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Re: Whatzit?

Postby Rufus T. Firefly » Mon Nov 26, 2018 1:50 pm

MurphOnMillerAve wrote:At the local Dairy Queen so you could stuff ice cream in your happy face?

Or at a Lancaster County Amish roadside business, non-electrified, o' course.


Think bigger............

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Re: Whatzit?

Postby MurphOnMillerAve » Mon Nov 26, 2018 3:41 pm

Truck stop?

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Re: Whatzit?

Postby Rufus T. Firefly » Mon Nov 26, 2018 3:53 pm

MurphOnMillerAve wrote:Truck stop?


Bigger...... That's a cloud peeking through off in the one corner :wink:
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Re: Whatzit?

Postby chuck » Mon Nov 26, 2018 3:59 pm

1892, Dayton, Ohio. NCR model 79
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Re: Whatzit?

Postby Rufus T. Firefly » Mon Nov 26, 2018 4:49 pm

chuck wrote:1892, Dayton, Ohio. NCR model 79


Got the NCR part right, and I'll accept the model # as I don't know for sure myself.

But, it's a little larger - think big! - than the usual model and not in Dayton or in 1892

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Re: Whatzit?

Postby chuck » Mon Nov 26, 2018 5:07 pm

1939 NY Worlds Fair pavilion, Flushing Meadows, Queens, NY It was bright red and the total was the daily visitor count.
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Re: Whatzit?

Postby Rufus T. Firefly » Mon Nov 26, 2018 6:09 pm

chuck wrote:1939 NY Worlds Fair pavilion, Flushing Meadows, Queens, NY It was bright red and the total was the daily visitor count.


Yahtzee!

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Re: Whatzit?

Postby webenda » Mon Nov 26, 2018 6:26 pm

Nice Chuck, you homed right in on it (with a few clues.) I was still puzzling if it was Ritter's "Incorruptible Cashier" machine when I suddenly saw your answer.

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Re: Whatzit?

Postby webenda » Mon Nov 26, 2018 6:36 pm

Now Chuck, did you look at this thing?

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I don't know where to start... industrial dip tank?
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Re: Whatzit?

Postby chuck » Mon Nov 26, 2018 6:46 pm

I wound up going to training at the NCR headquarters (then in Dayton). They had a small display about the history of the company including some early cash registers. We also got to hear about the early days of the founding of the company and the "Cash Register Wars". One of the founders was Thomas Watson, forced out, he moved on to help found IBM. Kettering and Deeds were former executives that went on to found Delco.
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Re: Whatzit?

Postby chuck » Mon Nov 26, 2018 6:50 pm

Those "holes" look like key ways. Possibly to insert "T" shaped removable lift rings?
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Re: Whatzit?

Postby MurphOnMillerAve » Tue Nov 27, 2018 8:21 am

Wayne and Chuck, Your imaginations and powers of deduction are wonderful to read as your conclusions and estimations unfold.
Your words, "dip, tank, holes, and ways," would be curiously relevant, with a touch of irony.
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Re: Whatzit?

Postby Rufus T. Firefly » Tue Nov 27, 2018 9:22 am

webenda wrote:I don't know where to start... industrial dip tank?


Looks like some sort of alignment slots; concrete access port or.....something.......I need more information, No. 6 :!:
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Re: Whatzit?

Postby chuck » Tue Nov 27, 2018 11:16 am

The "holes" look like the are keyed to support something. It looks like maybe a grating or some grid work? The notches extend into the "tank" below. Something like a storm sewer grate.
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Re: Whatzit?

Postby Rufus T. Firefly » Tue Nov 27, 2018 11:30 am

chuck wrote:The "holes" look like the are keyed to support something. It looks like maybe a grating or some grid work? The notches extend into the "tank" below. Something like a storm sewer grate.


Maybe it's where the grate fits over the pit where Murph keeps the bears?
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