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Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS
Posted: 26 Mar 2024, 12:06
by Cathy
We have quite a few , but because it appears to be black, I will guess at Red Bellied Black Snake.
If it is brown, I would say a Western Brown.
Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS
Posted: 26 Mar 2024, 12:09
by Stanley
Spot on Cathy, or so the man said who congratulated me for keeping still!
Next object?
This is the blow down pipe off a Lancashire Boiler. Can you tell me what it's known as in the trade?
Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS
Posted: 26 Mar 2024, 13:54
by PanBiker
I only need to get another one a quarter right and I will have a full point.
Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS
Posted: 26 Mar 2024, 13:55
by Stanley
Have a crack at the new one then!
Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS
Posted: 26 Mar 2024, 14:43
by PanBiker
If you insist: Blow off cock.
Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS
Posted: 26 Mar 2024, 14:59
by Stanley
Sorry no Ian. The name is derived from the shape......
Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS
Posted: 26 Mar 2024, 15:10
by PanBiker
Swan / Goose neck ? Google only has the blow off cock in relation to Lancashire Boilers. How you can be led astray!
Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS
Posted: 27 Mar 2024, 03:14
by Stanley
Swan neck is correct Ian. Well done...... Made of very heavy cast steel to withstand the erosion of the contaminated water being forced through under high pressure.
Next one?
Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS
Posted: 27 Mar 2024, 11:53
by PanBiker
He, he, I have a full point now.
Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS
Posted: 28 Mar 2024, 03:13
by Stanley
What is it?
Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS
Posted: 28 Mar 2024, 08:34
by Gloria
Is it a pressure vessel of some sort?
Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS
Posted: 28 Mar 2024, 11:37
by Stanley
In a way Gloria yes but I wouldn't go at it that way because that's misleading. You've seen it before. Clue, it's at Blist Hill....
Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS
Posted: 28 Mar 2024, 12:59
by Big Kev
Vertical blowing engine.
Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS
Posted: 29 Mar 2024, 06:54
by Stanley
Correct Kev. Well remembered!
Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS
Posted: 30 Mar 2024, 03:51
by Stanley
What exactly is it?
Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS
Posted: 30 Mar 2024, 11:00
by PanBiker
As it looks like pressure cooker I would say it is some kind of pressure release valve?
Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS
Posted: 30 Mar 2024, 13:23
by Stanley
It is but that's a bit vague Ian. Can you tell me exactly what it is?
Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS
Posted: 30 Mar 2024, 15:46
by PanBiker
Afraid not, that was my best guess. I am an electronics engineer not and engine tenter.
Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS
Posted: 31 Mar 2024, 03:20
by Stanley
Fair point Ian. It's technical so I'll knock it on the head. It's a dead weight safety valve on a Lancashire boiler. Almost standard in the mills because it was dead simple and couldn't be tampered with. There were too many instances of engineers altering safety valves to get more power out of their engines thus getting in the good books of the management.
Next object?
Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS
Posted: 31 Mar 2024, 12:32
by Stanley
What is it?
Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS
Posted: 02 Apr 2024, 03:40
by Stanley
Nobody is responding. If there are no re3plies by dinnertime I'll knock it on the head.
Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS
Posted: 02 Apr 2024, 07:22
by Gloria
It looks like a finial for the top of something.
Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS
Posted: 02 Apr 2024, 13:15
by Stanley
Sorry Gloria but no. Here you are.....
LINK. It's a tppe Top and no, I had never heard of them either!
Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS
Posted: 03 Apr 2024, 02:08
by Stanley
What is it?
Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS
Posted: 03 Apr 2024, 04:26
by Cathy
Looks to me like a Bone from the game of Knuckle Bones.