrates the mentality of the F1 builder(my version).Any guesses ? No prizes !

John W · 07-13-05, 01:04 PM

Here are my guesses:
- remains of an office chair base ?
- centre of a wheel ?
- plastic cooling fan that got too hot ?

Frank Catt · 07-13-05, 03:46 PM

Appears to be made of plastic, but not black, it has a keyway, it looks about ? inches in diameter judging from the grain in the desktop, hmmmmm ?

Kalun D · 07-14-05, 12:21 AM

Electric water pump impeller?

Hershal Byrd · 07-14-05, 12:47 AM

Hey Rich,
The old paddle clutch just didn't cut it, Huh! [img]/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img]

I think it might be the cooling fins from an alternator.

Hersh [img]/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]

Trevor Booth · 07-14-05, 03:08 AM

A type of blind (pop) rivet known as a peel rivet.

Steve Kulper · 07-14-05, 03:12 AM

A Rivnut maybe?

Peter D · 07-14-05, 06:14 AM

Your wife's floral arrangement on your coffin when she finds out how much you paid !!!!!!!!

**Veek** · 07-14-05, 07:40 AM

How about the underside of one of the seat grommets?

Paul Thompson 'Hooligan' · 07-14-05, 08:47 AM

Steering column bush that's FAILED! [img]/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/blush.gif[/img]
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Steve Ard · 07-14-05, 06:27 PM

Looks like something off a 250,000.00 Ferrari sometime between it's first and second oil change.

Richard Ibrahim · 07-15-05, 08:11 AM

All good guesses I guess - but I suppose I should put you out of your misery. The hint was that the original builder was a complete pillock ! Believe it or not this is the remains of a crankshaft spigot bearing - machined out of nylon !!When I first found it, it was one of those moments when you just can't believe what you are looking at. As you can see, as it melted it spread itself past the the flywheel bolts and left a very pretty flower-shaped piece !The amazing bit was that it lasted nearly 200miles. Obviously,to the bird-brain who did,it must have "seemed like a good idea at the time", but I struggle to understand how anyone, nevermind a FI technician, could have contemplated using a thermoplastic material.I hestitate to name the individual reponsible, but I am aware that he worked for a, now defunct F1 team, and also of a horrible accident, badly injuring one of it's drivers, caused by a mechanical failure.I can only speculate on whether there is any connection the aforementioned pillock.