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From: "DoN. Nichols" <dnich...@d-and-d.com>

Date: 11 May 2008 02:24:47 GMT

Local: Sat, May 10 2008 10:24 pm

Subject: Re: What is it? Set 231

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On 2008-05-10, R.H. <rhv...@cinci.rr.com> wrote:

>>> http://pzphotosans231-z.blogspot.com/

>> O.K. I have to take issue with two of these.

>> 1297) While I'll agree that most of this is a flare gun, the smaller
>> silver-colored screw-in part is a tear-gas cartridge. I'll bet
>> that if you look at the other end, it will have a light green
>> wax or plastic seal poured into it.

>> The red one I will agree is a flare.

> I don't own this device and I took the photos several weeks ago, so I can't
> check the silver part. If I remember correctly it was completely hollow and
> open on both ends, so if it was a tear-gas cartridge it was already used.

O.K. It did look already fired. The one which I had used a
shotgun shell primer as the power to disperse the gas, and that has been
removed after firing. But mine *was* a tear-gas shell. Perhaps modify
the answers to say "Flare pen gun with additional tear gas shell"?

>> 1300) This is *not* a telegraph sounder. Those have much more mass,
>> and are designed to make noise which is easy to hear as they
>> cycle.

> As mentioned in a previous post, I just fixed this answer, good job on
> finding the photos of a similar device, I did some searching and didn't have
> any luck. Thanks for the information on the relay, I like to include pieces
> of old technology on the web site but I'm not an expert in that field.

I kept looking for one which looked like the one which you had
to make it unambiguous -- and finally got around to adding "Edwards" to
the search terms and found the photos which showed the extra terminals
as well as labeling it (properly) as a relay.

Enjoy,
DoN.

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