MYSTERY OBJECTS

[plaques]

I'm beginning to know how Gloria feels when you keep prompting for more detail. This is the best I can do.I hope I'm on the right engine.

.ELM STREET MILL. BURNLEY
100hp cross compound Uniflow engine by Galloway, Manchester, 1926. 20"HP, 36"LP X 3ft stroke. 150psi, 115rpm. 13ft flywheel, 16 ropes.
Trunk guides. Enclosed engine. Drop valves. Massively built engine, beautifully finished. Both cylinders have tail rod supports. Air pump driven from LP tail rod

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Elm St 1.jpg

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From some photos from Manchester which I took some years ago.

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And the engine itself.

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[Stanley]

Sorry if I am being too demanding. Here's a pic for you.

[plaques]

Amazing, I was living in Burnley in that period and never remembered it. Probably because we had just got married and had move house up Manchester Rd. Burnley. Must have had other things on my mind.

Your on the right street, now find a death for 1973. Clue, it's connected with one of my favourite subjects!

Never realized that you were interested in falling from chimneys. Nowt as funny as folk.

[Stanley]

It's connected you daft bugger! I shall have a sleep and try to come up with a better one.

[Big Kev]

Never realized that you were interested in falling from chimneys. Nowt as funny as folk.

[Stanley]

If you've climbed them you are interested in people falling off them.



Where is this? What's more important, what is it?

[PanBiker]

It's in Stock Beck near Victory Park. If memory serves me well it is something to do with the former water power at the Cornmill I think.

[Stanley]

Dead right Ian, at the old Corn Mill. But what exactly was the pipe for? (I shan't let it hang on long.)

[Stanley]

I can't expect this to be common knowledge, the pipe is the tail pipe of a water turbine that gave the mill power for many years. Given the quantity of water being sufficient, the power available from a turbine depends on the total head of water from inlet pipe to outlet. The drop behind the turbine is just as important as the head. All this depends on the pipework being free of leaks. This large pipe in the bed of the beck is the tail pipe that served the turbine.
Next one?

[Stanley]

Can you tell me what's going on here?

[Cathy]

I’m intrigued to find out who is doing what ‘inside’.

[Stanley]

Now that I don't know Cathy unless it is someone inspecting the fusible plug in the crown of the furnace. That's the only possible reason I can think of. But what's happening overall?

[Tizer]

That might be a glove inside the boiler rather than a hand. The man doing the work looks like he's cutting a piece of pipe attached to the boiler.

[Stanley]

Sorry but no Peter. I shall look further into the hand.
This is a big clue. It is a bloke in the tube, it's the boiler surveyor inspecting the fusible plug.

[chinatyke]

Part of annual insurance inspection?

[Stanley]

No China, not the annual test. More important than that.

[chinatyke]

Hydraulic pressure testing and certification?

[plaques]

And what was Roger the testers full name.

[Stanley]

China has it. it's a ten year hydraulic test to working pressure plus fifty percent. The boiler has to hold that pressure for 20 minutes.
Very cruel Ken, I do try to test you fairly!
Next one?

[Stanley]

What is it?

[PanBiker]

Gyroscope.

[Big Kev]

Some sort of clamp for holding a workpiece for machining?

[chinatyke]

Opposite of a bearing-puller, a device to insert or remove pins by pushing them?

[Stanley]

Ian got it right away! I shall have to sit and think.....

[Stanley]

What are we looking at here?