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.

  • Bubs@lemm.eeOPEnglish
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    1 month ago

    Lol, that’s a no. It’s for an industrial machine.

    • Majorllama@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      1 month ago

      Does this push paper along a track or converor by its edge? For like a newspaper or something?

      • Bubs@lemm.eeOPEnglish
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        1 month ago

        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.

          • Bubs@lemm.eeOPEnglish
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            1 month ago

            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:

            • Majorllama@lemmy.worldEnglish
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              1 month ago

              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