MYSTERY OBJECTS

[Stanley]

I'm pushing you too hard, I shall come clean. The cast iron is normal grade but is made glass-hard (and brittle) during casting by casting on a 'chill' in the mould which encourages fast cooling 'freezing' the iron while it is in transition through the various crystalline structures. This produces 'white iron' , a fault in a normal casting because it causes machining problems but in the ploughshare is a great advantage, giving very good resistance to abrasive wear.
Next one?

[Gloria]

[Tizer]

I didn't know about white iron but found this on Wikipedia...
`White iron is too brittle for use in many structural components, but with good hardness and abrasion resistance and relatively low cost, it finds use in such applications as the wear surfaces (impeller and volute) of slurry pumps, shell liners and lifter bars in ball mills and autogenous grinding mills, balls and rings in coal pulverisers, and the teeth of a backhoe's digging bucket (although cast medium-carbon martensitic steel is more common for this application).' LINK

Now then, what's this?

[Tripps]

Could it be one of these?

Round and round went the great Catherine wheel.

[Tizer]

Well, that didn't last long! I suspected it might be too easy for OG members. Well done and thanks for the video!

[Stanley]

I have the book.... Some of the weird inventions they used did work though.

[Stanley]

Try this one.....



Made in Barlick by Brown and Pickles, Jim Fort and Johnny Pickles in the picture. But what exactly is it?

[Cathy]

Is it one of those machines where you put envelopes in one bit and letters (namely accounts) in another bit and somehow the machine folds the letter, slips it into the envelope (window faced of course) then seals the envelope and francs it. ?? No I didn’t think so

[Stanley]

No Cathy, heavy metal machining.... But don't lose heart! There is a big clue in the image!

[Gloria]

Copy lathe?

[Marilyn]

For the woman who has everything. A machine to sort and roll the kid's socks...

[plaques]

Has the phallic symbol on the chalk board anything to do with it ?

[Bodger]

Lathe,with differences, no bore in head stock, single drive to carriage ie. screw or cutting speeds, appears to have a "back gear" drive, slow speed rpm, two tool posts >, and cannot identify the the three round objects on the apron, other than that no cone pulley so single speed belt drive conventional lathe

[Tizer]

As Stanley writes `There is a big clue in the image'. Yes, you can see it on the blackboard behind them. They've designed that engine to power the rocket for Johnny's first moonshot from the launching base on Weets.

[Marilyn]

...or for testing the elastic in Y-fronts...

Nah...its for sorting socks. A labour saving device for the modern housewife. Takes up no space at all.

[Cathy]

Or maybe it opens closely wrapped plastic items and blister packs for the elderly.

[PanBiker]

Back to a bit of sanity, making the casings for Flak shells?

[Marilyn]

Funny you should say that Cazza. Mr Febby has terrible trouble opening those well sealed Mr Kiplings Cakes. He could starve to death before he finally gets them open. Probably a good thing, as it puts him off eating them. Those squeezy Tomato Sauce pouches are a mystery to him too...

[plaques]

Barlick's answer to the V1 bomb. Song.

[Tizer]

Those squeezy Tomato Sauce pouches are a mystery to him too...

At the beginning of a long haul flight the man sitting next to me tried to open one and managed to squirt it over my jacket!

[Marilyn]

Must have been Febby!

[Stanley]

Lovely posts..... Gloria got very close with copy lathe. Ian hit the target with shells. It's a specialised lathe for finish turning the shaped forgings for shells.
Next one?

[Stanley]

What trade used these tools?

[Big Kev]

Slate roofing. The tool at the back is for pulling nails when replacing slates.

[PanBiker]

Agreed.