sled4fun

OK old guys! Maybe you can help me with what this is. It has been around the family for over 50 years. I remember it when I was little at my dad's shop. It is a about 30" long about 50+ lbs. I remember my dad telling me that it was filled with mercury and can be mounted in a car and used for racing. Dad had passed 3 1/2 years agoe and I was cleaning the garage this weekend and came acrossed it. If you stand it on end. lift it up about 6" and drop it. It will bounce up a few inches like it has a heavy spring in it. I cannot see any markings or numbers on it. Both ends look the same as pictured.

What do you think?

mj007

Yeah ..... I remember some kinda deal like that .... was supposed to store the inertia from acceleration and then release it when you shifted or ????? .... just can't remember the details ...... maybe it will all come back to me after my nap

P.J

Pipe bomb?

Dieseldude4x4

Be very careful if it is mercury.

cincydiesel

Don't tell to many people that its mercury!! You have the Feds moving you and your family out of your house and blocking of the streets for a HAZ-MAT situation.

Dieseldude4x4

To say the least.

jthorpe

I don't think I'd want to be bouncing that thing around anymore, but that's me.

ramlovingvet

I remember as a kid loving to play with murcury.

HOHN

There's probably enough mercury in that thing to supply all of the Sushi places in Japan for a year!

sled4fun

Well it's not a pipe bomb. Now if the price of mercury is high enough. Maybe i can get a tank of fuel out of it.

Still would like to know what it is and what it was designed for.

old dog

I Think Its An Anti Sway Device
Its Supose To Slow The Inertia ( Or Adsorbe Some Of It) As You Make A Turn - Thus Cutting Body Role

Outrider

My swag is is a weight transfer for drag racing.I remember reading on Smoky he was using a similar device.It was to transfer more weight to the rear on launching.As for the anti sway post it would put the weight in the wrong place.