I bought this foundry pattern at the now-closed Long Beach Naval Shipyard because it was cool and I also found a photo of it being made. Now my wife is requiring more space for her hobbies, so I'm thinking of trying to sell it on ebay. The problem is, I have no idea what part of a ship it might be. I don't even know what category I would put it in on ebay, but it might help describe it if I knew what it was. Please take a look (especially ex-Navy men)
Looks like a capstan drum , a big one . It mounts on a vertical shaft (big one !) , which turns slowly . Wrap a rope or cable a couple of turns around the drum , and hold tension on it , it will lift or drag whatever is attached to the other end - like maybe a mooring hawser to warp the ship up to the dock .
Tonkin Gulf Yatch Club , summer of '72 ... in a Tin Can .
yeah, capstan, winch. I won't say the politically incorrect name we called them.
Keep it. Get rid of the wife. If she has no appreciation for beauty, shes not worth the effort involved.
Andrew VK3BFA.
Maybe the wife fears the competition (beauty, not weight) with the capstan? :-) I'd like to have that pattern too, would make a nice table.
Luginbühl made impressive sculptures out of patterns and (mostly) shipyard-scrap. Should you ever come to Switzerland, you _have_ to visit the exhibition. Thousands of tons of iron!
The patterns (not that good pictures):
Couldn't find pictures of his metal sculptures in the net. Just some more wooden stuff, but you see in which dimensions he is building:
His wife was Niki de Saint-Phalle. :-)
Nick
Disagree with the Capstan guesses - the flanges get in the way - why have them - perhaps it's upside-down - a funnel or something - sho is purdy tho
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Yep it looks like a Capstan drum. The vertical "spacers" look like the drum is for chain, like an anchor chain
Bill K7NOM
Looks to me like it might be a wheel for a miscarriage....
Jeff
You can. It's for sale. Just tell your wife it's nautical-themed TV stand, like I did. It worked for 5 years.
Saw some beautiful wooden patterns today - at a country agricultural show, a guy had his restored single cylinder diesel running - (very slow, driving a HUGE twin flywheel) he dragged it out of the scrub a few years ago, was originally in a sawmill. Saw the wooden patterns there - he explained that, in the days when it was made, the manufacturer supplied the patterns (in this case, the bulb where pre-heat is applied) so if it ever needed replacing, the owner would take the pattern down to the local iron foundry and have a new one cast
- I thought this was a rather unique concept in spare parts....and also showed an expectation that the owner/mechanic would have the ability to work the casting up to the finished replacement part....
Andrew VK3BFA.
Uh!? So not a single engine resembled an other one. Or did the mfg just give away the pre-heater pattern. Guess it was this way. They didn't last forever because they had to glow.
Nick
Looks like the suction end of a huge multistage fire pump to me.
Richard W.
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