Tool Talk
What's-It Forum => What's-It Forum => Topic started by: rustyric on October 16, 2017, 11:06:17 AM
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This is a recent car boot sale purchase. I believe it's lathe centre of some sort and I think its made of bronze or phospor bronze. I can't find any manufactures name on it anywhere. Is it a lathe centre and if so for what machine ?
(https://i.imgur.com/dPGyK4o.jpg)
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looks like part of a ratchet drill. I am at work, but have a couple home. I will look later, Lou
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Hello: I really do not think it is a lathe dead center. I worked as both an auto machinist, and job shop machinist in my younger days, and all centers, be they live or dead, were made from tool steel. Now, the other thing that stands out, is no morse taper, to fit a lathe tail stock. If it was a dead center that was chucked up, why this acme thread looking part, and or spring looking piece toward the end? I wish i knew what you have here, but come up empty, especially when you mention the soft material it is made from. Not much help to you, but Good Luck!
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Im thinking it might be a valve stem from an old faucet or valve.
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Hello, Bill. You may be on to something. Rustyric; Are the threads left or right hand? Regards, Lou
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Hello, Bill. You may be on to something. Rustyric; Are the threads left or right hand? Regards, Lou
Picture shows right hand.
Valve stem seems likely.
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Maybe I'm seeing things wrong but if it is a valve stem ,which it does look like, when you turn the handle clockwise that would lift the stem up away from the seat which is backwards to the way a normal valve works?????
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Maybe I'm seeing things wrong but if it is a valve stem ,which it does look like, when you turn the handle clockwise that would lift the stem up away from the seat which is backwards to the way a normal valve works?????
No, turning it CW would close it.
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I'm liking the valve stem suggestion also. And bronze would be the correct material for such an application.
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Aren't hot & cold opposite threads? Old style tub faucet with 2 handles? Both turn downward toward the center of the tub to stop the waterflow, so one is turning clockwise, while the other is turning counter-clockwise?
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Aren't hot & cold opposite threads? Old style tub faucet with 2 handles? Both turn downward toward the center of the tub to stop the wate rflow, so one is turning clockwise, while the other is turning counter-clockwise?
Yes.
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Aren't hot & cold opposite threads? Old style tub faucet with 2 handles? Both turn downward toward the center of the tub to stop the wate rflow, so one is turning clockwise, while the other is turning counter-clockwise?
There are tons of valves other than household faucets.
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Wow a valve ! For a tap (as i would call it here in the uk) I never thought of that.
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A tap in the U.S. would have cold beer coming out of it.
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A tap in the U.K. will have delicious room temperature ale coming from it, (you have to practice liking it), I'm still trying after 40 years of "practice"
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I drank plenty of warm beer in East Africa and in England many years ago. Now I like it cold, but can drink it warm, unlike most Americans.
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Let me ask you guys this; What type of threads would you say this piece has? Do they look a little funny for a plumbing faucet cartridge to you, or is it just me?
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Can't tell for sure by your pic but it looks like a square thread.
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I agree, they look like square threads to me as well. I have not been part of this discussion, but have watched it from day one.
I did not speak-up, because i really do not know what it is either. But, of all the valves i have seen, and worked on, ie. globe, gate, ball, butterfly, and home, and commercial faucets, i have never seen this type of square thread used? Please correct me if i'm wrong.
edit: I stand corrected by myself, as i did make a comment on the dead center theory.
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to my old eyes, they look too straight to be threads, but like I stated, the eyes are not up to par.
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A tap in the U.K. will have delicious room temperature ale coming from it, (you have to practice liking it), I'm still trying after 40 years of "practice"
But you'll keep trying, right?
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Honestly, I don't drink as much as I used to, but I do enjoy beer. I don't buy expensive stuff because it almost all tastes good when cold enough.
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I had a beer.
In March.
Of 1982.
I kissed my girlfriend later that night. She asked me what that taste was. I told her it was beer. She told me not to kiss her after drinking beer. I told her I wouldn't ever drink it again.
We were married three months later.
By the way, it's a valve stem. The old valves had both left and right hand screws. Square threads were used. You used to be able to re-grind the valves to stop leaking, now it's cheaper to replace the plastic, or even the whole socket.
Chilly