Balls of Steel

[skeets]

I think your right about being balls bearings,, they look about the size you would find on a piece of earth moving equipment maybe a smallish dragline

 

[pendoreille]

Steelies! Shooters.
Guess that dates me. Do kids play marbles on the grade school playgrounds anymore, hmm wonder if there is a marbles app?

 

[skeets]

MY GAWD,, a kid walks in to school with a pocket full of marbles and says to his buddy man have I got some nice shooters.....

 

[bxray]

Well marbles would be considered weapons at a school today!
Get you expelled!

Ray

 

[anthonyv]

Has anyone thought old school? Pin Ball machine?

 

[m32825]

Jerry Clower, Steel Marbles: https://youtu.be/OvcZJxp1OEo

 

[D2Cat]

Never have seen a pin ball machine with 1 1/2" diameter ball, but then I not a pin ball expert. Would be a huge machine!

 

[anthonyv]

Sorry from your pic with the ruler looked closer to 1in at first glance. But your right it would be one hell of a plunger to pull if they were.

 

[Kubota Newbie]

If you have a neighbor with a Farmall tractor with the early disc brakes you can give'em to them to keep on the parts shelf. They'll eventually need them. They used balls that size in the eccentrics for the brake plates.

 

[bearbait]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4AKbUm8GrbM

 

[JimmytheGeek]

When I lived at home, my neighbor, also a machinist, had a few of them laying around. He said they were used in a locomotive.

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[CaveCreekRay]

Sure would extend the life of your curb feelers.

 

[sdk1968]

dont know if you found the exact source or not...

trains have huge ball bearings..

pulverizers in the coal plants use them too.

but ive got several from the chemical plant when we did some demo, that were 2" in diameter.. they were check valve balls!

funny enough got my buddy one of those new pocket hammer slingshots & have been buying 3/8" ball bearings by the bags full ever since.