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This is all well and good, but what happens when the council wants to paint the bridge? When these start to rust, or start to wear away the existing paint, who's going to pay for repairs? Sometimes I think about going around bridges with bolt cutters and chopping these things off. As far as I can tell, it's vanity vandalism.
Ring from a steel 55 gallon drum..in creek, the rest is rusted away.....Not a spring Alan..Wouldn't drink this water...In old Oilfield...
This car has been rusting away and decaying for the last odd 30 years... he's resilient though... and still doesn't want to rust properly...
I often think to myself that this is how old people are, they age and they start to get more fragile and frail but refuse to break, till at some point they give up. The they start to decay till there is nothing left and many of them seem to loose the will to live...
Sorry about this dark note. Just my track of mind at the moment.
in fact, I think it grows while we are sleeping ... the interior of a plug on the front of a travel trailer, no wonder the lights didn't work properly ... one of my little projects from work ...
The types of rust were as varied as the cars. I'd never really thought about rust patterns being all that different. Here they were like varied types of fungi.
1914? Olds Type A 4.5hp Hit-and-Miss gasoline engine. Built by the Seager Engine Works in Lansing, Michigan.
A collection can't just stop at one. So I brought home another engine. And wow! What an awesome engine to have.
This one belonged to Grandfather for many years. Several years ago he passed it on to my Uncle Terry. And now the Olds has been passed down to me. I don't consider myself the owner of this engine as much as I am nearly the caretaker of a family heirloom until it's time to pass it on to the next in line.
Even though the brass nameplate is missing I've been able to glean a bit of info and history for this engine. This engine was originally used in a machine shop in Glenn Allen, Virginia to power the shop tools. Most likely belted up to a line shaft. Stamped on one of the flywheels by the shop is some information.
November, 20, 1919
4 1/2 HP
No. 3
Shop no. F7098
Type A
Property of
E. G. Harris & Co.
Glenn Allen, Va USA
Bought from Implement Co.
1302 East Main Street
Richmond, Va USA
October, 14, 1914
The engine has been in storage since 2009 when it was last run. Unlike my little Economy this engine will take a little more work to get up and running again but hopefully not to much. The battery box needs to be rebuilt as the wood is throughly rotted and the wood for the tongue hitch needs replaced as well. The engine was restored previously at some point and the pant on it and the cart is not too bad, only a few minor chips and some surface rust in a few areas. I plan to get it running first before deciding how deep to dig into any restoration.