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Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS
Posted: 05 Jun 2022, 12:35
by Stanley
All right it was Fernlea. It's so obscure that there is no point allowing it to run.
In 2010 the pavement was marked out for the next generation phone mast. There was quite a kerfuffle at the time and the planning permission stayed in place for a long time but for some reason was never acted on. The last time I enquired I was told it had lapsed.
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Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS
Posted: 06 Jun 2022, 03:25
by Stanley
Can you tell me where this is?
Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS
Posted: 07 Jun 2022, 07:15
by Gloria
Scotland?
Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS
Posted: 07 Jun 2022, 07:19
by Stanley
Yes Gloria but where.....
Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS
Posted: 07 Jun 2022, 07:32
by Gloria
Iām guessing now, the Cairngorms?
Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS
Posted: 07 Jun 2022, 08:39
by Wendyf
Glencoe?
Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS
Posted: 08 Jun 2022, 03:29
by Stanley
Not quite Glencoe but close enough Wendy. It's the stretch of Rannoch Moor before you get to Glencoe if you are travelling towards the Isles. (This is after all the Road to the Isles as mentioned in the song.)
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Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS
Posted: 09 Jun 2022, 03:45
by Stanley
What is it and what was this one used for?
Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS
Posted: 10 Jun 2022, 04:04
by Stanley
A deathly hush..... If there are no offerings this morning I'll knock it on the head. You've seen it before but in a different image.....
Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS
Posted: 10 Jun 2022, 07:21
by Gloria
Does the spigot lock into something to centralise it, to connect two things together. Bit of a waffle that.
Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS
Posted: 10 Jun 2022, 10:47
by plaques
My post must have gone astray.
Its one of those pedestals set in front of the old steam engines for controlling the steam input. normally it would have a wheel sat on top mush like aa ships rudder control.
Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS
Posted: 10 Jun 2022, 11:31
by Stanley
Sorry no. It's a scientific instrument connected with running a
steam engine.

Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS
Posted: 11 Jun 2022, 02:28
by Stanley
Last clue... It was used during testing boiler water.
Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS
Posted: 12 Jun 2022, 04:07
by Stanley
It's a hydrometer floating in a boiler water sample in the container supplied by ICI Nalfloc for testing for their water treatment.
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Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS
Posted: 13 Jun 2022, 02:59
by Stanley
What's the correct name for this type of valve.....?
Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS
Posted: 14 Jun 2022, 04:02
by Stanley
No takers?
Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS
Posted: 14 Jun 2022, 06:44
by Gloria
Butterfly?
Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS
Posted: 14 Jun 2022, 07:05
by Stanley
I can see why but no Gloria. Look at the way it closes and think what needs to be treated like that.
Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS
Posted: 14 Jun 2022, 07:16
by Steeplejerk
Ratchet valve

Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS
Posted: 15 Jun 2022, 02:54
by Stanley
Sorry no Tom. Clue, it's for very thick fluids where the flow has to be sheared rather than simply cut-off so what would you call it?
Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS
Posted: 15 Jun 2022, 05:32
by Gloria
Gate valve?
Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS
Posted: 15 Jun 2022, 06:19
by Big Kev
I'm with Gloria, gate valve.
Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS
Posted: 15 Jun 2022, 06:52
by Stanley
It is a gate valve but the name most people give them is 'Treacle Valve' because that was what they were first designed for.
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Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS
Posted: 16 Jun 2022, 03:52
by Stanley
What's going on here?
Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS
Posted: 16 Jun 2022, 05:54
by Steeplejerk
Counting flies on the runway

