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

St. George Reef Light Station

Illuminating Apparatus page 2 of 2

revolving

 

 

 

chariot

 

8 steel wheels size 3 1/8" tapering to 3.5" x 1 1/8" revolves on beveled tracks; 8 small wheels 2" x 1/2" bearing on center drum to keep larger wheels in place on track.

 

28'

 

 

 

6 hours

 

 

 

enclosed by glass doors

 

By governor, adjusted by weight by screwing the ball up or down; on end of arms is a piece of cork rubbing on metal basin. Inside balls is a loose weight on small piston to hold cork & move up & down to check speed of clockwork.

 

 

 

By red shades outside the lens fitted in frames with hinges.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1st order US mineral oil lamp, 5 wicks

 

 

 

 

 

1

 

3

Report Sections:

Premises | Lantern and Fixtures | Ventilators and Watchroom | Illuminating Apparatus | Closets and Storerooms

 

Fog Signal General | Fog Signal Equipment | Dwelling | Asst. Keepers Dwellings | Water | Healthfulness

 

Lighthouse Access | Station Boat Info | Tools and Accessories | Light Vessel Specific | Inspection Reports

 

Supplemental Reports

Revolving cord:

 

Size of Clock Cord:

 

Length of Clock Cord:

 

How Led:
 

 

Diameter and length of clock drum:

wire cord

 

 

 

 

 

thru watchroom floor & ceiling of a dwelling room to 1 corner into shaft or tube built in wall for this purpose.

Clock Cord Description

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