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  • Ratbob
    Ratbob
    4 years ago
    Yes I’ve posted this before but still have no idea what it is.
    The silver liquid in the glass bowl appears to be mercury and disappears into the handle if turned upright. There are no “undo able” sections. ??????
  • Far Canal
    Far Canal
    4 years ago
    What happens if you undo the two screws just above the glass sphere?
    I remember when you posted this item before. Looks like some sort of scientific tool.
  • bloodog
    bloodog
    4 years ago
    I though it as a float switch 
    But we all know what happened to thought !
  • steelo
    steelo
    4 years ago
    You're going to have to help us more RB. When you posted it before, I looked at 10,000+ photos on Google. Can you get us some more photos. Pleeeeeeeaaaase.
  • bloodog
    bloodog
    4 years ago
    I posted it on 2 world sites for 2 months all I got was float switch 
  • beaglebasher
    beaglebasher
    4 years ago
    As steelo said some more photos would be good.
    Do you still have this thing Ratbob?  If you dismantle it as far as possible it might help to explain things.
  • Far Canal
    Far Canal
    4 years ago
    Quoting bloodog on 06 Aug 2021 11:28 AM

    I posted it on 2 world sites for 2 months all I got was float switch 

    Good onya Bloo.
    I just asked the question on a well frequented world wide forum too.
    Will let you guys know if someone knows what it is.
  • bloodog
    bloodog
    4 years ago
    This was about 2 years ago
  • steelo
    steelo
    4 years ago
    Veeeery Well done FC.

    Piccardi’s experiments also made full use of special water-structuring device known as a scale-buoy. This device consists of a blob of mercury enclosed within a glass bulb, with a partial evacuation of the atmosphere – several examples are shown in Figure 19. When shaken, this bulb will show a subtle blue-green flash of light. According to a literature review assembled by Faigl (1990) the scale-buoy will emit radio frequencies in the 6-9 Mhz range, with an attendant crumbling erosion of scales. They were used commercially in the first half of the 20th Century to
    inhibit the formation of boiler scale, or to keep minerals in suspension within water,
    whose solvent properties were changed by the influences of the scale-buoy. When water is activated by being exposed to the frequency emission discharges of the agitated scale-buoy, it becomes especially “reactive” to external factors as with sunspots and the like. Why this should be so is not yet understood, and certainly requires a concerted  experimental  effort  towards  clarification – but the “activation” principle does
  • bloodog
    bloodog
    4 years ago
    wig wong for a gooses bridal ?
  • steelo
    steelo
    4 years ago
    Leather working tool?
  • Far Canal
    Far Canal
    4 years ago
    How about a picture from above?
  • Ratbob
    Ratbob
    4 years ago
    Quoting Far Canal on 06 Aug 2021 09:46 AMedited: 06 Aug 2021 09:48 AM

    What happens if you undo the two screws just above the glass sphere?
    I remember when you posted this item before. Looks like some sort of scientific tool.

    I’ve not tried any disassembly as it might be holding the mercury in a vacuum.
  • Ratbob
    Ratbob
    4 years ago
    Could be but there’s no point for a power cord nor an unscrewable section to insert batteries.
    Sure has me buggered.
  • Ratbob
    Ratbob
    4 years ago
    Quoting steelo on 06 Aug 2021 10:59 AM

    You're going to have to help us more RB. When you posted it before, I looked at 10,000+ photos on Google. Can you get us some more photos. Pleeeeeeeaaaase.

    It belongs to a mate who’s not yet returned from racing his Harley in Darwin so I’ll get some pics when he gets back.
  • Ratbob
    Ratbob
    4 years ago
    Quoting Ratbob on 06 Aug 2021 08:17 AM

    Yes I’ve posted this before but still have no idea what it is.

    The silver liquid in the glass bowl appears to be mercury and disappears into the handle if turned upright. There are no “undo able” sections. ??????

    Quoting Far Canal on 07 Aug 2021 12:58 AM

    Someone on another forum came up with this Ratrob.
    Looks like the same device, I have not digested the text yet though.

    Top sleuthing FC, that’s it for sure. 
    Gotta look up how the hell a Scale-Buoy Device is used for boiler de-scaling and several of the Piccardi experiments !
    Brilliant, thank you
  • Far Canal
    Far Canal
    4 years ago
    Quoting Ratbob on 06 Aug 2021 08:17 AM

    Yes I’ve posted this before but still have no idea what it is.

    The silver liquid in the glass bowl appears to be mercury and disappears into the handle if turned upright. There are no “undo able” sections. ??????

    Quoting Far Canal on 07 Aug 2021 12:58 AM

    Someone on another forum came up with this Ratrob.
    Looks like the same device, I have not digested the text yet though.

    Quoting Ratbob on 07 Aug 2021 09:56 AM

    Top sleuthing FC, that’s it for sure. 

    Gotta look up how the hell a Scale-Buoy Device is used for boiler de-scaling and several of the Piccardi experiments !
    Brilliant, thank you

    You are welcome mate. Must admit I am not completely over the finer points of the Scale-Buoy and boiler de-scaling yet either!. Maybe one does not worry about such matters until confronted with a Scaley Boiler?. In which case I imagine you will be in pole position.
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