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The trunk latch needed to be extensively modified to work on this body. It's hard to see in this picture but if you had an original latch assembly it would be obvious that the top 3/4" was cut off allowing the latch to tuck up into the trunk lid edge.
Here is a nice simple gate latch, adapted to work on simple 'Z' style gates which are much thinner than mortise and tenon gates. Latch made by George Hudson.
latch rod handle .
Appears after some cleaning the handle is of a different metal however still rusted.
Of all the parts that took a lot of effort and CLR baths seems these two handles a bit harder to clean up well in the creased inside portion which for some reason had a lot of rust and crud.
The majority of the handle cleaned up very well so i put primer
and a thin coat of RED as a mask while working on scrubbing
with a wire brush and consecutive baths in CLR.
The black dots are still built up rust and these do cause pock marking usually resulting in metal loss when removed but where this is, it still wont be all that noticeable.
One thing of particular note, while ground frames void of shelter, those were generally painted all black, sheltered frames or machines had painted levers .
I decided, while i cant find any more other than one image of ground frame as an example the use of one at Medfield junction, which a site does show an image and eludes to which site on the net it was..
Yes there was a machine inside of the station but Medfield
also had a exposed ground frame and that was painted solid black.
Clinton junction was exposed ground frame but to my knowledge images of the ground frame i have not seen except for
the New Haven signal maintainers interlocking diagram showing a ground frame .
With that i decided to paint the ground frame as faithfully
as any machine would be, if i decide to paint the thing black at a later time, it will be a very easy correction and this ground lever wont be a permanent outdoor display for long or be exposed to inclement weather .
This wire-latch was installed to prevent the door to open too far since the stoppers have been removed.
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On the door of my room at the Diggi Palace. We came across this style of latch in several other places.
The innovative design of the Magna Latch means there is no resistance to closure. Traditional gravity type latches actually require a striker bar to come in contact with the latch body creating resistance.
The stainless steel latch that's commonly used in Salvo, Halcyon, Agir and other commercial dive lights. It seems it can fail too. This was used for less than a year, and it seems to have rusted through and broke.
Mystery of the Tower
Foxburst Farm Water Tower AKA “Vulture Tower” “Tower of Death”
In close proximity to the site of the Little House stands "an enormous square-sided water tower and adjacent one-story building projecting horizontally from its north elevation." (As described in a July, 2002 report from the Cultural Resource Consulting Group about the property.) The study goes on to say that the water tower and attached farm building "are an eclectic combination of styles that include "Italianate, Federalist and Craftsman. Referencing a New England lighthouse with its obelisk form and wooden clapboard siding, the windowed tower is crowned by Italianate brackets (that) support a flat, overhanging eave that holds a smaller box-like windowed structure which provides the base for a 1 1/2 story, Federalist-inspired clapboard cabin-like shell that was meant to hide the water tank at the top of the tower."