posted
I found this washed up on the beach and was wondering if anyone knows what this is. It looks like some kind of guage, but I don't know what it might be. I realized I don't know how to post the photo, so you can't know what I'm talking about.
[ February 20, 2010, 08:19 PM: Message edited by: Paul Luszcz ]
-------------------- Paul Luszcz Zebra Visuals 27 Water Street Plymouth, MA 02360 508 746-9200 paul@zebravisuals.com Posts: 483 | From: 27 Water Street, Plymouth, MA 02360 | Registered: Jul 2003
| IP: Logged |
posted
You might try a Google Image search. Does the gauge have wording on it?
-------------------- Frank Smith Frank Smith Signs Albany, NY www.franksmithsigns.com Posts: 807 | From: Albany, NY USA | Registered: Nov 1998
| IP: Logged |
posted
Sounds to me like it is a left threaded Johnson Valve assembly with that rare Greef board connection. I hear those wash up alot on the beach out here in Kansas out near Bird City. You might try Ebay to sell it, under beach flotsam catagory, but it might be easier to explain with a photo?
...Naw. Looks more like one of those old Ace pin guages they used to use on three wheeled boats that the Chuki Indians used when they crossed the Atlantic? Probably worth an arm and a leg. Try blowing on one end and see if it registers anything. Better wipe it down first, in case there are any cooties left in it. You might consider a new career in historical beach debris?
-------------------- Preston McCall 112 Rim Road Santa Fe, New Mexico 87501 text: 5056607370 Posts: 1554 | From: Santa Fe, New Mexico | Registered: Nov 1998
| IP: Logged |
posted
I thought it was a primitive set of calipers for assessing whether the vinyl was cast or calendered...
-------------------- "Stewey" on chat
"...there are no limits when you aim for perfection..." Jonathan Livingston Seagull Posts: 7014 | From: Highgrove via Toowoomba, Queensland, Australia | Registered: Dec 2002
| IP: Logged |
posted
No it's a chicken Back Breaker, they have little gauges for different size Chickens, and the gauge has 2 different switches, if you turn it over you can see it... the one that says large, that's for turkeys... and it's made out of Hollow alluminum, that's how it washed up on the beach.. there's reports of a cargo ship going down in your area with about 500,000 of these on board, along with the Chickens.. surprised you did'nt get a feed of Chicken out of it.. then again, they probably just Flew away with the Turkeys.
-------------------- "Keep Positive"
SIGNS1st. Neil Butler Paradise, NF Posts: 6277 | From: St. John's NF Canada | Registered: Mar 1999
| IP: Logged |
-------------------- Frank Smith Frank Smith Signs Albany, NY www.franksmithsigns.com Posts: 807 | From: Albany, NY USA | Registered: Nov 1998
| IP: Logged |
posted
Looks like something someone left on the beach hoping it would wash out to sea!!
-------------------- Tony Vickio The World Famous Vickio Signs 3364 Rt.329 Watkins Glen, NY 14891 t30v@vickiosigns.com 607-535-6241 http://www.vickiosigns.com Posts: 1063 | From: Watkins Glen, New York | Registered: Sep 2001
| IP: Logged |
-------------------- Dave Grundy retired in Chelem,Yucatan,Mexico/Hensall,Ontario,Canada 1-519-262-3651 Canada 011-52-1-999-102-2923 Mexico cell 1-226-785-8957 Canada/Mexico home
It's a bottom mud depth gauge. These are normally mounted on boats, so that after they sink, years later, divers can come and look at them to see how far the wreck has sunk into the mud on the bottom.
Sometimes they break off and float to the shore.
-------------------- Dale Feicke Grafix 714 East St. Mendenhall, MS 39114
"I can do all things through Christ, who strengthens me." Posts: 2963 | From: Mendenhall, MS | Registered: Apr 1999
| IP: Logged |
posted
I know what it is!!! A learning board from my math teachers homeroom, holes were for "clarity"...
Actually, it's a "locks key", used in locks to let water transfer from the key block...seriously...
No, seriously, it's a valve stem arrangement board, keeps valves in order for replacement...
Or.........what Raymond said...
One of these is right, guess which one...
-------------------- Frank Magoo, Magoo's-Las Vegas; fmagoo@netzero.com "the only easy day was yesterday" Posts: 2365 | From: Las Vegas, Nv. | Registered: Jun 2003
| IP: Logged |
![[Rolling On The Floor]](graemlins/rolf.gif)
Printer-friendly view of this topic