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[formariz 12,040]

12 minutes ago, bcgold said:

 

Yes the pump is used in the historical art of embalming.

Do the gauges work?

[bc.gold 3,406]

1 minute ago, formariz said:

Do the gauges work?

 

You can see the needles move but the weather has ruined the graphics.

[bc.gold 3,406]

formariz is your angle tool faced with cork.

 

[formariz 12,040]

1 minute ago, bcgold said:

 

You can see the needles move but the weather has ruined the graphics.

A little creepy knowing what it was but a pretty use full thing. I worked a few times doing mill work for medical schools. One time while unloading mill work off the truck at loading dock, I noticed something next to garbage dump. It was a hydraulic autopsy table. They had classrooms with about a dozen of them in there where students dissected bodies and so on. They got new models so old ones were discarded. Was very tempted to bring it. It would make a great carving workbench since it adjusted in height and it tilted four different ways. What stopped me was thinking how the wife was going to react about it.

[formariz 12,040]

12 minutes ago, bcgold said:

formariz is your angle tool faced with cork.

 

Yes. I use cork covered pads for variety of reasons and functions depending on what I am doing. In that particular case clamping something that angled the cork also creates friction preventing piece clamped from creeping out.Also different ones to put pressure only on a particular area.

I use also others with softer wood .

 

Edited June 11, 2019 by formariz

[bc.gold 3,406]

18 minutes ago, formariz said:

A little creepy knowing what it was but a pretty use full thing. I worked a few times doing mill work for medical schools. One time while unloading mill work off the truck at loading dock, I noticed something next to garbage dump. It was a hydraulic autopsy table. They had classrooms with about a dozen of them in there where students dissected bodies and so on. They got new models so old ones were discarded. Was very tempted to bring it. It would make a great carving workbench since it adjusted in height and it tilted four different ways. What stopped me was thinking how the wife was going to react about it.

 

A fluid for every complexion.

 

An old property in Boston Bar BC the owner must have been a mortician he had a water license from a creek above his property with a 20 inch diameter wooden pipe feeding a Pelton wheel to generate electricity. He had built a small building that looked like a small castle to house the equipment and over the years the building had been severely vandalized.

 

The building had been made entirely from embalming fluid bottle from the 1920's and 30's, I brought a large chuck home then soaked the mortar in a weak Muriatic to loosen it up then sold the bottles on eBay.

 

One guy a retired mortician had purchased a dozen bottles so that he could display the different colors of fluid used for the various skin tones. Sometime I learn more than I need to know.

 

 

 

 

 

[formariz 12,040]

I wonder if drinking too much red wine will have same effect?

[bc.gold 3,406]

1 minute ago, formariz said:

I wonder if drinking too much red wine will have same effect?

 

My dad was a wine drinker then one day I told him he shouldn't drink so much his reply was, what I drink you'll not miss.

[bc.gold 3,406]

6 hours ago, formariz said:

Yes. I use cork covered pads for variety of reasons and functions depending on what I am doing. In that particular case clamping something that angled the cork also creates friction preventing piece clamped from creeping out.Also different ones to put pressure only on a particular area.

I use also others with softer wood .

 

 

Cork is an amazing organic with great friction property's, my first car a 47 Hudson had a clutch with cork pucks run wet in oil as well many of the motorcycles I had over the years all had wet cork clutches.

 

Cork has many uses besides corking a wine bottle, I've seen it uses as carburetor floats, gaskets material and floats used on commercial fishing drift nets.

 

 

[ZXT 2,401]

3 hours ago, bcgold said:

 

Cork is an amazing organic with great friction property's, my first car a 47 Hudson had a clutch with cork pucks run wet in oil as well many of the motorcycles I had over the years all had wet cork clutches.

 

Cork has many uses besides corking a wine bottle, I've seen it uses as carburetor floats, gaskets material and floats used on commercial fishing drift nets.

 

 

I know that Ford Model A's used a cork float for the fuel gauge from the factory, and I'm sure many others did around that time as well.

 

Come to think of it, Studebakers used them as well, at least until the late 50s.

Edited June 11, 2019 by ZXT

[LengerichKA88 1,883]

10 hours ago, formariz said:

I wonder if drinking too much red wine will have same effect?

It’ll make your face red, but that’s about it😂

 

I do know for a fact that if a small child eats enough carrots, they start to turn orange. Gotta picture around here somewhere with me with an orange nose 🤷🏻‍♂️😂

[formariz 12,040]

2 hours ago, ZXT said:

Cork has many uses besides corking a wine bottle,

Yes, cork is a material of many uses. I use it a lot and I am very fond of that material.My wife has jewelry made from cork. I came from the country that produces the most cork in the world. Cork oaks(Quercus Suber) grow like weeds everywhere. As a kid I we all used to regularly peel bark (cork) off the even small ones to make all kinds of toys, like small boats. It is an extremely interesting industry and process, specially the harvesting of it. The wood from the tree although not really used commercially is as hard as iron. It was used extensively to make axles for oxen carts, bearings for windmills or anything that involved heavy wear..Perhaps in the near future we will have some whatizits about cork?

Edited June 11, 2019 by formariz

[formariz 12,040]

@Ed KennellEd you are up. Where are youuuu?

[formariz 12,040]

2 hours ago, ZXT said:

I know that Ford Model A's used a cork float for the fuel gauge from the factory, and I'm sure many others did around that time as well.

We know that float will probably never go bad. That thing is about  eternal.

[bc.gold 3,406]

34 minutes ago, formariz said:

Yes, cork is a material of many uses. I use it a lot and I am very fond of that material.My wife has jewelry made from cork. I came from the country that produce the most cork in the world. Cork oaks(Quercus Suber) grow like weeds everywhere. As a kid I we all used to regularly peel bark (cork) off the even small ones to make all kinds of toys, like small boats. It is an extremely interesting industry and process, specially the harvesting of it. The wood from the tree although not really used commercially is as hard as iron. It was used extensively to make axles for oxen carts, bearings for windmills or anything that involved heavy wear..Perhaps in the near future we will have some whatizits about cork?

 

If you haven't already seen the movie "Bottle Shock" be sure to add it on your to do list.

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bottle_Shock

Edited June 11, 2019 by bcgold

[Tractor boy 239]

Dont know what this is or how it works.

[Tractor boy 239]

Just now, Tractor boy said:

Dont know what this is or how it works.

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[adsm08 3,138]

30 minutes ago, Tractor boy said:

Dont know what this is or how it works.

 

Right angle key hole machine pistol drill saw.

[formariz 12,040]

Can you post a couple more detailed photos of it?

1 minute ago, adsm08 said:

Right angle key hole machine pistol drill saw.

Interesting. Can you elaborate on it?

[adsm08 3,138]

46 minutes ago, formariz said:

Can you post a couple more detailed photos of it?

Interesting. Can you elaborate on it?

 

 

Right angle pistol grip drill handle

 

Keyhole saw drill bit

 

Open hoop sights

 

Machine gun action/receiver 

 

Don't know how much clearer I can make it.

Edited June 11, 2019 by adsm08

[LengerichKA88 1,883]

51 minutes ago, formariz said:

Can you post a couple more detailed photos of it?

Interesting. Can you elaborate on it?

I’m gunna take a stab in the dark and say it was sarcasm 😂

[adsm08 3,138]

2 minutes ago, LengerichKA88 said:

I’m gunna take a stab in the dark and say it was sarcasm 😂

But sarcasm is often much funnier when taken literally.

 

But then I have a sick, dry, British sense of humour.

[formariz 12,040]

No sarcasm at all. I have never seen anything like that, or it's uses.

[LengerichKA88 1,883]

55 minutes ago, adsm08 said:

But sarcasm is often much funnier when taken literally.

 

But then I have a sick, dry, British sense of humour.

 

2 minutes ago, formariz said:

No sarcasm at all. I have never seen anything like that, or it's uses.

Does that count as a correctly identified “whatzit”?! 😂😂😂

[formariz 12,040]

I guess it does. I cannot state one way or the other since it's unknown to me. But now I know what it is. That's why we do this.