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Carpe diem! Brand new standing clock with rust finish. The clock face features a small planet picture of a man basking in the sun holding a sun reflector under his face. Clock diameter ca. 9'', total height ca. 30''. Uses this image. See all other pictures possible in this model.
We met with our architect and builder today to review the first draft of our custom home. We are building 3 miles from my office and 20 minutes from Paulette's.
The Model 254 did not feature the bottom sprung "pin" valves Buescher used on earlier Custom Built horns. Instead it used pretty standard top-sprung star-guide valves.
The action on this horn was excellent, though - a really slick, solid short valve throw and very finger-friendly.
Note the octagonal valve caps and buttons. The valve cap bottoms were octagonal, too. They were made of very heavy brass.
Note the bell's rim. There is a flat brass ribbon behind the roll in the rim that runs around the circumference of the bell. Buescher started using this method of forming the bell rim in the early 1930s, possibly in 1930 when the "New Aristocrat" trumpet was introduced. The bells on earlier horns - trumpets and saxophones - had rounder, thicker rolled rims and lacked the reinforcing ribbon.
Here and in the following pics also note the thick, grooved flat brass ribbon used on the third-valve finger ring.
Stainless steel countertops built and install by Central Air Conditioning Co., Mechanical Contractor. For more information please visit www.centralairco.com.
Astoria, Oregon
Designed as the ultimate heavy weather vessel, the Pilot Boat Peacock crossed the most dangerous river bar on the planet, the Columbia River Bar, more than 35,000 times during her 30-plus year career.
The Peacock was decommissioned and replaced by an integrated pilot boat/helicopter transportation system in 1999. Because of her historical significance, however, the Peacock was given to the Columbia River Maritime Museum by the Columbia River Bar Pilots Association for preservation and display.
The Columbia River Maritime Museum initiated a campaign to restore and exhibit the Peacock on the Museum campus, celebrating her important role in providing safe transportation of bar pilots to and from ships as they entered and exited the mouth of the Columbia River.
Weighing 220,000 pounds, the Peacock sits on eight steel pilings driven to bedrock more than 40 feet below ground. Two giant cranes — capable of lifting over 300 tons each — brought the Peacock out of the river and carried her to the permanent display structure at the east end of the Museum campus. Placement on the structure's support cradles was engineered to accuracy within one-sixteenth of an inch.
Pilot Boat Peacock:
The Pilot Boat Peacock was custom-built for the Columbia River Bar Pilots in Germany in 1964, and is based on a North Sea rescue boat design.
Delivered for service in 1967, she is 90 feet long, 33 feet tall, and is self-righting. The stern of the boat is hinged to allow the launch and recovery of a 23-foot "daughter boat" used in heavy weather to make the actual transfer of the pilots between the ship and pilot boat.
The Peacock's maximum speed was 26 miles per hour. She carried a crew of three in addition to up to 12 bar pilots.
Reference: crmm.org/maritimemuseum_collection_peacock
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