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Gramtastic
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Strange part

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Anyone recognise this ? Is it a device for attaching listening tubes to a phonograph ?
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De Soto Frank
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Re: Strange part

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Looks like a continental polymorphous Nonesuch.


( Either that, or it's a sculpture of a cat. )
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Re: Strange part

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It's from a milking machine
:lol:


Have a google for 'milk claw' :cow:
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I am just thankful none of those barrels are pointing at me.

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Re: Strange part

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Looks like some type of pressurized air control valve.

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Re: Strange part

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Trying to be serious now, it does look like some type of air manifold...

The lifting eye confounds me...


Perhaps a gas manifold for lab burners ?


:monkey:
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Re: Strange part

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slippery wrote:It's from a milking machine
:lol:


Have a google for 'milk claw' :cow:
Slippery, I looked it up yesterday just after you posted based on your milking machine comment and you are 100% correct. Folks here are sometimes a bit hard of listening :lol:

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