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General Category => General Discussion => Topic started by: amecks on February 24, 2014, 12:31:00 PM

Title: At the Curtiss Aviation Museum
Post by: amecks on February 24, 2014, 12:31:00 PM

This weekend was "Wintercycle Therapy" a motorbike show at the museum. A good time with friends in a great setting. I took some photos with you guys in mind of some of the tools on display. I spotted this interesting wrench and researched it when I got home. It is a Starbuck Spud Wrench. I was disappointed that it wasn't some engine tool for aircraft and it's not real old  - from 1950 or so - but it is just a humble plumbing tool. It was displayed with a group of turn-of-the-century tools so the director was glad to find out it did not belong there. I asked him not to throw it in a box but to keep it on display - maybe in the Restoration Shop. The Starbuck Company began in 1872 servicing coal burning heaters. Apparently it is still existing today with the original factory still intact.
(http://i136.photobucket.com/albums/q177/tamalecks/Tools/WintercycleTherapy2014035_01_zps924e70ef.jpg)
Here is the photo from DATAMP.
(http://i136.photobucket.com/albums/q177/tamalecks/Tools/Starbuckwrench_zpse60bc6b2.jpg)
Toolbox belonging to the founder of the museum.
(http://i136.photobucket.com/albums/q177/tamalecks/Tools/WintercycleTherapy2014034_01_zps14dca757.jpg)
Display wall of tools in the Restoration Shop.
(http://i136.photobucket.com/albums/q177/tamalecks/Tools/WintercycleTherapy2014006_01_zps28b4e81d.jpg)
Rack of working clamps.
(http://i136.photobucket.com/albums/q177/tamalecks/Tools/WintercycleTherapy2014007_01_zps1f40f07a.jpg)
Workbench.
(http://i136.photobucket.com/albums/q177/tamalecks/Tools/WintercycleTherapy2014010_01_zps3f296168.jpg)
Cabinet on another bench.
(http://i136.photobucket.com/albums/q177/tamalecks/Tools/WintercycleTherapy2014011_01_zpsafdf96c8.jpg)
The shop is full of lathes, milling machines, sanders, grinders and here is an example of how they use all these tools. This is a flying model (not for display only) of a Curtiss Fledgling under construction.
(http://i136.photobucket.com/albums/q177/tamalecks/WinterCycle%20Therapy%202014/WintercycleTherapy2014040_01_zps0033e361.jpg)

Title: Re: At the Curtiss Aviation Museum
Post by: Bill Houghton on February 24, 2014, 02:25:33 PM

Cool pictures, and neat wrench.  Here I thought they just made expensive coffee.