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Title: Brass Scrap or Something Else???????
Post by: lptools on January 05, 2018, 05:27:43 PM
Hello, Does anyone know what this is, or may have been used for? Seems to be all brass, maybe a valve of some sort? I am wondering if it has any value, other than going into the scrap brass bucket. Thanks, Lou
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Post by: international3414 on January 05, 2018, 06:29:36 PM
maybe a bilge drain for old boat?
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Post by: bill300d on January 05, 2018, 06:50:44 PM
That is what It looks like to me too.
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Post by: mikeswrenches on January 05, 2018, 08:45:46 PM
I would agree with Bill and I3414 but it will be bronze rather than brass. And since it is now a nautical item it will be worth much, much, more :grin:.

Mike
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Post by: lptools on January 06, 2018, 07:30:23 AM
Hello, Guys. Thanks for the replies. After a closer look, and guessing at its weight, I will go with bronze. I like the idea of a bilge drain, but being a landlubber, and a city boy, I can't picture it in use. Here are pics of it dis-assembled, looks like the remains of a gasket, or, plumber's putty on the flat area. The tapped holes go all the way through the body. Regards, Lou
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Post by: bill300d on January 06, 2018, 09:47:34 AM
The hull of the boat gets sandwiched between those two pieces and is usually installed in the lowest rearmost accessible part of the bilge with the scupper opening facing rearward.
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Post by: international3414 on January 06, 2018, 10:11:33 AM
Use with boat in motion,so you don't go down with the ship
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Post by: lptools on January 06, 2018, 10:58:30 AM
Hello, Guys. Thanks again, it all makes sense now!!!! Regards, Lou
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Post by: lptools on January 06, 2018, 11:23:49 AM
Hello, I remembered that I had an old Wilcox-Crittenden catalog here (my memory was jogged once you guys mentioned bilge drain). And there it is, on the front cover!!!!!!! Thanks again, Lou
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Post by: international3414 on January 06, 2018, 01:02:06 PM
does yours have the WC logo
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Post by: lptools on January 06, 2018, 01:23:20 PM
Hello, I didn't look for that before. Yes, it is a capital W over a capital C. Thanks, Lou
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Post by: Plyerman on January 06, 2018, 03:15:08 PM
Ha, I think its hilarious that the guy asking for help just happens to be the guy with an old catalog of it on the front cover! :grin:

Congrats!
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Post by: bill300d on January 06, 2018, 03:44:49 PM
That is quite the coincidence isn't it?
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Post by: international3414 on January 06, 2018, 04:25:17 PM
sold a fair amount of wc items,think a steering wheel being first.,took some doing to find out what wc was..,.i now have the 1962 catalog
Title: Re: Brass Scrap or Something Else???????
Post by: lptools on January 06, 2018, 04:30:29 PM
The WC catalog that I have is from 1955, and has a Syracuse 3  label with a 6 digit phone number. You guys sure narrowed down my catalog search by identifying the piece as a bilge drain, I was looking at a plumbing catalog!!!Now if I can just remember where the other catalogs are before I ask for help!!!!!!!!!!!
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Post by: turnnut on January 06, 2018, 07:51:44 PM
 and even a warning back in 1955 (my high school graduation year)

  " keep closed when not underway"
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Post by: Bill Houghton on January 06, 2018, 08:00:51 PM
No, no, not scrap.  Now you need to get a boat, to put it on.