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Posted 12 years ago
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Something about old gauges & instruments that really "blows my dress up"!! These came off of a Railroad engine, i never spent the time to dig into the details of these, just hung them on the wall & enjoyed. Ill let railnsail de-brief me .
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thank you pw-collector!
Ok, you picked a good one. James C. Biddle of Philadelphia made a lot of testing equipment including this Vibration Tachometer. This type of instrument measured RPM by the resonant vibrations of equipment such as steam turbines, centrifugal pumps and electric motors. Pretty technical for it's time and used in Military, Industry, Nautical and Railroads. Like I said the odd stuff is the coolest!
Your the man rainsail! I figured you had the inside scoop on these. Thank you. Mikie
thank you pw-collector!
thank you mrmajestic1!
where you been eye? Its lonely without you. Thats why i wore my good dress.
Thanks eye...I didn't want to say anything.
watch it hedgewalker, im his.
By the way, the other piece you have is an electronic device used to treat mineral laden water in boilers. Some Railroads experienced excessive damage to their boiler tubes due to "bad" water. This devise was one of the earliest forms of electrolyses used to pull away the damaging minerals. The process was called the "Gunderson Process" which was patented in the early 1920s. This most certainly was an item used by the Railroads and used quite a bit in the Pennsylvania Anthracite coal regions. Pretty Cool Piece!
so there both late steam era items? THANK YOU rialnsail, post more of your R.R. items!
Thank you SEAN!, sorry about eye's post's, we'll stand him in a corner for awhile.
thank you Marc112, you seem to like our kinda "stuff"
Mikie you can wear your dress any time ya want just NOT to the disco lol
Mani, i have to hook myself up to the "Gunderson" prossess at night, Railnsail said it would help me get rid of my "bad water" . Kinda hutrs though.
thank you PhilDavid for the luvin!
I remember seeing 1 of those opened up as a kid. Each square you see is part of a metal strip. The low end is thin & get thicker as it goes higher and requires more vibration to make it vibrate. As they vibrate they appear as a blur & easy to read.
Nice, I like that.
thank you blunderbuss!, impressive,you must have "inside" conections to see that! I did'nt know how it worked, just looking at it,i did'nt understand the "how" , nice to know,thank you!
thank you miKKo!