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SPOILER for #1035
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#1035 - This is a shot tower for making lead shot. Molten lead was
dropped at the top and had time during free-fall to form a nice sphere
before being quenched at the bottom.
This one is apparently at the old Peters Cartridge Factory in Kings
Mills Ohio (hence the big "P").
Ciao,
Chappy.
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The flail and the clay pidgeon, I knew but are done to death.
1032 is a release mechanism, like the mythbusters use to drop cars,
elevators, etc.
Dave
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1031. Clay pigeon for skeet (trap?) shooting
1032. WAG alert - explosive bolt to release airplane canopy
1033. Threshing tool for separating wheat from chaff
1034. Boat builder's caulking mallets
1035. Hose drying for fire fighters
1036. Level with inclinometer and compass
R
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> A lot of people are calling 1031 a clay pidgeon, but I just can't see that.
>
> In fact, it looks a lot like a weight or balance weight for a scale to me.
> The only reason I rule out clay pidgeon is due to the what looks like to me
> corrosion mark on the right side of it. Clay pidgeons are not shiny well
> finished items.
>
> Really not sure, could be a clay pidgeon, but that mark on the right side
> looks like rust to me so I'm thinking its a stacking scale weight. The only
> reason I don't absolutely think so is because it doesn't have a slot or
> obvious way to hook it on a scale.
Initially I thought it was a clay pigeon, but on second viewing, the
sides appear too tall and the whole thing is not aerodynamic enough,
and you're right - if there's any paint of them it's just a splash of
color on the top. Others voted for the base of a judge's gavel, but
those are usually varnished wood (more impressive that way) and the
bases would match, so I can't see that either. Balance scale weights
do look similar, but those are usually just cast iron or brass and not
painted. It looks ceramic - I wonder if it's just the top of some jar
or an insulator?
R
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1033 flail - for threshing.
1035 - shot tower - for chilled lead shot.
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> > I really doubt if any shot tower used a copper sieve for molten lead.
>
> Why?
> What metal would you have used? Obviously they didn't just pour it from the
> ladle...
> Maybe the sieve was heated to prevent sticking/freezing.
The molten lead probably did a pretty fair job of heating up whatever
the sieve was made out of on its own.
R
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If 1031 turns out NOT to be a clay pigeon, my guess is that it's a
wooden "gavel block" used to protect the bench top when the judge gets
too excited.
http://www.gavelstore.com/eightside.html
Jeff
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1031 resembles a spacer/protector used under bed legs to reduce floor
damage. Similar things have been used with liquid in the cup to prevent
insect access from floors to beds or food storage units.
Don Young
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Looks like 1033 is a grain flail.
The Mallets MAY be for barrel bungs.
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>> I really doubt if any shot tower used a copper sieve for molten lead.
>
>
> Why?
> What metal would you have used? Obviously they didn't just pour it from
> the ladle...
> Maybe the sieve was heated to prevent sticking/freezing.
>
> What's the problem?
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>
I don't know about lead but I do know for a fact that molten solder will
slowly dissolve copper.
Don Young
Thanks for the useful and interesting detail.
I was wondering how the hot lead got to the top of the tower.
I was thinking that it was melted on the ground, and some poor slob was
given a 100-lb. bucket of molten lead and told to go climb the stairs with
it.
"...upper story, where the melting is conducted ..." clearly indicates that
it was melted upstairs.
This means that both the lead and the wood for the fires had to be lifted.
I assume an ox or horse hauled a rope over a pulley.
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>> I really doubt if any shot tower used a copper sieve for molten lead.
>
> According to Knight's American Mechanical Dictionary, published in 1876
> (and available in reprint from Lee Valley), the "Shot" entry, sheet iron
> was used:
>
> "A shot-tower is usually about 180 feet high, and 30 in diameter at the
> bottom, 15 at the upper story, where the melting is conducted in brick
> furnaces built against the wall around the central opening down which
> the melted lead is rained into a water-tank at the base of the
> tower....The method of reducing the lead to a shower of drops is either
> by pouring it into a sieve or by pouring it out of a wide ladle which
> has a serrated lip. The lead flows out in a number of streams, which
> break into separate drops, the resistance of the air and their cohesive
> tendency causing them to become spherical in falling....
>
> The colanders or sieves are hollow hemispheres of sheet-iron about 10
> inches in diameter, and the size of the holes is as follows for the
> respective sizes of shot:
>
> <snip table>
>
> The colander is faulty in respect of its delivering the stream at
> greater rapidity when full or nearly so, than when nearly empty, owing
> to the variation in pressure of the metal as it decreases in depth. It
> is now generally superseded by the ladle, which has a serrated side to
> divide the lead into streams equal in number to the serrations...."
>
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1031 looks like a clay pigeon.
>> http://puzzlephotos.blogspot.com/
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> A lot of people are calling 1031 a clay pidgeon, but I just can't see
> that.
>
> In fact, it looks a lot like a weight or balance weight for a scale to me.
> The only reason I rule out clay pidgeon is due to the what looks like to
> me corrosion mark on the right side of it.
What looks like corrosion is probably just chipped paint, but it's
definitely a clay pigeon, they were made in a wide variety of colors, sizes
and styles. This is a fairly old one, it was photographed at the
Trapshooting Hall of Fame.
Rob
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> I really doubt if any shot tower used a copper sieve for molten lead.
Why?
What metal would you have used? Obviously they didn't just pour it from the
ladle...
Maybe the sieve was heated to prevent sticking/freezing.
What's the problem?
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> According to Knight's American Mechanical Dictionary, published in 1876
> (and available in reprint from Lee Valley), the "Shot" entry, sheet iron
> was used:...
Thanks for posting that, I changed the answer page to read "copper or
sheet-iron sieve", I found quite a few places on the web where they mention
copper being used so I kept that part. I would have replied sooner but I
was out of town this past weekend.
Rob
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>Thanks for posting that, I changed the answer page to read "copper or
>sheet-iron sieve", I found quite a few places on the web where they mention
>copper being used so I kept that part. I would have replied sooner but I
>was out of town this past weekend.
There's a ruin of a shot tower on the Audubon Society property in
Audubon, PA. The site was once a copper and lead mine, so I suspect
copper sieves were used there simply because the material was readily
available. I think those two metals are often found together.
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I really doubt if any shot tower used a copper sieve for molten lead.
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1031. Early Devo hat prototype.
1032. What Boston holds up ceiling tiles with.
1033. Nunchucks for a guy who only exercises on one side.
1034. Hammer.
1035. Acrophobia classes.
1036. A compass to find your way around, a periscope to look around
corners, and a hygrometer to let you know if they've just showered.
1037. Angle-finder.
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>> I really doubt if any shot tower used a copper sieve for molten lead.
>
>
> Why?
> What metal would you have used? Obviously they didn't just pour it from
> the ladle...
Sure they did, how else would they have kept the marauding hordes from the
gates of the foundry?
> Maybe the sieve was heated to prevent sticking/freezing.
>
> What's the problem?
>
> --
> Jeff R.
1031 Looks like a shotgun target/bird.
1032 ? Quick-release Remote-release Air operated thing to release or drop
something heavy remotely. Like in the TV commercial where a crane lifts a
car and then, when the stunt is ready, drops it.
1033 Flail Threshing tool.
1034 Caulking hammer(s).
1035 Shot tower. Drop molten metal from the top, by the time it has fallen
to the bottom, it is hardened into small spheres. For many years there was
a round, cone-topped shot tower visible from route-95 in Philadelphia.
1036 These look line mapping tools, used on a mapping table, similar to
something posted here some time ago.
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> #1035 - This is a shot tower for making lead shot. Molten lead was
> dropped at the top and had time during free-fall to form a nice sphere
> before being quenched at the bottom.
>
> This one is apparently at the old Peters Cartridge Factory in Kings
> Mills Ohio (hence the big "P").
>
> Ciao,
> Chappy.
>
It's really a hose drying tower for a fire station. Look at the long
shot and you can see the two engine bay doors at the bottom.
Jim Chandler
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1034: Caulking hammer- used to drive rope caulk into the seams of a wood
ship.
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1031 clay pidgeon
1032 looks like some targeting device, is it a sight (Zielfernrohr)?
1032 second look .. no, must be something other. at the right something like
a hammer, with mechanical safety mechanism (the thing with the ring pull)
... some ignition mechanism?
1033 a flail
1034 nice hammer, but i dont know for which spezial purpose
1035 a big P at the top, a parking garage? (no, i´m joking)
1036 no idea how this unit can be utilized. you can use it to get the
navigational angle of house walls? (again joking)
greetings
chris
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As always, posting from rec.crafts.metalworking.
1031) This looks like a clay pigeon to me. I don't think
that I've ever seen one of this color -- but I haven't seen many
anyway. :-)
1032) O.K. This thing is designed for releasing a cable under heavy
load. The pin with the ring holds it locked when you absolutely
don't want it to release. Then, you connect a lanyard to the
eye in the lever just behind the piston, pull the pin, and pull
the lanyard to release the load.
The piston appears to serve to control the release rate --
perhaps so a flip of the lanyard won't release it -- it will
require a steady pull. Or perhaps (can't tell from this view),
there may be provisions for applying compressed air to the
piston the move the lever.
In any case, when the lever moves far enough, the spring loaded
hook at the left-hand end snaps up and releases the load.
1033) Looks like some form of flail -- for separating the grain from
the stalk.
1034) Hmm ... a dead-blow hammer -- with lead shot (or something
similar) inside the tube. When the face of the hammer hits the
workpiece, the shot keeps hitting the back of the face for a
while after that, preventing the hammer from bouncing and thus
transferring the maximum energy to the workpiece.
1035) Is that perhaps a shot tower? Molten lead was poured from a
series of apertures, and allowed to fall a certain distance
before landing in water. The shot cools enough in the air and
produces a rounder shot with little work compared to other
methods.
1036) (a) You look down into the hole and the mirror bends your
line of sight until it is parallel with the long
dimension of the level. It probably acts as a
right-angle telescope, and is sighted on a distant
reference of some specific height, and the rise or drop
is measured by the dial on the side.
(b) A similar function, without the built-in telescope, so
you either simply rest it on what you are measuring, or
sight along the top edge. The upper scale is obviously
calibrated in degrees, which makes me question the lower
one, since its pointer appears to be at 7.5 half inches
per foot, or 3.75" per 12", or 17.3540 degrees, which
certainly disagrees with the other hand indicating about
32 degrees. After all -- it does appear that all four
pointers are a single piece, and thus rotate together.
I think that the partially obscured top label says
"clinometer", but I am not sure about the bottom one.
Now to see what others have said.
Enjoy,
DoN.
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Unknown <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Fri, 13 Jul 2007 09:31:04 -0400, "R.H." <[email protected]>
> wrote:
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> >for
> >,;more details:
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>
> I really doubt if any shot tower used a copper sieve for molten lead.
According to Knight's American Mechanical Dictionary, published in 1876
(and available in reprint from Lee Valley), the "Shot" entry, sheet iron
was used:
"A shot-tower is usually about 180 feet high, and 30 in diameter at the
bottom, 15 at the upper story, where the melting is conducted in brick
furnaces built against the wall around the central opening down which
the melted lead is rained into a water-tank at the base of the
tower....The method of reducing the lead to a shower of drops is either
by pouring it into a sieve or by pouring it out of a wide ladle which
has a serrated lip. The lead flows out in a number of streams, which
break into separate drops, the resistance of the air and their cohesive
tendency causing them to become spherical in falling....
The colanders or sieves are hollow hemispheres of sheet-iron about 10
inches in diameter, and the size of the holes is as follows for the
respective sizes of shot:
<snip table>
The colander is faulty in respect of its delivering the stream at
greater rapidity when full or nearly so, than when nearly empty, owing
to the variation in pressure of the metal as it decreases in depth. It
is now generally superseded by the ladle, which has a serrated side to
divide the lead into streams equal in number to the serrations...."
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"He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain that which he cannot
lose." -- Jim Elliot
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> I really doubt if any shot tower used a copper sieve for molten lead.
>
Google and Wikipedia:
Melting point of Lead ~ 620 F
Melting point of copper ~ 1980 F
Low melting point of lead is one of the reasons that musket balls and
shotgun pellets were made from lead.
Phil
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>> A lot of people are calling 1031 a clay pidgeon, but I just can't see
>> that.
>>
>> In fact, it looks a lot like a weight or balance weight for a scale to
>> me.
>> The only reason I rule out clay pidgeon is due to the what looks like to
>> me
>> corrosion mark on the right side of it. Clay pidgeons are not shiny well
>> finished items.
>>
>> Really not sure, could be a clay pidgeon, but that mark on the right side
>> looks like rust to me so I'm thinking its a stacking scale weight. The
>> only
>> reason I don't absolutely think so is because it doesn't have a slot or
>> obvious way to hook it on a scale.
>
> Initially I thought it was a clay pigeon, but on second viewing, the
> sides appear too tall and the whole thing is not aerodynamic enough,
> and you're right - if there's any paint of them it's just a splash of
> color on the top. Others voted for the base of a judge's gavel, but
> those are usually varnished wood (more impressive that way) and the
> bases would match, so I can't see that either. Balance scale weights
> do look similar, but those are usually just cast iron or brass and not
> painted. It looks ceramic - I wonder if it's just the top of some jar
> or an insulator?
>
> R
>
Yeah that was the other thing rattling around in my head. The paint job on
it is real slap dash crap job, you can tell by looking at the inside
corners. I was thinking ceramic as well, like it has a bad glaze on it.
RicodJour wrote:
> On Jul 13, 9:10 pm, "Jeff R." <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>>"Unknown" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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>>
>>>I really doubt if any shot tower used a copper sieve for molten lead.
>>
>>Why?
>>What metal would you have used? Obviously they didn't just pour it from the
>>ladle...
>>Maybe the sieve was heated to prevent sticking/freezing.
>
>
> The molten lead probably did a pretty fair job of heating up whatever
> the sieve was made out of on its own.
>
> R
>
I believe I read that they would hit the sieve with a hammer to drop the
shot.
John
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re the shot tower link on that page:
http://www.traphof.org/shot-towers-2/shot-towers-page-1.htm
There's a bit missing from the history of the first shot tower, in
Bristol UK (I live nearby). Although that was indeed the first tower,
his development of the process began by him using the stairs inside the
house and extra height down into the cellars _beneath_ the house. The
house was built in "Redcliffe", a sandstone bluff overlooking the
harbour that had long been hollowed out into storage vaults and cellars
linked into the houses above.
The tower was demolished in the '60s for road-widening, but was replaced
by a new concrete tower. It's no longer in use, but is still standing.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Shot.tower.bristol.arp.jpg
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Wow, I know what two of them are! Yay, me, since I don't often have
any idea at all....
1033: a threshing flail
1034: a shipwright's caulking mallet (used to drive cotton cord or
oakum bewteen the planks of a woden ship or boat.)
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>>>
>>> A lot of people are calling 1031 a clay pidgeon, but I just can't see
>>> that.
>>>
>>> In fact, it looks a lot like a weight or balance weight for a scale to
>>> me.
>>> The only reason I rule out clay pidgeon is due to the what looks like to
>>> me
>>> corrosion mark on the right side of it. Clay pidgeons are not shiny well
>>> finished items.
>>>
>>> Really not sure, could be a clay pidgeon, but that mark on the right side
>>> looks like rust to me so I'm thinking its a stacking scale weight. The
>>> only
>>> reason I don't absolutely think so is because it doesn't have a slot or
>>> obvious way to hook it on a scale.
>>
>> Initially I thought it was a clay pigeon, but on second viewing, the
>> sides appear too tall and the whole thing is not aerodynamic enough,
>> and you're right - if there's any paint of them it's just a splash of
>> color on the top. Others voted for the base of a judge's gavel, but
>> those are usually varnished wood (more impressive that way) and the
>> bases would match, so I can't see that either. Balance scale weights
>> do look similar, but those are usually just cast iron or brass and not
>> painted. It looks ceramic - I wonder if it's just the top of some jar
>> or an insulator?
>>
>> R
>>
>Yeah that was the other thing rattling around in my head. The paint job on
>it is real slap dash crap job, you can tell by looking at the inside
>corners. I was thinking ceramic as well, like it has a bad glaze on it.
It's a clay pigeon. I'd bet my . . . something on it!
Clay pigeons are cheap, so a slap dash job is how it should be. A
judge's gavel base would be made a LOT better . . . .
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> and again some silly guesses from germany
>
> 1031 clay pidgeon
> 1032 looks like some targeting device, is it a sight (Zielfernrohr)?
> 1032 second look .. no, must be something other. at the right something
> like a hammer, with mechanical safety mechanism (the thing with the ring
> pull) ... some ignition mechanism?
> 1033 a flail
> 1034 nice hammer, but i dont know for which spezial purpose
> 1035 a big P at the top, a parking garage? (no, i´m joking)
> 1036 no idea how this unit can be utilized. you can use it to get the
> navigational angle of house walls? (again joking)
>
> greetings
> chris
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1032 looks more like a model of an automatic pyrotechnic parachute
release device for cargo drops. The load connects to the botton (left
in the picture) and when pressure is released on ground contact a
cartridge fired and releases the load.
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> Rob
A lot of people are calling 1031 a clay pidgeon, but I just can't see that.
In fact, it looks a lot like a weight or balance weight for a scale to me.
The only reason I rule out clay pidgeon is due to the what looks like to me
corrosion mark on the right side of it. Clay pidgeons are not shiny well
finished items.
Really not sure, could be a clay pidgeon, but that mark on the right side
looks like rust to me so I'm thinking its a stacking scale weight. The only
reason I don't absolutely think so is because it doesn't have a slot or
obvious way to hook it on a scale.