Revolving Machinery:
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Chariot float or balls:
Chariot desc:
Length of drop tube:
Clock Weight:
Length of winding time:
Drive During Rewind:
Machinery protection:
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Lens Protection:
How color produced:
Red sectors desc:
Where color attached:
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Lighthouse Inspection Reports Database
Cape Arago Light Station - 1910
Illuminating Apparatus page 2 of 2
Standard 4th order clock in center of pedestal.
Revolving on balls.
2 1/4 hrs usng 1 layr; 5 hrs usng 2 layr on barrel
By glass case.
By air resistance governor w adjustable vanes.
Standard 4th order - incandescent oil vapor.
1 extra vapor lamp; 2 - 4th order rotating burner mineral oil.
None apart from lamps.
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Revolving cord:
Size of Clock Cord:
Length of Clock Cord:
How Led:
Diameter and length of clock drum:
Through center of pedestal down shaft of stairway
Number of wicks or mantels:
Diameter of outside wick:
Diameter of mantel:
Diameter of circum circle:
1 mantle
1 1/4"
34mm
Clock Cord Description
Oil vapor lamp
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Balls description:
Cage to separate balls:
Number of Balls:
Diameter of Balls:
Standard 4th order ball bearing with V grooves.
19
1/2"
Chariot Balls