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| What is it? |
Mon Sep 29 10:01:58 2003
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Brian Dawson
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| My father has found, in a disused basement of a building, a wooden box containing twelve moulded glass bulb shaped vessels about four inches in diameter. The glass has many bubbles and appears very old. On the glass is moulded '02'. In the opening of the flask is a wooden stopper, which is double ended and a brass sleeve going through it. Through the brass sleeve is a copper plated steel rod. The end which is in the flask is flattened which prevents the rod dropping out of the flask if it was inverted. I would very much like to know what it is and what it was used for. It has been suggested that the item may have been used to apply lubrication to bearings on a power train once used in old factories to provide power to all the machines. The flask would be filled with oil, inverted, and the oil would seep past the cork, down the metal stem and drip on to the bearings or shaft. Does this hold any possibilities?. | |
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| RE: What is it? |
Fri Jul 2 13:59:47 2004
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Kelvin Lake
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| They do sound like oilers. You will often see glass oilers on steam engines, gas engines and more modern oil engines. On some engines you will find a mixture of glass oilers and small brass pots doing the same job. In an old warehouse in Wolverhampton I saw glass oilers on line shafting (fixed to the roof trusses) that drove the various warehouse cranes and winches.
Basically they tended to be used anywhere on machinery that is slightly inaccessible, but which needs a steady supply of oil. |
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