This small gadget is crucial for the vintage craft’s operation. Back in the twentieth cent, crafts were liquid powered (like me, #DutchDoubleclutch ). The energy containing liquid was pumped in metered fashion into chemical-reaction chambers where, when compressed along with atmospheric gas and exposed to artificial lightening, a violent reaction ensued causing expansion (the release of that energy), forcing driving members downward, acting upon the arms of a multi-armed spinner which was coupled to a multi-ratio driven-spinner, in turn connected to more spinners, couplers, directional-twist changers and finally to two more spinners coated with congealed tree-sap with a coefficient of friction sufficient to put torque down on a terrestrial surface. Since the mass of the planet on which this torque acted was many times the mass of the craft, instead of the planet moving, the craft moves * The gadget: The energy-liquid meter-pumper must be lubricated as it has ferrous and other metallic element-based components subject to galling and seizure if not bathed in another energy-containing terrestrial fossil-sourced liquid which happens to be very, very slippery. The gadget is a volume sensing device for the slippery medium - just to make sure the meter-pumper has enough. All quite archaic but effective and seat-of-the-pants fun (one of the planet’s Pants-On-funs back in the day) * After my work period I push against the planet bipedally locomoting to The Drawer, CA to top up my own high-energy liquids. Friday it was #creativecreaturebrewing 's, #IPA offerings: ‘Darth Hazer’ & ‘Adam West Coast’, classic NE Hazy & West Coast IPAs. After checking my own volume measuring device and discovering only two 4 ouncers, I had to finish with 8 oz of ‘Hazy Never Dies’ for a total of sixteen oz - keeping it safe in the Milky Way/Earth-sector/San Diego * #10001212001564 #fiction #scifi #600swb #mercedes #mercedesbenz #mercedes_benz #mercedesclassic #mercedesbenzclassic #mercedesm100 #mercedes600 #classiccar #carculture #vintagecar #oldcar #oldtimer #collectorcar #vintagemercedes #vintagedriver #mercedesrestoration #restoration #mercedesm100buyersguide #ivorpeterbrians #carsandbeer (at Motoring Investments) https://www.instagram.com/p/ByG1E0bF-lC/?igshid=rmu9iihwmk7e