Re: A riveting video . . . 
| May 19, 2016 09:04PM |
Johnson Barr Wrote:
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> Wayne Laepple Wrote:
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> > The WW&F Railway Museum received this deep-
> > throat riveter as a donation a couple of years
> ago . . .
>
>
> Thanks, Wayne -
>
> May we presume that - once national attention was
> riveted on the Watergate Hotel break-in -
> Bearensteine & Co. had no further need for Deep
> Throat.
> Certainly not after Nixon resigned! Really
> great of them to donate such a unique
> histörical artifact to a worthwhile cause!!
Nix that talk J.B.
The official name is: "Allen Portable Pneumatic Riveter" (It must be portable since there's a handle on top.) It came from Jim Heuber of the Mack Brothers Boiler Sheet Works in Syracuse NY. Mack Brothers purchased the machine new around 1880 and it was last used in the early 1950's. The machine was donated directly to the WW&F so the railroad is only the second owner. The shop crew got the machine working last week and tried it out last Saturday, it works well when it gets it's second wind.
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> Wayne Laepple Wrote:
> --------------------------------------------------
> -----
> > The WW&F Railway Museum received this deep-
> > throat riveter as a donation a couple of years
> ago . . .
>
>
> Thanks, Wayne -
>
> May we presume that - once national attention was
> riveted on the Watergate Hotel break-in -
> Bearensteine & Co. had no further need for Deep
> Throat.
> Certainly not after Nixon resigned! Really
> great of them to donate such a unique
> histörical artifact to a worthwhile cause!!
Nix that talk J.B.
The official name is: "Allen Portable Pneumatic Riveter" (It must be portable since there's a handle on top.) It came from Jim Heuber of the Mack Brothers Boiler Sheet Works in Syracuse NY. Mack Brothers purchased the machine new around 1880 and it was last used in the early 1950's. The machine was donated directly to the WW&F so the railroad is only the second owner. The shop crew got the machine working last week and tried it out last Saturday, it works well when it gets it's second wind.
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