Mystery object.

[Ian F B]

Anybody got any idea what this is??? The flying saucer is about 15cm in diameter,and the steel cord attached to the rod and saucer is about a metre long,found it in a lock a few years ago.

[RLWP]

Maybe trawling through here will help?:

 

http://www.halcyon-solutions.co.uk/

 

Richard

[hovrin]

Have a look at this :

 

http://www.halcyon-solutions.co.uk/FloatsCables.htm

 

 

Beat me to it!!

Edited April 28, 2019 by hovrin

[RLWP]

http://www.halcyon-solutions.co.uk/CounterWeights.htm

 

 

Richard

[PeterF]

Looks like a float for level measurement, I have seen one lock with bottom guillotine gates that has a float in to make sure the water level is low before raising the gate at Todmorden.

[MtB]

Having scanned through the links and seen more pics of the same thing, I'm none the wiser about what the assembly the OP found is actually used for. 

 

 

[RLWP]

Just now, Mike the Boilerman said:

Having scanned through the links and seen more pics of the same thing, I'm none the wiser about what the assembly the OP found is actually used for. 

 

 

 

The float floats on the water, the wire links it to the counterweight via a pulley

 

The pulley is missing

 

Richard

[MtB]

4 minutes ago, RLWP said:

 

The float floats on the water, the wire links it to the counterweight via a pulley

 

The pulley is missing

 

Richard

 

Thanks. But I still don't understand why! What is the reason for having a float floating on the water with a wire over a pulley with a counterweight attached? 

 

 

[RLWP]

7 minutes ago, Mike the Boilerman said:

 

Thanks. But I still don't understand why! What is the reason for having a float floating on the water with a wire over a pulley with a counterweight attached? 

 

 

and so on

 

Richard

[MtB]

Ohhh I geddit. Thanks!!

 

Hang on, we have tides in locks??

 

 

(Ok I imagine it is a lock cycle counter...) 

[Ian F B]

Thanks for the replies,now who wants to give me 50 quid for it!!!???

[tree monkey]

34 minutes ago, Mike the Boilerman said:

 

Thanks. But I still don't understand why! What is the reason for having a float floating on the water with a wire over a pulley with a counterweight attached? 

 

 

Thanks for asking I was equally as confused. 

[MtB]

5 minutes ago, tree monkey said:

Thanks for asking I was equally as confused. 

 

I was equally as confused, too....

 

 

[tree monkey]

31 minutes ago, Mike the Boilerman said:

 

I was equally as confused, too....

 

 

I bet i was more confused 

[MtB]

3 hours ago, tree monkey said:

I bet i was more confused 

 

However confused you was, I wuz more. 

 

So there...

 

 

[TheBiscuits]

17 minutes ago, Mike the Boilerman said:

 

However confused you was, I wuz more. 

 

So there...

"Anything you confuse,

I confuse better." ?

[dor]

4 hours ago, Ian F B said:

Thanks for the replies,now who wants to give me 50 quid for it!!!???

You could try selling it back to CRT! (or EA if appropriate).

Ask them for a salvage fee?

[MtB]

4 hours ago, Ian F B said:

Thanks for the replies,now who wants to give me 50 quid for it!!!???

 

I don't think it is worth a penny more than £49.99....

 

 

[howardang]

4 hours ago, Mike the Boilerman said:

Ohhh I geddit. Thanks!!

 

Hang on, we have tides in locks??

 

 

(Ok I imagine it is a lock cycle counter...) 

I don’t think the OP mentions which lock, so if it was, say, Hull Marina Lock there is plenty of tide there, 6/7 metres range at Spring Tides!

 

Howard

[TheBiscuits]

1 hour ago, howardang said:

I don’t think the OP mentions which lock, so if it was, say, Hull Marina Lock there is plenty of tide there, 6/7 metres range at Spring Tides!

 

Howard

The metre of cable between the float and weight wouldn't be of much use there then!

[howardang]

12 minutes ago, TheBiscuits said:

The metre of cable between the float and weight wouldn't be of much use there then!

That's very true ...unless they also used it to measure tidal flow rate?

 

Howard

[Ian F B]

3 hours ago, Mike the Boilerman said:

 

I don't think it is worth a penny more than £49.99....

 

 

I'll take a cheque,or Bacs transfer!!!!??