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Re: Whatzit?

Postby MurphOnMillerAve » Tue Jan 01, 2019 3:31 pm

webenda wrote:
MurphOnMillerAve wrote:From a whole 'nother world than the above Whatzit...

I see a flower\leaf pattern. Is it wallpaper?

Fabric wallcovering, likely a brocade, not paper.

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Re: Whatzit?

Postby webenda » Tue Jan 01, 2019 4:32 pm

MurphOnMillerAve wrote:
webenda wrote:
MurphOnMillerAve wrote:From a whole 'nother world than the above Whatzit...

I see a flower\leaf pattern. Is it wallpaper?

Fabric wallcovering, likely a brocade, not paper.

At your house?
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Re: Whatzit?

Postby MurphOnMillerAve » Tue Jan 01, 2019 4:53 pm

webenda wrote:
MurphOnMillerAve wrote:
webenda wrote:I see a flower\leaf pattern. Is it wallpaper?

Fabric wallcovering, likely a brocade, not paper.

At your house?

Would that it were.

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Re: Whatzit?

Postby rogruth » Tue Jan 01, 2019 9:35 pm

I never got the ones Dirt posted and have never gotten any of these.
If I had better computer skills of the type many here on MTJ have
I might be able to look on line and find the answer.
Dirt used a lot of stuff that he made on his own as Wayne has also done.
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Re: Whatzit?

Postby chuck » Tue Jan 01, 2019 10:12 pm

The yellow one looks like a closeup of a honeycomb from a bee hive.

The other one looks like someone's head with a scarf with some kind of paisley print wall paper behind them. The dark object on the left seems to be the shoulder of a taller person next to them.
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Re: Whatzit?

Postby chuck » Tue Jan 01, 2019 10:49 pm

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Re: Whatzit?

Postby Roy » Tue Jan 01, 2019 11:18 pm

The graduations on the face of a gauge?
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Re: Whatzit?

Postby chuck » Tue Jan 01, 2019 11:21 pm

Nope.
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Re: Whatzit?

Postby rogruth » Tue Jan 01, 2019 11:26 pm

Roadbned with ties and ballast but no rails.
Not the way a railroad would do it.
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Re: Whatzit?

Postby chuck » Tue Jan 01, 2019 11:28 pm

Not that either.

Actually the newer installs with concrete sleepers is done that way. The last steps are attaching the rails with track clips and then final ballast tamping with pneumatic vibrators.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lf2Wo0_gFQE
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Re: Whatzit?

Postby MurphOnMillerAve » Wed Jan 02, 2019 12:08 am

chuck wrote:Image

For some odd reason and a very dim memory of them, the Whatzit reminds me of those information cards the early computers used to use for information sources.

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Re: Whatzit?

Postby chuck » Wed Jan 02, 2019 12:29 am

Hollerith or "IBM" punch cards. Nope.

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Re: Whatzit?

Postby Roy » Wed Jan 02, 2019 1:05 am

Piano keyboard?
Punched side of hose clamp?
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Re: Whatzit?

Postby MYmoo » Wed Jan 02, 2019 1:12 am

Gutter guards, leaf guards?
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Re: Whatzit?

Postby webenda » Wed Jan 02, 2019 1:15 am

Murph's Whatzit has been answered, "Fabric Wall Covering?"

I don't think Chuck's whatzit is piano keys, although I had to check it out to be sure.
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Nope! Not piano keys. I am going to guess, "Timing Marks?"
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