![[Challenge Solved] Weird assembly — I think this will be a hard one :)](https://i.imgur.com/68pVqrW.jpeg){kind=link}
Some light hints that may point you in the right direction:
Hint 1
The assembly is a part of a larger machine.
Hint 2
Several assemblies are meant to move side by side in unison.
Hint 3
The square-ish shaped piece is plastic that will wear down and be replaced.
Is this like a part of something off the marble machine x?
https://youtu.be/qjkIMxmSeIc
Is it playing music from a large drum? Haha
Lol, that’s a no. It’s for an industrial machine.
Does this push paper along a track or converor by its edge? For like a newspaper or something?
Spot on.
Answer
It’s for pushing mail into an envelope. Three or four of them work in unison to push a stack of papers/inserts into an envelope.
God damn. That’s the hardest one I’ve seen in a long time. Very nice.
I figured it would be a tough one.
These are mail insertion machines I worked on for several months as a mechanic. It’s a little blurry since that were moving, but here it is in action:
That’s cool. Never seen anything like that. I love big industrial machines that exist only to recreate an action a single human can do easily lol