[alberg30] Mystery Widget

[Rick Leach]

From: Rick Leach <RLeach at mbayaq.org>

Bob,

Just guessing here...I've got something very similar, but made of plastic,
that lives in a spring clip in the galley.  It's where the ice pick lives.

RL

> ----------
> From: 	Robert Kirk[SMTP:kirk at neptune.gsfc.nasa.gov]
> Reply To: 	alberg30 at onelist.com
> Sent: 	Monday, September 20, 1999 8:56 PM
> To: 	alberg30 at onelist.com
> Subject: 	[alberg30] Mystery Widget
> 
> 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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