It must be useful for something...

[PeteHall]

At the car boot sale yesterday morning, I found myself parting company with five whole English pounds, and walking away with this magnificent stainless steel pipe flange (carabiner for scale)

It must be useful for something, I told myself.

My wife, on the other hand, thinks that our kids will be taking into the car boot sale in 50 years after we're dead!

So far, I've thought of a belay for a dive-line at a 20-branch junction, or an anchor plate for an excessively complex hauling rig.

Help me prove my wife wrong and let me know what else this 20kg paperweight could be usefull for? Sensible and not-so-sensible suggestions welcome.

 

[Babyhagrid]

I you have some metal bar with a slot down the middle and some bolts. It could make an adjustable squeeze machine.

 

[RobinGriffiths]

Ninja Death Star (large) with a bit of machining.

 

[Flotsam]

It would make a good access hatch attachment for a deep diving submersible.

 

[Ian Ball]

20 kilos of stainless, what's the scrap on that?

 

[ChrisJC]

If you found another one, you could use it to join two pieces of pipe.

Chris.

 

[Leclused]

Add three (or four, five,...) rods and bolts to it and make a coffee table out of with a glass / plexi plate on it. If you use plexi you can bolt the plexi between the top bolt and the flange.

 

[Loki]

Mounting plate for stream passage / valley entrance / wretched / anquamole entrance lid. Plenty of holes to make it secure 😉

 

[ZombieCake]

Get the camera ready, put some LED lights on it and use it as a frisbee to fake UFO sightings.

 

[AR]

Have you ever tried to throw a 20kg frisbee? More to the point, have you ever been hit by a 20kg frisbee coming down!

 

[langcliffe]

It could join the rest of the miscellaneous junk that seems to shore up the entrance into Notts II.

 

[Mr Mike]

Buy a round piece of mirrored glass and the flange can be the frame - treat your wife to a industrial piece of home furnishing.

 

[tomferry]

Put Plants inside of it !

Or scrap metal investment

 

[Frog2]

Pretty adornment for the 'new' Wretched Rabbit entrance.

 

[Badlad]

Suspend it from the kitchen ceiling using 3-4 wires so that it hangs flat. Put hooks in the holes and hang pots and pans from it. You'll be the envy of all your friends.

 

[Flotsam]

Turn it into a Whack a mole game.

 

[caving_fox]

50cm ID -(Very roughly 5 Krabs wide at 10cm a krab??) Probably would be a person sized entrance hatch, but quite snug and awkward with kit and rope.

Weight training? (particularly good for climbing / pullups etc)

Diggers minimum passage size guide?

Multi-team Tug-Of-War anchor?

 

[IanWalker]

scrap it! the recycling industry will make it into something useful

and at the same time reduce chromium mining, save energy and prevent 86kg of CO2 release

"every tonne of austenitic stainless steel scrap we use saves 4.3 tonnes of CO2 emissions"

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[cap n chris]

You've done well there Pete. I have a similarly heavy piece of metal which is perfect for stopping the garden parasol thingy tipping over in breezy conditions.

 

[Cantclimbtom]

Have you ever tried to throw a 20kg frisbee? More to the point, have you ever been hit by a 20kg frisbee coming down!

No, but have you seen the size of the dog you need to own to jump up and catch it?

Get the camera ready, put some LED lights on it and use it as a frisbee to fake UFO sightings.

Nah, Pepper's ghost is the way to go for that. See pic below of the Alien Invasion Armada over Birkenhead last Sunday morning