Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS
Posted: 01 Jan 2023, 03:05
Sorry Peter but no.
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Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS
Posted: 01 Jan 2023, 14:11
Are they from a steam ship?
Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS
Posted: 01 Jan 2023, 15:06
Were they run on methane?
Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS
Posted: 01 Jan 2023, 15:22
Sorry all but no to all. Look carefully at the 'boilers'.......
Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS
Posted: 01 Jan 2023, 15:58
Traction Engine boilers?
Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS
Posted: 01 Jan 2023, 16:22
Two Lancashire, two Cornish?
Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS
Posted: 02 Jan 2023, 03:12
Sorry Ian but no. Peter is right, there are two Cornish and two Lancashire boilers but you haven't identified the main characteristic. Big clue.... Why are the furnace tubes blanked off with steel plates?
Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS
Posted: 02 Jan 2023, 11:54
Have they been converted to oil or gas ?
Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS
Posted: 02 Jan 2023, 12:06
You're getting so near Tom I'm not going to hang you out. They are old boilers that have been converted into storage vessels for the mines compressed air system.
Next object anyone?
Next object anyone?
Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS
Posted: 02 Jan 2023, 14:25
What is it?
Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS
Posted: 03 Jan 2023, 13:23
Any takers?
Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS
Posted: 03 Jan 2023, 15:39
Is it a safety valve or a bleed point much like on a radiator, looking at the adjustable shaft at the top?
Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS
Posted: 04 Jan 2023, 03:28
Well done Ian, it is indeed a safety valve on one end of one of the Low Pressure cylinders at Ellenroad. It is designed to relieve any excessive pressure or a slug of water if it gets in.
Next one for shaving?
Next one for shaving?
Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS
Posted: 05 Jan 2023, 04:42
There's something very unusual about the tail stock on this shafting lathe at Brown and Pickles' Wellhouse shop. Can you tell me what it is?
Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS
Posted: 06 Jan 2023, 03:42
No takers? 
Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS
Posted: 06 Jan 2023, 09:12
One bit of it looks like the starting wheel on the engine at Bancroft. Was it re purposed from a redundant engine?
Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS
Posted: 06 Jan 2023, 10:12
Could be Ian but that isn't what I am after. All tailstocks have a handwheel of some sort but this one has something you don't normally see on one.
Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS
Posted: 06 Jan 2023, 12:15
Is it the lever at the front of the tail stock 
Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS
Posted: 06 Jan 2023, 14:31
No Tom, that's a common feature of most tail stocks... A clamp for locking the position of the quill.
Big clue, look at this end of the tail stock.....
Big clue, look at this end of the tail stock.....
Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS
Posted: 07 Jan 2023, 12:41
I'm knocking this on the head. Look at the rod with a ball on the end that sticks out of the back of the tail stock. This is a slide hammer for knocking out the Morse Taper centre in the front of the quill. Not very common.
Next one?
Next one?
Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS
Posted: 08 Jan 2023, 03:21
Where is it? What is it called? Why is it unique?
Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS
Posted: 08 Jan 2023, 11:56
I think we've had this one before. Is it in the US? Was it made elsewhere then dropped in place?
Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS
Posted: 08 Jan 2023, 12:24
I'd love it to be the Tallahatchie Bridge, and the mystery to be what the narrator and Billie Joe threw off it. 
Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS
Posted: 08 Jan 2023, 13:30
Is it the Rainbow Bridge on Route 66 in Kansas?
Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS
Posted: 08 Jan 2023, 13:37
If it is the Rainbow Bridge, in Kansas, is it the origin of Dorothy, her of Wizard of Oz fame, wanting to 'go somewhere over the rainbow? '