lili krakowski on wed 23 jun 10
I used to be a good sliptrailer---no longer. Serious problems with my =3D
right hand make it very hard to squeeze a bulb, or even control a =3D
Wondrausch trailer.
But I saw in Fournier's "Illustrated Dictionary...." (ISBN =3D
0-8019-8248-0) a weird but potentially useful trailer. I know I have =3D
seen the thing elsewhere--another book--but cannot find it right now.
It appears to be a bulb of some kind--maybe rubber? Glass? with a thin =3D
tube attached at both ends.=3D20
The potter holds the lower tube as though it were a pen, and the upper =3D
tube is held in his lips as he blows into the tube--thence bulb--to =3D
make the slip come out.
I get no idea of how this works...Would the lower tube not excrete slip =3D
if held vertically? What does the blowing do? What how is this thing =3D
filled?
If anyone knows how this works--better yet knows where to buy =3D
one--please let me know....
Lili Krakowski
Be of good courage
Steve Slatin on wed 23 jun 10
Lili -- sounds like a mouth pipette, an obsolete
piece of chemistry lab equipment. And no, it doesn't
drip, a vacuum holds the liquid in place, and it
releases the fluid when you take your lip (or tounge)
off of the end that's in your mouth.
And you fill it by sucking things up into the bulb.
That is, if I understand your description right.
Steve Slatin --=3D20
--- On Wed, 6/23/10, lili krakowski wrote:
> But I saw in Fournier's "Illustrated Dictionary...." (ISBN
> 0-8019-8248-0) a weird but potentially useful trailer.=3DA0
> I know I have seen the thing elsewhere--another book--but
> cannot find it right now.
>=3D20
> It appears to be a bulb of some kind--maybe rubber? Glass?
> with a thin tube attached at both ends.=3D20
>=3D20
> The potter holds the lower tube as though it were a pen,
> and the upper tube is held in his lips=3DA0 as he blows
> into the tube--thence bulb--to make the slip come out.
>=3D20
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ivor and olive lewis on thu 24 jun 10
Dear lili krakowski,
An opportunistic piece of apparatus.
This was a Pipette, a tool used at the chemistry bench for measuring out
precise volumes of fluid in preparation for a Titration. Used to find out
such things as the amount of alkali needed to neutralise a specific volume
of alkali fluid.
My guess is Peter Smith found one that had been discarded because its upper
stem was broken below the graduation mark and realised its merits.
Have a chat with your local pharmacist, They may have the odd broken one
lying around.
I would favour a Tjanting, as used in the art of Batik. A Mahl-Stick would
help to support your wrist as you applied the lines.
Best regards,
Ivor Lewis,
REDHILL,
South Australia
Elizabeth Priddy on fri 25 jun 10
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