The 'E's at the ruins
The blog received an email telling us some information about the ruins recently posted up on the blog...here is the email:
'I remember the ruins very well. You could find hundreds of beermat flat metal E's there. The kids called them 'E's' because they were in the shape of a capital E. They were about the size of an adult hand. They were properly called 'spacers' and were used to allow a piece of machinery to have a tollerance on its fitting....
'I remember the ruins very well. You could find hundreds of beermat flat metal E's there. The kids called them 'E's' because they were in the shape of a capital E. They were about the size of an adult hand. They were properly called 'spacers' and were used to allow a piece of machinery to have a tollerance on its fitting....
They sound like they could even be the insides of a transformer, some laminations are E shaped.
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I too believe them to be from transformer laminations
ReplyDeleteexcellent information and web link to solve another mystery from 'a blast from the past'-well done Shades and The Bosnian!
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