Could this have been the start of a pattern?
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LOL. If my mast fitting had lasted the 50 years or so that the Liberty Bell did before cracking, then I would be a lot happier today. (And a lot older.)
ReplyDeleteBut it's about goosenecks, not about bells. Since Tillerman exposed his crack, I will drop trows & expose my crack. But only temporarily.
DeleteI blame Pass.
ReplyDeleteI blame Stow.
ReplyDeleteBrilliant. Stow is in Bristol, while Pass is in Portsmouth.
ReplyDeleteThat's weird. Last I heard they were both running a bike rack company in San Francisco.
ReplyDeleteVery nice... pewter, if I'm not mistaken?
DeleteIn 1975, the Winterthur Museum conducted an analysis of the metal in the bell, and concluded that "a series of errors made in the construction, reconstruction, and second reconstruction of the Bell resulted in a brittle bell that barely missed being broken up for scrap".[13] The Museum found a considerably higher level of tin in the Liberty Bell than in other Whitechapel bells of that era, and suggested that Whitechapel made an error in the alloy, perhaps by using scraps with a high level of tin to begin the melt instead of the usual pure copper.[14] The analysis found that, on the second recasting, instead of adding pure tin to the bell metal, Pass and Stow added cheap pewter with a high lead content, and incompletely mixed the new metal into the mold.[15] The result was "an extremely brittle alloy which not only caused the Bell to fail in service but made it easy for early souvenir collectors to knock off substantial trophies from the rim".[16]
ReplyDeleteYou really are brilliant, Baydog!
ReplyDeleteThat was a test for my newly deployed 'comment moderation' thingy. I guess it doesn't moderate my comments.
DeleteYeah, what good is it if it can't even block such an obvious fallacy?
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