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Title: Four Interesting "What's-Its"
Post by: dowdstools on April 17, 2013, 02:11:01 PM
Ya'll will probably guess this one pretty quick, but I thought they were neat, and didn't know what I had when I first bought them.
Title: Re: Four Interesting "What's-Its"
Post by: lbgradwell on April 17, 2013, 02:58:05 PM
I don't know, but judging from your file names, I'm guessing some type of thermostat?
Title: Re: Four Interesting "What's-Its"
Post by: Bill Houghton on April 17, 2013, 02:59:30 PM
Thermostat part.  Not sure whose, but look commercial.
Title: Re: Four Interesting "What's-Its"
Post by: dowdstools on April 17, 2013, 05:15:08 PM
Yeah, it's a thermostat. I put that in the file name to see who would pick up on it.

The way it was explained to me is that this would have been mounted in a housing at schools. As you can see by the bottom photo, it would require a key - like a clock key - to adjust the setting, to keep some knotheaded kid from cranking the temperature up or down.
Title: Re: Four Interesting "What's-Its"
Post by: lbgradwell on April 17, 2013, 05:32:41 PM
...it would require a key - like a clock key - to adjust the setting...

Or perhaps a sillcock key...
Title: Re: Four Interesting "What's-Its"
Post by: Bill Houghton on April 17, 2013, 08:08:23 PM
Yeah, it's a thermostat. I put that in the file name to see who would pick up on it.

The way it was explained to me is that this would have been mounted in a housing at schools. As you can see by the bottom photo, it would require a key - like a clock key - to adjust the setting, to keep some knotheaded kid from cranking the temperature up or down.
Or teacher.
Title: Re: Four Interesting "What's-Its"
Post by: geneg on April 18, 2013, 07:31:17 AM
Similar to the plastic thermostat lock boxes during the Jimmy Carter years.  I remember teachers using a piece of wire thru the slots to change the settings.
Title: Re: Four Interesting "What's-Its"
Post by: Aunt Phil on April 18, 2013, 01:33:36 PM
Compressed air thermostats
Title: Re: Four Interesting "What's-Its"
Post by: pritch on April 21, 2013, 11:31:48 AM
Yeah, it's a thermostat. I put that in the file name to see who would pick up on it.

The way it was explained to me is that this would have been mounted in a housing at schools. As you can see by the bottom photo, it would require a key - like a clock key - to adjust the setting, to keep some knotheaded kid from cranking the temperature up or down.

We had those in our old high school. We used to pack a snowball on them to crank up the heat.:)