MYSTERY OBJECTS

[plaques]

Can't help thinking its something to do with cameras or the support stand. why this is so I don't know.

[Stanley]

Sorry Ken no. Clue, it was a failed attempt to aid my eyesight.....

[Big Kev]

Optical centre punch?

[Stanley]

Well done Kev, that's exactly what it is.
(And I would add, a major disappointment!)

[plaques]

This one won't take long.

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[Big Kev]

I'll make myself a brew and think about it for a bit

[Steeplejerk]

[plaques]

No its not a tea pot. Doing a Stanley, what went wrong with it that caused it to be taken apart in the first place?

Next for shaving. Cold water or an electric shaver will do.

[Stanley]

I'm still at the stage where I'm saying it is the inside o0f the bottom of an electric kettle.
I don't know what went wrong with it..... only guess I can make is that it blew the power connection.

[plaques]

Death of an electric kettle.

It gave up the ghost part way through a brew. Ran out of steam sort of speak. The heater element, that's the big horse shoe thing between the wires, just stopped heating. Nothing you can do to repair it. Its either the bin or a garden ornament.
More white hot technology modern rubbish.

[Stanley]

What is it?

[Stanley]

No takers?

[Big Kev]

The flexible bit from the inside of a pressure gauge.

[Stanley]

Well done. Correct. The proper name is a Bourdon Tube.
Next one?

[plaques]

Came across this in my junk box the other day. A water pressure gauge (4.5 inch dia) marked as an Altitude gauge.

The question is where would you find these in use?

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[Stanley]

On a fire prevention sprinkler system?

[Big Kev]

Water tower?

[plaques]

I think both Stanley and Kev are correct. Water towers are the normal answers but I seem to remember it coming from an old Lancashire boiler.

Anybody want it?

[Stanley]

I agree Ken, could have been either.
I have a little known fact about the importance of the head of water in a supply system. At one time, before higher pressure boilers became common, it wasn't necessary to have a feed pump for the boiler in most of the mills in the Todmorden Valley As long as the working pressure was below 120psi the head of water in the public main was plenty to feed the boilers as the reservoirs were so high up the sides of the valley.

[Stanley]

What is it?

[Gloria]

Is it the front of a Moore and Wright tool box?

[Big Kev]

A cover plate from a boiler?

[Stanley]

Kev is the closer of the two but still not right I'm afraid.... You've seen it before so it's a memory test.

[Steeplejerk]

Base plate for an engine ??

[Stanley]

You're getting closer Tom. It's a part off an engine.....