MARBLEMISER Posted March 8, 2008 Report Share Posted March 8, 2008 Well that would explain it. I really need to get my camera working again. thanks a bunch Steph!!! marblemiser Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
catfish Posted March 8, 2008 Report Share Posted March 8, 2008 Here is a brass check valve I own with a marble "check" in it. Threads are about 3/4 inch and the whole valve is about 2 1/2 inches long. Also, a sign with marbles in it. Derrick EDIT- Nevermind, I give up trying to upload the darn pictures. Good grief! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lstmmrbls Posted March 8, 2008 Report Share Posted March 8, 2008 Most large furniture casters are bullet mold types. 2 or 3 piece molds. Not sure who made them. Peace,Galen Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
catfish Posted March 8, 2008 Report Share Posted March 8, 2008 Some pics Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
catfish Posted March 8, 2008 Report Share Posted March 8, 2008 more pics Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steph Posted March 8, 2008 Author Report Share Posted March 8, 2008 Way cool Derrick. Yes, marblemiser ... it would be neat to see your pump balls. :-) The list is getting quite long. Anyone mention applicators yet, like for roll-on perfume ... And ballot balls. Not industrial, but not play exactly. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steph Posted March 21, 2008 Author Report Share Posted March 21, 2008 "Ball bearings for World War II bomber gun turrets. Glass marbles were lighter than steel ones, needed no lubrication and allowed planes to carry heavier bomb loads." (quoted from here) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
knuckledown Posted March 21, 2008 Report Share Posted March 21, 2008 During World War II, engineers perfected the little glass balls to such a degree that they could be substituted for steel bearings. Tons of these glass balls go to lithographers and engravers, to be used in smoothing the surface of copper printing plates. In the oil fields, refineries use acid-proof marbles as filters and condensers. The glass balls are injected into old oil wells to prepare them for possible further use. Consequently, millions of dollars worth of oil can now be recovered. Some fish hatcheries put marbles in the bottom of pools for better results at spawning. Paper mills use glass balls in manufacturing. Recently has it been found out that marbles are, highly useful in the spinning of glass thread. Some time in 1948, a telegram from Johannesburg, South Africa, reached a marble manufacturing factory in the US requesting a shipment of 100,000 marbles in "three-colour strip combinations on opalescent glass." They were to be used as currency, but were captured by warring tribes. The mibs had to be re-minted. (I've been reading a lot of marble articles) ;-) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steph Posted March 21, 2008 Author Report Share Posted March 21, 2008 Cool. I didn't know about the fish hatchery thing. And the currency marbles? I'd like to hear more about those! By the way, thanks a bunch for making me go search for your article. LOL :-) I think I found it ... but you made me dig! Well, it was fun searching. And as it happens, I ended up with more than one fish hatchery reference. and one of those references was very very interesting ... because it had a lot of errors. I'll be asking some questions about that one in another thread! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steph Posted July 6, 2008 Author Report Share Posted July 6, 2008 Been reading some more. Bad habit. A twist on the ball bearing use. Supposedly Master Glass marbles were used for Lazy Susans. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steph Posted July 6, 2008 Author Report Share Posted July 6, 2008 Hey I like this thread. lol Since I've already bumped it, let me add science experiments in general, like that marble gun from this article, used for "simulating meteoroid impacts with the lunar surface". Shooting Marbles At Four Miles A Second Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Poplarhead Posted July 6, 2008 Report Share Posted July 6, 2008 Another use was as laboratory distillation column packing. I saw a factory box of Peltier peewees that had been shipped to a laboratory. I am sure that was what they were to be used for as we used small glass spheres in my labs long ago. Also I saw a very large slag above 2 " a few years ago - closer to 3 "- I imagine it was used as a pump ball. By the way the last time I saw Guy, I gave him a special Peltier knowing he was a collector of these. A plastic check valve with a Peltier Rainbo in it. Hope Denise kept it... By the way I hit the Holy Grail in a junk large Ebay lot this morning. Package had been left on front porch by mail lady! Inside a very nice Blue Galaxy- great because rest of Peltiers dinged in lot! Don Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MARBLEMISER Posted July 6, 2008 Report Share Posted July 6, 2008 How about PUMP BALLS? They were used in well casings as check valves. My guess is: They fit into a leather or rubber seal. when the water was pumped up. The ball rose to let it pass. then settled back onto the seal trapping it in the casing. when the casing was replaced with a more modern valve. The glass pump balls were smashed with another pipe & let to sink into the well it's self I have 2, one is 2 13/16" for a 3 in. pipe? transparent red & amber, the other is 1 15/16".for a 2 in pipe? clear with a transparent brown swirl thruthe center, like a twister both look to be hand gathered. I haven't seen or heard of anyone else having one? I'd like to seem them if they're out there> marblemiser Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steph Posted July 7, 2008 Author Report Share Posted July 7, 2008 Ray, I do love your balls .... er, you know what I mean! Don, that's awesome info on the pelts ... (and congrats on your galaxy too!) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Greatmacscott Posted July 15, 2008 Report Share Posted July 15, 2008 would the marbles in a Fisher jewel tray count as an industrial use of marbles? And don;t forget Sling shot ammunition, half inch glass balls can really whack a squirrel at close range. :Happy_143: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
leroy65 Posted July 15, 2008 Report Share Posted July 15, 2008 I have seen some beautiful gear shift knobs (thats what we called them) when I was a youngster back in the late 1930's and early 1940's. ----Leroy---- Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steph Posted July 24, 2008 Author Report Share Posted July 24, 2008 And don;t forget Sling shot ammunition, half inch glass balls can really whack a squirrel at close range. :Happy_143: Apparently slingshots were also used for anti-espionage! In AMMM there's a story from Blaine Lemon about how Marble King and Vitro workers used to spy on each other, peeking in windows or doors, and sometimes they'd use slingshots to scare the spies away! Wonder what ammo they used exactly. whatever was in the nearest bin? in their pockets? maybe some pretty parakeets were sent flying. (surely not parrots. Mr. Lemon said no one got hurt!) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steph Posted July 24, 2008 Author Report Share Posted July 24, 2008 Must add this, Edna! thanks! Red marbles used for encouraging chickens to eat more!! I think the crackled clearies come from the 1950's. I seem to remember they were some kind of craft. You heated them in the oven and then cooled them quickly. However, I bought some in the 1990's that were Asian, already crackled. The little boy next door was raising chickens for an FFA project and the teacher told him to get some red marbles to throw down in the coop. It was supposed to make the chickens peck up more food. We found red crackled ones at Walmart for him. Edna I think someone also mentioned marbles ... was it peewees? ... to help poultry digestion ... ??? but this sounds completely different. p.s., yup, it was peewees in gizzards and yup this is completely different. Something related to teaching the chickens to recognize food as food, I think. I've read about that too now, but already long enough ago that I don't recall the details. I'll have to look that up again. Certain colors were considered more attractive than others. Red in most accounts, but one account said that turkeys prefer green. Could there possibly be any more? It's so hard to imagine ... but then strange things like this pop up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steph Posted December 10, 2008 Author Report Share Posted December 10, 2008 Medical use: Grasp/Release exercises in physical therapy. semi-historical tidbit: In a 1978 newsletter, marble king was recommended as an economical source: "sells 5/8 inch cat’s eye or rainbow marbles, in boxes of 2100 for about $10.00." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MARBLEMISER Posted December 10, 2008 Report Share Posted December 10, 2008 Some where in a box I have> Is a sicence project. It has black & white marbles that are used to make atoms? And molecules? There are plastic cards with holes in them. No I don't have a pic & it's buried some where down in the 19th century> marblemiser Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steph Posted December 30, 2008 Author Report Share Posted December 30, 2008 We missed flower arranging ... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steph Posted December 30, 2008 Author Report Share Posted December 30, 2008 The big reveal ... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest FeelingMarbleous Posted December 30, 2008 Report Share Posted December 30, 2008 TAA-DAAAAAA LOL Steph :rol: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Akro gatherer Posted December 30, 2008 Report Share Posted December 30, 2008 has anyone said "slingshot fodder as window breakers"? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spara50 Posted December 30, 2008 Report Share Posted December 30, 2008 I interviewed an old Akro Agate employee (he was 95) a few years back that worked at the plant in 1936. He said Akro made a ton of 1" diameter black marbles and shipped them to steel plants where they were used to polish the steel. Craig Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Recommended Posts
Create an account or sign in to comment
You need to be a member in order to leave a comment
Create an account
Sign up for a new account in our community. It's easy!
Register a new accountSign in
Already have an account? Sign in here.
Sign In Now