[alberg30] Mystery Widget

sunstone sunstone at idirect.com
Mon Sep 20 20:18:58 PDT 1999


From: sunstone <sunstone at idirect.com>

Bob are you bragging?
"(with the cleanest bottom in the bay)" ;)
Take care,
JB
Robert Kirk wrote:
> 
> From: Robert Kirk <kirk at neptune.gsfc.nasa.gov>
> 
> There's a  mystery widget on Isobar that came with the boat and I've never
> been able to figure out what it's for.  maybe the wisdom of this group can
> solve it for me.
> 
> It's a tubular piece of Bakelite or such about 3/8 OD with a 1/8 dia hole
> running thru it. It's about four inches long with an enlargement to a 3/4
> inch diameter  bobbin like apparatus at one end.  It's stored on a small
> spring bracket above the ice box on the port side.  It looks as if it might
> be a reducing coupler between the pieces of tubing, but what for? (It's too
> big to plug in the icebox drain. My icebox has been rebuilt from the early
> drop top configuration. This thing probably has nothing to do with the
> icebox.)
> 
> Any ideas?  I'd be very embarrassed if it was a vital and common part of
> the boat that everyone should know about.
> 
> Bob Kirk
> Isobar #181
> 
> (with the cleanest bottom in the bay)
> 
> 
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