The Lugzsonian - A Virtual Tour

Private Lugnutz · Jan 16, 2021

Smokeshow69 said:
This dog ramp you made is fantastic!

"Made" is probably an overstatement given that it's an old door, but thanks.

Old Radar said:
Mostly.

Snerk. Thanks for that 1st hand anecdotal confirmation, OR.

gpw_42 said:
Nice kit, Lugz! I suspect you'll have an answer to that question in short order...

Thanks. And the answer was had in even shorter order than you probably suspected! Without even lifting my mouse-clicking finger. :lol:

Shiftless said:
Here is a rather long but very pertinent YouTube video about a 1944 USN pilots’ survival kit.

Very pertinent? INDISPENABLE! :thumbup:

Shifty, you just saved the Curator countless hours or futzing around with Google. Thanks, brother. Ironically, the segment on the emergency fishing kit was completely tangential to his survival kit, which came with a different, smaller kit.

To save people time, the video Shiftless linked contains a segment in the middle (exact running time is 34:30 to 42:30) where the collector and narrator opens, live, for the first time ever since 1943, a NOS Navy Emergency Fishing Kit in a can. The can has a little key with a slot taped to the top, and it is uses to grab a strip and roll it, stripping the top off the can. Inside the can is...

...the Lugzsonian's emergency fishing kit roll-up!

So, here's what the Curator needs...

(1) The can! :lol:

(2) White fabric lightweight work gloves type gloves with a blue cuff and a fabric label, reading Boss Mfg Co, Kewanee, Illinois, NY, NY.

(3) The buoyant knife has a flat, lightweight wooden handle (of course) and a very short fillet style blade, only two rivets. The knife is almost all wooden handle. The handle has a leather shoelace type lanyard permanently attached to the pommel, to wrap around your wrist. Made by Imperial, Providence, R.I.

(4) The Pork Rind strips (12 of them) were in a cellophane bag, a commercial product. The top of the bag had a cardboard material for product labeling. Day's Dry Pack. Day Bait Company. No. 70. Port Huron, Michigan. Since the Curator has the original strips, this might be a repro. Any old bag with a fake cardboard label made on a computer, printed, and attached.

(5) What the narrator calls a "treble hook" is actually Rig No. 5, the Grapple. (He did a terrific job, but he would've been better served by opening and reading the Instructions before making the video.) No branding, but the Curator thinks any vintage common grapple will do.

(6) The whetstone. It was lashed to Rig No. 4 - Hook, Line & Sinker. The Curator was wondering why that wooden rig was made with a recess. Now he knows why. That's where the whetstone was kept. The Curator's deductive powers are slipping.

In addition to the contents, the Curator learned what the lines attached to the top of the roll-up are for. To tie the roll-up around one's neck and wear it like a shop apron as one traipses around the island avoiding the head-hunters!

Shiftless · Jan 16, 2021

Glad I could help

Those of us of a certain age no doubt remember tins of sardines and kippered snacks, etc. that had that procedure of opening

Private Lugnutz · Jan 16, 2021

Yessir!

Old Radar · Jan 16, 2021

Oh, Yeah!

This '70s era survival ration can has two ways to open. P-38 around the top or the key and and slot through the middle, depending on what you intended to use the empty can for.

Farmer J. · Jan 16, 2021

Shiftless said:
Glad I could help

Those of us of a certain age no doubt remember tins of sardines and kippered snacks, etc. that had that procedure of opening

Have they changed the tins then? Maybe I should get some new tinned fish, but these still seem OK... :scared:

Private Lugnutz · Jan 16, 2021

Here are some still shots from that video for all the Curator's scouts out there keeping their eyes peeled for WWII Navy Emergency Fishing Kit No. 10 articles.

Private Lugnutz · Jan 18, 2021

Guys,

The Curator is getting tired of looking at this Gerber baby bottle, so he is...

TERMINATING THE CADMIUM-EVAPORUST EXPERIMENT

Final Conclusion: The solution is a little cloudier, but little to no effects on the plating. Plombob's tool was either not cadmium-plated, or cadmium-plated using a forumla with sufficient amount of oxides to be attacked by Evaporust.

Pics 1, 2, & 3 are the socket immersed in the Evaporust 24 hours later.

Pics 4, 5, & 6 are the socket immersed in the Evaporust 2 weeks and 4 days later.

Private Lugnutz · Jan 18, 2021

Pics 1, 2, & 3 are the socket before it went into the jar.

Pics 4, 5, & 6 are the socket after it came out of the jar. (Note: it did have a yellowish hue from the color of the Evaporust, that was easily wiped off. I think that may be the porousness that cadmium has.)

drivesitfar · Jan 25, 2021

LUG: i'm still trying to find time to finish the tour and I will soon. that said your thread was on page 4 so it needed a bump.

i'm not sure what to think of your little experiment so maybe others will chime in.

cheers

Private Lugnutz · Jan 25, 2021

I think the results were fairly undeniable after 3 days, Drives, and I had a retired Chemistry teacher vouch for me at that time (see post #268 on page 14)

..., letting the experiment go longer just for good measure, but I'm certainly open to comments.

As for the bump, thanks, but I don't mind if it's not on page 1 all the time. I plan to update it periodically when I have something new, interesting, or odd to report.

Private Lugnutz · Jan 28, 2021

The Acquisitions Dept done good this morning at the flea market, bringing the Curator a couple of Barcalo-Buffalo DOE wrenches in the stylish 'Art Deco' or so-called 'geometric' pattern.

When last we saw any of these wrenches there were five of them loosely stored (translation: thrown) into a drawer in the old Wright Field cabinet with the other loose wrenches not quite meeting the Curator's criteria for deserving display space with the 'sets' or 'near complete' sets in the Globe-Wernicke barrister above.

The Curator is always delighted to complete or nearly complete sets (he could use a couple more wrenches between 5/8" x 3/4" and 15/16" x 1"), and he was happy to re-arrange some sets to make room enough to give all seven wrenches...

...some air and spotlight behind the glass...

...in a nice, neat clipless (for now) stack.

Space is a zero-sum game in the Lugzsonian, of course. So the Curator reminded the Acquisitions Dept that while he may now have a little more space in the loose wrench orphan drawer, he has less space in the display case! Soon he will need another barrister.

Private Lugnutz · Jan 28, 2021

In this installment of 'The Acquisitions Dept done good at the flea this morning, Part II," the Curator is also happy to announce an upgrade to the 41-P-2100 water pump pliers in his GMTK, from a skanky, leopard-skin boxrot spotted 1944 date coded J.P. Danielson example, to a clean, near-pristine 1943 date coded J.P. Danielson example.

He will be instructing the Sales and Charity Dept to find a home for the vanquished example and its equally afflicted 1941 mate with GMTK newbies looking for correct placeholders.

d42jeep · Jan 28, 2021

Private Lugnutz said:
The Acquisitions Dept done good this morning at the flea market, bringing the Curator a couple of Barcalo-Buffalo DOE wrenches in the stylish 'Art Deco' or so-called 'geometric' pattern.

When last we saw any of these wrenches there were five of them loosely stored (translation: thrown) into a drawer in the old Wright Field cabinet with the other loose wrenches not quite meeting the Curator's criteria for deserving display space with the 'sets' or 'near complete' sets in the Globe-Wernicke barrister above.

The Curator is always delighted to complete or nearly complete sets (he could use a couple more wrenches between 5/8" x 3/4" and 15/16" x 1"), and he was happy to re-arrange some sets to make room enough to give all seven wrenches...

...some air and spotlight behind the glass...

...in a nice, neat clipless (for now) stack.

Space is a zero-sum game in the Lugzsonian, of course. So the Curator reminded the Acquisitions Dept that while he may now have a little more space in the loose wrench orphan drawer, he has less space in the display case! Soon he will need another barrister.

Private Lugnutz said:
In this installment of 'The Acquisitions Dept done good at the flea this morning, Part II," the Curator is also happy to announce an upgrade to the 41-P-2100 water pump pliers in his GMTK, from a skanky, leopard-skin boxrot spotted 1944 date coded J.P. Danielson example, to a clean, near-pristine 1943 date coded J.P. Danielson example.

He will be instructing the Sales and Charity Dept to find a home for the vanquished example and its equally afflicted 1941 mate with GMTK newbies looking for correct placeholders.

I would consider that an excellent day at the flea! Some of my personal favorites.
-Don

Private Lugnutz · Jan 28, 2021

d42jeep said:
I would consider that an excellent day at the flea! Some of my personal favorites.

Thanks, Don. The Curator concurs, but he likes to keep his adjectives in check when it comes to the Acquisitions Dept, lest he get a big head or start resting on his laurels!

gpw_42 · Jan 29, 2021

Private Lugnutz said:
Thanks, Don. The Curator concurs, but he likes to keep his adjectives in check when it comes to the Acquisitions Dept, lest he get a big head or start resting on his laurels!

I'm with Don on the adjectives from yesterday's flea experience. However, when I'm impressed yet don't want to enlarge someone's head, I've found the term "adequate" to be useful. As in "the Acquisitions Department had an adequate day at the flea yesterday." Probably an underwhelming term to Americans, but I wonder how our British cousins would view the employment of the term.

Thanks for the tip on IDing dates on the Danielson WP pliers.

Shiftless · Jan 30, 2021

Some of your readers may know this already, but...

(I quote)

The 6.25-liter Rolls-Royce V-8 engine is made entirely of aluminum—not unexpected for a company that also specialized in aircraft engines. It also utilized a deep-skirt crankcase, heavy ribbing between cylinder banks, and huge 4.75-inch bore spacing. For a smooth idle, Rolls employed a two-plane crankshaft for improved balance, which demanded a complex intake manifold to produce even pulse intervals from the twin SU carburetors with two-inch throats (no fuel injection until 1979). Rolls-Royce never specified power output, simply declaring it “adequate.” A 200-hp power rating is, if not exact, then surely within a few horsepower of the truth.

Farmer J. · Jan 30, 2021

Shiftless said:
Some of your readers may know this already, but...

(I quote)

The 6.25-liter Rolls-Royce V-8 engine is made entirely of aluminum—not unexpected for a company that also specialized in aircraft engines. It also utilized a deep-skirt crankcase, heavy ribbing between cylinder banks, and huge 4.75-inch bore spacing. For a smooth idle, Rolls employed a two-plane crankshaft for improved balance, which demanded a complex intake manifold to produce even pulse intervals from the twin SU carburetors with two-inch throats (no fuel injection until 1979). Rolls-Royce never specified power output, simply declaring it “adequate.” A 200-hp power rating is, if not exact, then surely within a few horsepower of the truth.

Comment from England:
"Those engines are QUITE NICE".

gpw_42 · Jan 30, 2021

Shiftless said:
... Rolls-Royce never specified power output, simply declaring it “adequate.” A 200-hp power rating is, if not exact, then surely within a few horsepower of the truth.

Shift, thanks for sharing that! It's news to me, but interesting, since I'm not accustomed to moving with that sort of company

I'm constantly amazed at how the Brits use the language so much differently than we do.

I shall endeavor to remember the story for use in the future, when I drop "adequate" on someone, so they don't think I'm panning them

Farmer J. · Jan 30, 2021

gpw_42 said:
I'm constantly amazed at how the Brits use the language so much differently than we do.)

A general guide, from my English Language teacher at School, who also was an American:
American English uses overstatement for emphasis and also for humour, whilst in England we use understatement.

Private Lugnutz · Jan 30, 2021

The Curator, who fancies himself a bit of a wordsmith, is (hmm, let's see, ecstatic is a tad too much here, whilst adequately sufficed is a scosh too left-handed complimentary...) pleased with his readers talking amongst themselves in his absence about a worthy topic. He would say more, but he's typing with one hand, the other arm in a sling, after nearly breaking it patting the Acquisitions Dept on the back for their morning flea market foray.

He's not sure what the Acquisitions Dept was thinking on the IH farm wrenches, since he doesn't really do IH or farm wrenches, but he's going to throw them in the Miscellaneous Orphans drawer.

That Fairmount Chome-Alloy DOE engineers wrench (ISN 25) at the top makes 4 of a 5-wrench set, that little antique Bonney with all the funky size standard markings on the face is going on the c.1923 Bonney No. 65 salesman's board in the corner, and the big "S" wrench, a Lakeside Forge No. 304, joins a No. 302 I have with no branding on the jaw face, just the Keystone-L logo.

The Curator hath alot more to thay about thhhhhhuperthiliouth Thouthington "Eth" wrencheth in the next potht.

Private Lugnutz · Jan 30, 2021

The Curator has a saying: "One of anything is just one, two is a pair, but three is a collection." Thanks to the Acquisitions Department finding a No. 500 this morning, the Lugzsonian now has a collection of Southington Manufacturing Company "S" wrenches: a No. 500, a No. 501 (unfortunately forged upside down on the shank!), and a No. 503.

Private Lugnutz · Jan 30, 2021

The Curator also made an interesting discovery. The folding glass door on the barrister will clear this short stack of three Southington wrenches on the top of the cabinet. This space is likely to fill up right good and quick with 3-pc partial wrench sets!

Private Lugnutz · Feb 1, 2021

This may have less resonance here than I hoped. I thought it was on this thread that I was talking about a saw-whet owl that flew into my windshield about 20 years ago, an unfortunate collision that touched me more than I care to admit, but it was in the 2020 Garage Sale thread. Anyway, I was shoveling snow today, when I noticed that an eastern screech owl (Megascops asio) in rufous morph has taken up residence in the cavity of a deadfall in my Linden (Tilia americana) tree.

I feel blessed!

He was watching me the whole time and when I got close, he tufted up sharply, and when I got closer, he casually skooched back deeper into the limb. Pics 1 through 4 walk you right into him, and Pics 5 and 6 are the close-ups.

harley jim · Feb 1, 2021

That is totally awesome Lugs. I would feel blessed also.

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wrenchguy · Feb 1, 2021

Great neighbor you got there.
30+ years ago my kids demanded i put some screech owl babies back in the tree nest hole. 8' ladder on full size van roof didn't go well. :lol_hitti

steaks&anvils · Feb 1, 2021

Cool owl!

There is a huge barn owl that lives around me. I hear hooting from a big pine tree some nights. Once heard it hooting back and forth with two other owls. Each had a very distinct hoot sound.

Have you ever heard one swooping around in the air? The near silent flut-flut-flut sound of the wing feathers is amazing.

Provincial · Feb 1, 2021

One day I noticed a large owl sitting on a downed walnut tree in our orchard. It was sitting about five feet off the ground in broad daylight. I walked over closer, and it just sat there and looked at me. I could get right up to it, which was unusual. It was huge, and I determined that it was a Great Horned Owl.

I called Fish and Wildlife to get advice. They thought it might be injured or sick, and directed me to a rescue operation. I was advised to bring it in, if possible, so I gathered up a large cardboard box and a pair of heavy welding gloves. I was able to grasp the owl from behind gently and place it in the box. It made no attempt to escape.

We took it to the rescue place, and they said it was very emaciated. They doubted it would survive. We checked back a few days later and it had died.

It was an interesting experience handling a Great Horned Owl. A very large and majestic bird!

Private Lugnutz · Feb 1, 2021

Lovin' the stories, guys. I have a thing for owls, and have way too many little totems around the house, most of them picked up at flea markets, to take photos of them all, but maybe the y are working some juju.

Old Radar · Feb 1, 2021

The roof of our house has the best vantage point on our street of the flood control catchment basin we live above. A pair of Great Horned Owls trade seasonal ownership of the roof peak with a Red Tailed Hawk. I've found owl pellets with mouse bones in the yard after they rolled off the roof and the shingles on the peak were deteriorating badly from the combined ravages of talons and defecation acid. So when I had the roof re-shingled a couple of years ago I had the roofers install a perch made of 1-1/2" pipe spanning the peak with a **** deflector designed to keep the droppings from running down the front of the roof. I thought it would be a big hit but the birds don't like it. They stand on the shingles next to the perch and let their droppings go down the shoulders on either side. Another failed idea due to not bringing the clients in on the plan... I'll post a picture when it's light out.

steaks&anvils · Feb 1, 2021

When I worked at the Rocky Mountain Arsenal, there was a designated wildlife trail we would walk everyday up to the top of the hill. The hill was a wildlife look out area. Anyway, one summer a family of burrowing owls took up residence in a prairie dog burrow just off the path. That was fun getting to see them every day.

There were bald eagles until the dumb *** denver international airport was made, then they left the area.

It was a 15 minute drive from the west gate to our lab building. Of course, the speed limit on post was 30mph. One day a redtailed hawk flew along at car window level next to my car. He paced me for almost the entire time. Crazy was he never flapped his wings, just kind of twitched the wing tips. When we neared the main buildings, he increased his speed and passed me, flying in front of the car as he crossed over the road.

Beautiful creatures.

Lookin4'67Galaxieconv · Feb 2, 2021

steaks&anvils said:
Cool owl!

There is a huge barn owl that lives around me. I hear hooting from a big pine tree some nights. Once heard it hooting back and forth with two other owls. Each had a very distinct hoot sound.

Have you ever heard one swooping around in the air? The near silent flut-flut-flut sound of the wing feathers is amazing.

Yep, same here. He lives in a pine tree outside my bedroom and I'll hear him be active at night.

humber2 · Feb 2, 2021

Have you heard of the stockbroker that introduced what he termed a night owl service?

After phoning in and selecting the sell now option the response was....

Toohoo toohoo

Farmer J. · Feb 2, 2021

Nice owl pics Lugz. That hole in the tree is perfect shelter hiding place in a snowstorm, and he's not going to let you scare him out of there!

We have tawny owls and barn owl around the farm, they certainly make interesting noises some nights enough to scare the whits out of anyone who doesn't know whoot they are.

Private Lugnutz · Feb 2, 2021

Old Radar said:
Another failed idea due to not bringing the clients in on the plan...

Haha.

Speaking of roofs, we've got a lot of turkey vultures around here and they are fond of taking smoke baths on chimneys. They stand there one or two at a time with their wings spread, and they'll turn like a human in a shower. I don't know if it's mite control or they just like the heat. But when it's smoke bath time, they'll occupy a cluster of 7 or 8 houses. Freaks people out, including Mrs. Lugz, because of our personification of them as evil, but it's darn clever, whatever they're doing. The family Corvidae (crows, ravens, jays, etc) are the smartest animals on the planet (massive vocabulary, understand basic math and the concept of a future, and, they not only use but make striking, prying and piercing tools!), considered more intelligent than chimps and dolphins, even though we un-scientifically award wisdom to the owl. But watching TV's take advantage of the smoke and heat is impressive.

steaks&anvils said:
One day a redtailed hawk flew along at car window level next to my car.

I have a talon and some feathers from a red tailed hawk who had a far less pleasant encounter with an oxy-acetylene tank truck on Fort Monmouth in a display case in pic 5, post #116, page 6.

humber2 said:
Have you heard of the stockbroker that introduced what he termed a night owl service?

Snerk.

Farmer J. said:
...they certainly make interesting noises some nights enough to scare the whits out of anyone who doesn't know whoot they are.

Interesting to say the least. Not just hoots. But eastern screech owls dont't really like to live up to their name!

More like a whirring or a whinny.

Private Lugnutz · Feb 2, 2021

As much as the Curator would love to continue to discuss birds of prey, this is the Garage Journal, so he will gently nudge us off this lofty perch and return to the basement with the spider crickets, the occasional mouse, and the antique and vintage tools, returning once again to the 'Biography of the Bent Bahco'.

When last we saw this ruefully right-angled wrench, it was posted in the 'Chopped!' thread, staged next to a purloined online image of Salvador Dali's classic painting, "The Persistence of Memory," famously featuring melting clocks, here. Outlaw quipped that it ought to be displayed that way, which the Curator found a brilliant idea!

Outlaw probably meant posing the tool next to a framed copy of the painting, but the Curator discovered a company actually making functioning versions of Dali's melting clocks. So he of course put in a purchase order request through the Acquisitions Dept, which came through pert near toot sweet.

Without further time delay, here is the latest addition, with a humorous touch, to the Lugzsonian's Adjustables Hall of Fame Half-Shelf.

Private Lugnutz · Feb 2, 2021

̶A̶s̶ ̶a̶n̶ ̶a̶d̶d̶e̶d̶ ̶b̶o̶n̶u̶s̶,̶ ̶t̶h̶e̶ ̶C̶u̶r̶a̶t̶o̶r̶ ̶t̶h̶o̶u̶g̶h̶t̶ ̶i̶t̶ ̶m̶i̶g̶h̶t̶ ̶e̶n̶t̶i̶c̶e̶ ̶M̶r̶s̶.̶ ̶C̶u̶r̶a̶t̶o̶r̶,̶ ̶w̶h̶o̶ ̶h̶a̶s̶ ̶a̶ ̶t̶h̶i̶n̶g̶ ̶f̶o̶r̶ ̶c̶l̶o̶c̶k̶s̶,̶ ̶a̶n̶t̶i̶q̶u̶e̶,̶ ̶k̶o̶o̶k̶y̶,̶ ̶o̶r̶ ̶o̶t̶h̶e̶r̶w̶i̶s̶e̶,̶ ̶(̶l̶a̶s̶t̶ ̶c̶o̶u̶n̶t̶ ̶ ̶t̶h̶i̶r̶t̶y̶-̶s̶e̶v̶e̶n̶ ̶(̶3̶7̶)̶)̶,̶ ̶t̶o̶ ̶b̶r̶a̶v̶e̶ ̶h̶e̶r̶ ̶w̶a̶y̶ ̶d̶o̶w̶n̶ ̶i̶n̶t̶o̶ ̶t̶h̶e̶ ̶L̶u̶g̶z̶s̶o̶n̶i̶a̶n̶.̶

Scratch that momentary lapse of sanity and good judgement!

Farmer J. · Feb 2, 2021

Very nice, but just remember that to Dali it would probably have reminded him of a Rhinoceros..

Private Lugnutz · Feb 2, 2021

Farmer J. said:
...to Dali it would probably have reminded him of a Rhinoceros...

He even waxed his moustache in the shape of horns!

Private Lugnutz · Feb 5, 2021

And then (8 days later, after acquiring a 13/16" x 7/8" from leg17 for a player to be named later...) there were suddenly eight (8) wrenches in the BArtDecoolo set!

d42jeep · Feb 5, 2021

Private Lugnutz said:
And then (8 days later, after acquiring a 13/16" x 7/8" from leg17 for a player to be named later...) there were suddenly eight (8) wrenches in the BArtDecoolo set!

Excellent. Sorry I didn’t have a spare.
-Don

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