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General Category => General Discussion => Topic started by: Lewill2 on August 29, 2013, 09:43:52 AM

Title: Plumb Bob extra large
Post by: Lewill2 on August 29, 2013, 09:43:52 AM
This company is close to our office and they made the local news for this plumb bob that they were commissioned to build.

http://photos.lehighvalleylive.com/4424/gallery/forks_township_business_unviels_giant_plumb_bob/index.html#/0

Hope the link works.
Title: Re: Plumb Bob extra large
Post by: mikeswrenches on August 29, 2013, 11:23:52 AM
The link works fine.  That's quite a bob.

Mike
Title: Re: Plumb Bob extra large
Post by: jimwrench on August 29, 2013, 04:26:38 PM
 That's quite a plum.
                  Bob
Title: Re: Plumb Bob extra large
Post by: Nolatoolguy on August 29, 2013, 06:21:37 PM
Now that's cool. I would love to see that in person.
Title: Re: Plumb Bob extra large
Post by: rusty on August 29, 2013, 06:46:33 PM
It is , and it is nicely done.

I wonder which poor slob got the job of centering the table precisely below the point tho....


Plumb bob trivia: If you place a plumb bob on each side of a 60 story building, from the top to the ground, the strings will not be parallel.
Title: Re: Plumb Bob extra large
Post by: john k on August 29, 2013, 08:52:01 PM
That is a heckuva unique piece.   I wonder how high the ceiling will be it is suspended from?    In the Chicago Museum of Science and Industry, decades ago, there was a plumb bob suspended about 4 stories in an open stair well.   The tile inlaid (point of the compass) it was hanging over, was several feet across.   It constantly moved, in a somewhat figure 8 motion, the sign said it was the movement of the earth that made it swing.   How big was the lathe that wooden one was turned on!