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Strange glassware
A friend of mine acquired a beautiful but very strange piece of glassware. He has no clue what it is used for, nor do I.
Does any one of you have an idea what it is used for? The image is available as attachment.
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could the photo be any more out of focus, try handing the camera to the person that doesn't have Parkinson's disease.
As glassware identification is a hobby of mine i opened this thread with glee, only to find this photo obviously taken by someone who was angle
grinding at the same time.
lol
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'Doesn't look too blurry to me but my tft is only 17". . .
It's obviously a thing-ama-jig and a good-looking one, at that!
Giggling sounds. . .
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Typical speciallty glassware found on ebay
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I will ask him to make a better picture of the glassware, which is more close up and in focus.
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| Quote: | Originally posted by Panache
could the photo be any more out of focus, try handing the camera to the person that doesn't have Parkinson's disease.
As glassware identification is a hobby of mine i opened this thread with glee, only to find this photo obviously taken by someone who was angle
grinding at the same time.
lol
smiling
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Oh yes, I want to add that this remark is not regarded funny at all. My friend, who made this picture, DOES have Parkinson's disease, and at times,
this disease severely limits his abilities to do what he wants to do. This is a horrible disease and you'd better be thankful that you don't have
this.
He read your response and was upset quite a bit by this. Please think twice before you write stuff like this. This is not the first time that I notice
such an attitude with you. Up to now, it was not me or a friend of mine, who was touched by this, but now I just felt it is good for you to know this.
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I'd imagine it has something to do with gasses. I wish I could be of more help, oh and I don't think the photo is so terrible.
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| Quote: | Originally posted by woelen
He read your response and was upset quite a bit by this. Please think twice before you write stuff like this. This is not the first time that I notice
such an attitude with you. Up to now, it was not me or a friend of mine, who was touched by this, but now I just felt it is good for you to know this.
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Are you not being just a little harsh, woelen; Panache did indicate that he wasn't being serious, and he obviously couldn't have known your friend had
this awful condition.
I'm sure we all knew his remarks were made in jest.
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Well, this thread is going towards the detritus-level. I'll ask my friend to make a better picture, which is more focussed, and I'll start a new
thread. I do not want to continue this discussion, it's leading nowhere...
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The picture looks only slightly off-focus, woelen, and I see no real evidence of camera-shake, but I'm curious about the amber colouration in the
central bulb.
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At first when I saw the photo, I wondered if you had indeed taken it (you've spoiled me with your photos on the website). I'm horrible with digital
cameras so I empathize.
The amber colour in the centre bulb looks more like gold to me, anyone else see that? I wonder if this piece of equipment has something to do with
gases?
I think its identification will have to wait until a better photograph is made available.
Neither flask nor beaker.
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The part on the far right looks like a pump. But it's difficult to identify without a close up of the middle piece.
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I'll go out on a limb and suggest that the middle piece looks like it might be a manostat of some kind.
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Maybe its a sinus draining device.
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I agree with bfesser: the bit on the right looks like a pump. The grey thingy under the piston looks like the inlet valve, the amber thingy looks
like the outlet valve.
That would make the bulb on the left a pressure reservoir, if the bottom left hand tube was closed off: the top lefthand tube being the exit for the
fluid. The bottom lefthand tube would double as a drain for emptying/ washing.
[Edited on 11-12-2008 by Twospoons]
Helicopter: "helico" -> spiral, "pter" -> with wings
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| Quote: | Originally posted by woelen
| Quote: | Originally posted by Panache
could the photo be any more out of focus, try handing the camera to the person that doesn't have Parkinson's disease.
As glassware identification is a hobby of mine i opened this thread with glee, only to find this photo obviously taken by someone who was angle
grinding at the same time.
lol
smiling
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Oh yes, I want to add that this remark is not regarded funny at all. My friend, who made this picture, DOES have Parkinson's disease, and at times,
this disease severely limits his abilities to do what he wants to do. This is a horrible disease and you'd better be thankful that you don't have
this.
He read your response and was upset quite a bit by this. Please think twice before you write stuff like this. This is not the first time that I notice
such an attitude with you. Up to now, it was not me or a friend of mine, who was touched by this, but now I just felt it is good for you to know this.
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You are absolutely correct here, even if your friend did not have parkinson's disease the comment was in poor tact and generally just heartless, from
just about every angle one would care to view it. It is understanderstable it upset him, i was inconsiderate in writing it.
I need to stop making jokes on the forum period.
Please forward my sincere, contrite apology to your friend.
Also thank-you for pointing it out, as i would probably never have cross examined it myself otherwise and hence probably made a similar insensitive
comment at some stage in the future.
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Panache, thanks for this response. My friend accepts your apology and thinks it is good what you have written here.
He also made a few new pictures and these are much more in focus and with these new pictures you (and others) hopefully can give more information. The
pictures follow in a few separate posts as attachments.
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Picture 4 -- the last one of this series
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It looks like a pump. The black stopper and the yellow stopper, both internal, are in a configuration that allows the plunger to act as a piston pump.
If it was used as a gas metering pump, my guess is that the black stopper might be magnetically lifted, rather than relying on the pressure difference
caused by lifting the piston. That could be tested. Is the black piece magnetic?
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It doesn't just look like a pump. It is a pump.
The part wrapped with cord is an old school style plunger, like they used to use in very old glass syringes. When the nozzle is submerged in a liquid
and the plunger is pulled up, the black one-way valve lifts, allowing liquid to enter. When depressed, the valve shuts, but the other valve (the
glass one in the middle... it's also a check valve) is forced upward by the pressure of the liquid, allowing it to pass into the strangely shaped bulb
on the left. The apparatus is obviously in the upright orientation (relative to the camera, not gravity) in the last picture. What the purpose of
the bulb on the left . . . I have no idea.
It's obviously custom made, so you may never find out it's original purpose. Due to the check valves which are now made visible by the excellent new
pictures, however, we can conclude without a doubt that it's a pump. From whom did he acquire it? Due to the plunger, which probably wouldn't stand
up too well to harsh chemicals, I'd venture a guess at some sort of medical use.
Remove the stopper carefully, then the plunger and determine if the cord is glass fiber or plant fiber. Also, check very carefully for markings of
any kind on the glass. Even if it's custom made, someone probably put some sort of trademark on it somewhere, although it may be mostly worn off by
age.
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The final large bulb type assembly looks typical for a device used to facilitate addition and mixing of a minor component to a liquid stream. As the
liquid from the pump meters past the bottom of the inlet type fitting within the bulb, it drags along some of the material in the tube, mixing it with
the liquid from the pump.
This however is a guess.
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| Quote: | Originally posted by Panache
| Quote: | Originally posted by woelen
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could the photo be any more out of focus, try handing the camera to the person that doesn't have Parkinson's disease.
As glassware identification is a hobby of mine i opened this thread with glee, only to find this photo obviously taken by someone who was angle
grinding at the same time.
lol
smiling
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Oh yes, I want to add that this remark is not regarded funny at all. My friend, who made this picture, DOES have Parkinson's disease, and at times,
this disease severely limits his abilities to do what he wants to do. This is a horrible disease and you'd better be thankful that you don't have
this.
He read your response and was upset quite a bit by this. Please think twice before you write stuff like this. This is not the first time that I notice
such an attitude with you. Up to now, it was not me or a friend of mine, who was touched by this, but now I just felt it is good for you to know this.
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You are absolutely correct here, even if your friend did not have parkinson's disease the comment was in poor tact and generally just heartless, from
just about every angle one would care to view it. It is understanderstable it upset him, i was inconsiderate in writing it.
I need to stop making jokes on the forum period.
Please forward my sincere, contrite apology to your friend.
Also thank-you for pointing it out, as i would probably never have cross examined it myself otherwise and hence probably made a similar insensitive
comment at some stage in the future.
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I'm sorry, I found it hilarious. Some people make a lot of money standing in front of an audience and making jokes about mentally challenged, the
handicapped, minorities and just about everything else under the sun. I have epilepsy and I have cracked up over some jokes about that. Methinks
someone needs to lighten up.
The legitimate powers
of government extend to such acts
only as are injurious to others.
But it does me no injury
for my neighbor to say
there are twenty gods, or no God.
It neither picks my pocket
nor breaks my leg.
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