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What Is It? for 7/8/12

Posted July 08, 2012 12:00 AM
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07/08/2012 12:27 AM

It's a 3 burner smithy's gas forge....

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07/08/2012 2:12 AM

How on earth.....? This series needs to needs to be subtitled 'how quick will SolarEagle get it' !

You have slipped. It's a steampunk prototype for a Hammond Organ.

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07/08/2012 10:11 AM

27 minutes. He must have been on the hopper and that slowed him down. :)
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07/09/2012 3:48 AM

It is certainly a furnace, and on past performance I would lay odds that Solar Eagle is correct
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07/08/2012 10:44 PM

Kiln

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07/08/2012 11:11 PM

Kiln for tempering or heat treating. The side opening is a window to see the color.
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07/09/2012 4:53 AM

pictures must be censored for solareagle

Pizza oven for road workers

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07/09/2012 8:06 AM

or maybe it needs to be posted when he is asleep onthe job.

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07/09/2012 8:17 AM

Ohhh my, SolarEagle does it yet again!

Say man, do you even take time out to hit the crapper, or do you live to lurk about the forum waiting for the "What is It?" question to appear? LOL

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07/09/2012 8:43 AM

Remember, WiFi extends through the whole house and probably to the outhouse if needed.
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07/09/2012 8:51 AM

I just hope that he's aware of that huge Black Bear lurking around his outhouse while he's playing with the laptop! Heeehheeeeheeee

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07/09/2012 9:20 AM

Must be a very shy bear to need to use an outhouse.
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07/09/2012 9:28 AM

Heat treatment furnace
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07/09/2012 10:47 AM

OK, is that a Higgs boson?

No?

Ok, a spaghetti straightener, then?

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07/10/2012 12:52 PM

FURNACE USED IN GLASS BLOWING

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07/11/2012 8:19 AM

SolarEagle got it first - it's a farrier's forge.
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