Revolving Machinery:
Standby and Desc:
Chariot float or balls:
Chariot desc:
Length of drop tube:
Clock Weight:
Length of winding time:
Drive During Rewind:
Machinery protection:
Regulated:
Lens Protection:
How color produced:
Red sectors desc:
Where color attached:
Form of colored glass:
Lamp desc:
Type of illuminant:
Candle Power:
Num spare lamps:
Num spare burners:
Lighthouse Inspection Reports Database
Pedras Blancas Light Station - 1910
Illuminating Apparatus page 2 of 2
weight driven clockwork
chariot
steel ring with screwed in steel spindles, carrying 10 solid brass wheels tread turned to same curve as circumference.
3 hours
increase in round iron & glass case with 4 doors.
by varying weight on cord & by raising or lowering balls of centrifugal governor which acts on feathering air vanes.
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Revolving cord:
Size of Clock Cord:
Length of Clock Cord:
How Led:
Diameter and length of clock drum:
steel cable
3/8"
from drum of clock to sheave of weight, thence up to 1st landing ie weight hangs in bight of cable.
Number of wicks or mantels:
Diameter of outside wick:
Diameter of mantel:
Diameter of circum circle:
5 wicks
4 3/8"
Clock Cord Description
Oil vapor lamp
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