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- Description
- This homemade spanner was used in steam locomotive repair work to tighten/remove very large, critical bolts. The wrench would need to be used with a very long 'extender' on the handle to gain the necessary leverage. The spanner was used on bolt heads and nuts that hold the front-end (or the "smokebox" portion) of a steam locomotive boiler onto the cast-steel "saddle" that is the foundation of a steam locomotive's cylinder-and-mainframe assembly. The strength and tightness of these "saddle bolts" that join boiler and saddle are crucial to keeping the locomotive from literally shaking itself apart when underway down the track. This crude spanner was likely home-made in a roundhouse far from a full repair shop.
- Credit Line
- Gift of National Park Service
- ca 1950s
- ca. 1950s
- used date
- 1900-1960
- ID Number
- 2002.0075.14
- catalog number
- 2002.0075.14
- accession number
- 2002.0075
- Object Name
- Spanner
- Physical Description
- metal (overall material)
- Measurements
- overall: 19 in x 8 1/2 in; 48.26 cm x 21.59 cm
- Associated Place
- United States: Vermont
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- Work and Industry: Transportation, Railroad
- America on the Move
- Transportation
- Exhibition
- America On The Move
- Exhibition Location
- National Museum of American History
- National Museum of American History
- Record ID
- nmah_1213004
- Metadata Usage (text)
- CC0
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746ab-0d8e-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
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